Earn free Etihad Guest and Lufthansa Miles & More miles writing reviews for HolidayCheck

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• William Charles says:

  15 Feb15 February 04:02

  Also worth noting that they require you to verify that you actually stayed at the hotels you reviewed.

  • Danny says:

    15 Feb15 February 05:25

    Yes they do randomly ask for proof of stay such as booking confirmation or invoices – I have reviewed over 30 hotels in the past 2 years (all actual stays) and have been asked for verification on 5 occasions.

• James67 says:

  15 Feb15 February 05:54

  Picked up a few thousand EG miles this way. They sometines up the rate to 200 miles per review. I believe it is hotel reviews only that attract the miles. I found them a little erratic at posting miles sometimes and numerous contacts with customer service didn’t help.Good if you just need a few more miles otherwise not worth the hassle as 150 miles is nothing since devaluation. I beluece they take a month to post

• Tilly71 says:

  15 Feb15 February 08:09

  Can any of the airline partner miles be transferred to other points?

  • James67 says:

    15 Feb15 February 10:29

    Wrong post I think Tilly but answer is no. Check their site as what’s possible sometimes changes. Nevef ever seen a single good deal.

    • Rob says:

      15 Feb15 February 10:58

      There was a decent Air Canada to US Airways rate last year, almost 1:1, but I agree – it is only really useful in clearing out odds and ends.

• Andrew H says:

  15 Feb15 February 09:19

  I signed up for this last month to collect some Etihad points. Four weeks on and five reviews later, I’m still waiting for the points to show up in Etihad, so I’ve had to contact Holidaycheck who are looking into it.

  I suspect the delay is on the Etihad side, so if you want quick miles, I wouldn’t choose Etihad Guest miles.

  I read last week that someone got their Air Berlin Topbonus miles within a week. Sounds like they are far more efficient.

  • James67 says:

    15 Feb15 February 10:26

    IME they normally take 4+ weeks to post. Don’t expect much from either EG or HC, I’m still missing 900 miles from last summer despite contacting both cs twice.

  • Danny says:

    15 Feb15 February 10:41

    My Airberlin points normally post within 2 weeks of the reviews being on the website.

    • James67 says:

      15 Feb15 February 11:34

      Ahh, then maybe problem is at Etihad end.

• mark2 says:

  15 Feb15 February 09:22

  TripAdvisor have recently started giving points (backdated I believe) and I am the proud? owner of 39,115. I did ask how to convert them to something useful, but apparently it is just the honour (or probably honor).

  • Genghis says:

    15 Feb15 February 12:21

    Or the feeling of ‘giving something back to the travel community’ after using the site? I leave TA reviews and I guess that’s my key reason.

• Sussex Bantam says:

  15 Feb15 February 09:22

  I’ve just tried to upload a review 3 times and had it crash out on me ! Anyone else got problems ?

  • Mariana says:

    15 Feb15 February 14:14

    Yes! I just had the same thing happened after spending about 20 minutes taking the “detailed” review option. I verified my account and all.

    If the site is that crashy that’s not a great start to competing with TripAdvisor :-/

  • Mariana says:

    15 Feb15 February 14:39

    Customer service support emails are also in German. I’m starting to think this promo might not be worth the trouble, even if Miles & More points are not easy to come by (though I’m going for Etihad). No options to autosave reviews in progress either, which is unfortunate.

    This site will need A LOT of improvements if it even hopes to compete.

    • Danny says:

      15 Feb15 February 20:56

      My experience with HolidayCheck has generally been very good, with Airberlin Topbonus miles posted without any problems and on the rare occasions I need to contact them, all correspondence has been in English.

      • Mariana says:

        15 Feb15 February 23:37

        Maybe us points hounds crashed the site today?

  • lbc says:

    19 Feb19 February 18:38

    same thing
    tried to review twice
    it crashed
    waste of time …

• Dale says:

  15 Feb15 February 09:33

  The tripadvisor points are valueless. Hopefully they will reconsider if everyone switches to review sites that do pay!

• John says:

  15 Feb15 February 14:30

  Anyone got tips for stopping American Airlines miles expiring? My mother has a load that will expire at some point soon. It looks from their UK version of the site that the aadvantageshopping.com is aimed at US residents so not sure it work work in the UK if she made a purchase?

  Any tips?

  • YL says:

    15 Feb15 February 14:56

    Yes, the shopping site works, but it depends what company you purchase things from. It may not work if you redirect from a US store to a UK store.
    If the miles are expiring soon, I would suggest just purchase the smallest amount of AA miles to top up.

    • David says:

      15 Feb15 February 20:29

      Use the aadvantageshopping.com portal to book any IHG hotel worldwide. Not many miles but it resets the clock.

      • Alan says:

        15 Feb15 February 22:12

        Agreed – I did that a few times and it always tracked fine. A bit slow to pay out and not amazing earning levels but did the trick nicely! For United miles I tend to reset them by 500pt transfers from eRewards (costs 2,000 of their points)

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