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Yes, you read that correctly. This week on Head for Points we are giving away 100,000 Avios points in association with the new British Airways Executive Club hotel booking partner Kaligo.

There is only one prize.

There will only be one winner.

It could be you!

About Kaligo

The competition is being sponsored by hotel booking website Kaligo (www.kaligo.com).

Kaligo is a Singapore-based company which is already partnering with American Airlines, Air Asia, Asia Miles, Jet Privilege and US Airways Dividend Miles. The new tie-up with Avios is their first partnership with a European airline.

Kaligo has an inventory of over 300,000 hotels worldwide predominantly in the 3-star to 5-star range.

The company is effectively rebating part of its commission to you in the form of Avios. You can earn up to 20 Avios points per £1 spent on hotels which is a very decent earnings rate.

To celebrate their new partnership with the British Airways Executive Club, Kaligo is offering 3,000 or 10,000 Avios with your first booking before 31st January. This is on top of the standard Avios points you would receive from them. You need to register via this site to receive your bonus before you book your hotel.

You will receive 3,000 bonus Avios if your first booking is for £999 or less. Bookings of over £1,000 will receive 10,000 bonus Avios. If you booked a hotel which paid their highest rate of 20 Avios per £1, you would collect 30,000 Avios from a £1,000 booking.

How can you win 100,000 Avios?

It’s easy.

First, you need to visit www.kaligo.com/ba-avios and register with Kaligo.  This will make you eligible for their launch promotion of up to 10,000 bonus Avios with your next hotel booking.  There is no obligation to actually make a booking.  If you have already registered with Kaligo, you do not need to register again.

Second, you need to complete the automated form at the bottom of this article using the same email address. You gain one entry for filling in your email address and you can earn a second entry if you tweet about the competition.

The deadline for entries is midnight on Friday 9th January. The winner will be announced on Head for Points next week.

You can only enter if you are a UK resident – I apologise to Head for Points readers in other countries.  If you are UK-based but travelling this week, you will need to email a friend back home with a link to this page to enter for you.

100,000 Avios can get you a long way. It gets two people in Economy to California, Cape Town, Barbados etc – or to Dubai or New York with 20,000 to spare! It would fly one person in Club World to Las Vegas or Antigua – or two people if you have a British Airways American Express 2-4-1 voucher to use. Even if you stay closer to home, it would get you 11 return flights to France, Germany, the Netherlands etc or 6 return flights to Italy or Spain. Taxes, fees and charges, as we all know, will be applicable *.

The rules

Please read this before you enter:

Entrants must be aged 18 years or over.

The competition will launch at 6.45am on Monday 5th January and close at midnight UK time on Friday 9th January.

Please ensure that you put a valid email address on the entry form. This email address MUST be identical to the one you use to register with Kaligo.

The winner will be picked at random by the software which collates the entries.

The winner will be contacted by email once Kaligo has verified that the same email address has been registered with them.  If the winner did not register with Kaligo, or does not respond to the email within 48 hours with valid British Airways Executive Club membership details, the prize will be redrawn.

Entries are limited to one per household.

Your email details will not be used by Head for Points for any other purpose.

You can opt out of receiving email from Kaligo via your account at www.kaligo.com or by unsubscribing to any email you receive or by simply replying to any email from Kaligo with a request to be unsubscribed.

You must be a UK resident to enter. You must also be physically based within the UK in order to be able to enter – if you are travelling this week, you will need to ask a friend or relative in the UK to enter for you.

The prize will be deposited into a British Airways Executive Club account. If you do not already have a British Airways Executive Club account you will need to open one in order to participate in the contest.

Under UK law I am obliged to make the name of the winner available upon request.

The promoters of the competition are Head for Points and Loyalty Advantage Travel Pte. Ltd, contact details available on request. Avios Group (AGL) Ltd is not a promoter of the competition. Loyalty Advantage Travel Pte. Ltd is solely responsible for ensuring the fulfilment of the prize to the winner.

The decision of the promoters on all of the points above will be final and no correspondence will be considered

Good luck to everyone. Remember that you MUST sign up to the Kaligo launch offer via this website before you enter and you MUST use the same email address in your entry.

* Reward flights cannot be waitlisted and are subject to availability. Executive Club Terms and Conditions apply.

If you cannot see the entry widget below, please click here and you will be taken to a separate page where you can enter.

Comments (96)

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  • Alan says:

    Another wee glitch for the Kaligo folk – the password sent after registering (which I’ve now changed!) was incorrect.

    The email said:
    ” For any future bookings, logging in also allows you to book faster by giving you the option to pre-fill your details.

    Password: Pac4zLL6A-”

    However this kept giving an error. When I removed the ‘-‘ from the end it worked fine – not sure if this is happening for everyone or was a one-off but thought it might be helpful to highlight in case anyone else is having problems logging in to change their password 🙂

    • Junyang says:

      Thanks for your feedback! We are definitely looking into this right away.

      Junyang
      Kaligo.com

    • essjay says:

      That’s only half the problem. The real issue is that they are sending you your password in plain text via email. Now if you’re like me you’ve only given them your email address but I wouldn’t dare input any personal or financial information in to this website.

      If they can send your password to you it means they store it in plain text in their database. Without getting too technical, THIS IS VERY VERY BAD.

      • Alan says:

        Interesting point – although I guess with this being the initial password they could have access to the plain text version as it has been generated by the system – I suppose the key question is whether they (hopefully) only store the hashed version for user-created ones!

        (getting well off-topic now I know :D)

      • Paul says:

        They read and respond here. Perhaps they will respond to this?

        • Junyang says:

          We don’t store plain text passwords nor any payment details. The passwords are generated when you sign up, emailed to you, and subsequently stored in a secure manner. Security is of our utmost concern.

          Junyang
          Kaligo.com

  • Tim says:

    Picking up my girlfriend from Glasgow Airport on 31st January.

    I see the Holiday Inn there is £59 for the 30th Jan and comes with 3200 Avios including the bonus points. I may well be tempted to take advantage of this.

    Wondering if I can add to my IHG account to earn points there too.. IHG’s FAQ does suggest that, for points, qualifying room rates include those booked by travel agents.

    • Simmo says:

      Tim,

      I think the terms have just changed according to this:
      http://loyaltylobby.com/2015/01/03/ihg-rewards-club-december-30-2014-terms-conditions-update/

      ”IHG has added a clearer restriction that you do not earn ANY points for bookings made using OTA’s. These stays are not eligible for any incidental spend either”

      Would be interested in success stories and a general list of chains that offer this!

      • Scott says:

        I booked 2 nights at the Crowne Plaza in Edinburgh via the Amex Travel site (with the £50 Tripadvisor Statement Credit). I called IHG customer services a week or so after our stay to enquire about missing points, and they while she said did say that it was a non-qualifying rate she would give me credit for the first night. We had also spent money at the bar (charged to the room and settled on departure) but this hadn’t tracked (it was in Nov last year so before the recent changes, but perhaps a precursor) and they added the points for this as well. Furthermore, as the credited night was added to my account as a qualifying night it (eventually) posted to my Into The Nights promo as well.

        Not too sure you you would be able to keep doing this if you were staying regularly using OTA bookings but worth trying every now and then. I might just have gotten lucky with the person on the end of the phone…

      • Corrie says:

        I booked a Hampton Inn in US (using Etihad Miles to Hotel Voucher Shop Vouchers) The Hampton Inn co**ed up our reservation and moved us to The Holiday Inn Express. I registered my HHonors No with the hotel direct and received over 2k points for not staying and then gave The Holiday Inn Express my IHG No and got over 2K point with them too !! ……bonus 🙂

    • Alan says:

      Unlikely given the recent changes to T&Cs from IHG (and indeed the general change in approach to this from all chains) but always worth trying adding your number on the off-change, sometimes their IT is too poor to recognise things!

  • Lesley Underhill says:

    All done! fingers crossed!! (y) 🙂

  • Ann Rowsell says:

    I registered for Kaligo the other week (haven’t booked a stay yet) but using both IE and Chrome cannot seem to enter for love nor money- sends me round in circles, telling me I’ve used the Gleam app before? Oh well, probably wouldn’t have been me!

    • Rob says:

      I’ve sent you an email Ann. It looks like you need to log in to Twitter via the app (presumably you entered the last competition via Twitter). Once you’ve done this you should be good to go.

      • PJK says:

        Oh no, I tried to enter on Monday, without luck, so I’ve cleared my cookies and come to a different PC and browser and still it keeps sending me in a loop of despair:
        You’ve already registered – log in to Twitter
        Logged in to Twitter – back to app
        You’ve already registered – log in to Twitter

        Aaaarrrgghh! Help!

        • Rob says:

          Assuming you used the same email as in your comment, it is not counted, I just checked. Enter again with a different email address and if you win I will remember to match it to this email address on Kaligo.

  • AndyGWP says:

    Do I win anything for being the only idiot who didn’t read the instructions properly (or at least the first to own up I didn’t!)??

    I did the gleam thing first, then registered on the link second!

    Raffles – does it really matter that I got the ordering wrong? 🙂

    • Rob says:

      No, not in the slightest, as long as you register with Kaligo by the time I send them the email of the potential winner to match against their database!

  • jon says:

    6LA.

    (Am I the first?)

  • Kim H says:

    Thanks Rob 🙂

  • Will says:

    entered x2 🙂

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