Credit Tips: Concierge Services on Credit Cards

Posted On: June 1, 2006

Author: tonyb
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 11:49 am
Post subject: Concierge Service

A couple of the high end cards now offers complimentary telephone concierge services. Has anyone used these? Visa Signature, MBNA Amex Platinum, few others off the top of my head advertise these.

I travel a lot, and I can see the benefit to such a service, but do they actually do anything? I’m interested in anyone’s experiences.

Author: bullwinkle29
Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 7:56 pm
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amex has a black platinium card, it comes w/ $2500.00 anual fee, and you must spend 250,000 p/year on the card. you get all the bells w/that card

Author: mouse
Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 8:46 pm
Post subject: Re: Concierge Service

tonyb wrote:
A couple of the high end cards now offers complimentary telephone concierge services. Has anyone used these? Visa Signature, MBNA Amex Platinum, few others off the top of my head advertise these.

I travel a lot, and I can see the benefit to such a service, but do they actually do anything? I’m interested in anyone’s experiences.

NEVER ANY USE FOR IT

Author: creditnewbe
Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:43 am
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I use concierge very often. World Mastercard offers concierge and AMEX platinum too; however, I prefer the AMEX concierge because they cater to my taste. Their recommendations have been better than those of world mastercard. I get weather conditions, restaurant recommendation and reservations. There was a restaraurant that I couldn’t remember its name. They located it and gave me the number and address as well. So when I don’t have time to make entertainment arrangements, they take care of everything. I find it very helpful when I travel. They email me a list of restaurants, meseums, and things to do. I got lists from both mastercard and amex. The difference was, mastercard recommended cheaper casual restaurants and amex chose upscale restaurants and the places where one HAS to eat in that city.

Author: guessindigo
Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:54 am
Post subject: Concierge Services on Credit Cards

I used it once to score tickets to a astros game when I was in Houston. Other than that, I haven’t used it.