Get 502 Virgin Flying Club miles for £1.50

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• Mark B says:

  9 Jul9 July 09:10

  I thought I was being smart getting one for 95p , have i blown my chance now, if it’s first booking, such wondering if it could be first booking over £1, anybody know? (too tight to try!)

  • harry says:

    9 Jul9 July 09:14

    You might be OK. Perhaps you need to trigger 2 points (ie £1 purchase) to also trigger the 500 bonus points. Perhaps not.

    But I think the real issue might be: is your 95p fare a Virgin Trains fare or perhaps another provider such as Cross Country is driving the train?

    • Mark B says:

      9 Jul9 July 09:23

      Yes it was Virgin child’s fare Coventry to Birmingham international

      • harry says:

        9 Jul9 July 09:29

        I never got to see the rules, but if they don’t state a minimum purchase, if you need to just claim the bonus points back online – Virgin are pretty efficient in this situation.

• Dougie Forde says:

  9 Jul9 July 09:13

  I presume you don’t get two lots of 500 points if you book a West Coast and an East Coast train

• Tracy says:

  9 Jul9 July 09:28

  If you are going to start collecting virgin points, it would be worth downloading the virgin Red app. It often has bonus points and other offers.

  • Tilly71 says:

    9 Jul9 July 09:37

    Where do you add coins in using the app? Ive searched and searched but cannot find the enter box?

    • Nick Burch says:

      9 Jul9 July 10:48

      Click on the V Marks the Spot island in the main top app area, then on the competition screen, click in the top right on the coin with a plus sign on it. That’ll pop up the screen to enter a coin code

      • Tilly71 says:

        9 Jul9 July 12:06

        Thanks but i must have a different screen, i only get v marks the spot is a competition, ive already entered it and greyed out, no coin in the top right corner?

        • TimS says:

          9 Jul9 July 13:47

          You may need to update the app as it sounds like you have the pre-July version.

        • Tilly71 says:

          9 Jul9 July 14:47

          Yes, reinstalled it and now i can see where, thx

• Oliver says:

  9 Jul9 July 10:42

  edinburgh – haymarket done for £2.30 on east coast wesbite. Thanks for the tip 🙂

  • Rob says:

    9 Jul9 July 11:19

    Unless, as per the comments above, it is actually West Coast despite going via EDI?

    • Genghis says:

      9 Jul9 July 22:56

      Edinburgh to Haymarket is both East and West. Starting at Edinburgh via Haymarket to Euston via Birmingham (West) and from Newcastle via Edinburgh and Haymarket to Glasgow (East).

• Liz says:

  9 Jul9 July 11:46

  If you have previously booked on the virgin site for a Scotrail train will you get the bonus if you make your first booking on a virgin train ? Or does the very first booking need to be a virgin booking to get the bonus? Anyone know?

  • James67 says:

    9 Jul9 July 12:01

    Most likely interoretation is that it is first VT or VTEC booking during the promotional period as opposed to your first ever booking at either web site. Might be worth a punt on both a VT service via their web site and a VTEC service on their website for both you and your husband. With the HYM-EDB route you would be looking at just over 2000 FC miles at best for just under £10 or £6 with a railcard.

• Fenny says:

  9 Jul9 July 11:51

  All the questions for me would be moot if they’d started the promotion last week. I had to travel from Rugby to Birmingham on Tuesday, and always book on the Virgin website.

• Graeme says:

  9 Jul9 July 12:04

  All done, thanks Raffles!

  Completely and utterly OT – on Wednesday we’re flying to Mexico City in First (can’t wait!), so we’re going nice and early to T5 to enjoy the Concorde Room. We’re away for nearly three weeks in some very hot places and I’m a very casual (and hot!) bloke, so I’m only taking shorts with me. I’ve read the FT thread about [smart] shorts in the Concorde Room so I know I can, but I’m curious what other HFP readers think. I’d prefer to wear flip flops too, but I’ll concede that…

  • harry says:

    9 Jul9 July 16:02

    They’re not going to be homophobic so please don’t read it as such. But if you turn up in hotpants with your partner similar, they might actually think twice on the grounds of annoying other users.

    • BrianDT says:

      9 Jul9 July 16:40

      Oh for the good old days of first class,when even today’s smart casual would probably be looked down on.

      • harry says:

        9 Jul9 July 16:57

        OTOH if I fancied wearing hotpants – and so did my partner – I/we would not accept being turned away from the lounge on the grounds of being under-dressed.

        I remember a friend of mine turning up in Australia with his new wife – no spouse visa because he didn’t know about that.

        They said she couldn’t come in.

        He said I’m an Australian, she’s my wife, let her in.

        They let her in & sorted t out later.

        • Billy Buzzjet says:

          9 Jul9 July 21:20

          WOW ! Another amazing OT story ! You should start your own blog.

        • harry says:

          9 Jul9 July 23:03

          You want to hear how I got indefinite returning residents visas (NZ) for all 5 of us despite not actually being entitled to them?

        • harry says:

          9 Jul9 July 23:06

          Not going to say in any case, let’s just accept I turned on the charm 🙂

        • Genghis says:

          9 Jul9 July 23:18

          The Harry charm seems to work in all manner of situations 🙂

        • harry says:

          9 Jul9 July 23:44

          4 out of 5 of us were good looking European blond/es – which no doubt helped.

          Ugly here just facilitated.

• Gavin says:

  9 Jul9 July 17:43

  Look forward to the first trip report!!

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