Bits: 1000 free Club Carlson points, Heathrow Rewards transfer bonus, CityJet discounts

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• DontLikeFruit says:

  7 Mar7 March 06:34

  I also had problems registering for the 1,000 free Club Carlson points – wouldn’t work using Firefox. Switched to Chrome and successfully registered.

  There is also a new promo at select Park Plaza hotels – earn 1,500 points a night if you opt out of houskeeping services. http://www.parkplaza.com/offers/8435861/ (As someone who tends to hang the Do Not Disturb sign for my entire stay, I would like to see this sort of promo become commonplace.)

  But with all this recent generosity from Carlson (especially the current 30k promo), a devaluation can only be just around the corner!

  • Frenske says:

    7 Mar7 March 08:09

    There was a devaluation last year I think. A lot of their properties moved a redemption band up or down. Mostly up.

    • Rob says:

      7 Mar7 March 11:26

      It wasn’t so bad. New top band launched but only 7 hotels in it IIRC. 44k still gets you a London 4 star.

  • Rob says:

    7 Mar7 March 11:31

    That is very generous!

• Roger says:

  7 Mar7 March 07:50

  CityJet

  Given your focus on earning miles, I’m assuming that CityJet is a miles desert other than Flying Blue credit for AF and KL codeshares.

  You already commented on that aspect at https://headforpoints.com/2013/05/20/no-flying-blue-qualiflying-flights-with-cityjet-citysaver-fares/

  • R says:

    7 Mar7 March 09:04

    CityJet is no longer part of AF / member of Flying Blue so it won’t give you any FB miles status / at all. If I remember correctly, it was sold to a German private equity fund last year.

• Tariq says:

  7 Mar7 March 07:55

  Note that your Twitter account must be 30 days old to take part.

  Grr! Wonder if I can get away with linking my wife’s Twitter to my Club Carlson account…?

  • Rob says:

    7 Mar7 March 11:28

    Yes, no problem.

    • Tariq says:

      7 Mar7 March 13:36

      Thanks Rob. She’s a Chrome user so I’ll give it a go later!

• Rick says:

  7 Mar7 March 08:00

  How do Club Carlson know who you are once you’ve followed them on Twitter? They didn’t seem to ask for my CC account number at any point.

  • TimS says:

    7 Mar7 March 08:32

    There is a separate popup box that should appear after you link to twitter where it asks fr your twitter name, club carlson email & club carlson number.

    I don’t think it works via mobiles or certain browsers.

    I anaged to get it to work just ow via firefox on my laptop but it wouldn’t work earlier on my android phone.

    • Rob says:

      7 Mar7 March 11:24

      Worked on Chrome at home, failed on Chrome in the office and IE at home and office.

      • signol says:

        7 Mar7 March 19:28

        Worked on Chrome for mobile for me.

• vindaloo says:

  7 Mar7 March 08:44

  Not useful to everyone, but the best value redemption for Heathrow Rewards, at 2p per point, is parking at the airport.

  • Rob says:

    7 Mar7 March 11:23

    …. to the extent that paying for official LHF parking is ever ‘good value’ 🙂

    • vindaloo says:

      7 Mar7 March 17:59

      Indeed. We rarely do it but our kids like the T5 pods so we occasionally book those when it’s not too extortionate.

  • jeff says:

    8 Mar8 March 12:46

    I am interested to know how you use points to achieve 2p. I guess it is not via a room redemption where you are mostly interested in the car parking privilege, or is it?

• Fenny says:

  7 Mar7 March 09:42

  Has anyone had success in matching a Cathay Gold with no usage to Etihad Gild? It’s on my list to do, but I’m wondering if having some miles would make it work better. I have enough Heathrow Reward points to exchange some, given that I rarely use them for anything anyway.

  • Rob says:

    7 Mar7 March 11:19

    They would be far more interested in activity, ie flights, on the Cathay account.

• Globetrotter7 says:

  7 Mar7 March 19:15

  I won a GoPro Hero 3 camera last year during Club Carlson’s #hashtaghotelpromo “Twitter party” (thank you Raffles). I don’t know if I can take part in this one as I already follow them on Twitter but would encourage anyone wanting to take part. It’s well worth the tweets. Good luck!

• Mark says:

  7 Mar7 March 23:57

  Can someone point me at a link to refer someone else for a Lloyds Avios Rewards card so we each get 4500 bonus? I can’t seem to find it.

  Thanks.

  • Rob says:

    8 Mar8 March 09:17

    share.avios.com/Lloyds

    Takes a week for the referral email to arrive!

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