American Express Centurion

Pros: Individualized service, complimentary upgrades, bonus points
Cons: Expensive

Lucky AMEX Platinum Card holders sometimes have the opportunity to upgrade to the AMEX Centurion Card, but is the AMEX Centurion Card just a matter of prestige or is it actually worth its annual fee?

It depends on how much you travel and where...

Pros: Priority pass (business lounge) x2, service, status, insurance
Cons: Annual fee, status

I have mixed opinions about my Amex Black Card. I have had it about a year now, and Ill pay the fee to renew it, so for that reason alone I have to say id recommend it as im not downgrading to Platinum, but I do travel a lot and so I use the few ...

Pros: Automatically enroll you to a lot of membership programs.
Cons: Annual fee is very high ($1000).

I had one terrible experience with AMEX Optima card, and I wrote a nasty review on it. However, I recently changed my view on AMEX. The major reasons are that my father recently upgraded to AMEX Centurion Card and appraised this card a lot, and that he...

Pros: You know you've made it when your offered one
Cons: Acceptability

Having more than 20 Credit, store and charge cards, including gold, platinum, Diners and world signia cards. I must say that I have found The American Express Centurion card to be one of the most useful and most rewarding card to use.

I have...

Pros: Great concierge service, immediate elite status, excellent customer service
Cons: Pricey

The American Express Centurion Card is perhaps one of the best charge/credit cards on the market today (later referred as the "black card"). The black card combines superior customer service, amazing travel benefits, and the service of a...

Pros: Comprehensive travel and lifestyle offerings. Personal service and unique perks
Cons: $7,500 1st yr fee, $2,500 thereafter. Mindless and untrained staff.

I have been with Amex since 2004. Platinum in the United Kingdom and then in the States when I moved for work and then after spending over $300,000 in a one-year period, I was invited to become a Centurion member. I had heard a lot about the card, was ...

Pros: None
Cons: Plenty

Dear Sir,

Having written you a couple of days ago and having spoken to your subordinate, I have yet another example of sloppy service:

I called up today requesting the balance of my account and was told after much hesitation it was...

Pros: Looks good
Cons: Value for money

This Centurion Card used to be the ultimate status symbol - reserved for a few high spending individuals, it was aspired to by many and attainable by few.

Unfortunately, Centurion UK have now completely devalued this card. In the last two...

Pros: Great status symbol
Cons: bad customer service, staff arrogant/unhelpful, never managed to get upgrades promised, Platinum better value

I have been a customer with Amex since 1996 and was recently invited to pay £700 for the privilege of using their black centurion card. As I had used my Platinum card extensively (at times more than £10,000 per month) it was good to know that there were...

Pros: All the great features mentioned already by other members!
Cons: Still need improvement to surpass the Amex Platinum Card!

I've used the Centurion Card for over a year now! Recently I've noticed that American Express tries to gain more members for their fee-free charge card - Platinum Cash Rebate Card & the $30 annual fee - Starwood Preferred Guest by giving the similar...

Pros: High Credit line over USD$20,000 a month
Cons: high yearly fee, high exposure, poor customer service

From someone who has gone from a Gold Card, through Platinum Card, to Centurion Card, all I can say is the yearly fee increased, but the service did not.

I think you really have to ask yourself when a piece of plastic is costing...

Pros: Still the best card to have
Cons: Already high cost has more than doubled

I just received "An Important Message Concerning Your Centurion Card Account" from American Express. The one page letter announced that new card members would be charged a $2500 annual fee (with $1500 for each additional card). "Original" card members...

Pros: IT'S FROM AMERICAN EXPRESS
Cons: HIGH RATES--USE ONLY IN EXTREME EMERGENCIES!

I have had an American Express Centurion account for about four years. When I first got the Centurion account they did not offer a credit card.

Have used the Centurion account by writing checks and will say that, as an account, I can't...

Pros: mostly travel related...
Cons: ...but the Platinum Card offers most of the benefits for $700 less.

The service is great, and so are the perks--but that had been the case with my Platinum card, which I carried for almost a decade before switching to Centurion. Many of the Centurion perks are not really practical (e.g., a free Concorde upgrade if you...

Pros: Excellent personal service, high credit line and perks.
Cons: High fee - $1,000.00 per year.

I want to give you some of my background for starters.
AMEX member since 1995
Green, then Gold, then Platinum, now Centurion

Since this is an invitation only card, I first heard about it through American Express. I was honored to...