Amex is sweetening the deal for Platinum Card Members by adding two $200 dining credits that can now be used every year (at least, up to the end of 2025).
After activation, you can use one of the $200 credits at selected restaurants within Australia, and the other $200 credit overseas. Amex curates the list of restaurants, so expect to use up your credits at high-end establishments!
How do I get the Amex $400 dining credits?
Simply put, you just need to be a current, primary American Express Platinum Card Member. The restaurant credits will show up in your ‘Amex Offers’ section and you can just click ‘Save to Card’ to enrol. Make sure that you enrol for both the Australia and the overseas dining credits.
At the start of each year, the two dining credits will also refresh. So be sure to re-enrol in both offers before starting your gastronomical splurges in those years.
American Express Platinum Card
- Sign-up Bonus:
- 200,000 bonus Membership Rewards Points¹
- Rewards Earn Rate:
- Earn 2.25 Membership Rewards points per $1 on all eligible purchases, except for spend with government bodies, for which you will earn 1 point per $1 spent
- Annual Fee:
- $1,450 p.a.
- Offer expires
- 25 August 2026
- Enjoy 200,000 bonus Membership Rewards Points¹ when you spend $5,000 on eligible purchases in the first 3 months. (Offer available to new American Express Card Members only. Offer ends 25 August 2026. T&Cs apply.) Unlock premium perks including unlimited airport lounge access, international travel insurance, Amex Hotels and Resorts benefits, up to $400 in Global Dining Credit¹⁰, and a $450 Travel Credit⁵ each year. Earn up to 2.25 Membership Rewards Points per $1 on eligible spend. The annual fee is $1,450.
Unfortunately, Amex Platinum Business cards aren’t eligible for this dining offer.
How do I use the Amex $400 dining credits?
Once you’ve activated the credit, choose where you want to dine and enjoy! Use your linked Amex Platinum Card to settle the bill, and the $200 credit will later show up. It may take from five to 150 days for the credit to show up, but we normally see these offers credit very quickly.
Visit the Amex Dining Directory to see the full list of eligible restaurants in Australia and abroad.
And if you want to delve deeper into the fine print, take a read of the Global Dining credit T&Cs [PDF].
Summing up
American Express is enhancing the Platinum Card for Australian Card Members with a tasty treat – two lots of $200 dining credits per year: one for use in Australia and one for abroad, from now until 31 December 2025.
Just remember to enrol in both of the credits now, and again at the start of 2025. Then go out and enjoy the many flavours that our world has to offer.
Given the credit seems to refresh each calendar year, has anyone been able to confirm being able to use it twice within a membership year?
Anyone had any luck using the credit for Simon Johnson Online store?
This card is just for people of a certain level of wealth (and who also spend a ton of money on the related benefit services), on it’s own it provides absolutely terrible value for 99% of people.
Brace yourself for the $1,450 annual card fee to go up by $400!!
If it does at the very least I would hope they will remove the currency conversion fee1 of 3% for foreign transactions as they do for US issued cards.
Still feel like the AMEX Exporer is the sweetspot – $395 membership fee p/a, with $400 travel credit p/a. AMEX Platinum $1395 p/a membership fee, $450 travel credit p/a. Platinum only earns slightly more points. You need to be travelling LOTS to get value out of the extra lounge perks.
The travel credit is better imo – you will use them instead of your own money. This resturant perk is probably not something I would do otherwise, so it’s not really a money saver.