Who accepts American Express?

Your American Express Card is welcomed at great locations that are right up your street, online, and across the country. We added over 150,000 new UK locations in 2018*.

The industry locations we added in 2018* include:

• 89,000 Retail merchant locations
• 37,900 Restaurant merchant locations
• 5,400 Lodging mercant locations
• 1,000 Supermarket merchant locations

*Based on American Express merchant locations setup between January 2018 and December 2018.

American Express Cards are warmly accepted at thousands of Merchants across the UK, whether you’re doing your weekly grocery shop, filling up your car, shopping at your favourite local dress shop, or booking that long awaited holiday.

We want you to have the freedom to use your American Express Card wherever you shop, so if your Card was not warmly accepted when making a purchase, please tell us about it.

Using your American Express Card more often at more places means taking advantage of all the benefits of being an American Express Cardmember. Everywhere you go, you have the reassurance of Card protection with eligible Cards and the world-class service that we offer.

Cardmembers enrolled in one of our reward programmes such as Membership Rewards or British Airways Avios can also earn points with every purchase. Find out where your Membership Rewards points can take you.