Bits: 2400 Avios on £39 printer, airberlin (BA) match, Iberia sale, Hilton Bournemouth

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• James67 says:

  2 Jan2 January 04:35

  Spotted a similar glitch on nowTV £15 offers. Perhaps it is occuring across all the bonus point offers? I’m suffering from printer fatigue after the last time, and struggling to get value out of avios now at any price, so I’ll pass. I am sure Harry et al will have a lot of fun with it though.

  • harry says:

    2 Jan2 January 06:14

    That was a bit yesterday 🙂

    The NowTV boxes come with various Sky passes, eg 1 month Movies, 3 months Entertainment, 2x 24 hrs Sports.

    ISTR the maths make them £9.50 or so. The black box is apparently superior to the previous white version.

• harry says:

  2 Jan2 January 06:27

  O/T
  People were discussing this, fairly sure it’s NOT in addition to the bigger bonus Avios offer:

  Receive a £50 statement credit1 and 1,000 bonus Avios points2 when you get a new British Airways American Express® Credit Card
  •Receive a £50 statement credit on the British Airways American Express Credit Card when you spend £100 in the first three months of Cardmembership1.
  •Get 1,000 bonus Avios when you spend £500 on the Card in the first three months of Cardmembership2.
  •Earn 1 Avios for virtually every pound you spend on every day purchases3.
  •Receive a complimentary companion flight voucher, for the same cabin, when you spend £20,000 within a Card anniversary year on everyday purchases4. Taxes, fees and carrier charges apply.
  •Be automatically enrolled in the British Airways Executive Club rewards programme (if not already a member) to manage your Avios and get additional benefits.
  •No annual Card fee.

  • Rob says:

    2 Jan2 January 08:56

    They’ve done this before during booking on BA.com. Bad deal.

• harry says:

  2 Jan2 January 06:43

  O/T Just booked an Avios + money RFS flight for my wife 21/12/2016, what would you have chosen? [Cash HBO was £88, with luggage £103.]

  6,500 Avios + £17.50
  5,200 Avios + £32.50
  4,600 Avios + £37.50
  3,900 Avios + £42.50
  3,300 Avios + £47.50
  2,150 Avios + £52.50

  • harry says:

    2 Jan2 January 07:00

    And can anyone say why Xmas peak fares (which went peak on 15/12/2016) are off-peak on 21/12/2016?

    No problem my end, just asking. I’ll take the 1000 Avios lol 🙂

    • GMH says:

      2 Jan2 January 07:44

      Tuesdays and Wednesdays are always off peak. 21/12/16 is a Wednesday.

  • pauldb says:

    2 Jan2 January 07:33

    The bottom one. Buying your miles back at 0.8p. Especially if you need luggage and flexibility … unless you need the TPs or are very likely to cancel.
    Tuesdays/Wednesdays always tend to be off-peak, even during peak periods.

    • harry says:

      2 Jan2 January 07:53

      Thanks for the explanation of off-peak.

      Sure – the bottom one, as I intend to use my Avios bank in future.

      But since I got plenty of Avios at low cost, the other possibilities were not entirely illogical.

• Anon says:

  2 Jan2 January 07:04

  Printer out of stock @ 7am…

• Howard says:

  2 Jan2 January 07:07

  I have an Air Berlin account. Should I change my address to USA and then apply.

  I have two gold cards with Etihad and Alitalia

  • Rob says:

    2 Jan2 January 08:55

    Yes

    • Geoggy says:

      2 Jan2 January 09:44

      But how will he get his card?

      I was thinking of using a service like Borderlinx where they give you a US shipping address and then forward stuff to you, but the address doesn’t look remotely residential so not sure it will work??

• harry says:

  2 Jan2 January 07:51

  BTW, I lost track of who it was, but somebody yesterday got double credit/ points on Iberia for the Groupon deal. The explanation is as follows, cut & pasted from another site I can’t remember (UK points? just google it):
  [Curious Iberia Plus offer for inactive accounts:

  Two family members with very inactive Iberia Plus accounts received offers by email today advising their Avios (I forgot they had small 2k balances in IB+) would expire early next year.

  However the email also appears to advertise a promotion whereby with every partner transaction their Avios balance will be doubled (with earning capped at 5,000 avios sadly)

  Iberia Plus – expiring avios double up promotion

  The T&C in the email said:
  This promotion is valid for earning Avios on operations performed by the cardholder Iberia Plus until 02/29/2016. The promotion allows customers to duplicate Avios to a maximum of 5,000. The Avios will be listed at the end of the promotional period.]

  So some of you might get a ‘double up’ 🙂

  Worth checking

  • Charlie says:

    2 Jan2 January 13:18

    ooo I think this has happened to me! My iberia is showing it twice:

    12/21/15 Avios Earned With Groupon Shopping 2,000
    12/21/15 Avios Earned With Groupon Shopping 2,000

• Geoggy says:

  2 Jan2 January 08:19

  Hi,

  If anyone can give some advice on how to do the US address thing for Air Berlin I would be very grateful.

  Also I’m typing this from the Hilton Bournemouth.

  This is our first Hilton stay since the Diamond Match and happy to report a major upgrade. Booked basic room, given upgrade to King One bed suite with Sea View – their highest category room from what I can see on their website.

  The room is very nice. Nice large lounge and dining table , high standard bathroom with seperate tub and large shower. A mini fridge that is useable and currently holding some of our booze.

  Went into the lounge twice yesterday. During the day there’s peanuts , fruit tea and coffee, soft drinks and bottled beer.

  Last night between 6 and 8 there was canapés , gin whisky vodka prosecco and wine. One of the better lounges I’ve been in. Any questions just ask

• Ross says:

  2 Jan2 January 08:20

  Just got back from a 2 night stay at The Hilton Bournemouth in one of their sea view suites and must say we really loved it, still some teething problems as you’d expect with any hotel that’s only been open two weeks but overall sets a completely new standard for Bournemouth. Will definitely be staying again. The Hampton is just next door and a good choice for the price, rooms small but great value.

  • plastikman says:

    2 Jan2 January 08:33

    New Hiltons seem to be doing something differently these days. Stayed at the Hilton Bankside over Christmas and it was not like any other Hilton I had stayed in – stylish furnishings, restaurant and bar excellent and an omlette chef who could actually make an omlette. Staff couldn’t have done more for us.

    • Tariq says:

      2 Jan2 January 09:43

      The newer properties are definitely a class above the tired old provincial ones. Many of which should probably be reflagged as Doubletrees or Hamptons.

      • James says:

        2 Jan2 January 11:35

        Would have to disagree – a lot of the doubletrees are a mile above the standard of some hiltons!

        • Will says:

          2 Jan2 January 14:08

          I always look forward to staying in a doubletree, usually new and sleek (in Europe at least)

          I think they need to rebrand the old hiltons to “acceptable in the 80’s”

        • Danny says:

          2 Jan2 January 14:32

          Yes I agree – one of my favourite Hilton hotels (any brands) is the DoubleTree Amsterdam Centraal Station.

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