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Visa 😁. Love Amex, but their acceptance rates are atrocious outside the US.

Depends if you can justify the fee. But gold has the best points in general for travel spend. If you just want to get points on no fee the rewards one is good enough.

Platinum has PP - might be worth it if you’re on the road a lot.

UK cards just suck - look at the points guy uk

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