Cheddar and Everyone Who Loves their $450 Plat Amex
Wow, I'm sorry about hurting you're feelings I truly am but let me break it down to you below.....
Part 1
Airport Lounges
Airport Lounges....... Priority Pass $399 a year for UNILIMITED use of ANY Airport Lounge you do not have to have a SAME day tickets ACCESS to EVERY major lounge.
If you fly International First Class and some Domestic B/First Class you get into the lounges for free anyway.
Part 2
Upgrades
Airlines: You NEVER Get Upgraded to First Class for having Plat AMEX. You only get Upgrated if you have AIRLINE STATUS
Hotels:
Yes you get Upgrades but you Pay for them when you BOOK throught their System. Look on Expedia and Call the Amex serivce you want to pay $50 more per night and get a FREE upgrade using the Amex program go ahead. To me I dont want to fool myself, I know what they are doing.
Part 4
Domestic Companion
Come on!! There is a million forums about this Topic if you happend to Find the dates you want and they happen to find companion tickets. These are huge assumptions I dont to fly at 3:00am on Vacation or whenever they want so I can can get an over inflated ticket price and belive I'm getting a deal.
The tickets are so over inflated that it's cheaper to book on Expedia for 2 people. For the people that are succesful in using this, they either saved very little money and had to settle for some horrible days and times to fly.
Free Companion International First Class
This one is truly ridicoulous $15,000 First Class To Amsterdamm from Chicago and will get you one free ticket. You go on Expedia or Call the airline and they are $6,000 each. Truly worthless
Part 5
Consierge
Concierge LOL: I dont mean to laugh but you can get it with ANY signature Visa same exact service. You can get you're Cubs tickets and Dinner reservations.
True Story: Plat Amex Concierge (Girlfriend) Called to get same day reservation at PRIME the steak house at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. " Sorry Ms Rodriguez there is simply no table available for that weeked" I understood it was the De La Hoya vs Mayweather Fight Weekend.
I called my Southwest Signature Visa Consierge they got me a 6:30 pm Table OVER LOOKING THE BELLAGIO FOUNTAINS!!!! By the way I pay $59 a year for my Southwest Visa.
Part 6
Car Rental Staus:
Sure you get it faster but if you rent enough cars you get the SAME status. Per Cheddar he rents a Ton of cars and docent wait in line thats great. He can get the same thing with no Plat.
Personally I Avis Fast Pass straight to the Car no lines for me at all.
Conclusion $450 dollars for a Piece of Plastic that is worthless.But if you want it to feel important i guess it's worth it.
I did upgrade my green to Plat I got 50,000 miles and I was going to pay $95.00 for Green anyway. 50,000 miles is promotion for excisting customer only, that is one round trip ticket to Europe or two domestic RT's.
Message Edited by ddd on
01-26-2008 05:55 PMMessage Edited by ddd on
01-26-2008 05:58 PM