Win £500 of hotel stays with HfP and HotelTonight

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• david rolles says:

  6 Jul6 July 08:51

  Have just installed Windows version if Hotel Tonight, but it wont let download your promo code, saying that I need to update to latest version of the app?

  I’ve emailed their helpdesk.

  • Chris says:

    6 Jul6 July 09:49

    Same for me, not a good start

  • Rob says:

    6 Jul6 July 16:10

    You are not the first person to mention this, I was hoping they had fixed the Windows Phone issue by now. Apologies.

• Oh! Matron! says:

  6 Jul6 July 09:08

  Rob,

  you may wish to feedback that the lack of password validation, and the minimum 4 character password is not what I would call secure, or good practice.

  KR,

  paul

  • Rob says:

    6 Jul6 July 16:09

    They will have seen it on here. Doesn’t mean they will fix it ….

• The_Real_A says:

  6 Jul6 July 09:16

  Shame there is not a website. I cannot think of anything worse that typing all booking into a mobile device.

  • Rob says:

    6 Jul6 July 16:09

    The app works very well – as there is only a limited selection of hotels per night you are not faced with a huge list of properties that, say, the Expedia app would generate.

• Simmo says:

  6 Jul6 July 10:05

  If you have already downloaded the HotelTonight app over the last couple of months and used the HEADFORPOINTS code then you are already entered into the competition. You do not need to do anything.
  The competition will close at midnight UK time on Sunday 12th July. The winner will be picked at random from all valid downloads.

  – SO how about everybody that signed up when you originally shared this app? (Back in may 2014? – with you other sign up code RBURGESS15?)

  • Chan says:

    6 Jul6 July 11:57

    I’m with you. Seems like we should be able to get in on the competition as well

  • James Ward says:

    6 Jul6 July 12:33

    +1

    • Nathan says:

      6 Jul6 July 12:45

      +1
      £15 credit vs £30 too.

  • Andy says:

    6 Jul6 July 15:33

    Thanks for the competition, I’ve signed up and used the code with no problems. I don’t like seeing comments being negative about not being able to enter, poor attitude considering all the value provided on this site.

    • Leo says:

      6 Jul6 July 16:44

      +1

• Eshaq Choudhury says:

  6 Jul6 July 10:13

  Nothing for Europe?

  • Rob says:

    6 Jul6 July 16:07

    The £30 code is UK only, unfortunately. As usually happens with HFP competitions, whilst they are often sponsored by companies which operate globally, you need to remember that I almost always deal with the UK office which has a marketing budget to promote the UK side of the company.

• dirtyneedlebluesky says:

  6 Jul6 July 10:40

  shame i’ve registered already – it won’t allow me to add another promo and the original promo seems to be worth just £15

  p.s.
  yes I know I could enter another email to register for the current £30 offer 🙂

  • Dan says:

    6 Jul6 July 13:25

    Same here too unfortunately.

    Is there a way of fixing this Rob? Seems a little unfair that regular readers (that took up your original Hotel Tonight code last year) are barred from entry?

    • Rob says:

      6 Jul6 July 16:04

      Obvious way round it is to encourage a family member to sign up ….

      HT and I bounced around a few ways of structuring this and what you see is the compromise we reached which I felt was as fair as we could manage.

• Tom1234 says:

  6 Jul6 July 13:42

  Off topic and probably frowned up on HFP… But does anyone know whether you are okay to manufacture spend on an mbna cards to hit the sign up bonus in 3 months? Ie book refundable hotel and then cancel once you have spent £2k/£3k over a 6 month period. Full repayments each month. I have read that it’s best to make sure the first and threshold spends aren’t refunded.

  • Rob says:

    6 Jul6 July 16:00

    Not frowned upon by me, I have run a few articles on this topic! What I would do is book some refundable flights or pre-paid but refundable hotels and then cancel them to match your monthly spend. So, for example, you book 4 x £500 refundable hotel booking and then (assuming you spend £500 per month) cancel one per month to match your spend. This means that you will never go negative with your miles. This does require you to fund the £2,000 though.

    Far easier, of course, is to buy a pile of supermarket or garage gift cards for wherever you do your normal spending.

  • ScotlishZander says:

    6 Jul6 July 17:27

    It’s something I did with the Virgin Atlantic cards, booked a fully refundable flight 3 months in advance and then cancelled after my spend bonus registered and it’s something I tried with AMEX as well and then the MR Points were clawed back… Not sure if this is usual practice and not done it since.

    • Rob says:

      6 Jul6 July 19:54

      In general, Amex only claw back if you refund the transaction that takes you over the spend target. If a different transaction is the one that actually kicks you over the line, you are OK – usually ….

• david rolles says:

  6 Jul6 July 16:25

  HotelTonight say that ‘The Windows Phone app does not support promo codes, but we’re working on it and we hope to have an update out there for you soon’. However they will credit the £30 directly, if you email them the HEADFORPOINTS promo code.

  • Rob says:

    6 Jul6 July 16:52

    Thanks. Will add that.

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