Maximising your miles from Avios, British Airways Executive Club, Virgin Flying Club and other travel loyalty schemes!
Tesco has launched another round of Clubcard Boost. This is the promotion which allows you to spend your Clubcard vouchers instore or online for double their standard face value. The instore offers are pretty useless, as this page at tesco.com shows. You can only double […]
The late Summer / early Autumn promotion from Hilton HHonors will run from 1st August to 31st October. It is another outing for ‘Triple Your Trip‘ which regular readers may remember from Autumn 2013. Once registered, you will receive double Hilton HHonors points per Monday to Thursday […]
Back in March, I highlighted how the Sofitel at Heathrow Terminal 5 – directly connected to the terminal, and by far the best hotel at Heathrow - was being sold very cheaply by lastminute.com on its ‘Top Secret’ list of unnamed London hotels. I repeated the […]
avios.com (NOT BA Executive Club) is running a generous promotion with Le Club Accorhotels, the loyalty scheme for Novotel, Mercure, Ibis, Sofitel etc. Until 30th September, you will earn 1,500 Avios points for any stay at a Sofitel, Pullman, M Gallery, Novotel, Mercure or Adagio […]
Here is a coda to my stay at the Conrad New York last week. Despite being on a reward booking, I earned over 8,000 Hilton HHonors points from my stay! This is despite making only a nominal charge to my room during the three days. […]
Small Luxury Hotels of the World, the marketing group behind a number of leading global boutique hotels, is offering a decent deal for stays until the end of September 2014. As long as you book and stay by September 30th, you will receive 1,500 Avios […]
I wrote about the Conrad Hotel in New York last year (hotel website here). The hotel had some good points but, overall, it didn’t fully work for me. But now I was back! Why? Here is most practical reason. I was sitting on a large pile […]
With the World Cup now over (leaving the German part of my household very happy!) it is time to see who won the (just for fun!) Head for Points mini-league. This was run by redspottedhanky.com, the train booking website, with the carrot of 3p of redspottedhanky.com […]
Wine retailer Laithwaites, the UK’s largest mail-order wine retailer (it runs The Sunday Times Wine Club as well as pretty much every other branded mail-order operation), has been a BAEC partner for many years via The British Airways Wine Club. It has also offered deals […]
I didn’t plan to fly Lufthansa First Class to New York last week. I knew I would be starting my trip in Hamburg but that still opened up a lot of options. I looked at Virgin Atlantic from London but there was no availability. I […]
Hotel group Radisson has launched a competition with a twist. The winner will receive 5 nights in any Radisson hotel ….. every year, for life! It is an odd one. Whilst the competition is open to countries worldwide (North Korea and Iran are notable exceptions […]
Following the Qatar Airways launch of services from Edinburgh to Doha, Etihad has responded with a daily service from the capital to Abu Dhabi. The service will launch on June 8th next year. It will be a two-class service on a Airbus A330 with 22 […]
Lufthansa is an odd airline in many ways. There is nothing in the least bit exciting about its economy or business class offering – it is only in recent months that they have introduced fully flat beds in business. Their main lounges are also unexciting, […]
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