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With miles and points news a bit thin on the ground today, we can let our minds wander and think …… wouldn’t it be nice to escape to the Caribbean for a week?

If the answer to that question is yes, here are two competitions where you can win trips to different Caribbean islands.

By the way, if you are wondering ‘does a HfP reader ever win one of these competitions?’, we have some great news to share in a day or so.

Win flights for 2 from the UK to Aruba with KLM

KLM is running a competition giving away flights from the UK via Amsterdam to Aruba with 7 nights all inclusive accomodation at the Barcelo Aruba.

You need to take a quiz where your knowledge about Aruba is being tested which can be found on this website.  It doesn’t matter how many questions you get right.  After that, you need to log in with your Twitter or Facebook account in order to be entered into the prize draw.  If you don’t have a Twitter or Facebook account, you can’t enter.

The competition ends at 23:59 on 21st October.  What is attractive about this is that it is restricted to KLM’s UK customer base which is a relatively small group.

Win a trip to the Caribbean with British Airways

In order to promote their routes to the Caribbean, British Airways and Time Out are giving away a trip to the Caribbean. The prize includes (economy) return flights for 2 to either Turks & Caicos, Tobago, Dominican Republic, St Kitts, Saint Lucia, Grenada, Barbados or Jamaica and 7 days accommodation in a 4* hotel with breakfast.

To enter you need to choose one Caribbean Island and fill out your details on this website. The terms and conditions can be found here.

The competition ends at 23:45 on 25th October.


How to earn Avios from UK credit cards

How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (April 2024)

As a reminder, there are various ways of earning Avios points from UK credit cards.  Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses!

In February 2022, Barclaycard launched two exciting new Barclaycard Avios Mastercard cards with a bonus of up to 25,000 Avios. You can apply here.

You qualify for the bonus on these cards even if you have a British Airways American Express card:

Barclaycard Avios Plus card

Barclaycard Avios Plus Mastercard

Get 25,000 Avios for signing up and an upgrade voucher at £10,000 Read our full review

Barclaycard Avios card

Barclaycard Avios Mastercard

5,000 Avios for signing up and an upgrade voucher at £20,000 Read our full review

There are two official British Airways American Express cards with attractive sign-up bonuses:

British Airways American Express Premium Plus

25,000 Avios and the famous annual 2-4-1 voucher Read our full review

British Airways American Express

5,000 Avios for signing up and an Economy 2-4-1 voucher for spending £15,000 Read our full review

You can also get generous sign-up bonuses by applying for American Express cards which earn Membership Rewards points. These points convert at 1:1 into Avios.

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold

Your best beginner’s card – 20,000 points, FREE for a year & four airport lounge passes Read our full review

The Platinum Card from American Express

40,000 bonus points and a huge range of valuable benefits – for a fee Read our full review

Run your own business?

We recommend Capital on Tap for limited companies. You earn 1 Avios per £1 which is impressive for a Visa card, along with a sign-up bonus worth 10,500 Avios.

Capital on Tap Business Rewards Visa

Huge 30,000 points bonus until 12th May 2024 Read our full review

You should also consider the British Airways Accelerating Business credit card. This is open to sole traders as well as limited companies and has a 30,000 Avios sign-up bonus.

British Airways Accelerating Business American Express

30,000 Avios sign-up bonus – plus annual bonuses of up to 30,000 Avios Read our full review

There are also generous bonuses on the two American Express Business cards, with the points converting at 1:1 into Avios. These cards are open to sole traders as well as limited companies.

American Express Business Platinum

40,000 points sign-up bonus and an annual £200 Amex Travel credit Read our full review

American Express Business Gold

20,000 points sign-up bonus and FREE for a year Read our full review

Click here to read our detailed summary of all UK credit cards which earn Avios. This includes both personal and small business cards.

Comments (30)

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  • Boi says:

    It could be a cheaper way to visit the in laws in Trinidad

  • Alan says:

    Can’t get the BA-Timeout link to work 🙁

  • Oliver Bennett says:

    OT: if anyone has any reservations about churning the amex gold card; I just cancelled mine and the agent said “if you want to apply again for this card make sure you leave it 6 months so you are elibile for the welcome bonus” its like they are actively informing people to churn

    • Raffles says:

      I was told by an Amex staffer that sign-ups is the key performance metric they have!

      • Genghis says:

        I do my bit to help Amex staff hit their bonuses!

        • Arrow says:

          heehee

          ditto

          to all those naysayers out there who think it is possible to “overchurn”

          • Roger says:

            I can also reveal that 2 credit card plus 2 charge card may not be official policy afterall as with my nectar I have 3 credit and 1 charge card, still overall 4 though.

  • Peter K says:

    The KLM flights are also economy. At least the hotel is AI unlike BA giving just B&B!

  • Sam says:

    OT: Has anyone else not been able to login to BA.com for the last few days? Mine keeps coming up with Error “Unfortunately our systems are not responding…” since Monday.

    • Leo says:

      I get this all the time. Try a different browser.

    • Lady London says:

      I’ve noticed that sometimes the BA site seems to start doing this when I’ve tried quite a few fare permutations or long time searching. It keeps doing it until either cookies cleared or different browser.

    • Keith says:

      I had this a few times. Also when trying to register a new user (for friends) I select home address, complete the details, and it rejects the application with a list of errors about the business name and parts of the business address! I kept trying, and eventually it accepted the details.

      I’m now having exactly the same problem trying to register a new account for my wife (hers is repeatedly being hacked, and BA have finally accepted that a new account is the answer).

  • Temp says:

    OT: Not sure if already covered on HFP, but logged into my BAEC account to see BA hols seems to be having a sale over xmas to US, biz class flights + 3 nights hotel from £1149.

  • Tilly71 says:

    OT:
    Hertz gold points offer through accor promo, how long did it take for the extra 900 points to be added recently, this is when people got 1800 instead of 900?

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