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News in brief:

Bonus Avios booking hotels with Kaligo.com

Hotel booking site Kaligo.com has been fairly quiet on the promotional front recently, following a number of very generous offers in 2015.

They now have a new offer available:

You will receive double Avios on all bookings made by 31st December 2016

The stay must be completed by 30th April 2017

First-time bookers with Kaligo.com will receive an additional 2,000 Avios

Full details can be found here.

Like similar sites such as PointsHound and Rocketmiles, hotel bookings via Kaligo.com are treated as non-qualifying stays.  This means that you won’t receive any points in Hilton HHonors, IHG Rewards Club etc or, most of the time, receive any status benefits due to you.

Assuming there is no price difference, this offer is best used when staying at a hotel outside one of the major chains.

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1,200 Avios via Clubcard with £23 NOW TV deal

Until Wednesday 2nd November, Tesco Direct is giving 500 extra Clubcard points – worth 1,200 Avios or 1,250 Virgin miles – with a £23 NOW TV box.

Even better, these NOW TV boxes come with your choice of either a (click to be taken to the relevant Tesco Direct page):

If you had been thinking about adding a NOW TV box to your house – it basically lets you get access to a lot of Sky content without having a dish – this is a very decent deal.  Two months of free Sky Movies would keep you going over Christmas.

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.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 12th May 2024, the Capital on Tap Business Rewards Visa card is offering a bonus of 30,000 points, convertible into 30,000 Avios. You must have a Limited Company to apply. Click here to learn more and click here to apply.

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.

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Comments (37)

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  • Erico1875 says:
    31 Oct31 October 07:32

    Thevtesco Now TV is a good deal even if you already, as I do have a Now TV box. Monthly its £6.99 so the 3 month included entertainment pass just about covers that and can be used to prepay an existing account. You can have up to 4 boxes /devices per account.

  • Alan says:
    31 Oct31 October 09:13

    If you do go for the Now TV box then I recommend doing the Filmon mod which adds in most of the freeview channels (plus a few others). We have this set up in my daughter’s bedroom where there is no aerial point. http://blog.artesea.co.uk/2016/01/tvplayer-on-roku-or-now-tv.html

    • Alan says:
      31 Oct31 October 09:18

      Interesting, thanks. I’ve stopped my Sky sub and moved wholly to Roku, this would save me having to switch TV inputs to just watch live broadcasts – will take a look!

    • the real harry says:
      31 Oct31 October 09:30

      No need to do that any more – just buy the new NowTV Smart box – which is Roku powered. £35 widely available – with 4 months Sky Cinema included. Miles better than the little black or older white NowTV boxes.

      It has 129 Freeview channels (from my terrestrial aerial at least) plus you get ability to freeze live TV.

      Seriously considering cancelling my Sky TV sub – with a better broadband delivery, I certainly would – especially as NowTV keep giving away free months of Entertainments passes. They also gifted me a free month of Sky Sports just for being an all-round pleasant guy on Live Chat 🙂

      Totally O/T – if (like me) you don’t watch too much TV, give Sky’s Westworld a viewing – it’s a brilliant original series, co-directed by JJ Abrams – best TV I’ve seen for years.

      • Wally1976 says:
        31 Oct31 October 09:51

        Harry does this give you Freeview HD channels or just SD?

        • the real harry says:
          31 Oct31 October 10:16

          Just clicked through the Freeview channels and only 2 mention HD – can you even get HD through an aerial? Ie Freeview is through the aerial – always on etc just like a normal TV.

          There’s an apps section – which is through the broadband connection – eg this is where you find NowTV & BBC iPlayer – and it says ‘You’re now watching best quality video. If you have any problems you can switch back to standard definition in Settings’ – which does imply it’s HD. I had to confirm my TV was HD 1080 when I set it up.

        • the real harry says:
          31 Oct31 October 10:19

          Just started watching Nigel Farage Gets His Life Back – seemed hfp appropriate! – and it’s HD. Must watch that later, looked q funny.

        • the real harry says:
          31 Oct31 October 17:12

          these NowTV box freeview channels come through the terrestrial aerial though – not through the broadband connection – so they won’t be HD

      • Alan says:
        31 Oct31 October 09:56

        But presumably this only works if you have an aerial input? The mod I pointed to is good if you have no aerial point.

      • roberto says:
        31 Oct31 October 10:35

        Without wishing to pee on your chips Harry Westworld is hardly original. Its a rehash of a book called Westworld (written by Michael Crichton) and a 1973 film of the same name staring Yul Brynner. Us old farts have long memories (as well as grandfathered BA amex cards) and if you want to know how it ends feel free to ask.

        • the real harry says:
          31 Oct31 October 17:09

          yep I’ve seen that

          nothing much in common with this series apart from a black hat & the name

  • the real harry says:
    31 Oct31 October 10:04

    ah 🙂 good to know – I wondered what would happen to those statement points

  • bryan says:
    31 Oct31 October 09:59

    Not a bad deal seeing as I pay £9.99 a month anyway for the movie pass. So a box to give away to someone and 1200 avios for £3.76

  • signol says:
    31 Oct31 October 10:39

    Shame they don’t seem to be doing the ones with Sky Sports day passes as well.

  • Matt says:
    31 Oct31 October 11:09

    So, ended up with 8 BW stays in the Lufthansa offer period.

    Now to see if they deliver…

  • Stewart says:
    31 Oct31 October 11:25

    Shame there isn’t an offer for nowtv with sky sports!

  • n says:
    31 Oct31 October 12:26

    O/T – my hotels.com rewards nights are expiring in late November. Can I book a cheap hostel in Thailand to keep them alive for another month? Or do I actually have to check in? If I have to check in, what if I was to call the hostel and ask them to check me if (maybe claim I’ll be arriving v late that night/v early the next day?

    I’d rather severely drop my average spend, than lose them altogether!

    • Rob says:
      31 Oct31 October 12:45

      I did this last year, a £5 place, worked fine. Didn’t call anyone.

      • n says:
        31 Oct31 October 15:27

        thanks

        • Matt says:
          31 Oct31 October 19:17

          Indeed. The hotel has their money…why would they be bothered with making any further enquiries? The reward night credit was the only positive to missing a flight to ATH this year. By the way I think a new booking keeps your credits alive for a year rather than a month.

          • Rob says:
            31 Oct31 October 21:17

            To be fair, I tried the same trick with booking.com to get my 2 free Uber rides and the hostel (a different hostel to the one I used for hotels.com) reported me as a no-show.

          • Javier Pena says:
            1 Nov1 November 19:01

            Hi Rob,

            Any hotel will report your reservation as a no-show to Booking.com due to the huge commission that this TA charges to hotels and alike. This big amount gets reduced to zero if you are “no-showed” and inform Booking.com about it, even if the hotel gets to keep your money as a non-arrival.

            Not sure about other TA’s, but I would never risk that on Booking.com due to the above.

    • TGLoyalty says:
      31 Oct31 October 21:59

      Does using them for a refundable cancellable booking so far ahead you might have another booking before then reset the expiry?

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