Bits: Qatar Airways confirms Dublin launch, Plaza Premium confirms T5 lounge, HfP party

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• Genghis says:

  7 Dec7 December 06:40

  Great party. It was good to speak to likeminded people. Thanks to HfP, Melia for the subsidised booze and Currys for the headphones that I won in the raffle. Top banana.

• Cat says:

  7 Dec7 December 06:47

  Thanks Rob and Anika, last night was fun! It should definitely be an annual event.

  Cat

  • Richard says:

    7 Dec7 December 09:14

    Yep, agree with that!

• Concerto says:

  7 Dec7 December 06:50

  And for those of you who have a decent amount of Melia Rewards points but only sporadic stays, don’t leave it too close to expiry before doing something. Buying points is a good way to prolong the life of points, which are only valid for 1 year in the absence of activity. But allow 48 hours for the transaction to go through (took 30 hours in my case). There’s a promotion at the moment: 1,000 points cost €5 instead of €8.

• Geoggy says:

  7 Dec7 December 07:09

  Thanks for the party. I never win raffles so it was nice to win Raffles raffle ;0). Now to work out when I can get to Dubai!

• Nadir says:

  7 Dec7 December 07:32

  Dammit. I’m always late to the party. Literally, in this case!

  O/T – I’ve not had any emails from Amex confirming £5 shop small credit. I made three purchases on Sunday, via contactless. Then two yesterday, via chip and pin. But not had any emails to confirm, unlike other offers (spent £10 in the Post Office yesterday – got an email as I was putting my Amex back into my wallet).

  Should I be worried? I’ve tweeted @ Amex UK CS and am waiting to hear back but thought I’d seek the wisdom of HfP readers.

  • Brian says:

    7 Dec7 December 07:40

    Contactless payments tend not to track for promotions, I (and other readers) have found. An email to Customer Services via your online account will sort it out, but it’s a bit of a hassle to have to do this every time. So it’s best to use chip and pin each time for such promotions.

  • Nick M says:

    7 Dec7 December 07:45

    Chip & Pin is usually more reliable in terms of tracking (I think contactless will depend on when the business “uploads” the transaction information?)

    My emails haven’t been as consistent this year – I’ve had some but not all, and have received credit from some of those that I didn’t get an email about… will tally everything up next week and then get in touch with Amex to claim any missing ones.

  • RussellH says:

    7 Dec7 December 10:33

    Did my first Shop Small purchase yesterday – shop asked if they could do contactless and I said yes…

    Why do some places only give a till receipt for contactless? And why did I have to fight at a bar in Newcastle to get any receipt at all (on Visa)?

    I have done two Amex contactless purchases of stamps at the Post Office; the £5 refund for the first was credited yesterday, so I was confident about the second (different card, of course) yesterday.

• Nate says:

  7 Dec7 December 07:37

  OT I received the Hilton free voucher for the first time with their credit card in February 2015 and subsequently closed my account after using it.

  I understand the rules have changed and now the offer is a once only thing. If I were to apply for the card again now almost 2 years later, would I still be able the get the reward?

  • John says:

    7 Dec7 December 10:02

    It depends on how good Barclays would be at linking you to your previous account. Leave out your middle name or something, and don’t be disappointed if you don’t get it.

    • RussellH says:

      7 Dec7 December 10:41

      Is there any way in which you you can legitimately have a different address?

      For almost 20 years the PO address for where I lived was xx The Square, even though the street sign on the side of the building said Gladstone Square.

      Again where I live now, the official PO address is not the same as the name on the building.

      Though I suppose that doing this could well cause problems when Barclaycard try to match your given address to their database.

      On the other hand, some address databases – particulaly insurance companies it seems – are incapable of producing a correct form of my current address.

      Two things that they just cannot get right:
      1) They insist on a house number – none of the houses in all the local villages has a number
      2) The insist on a street name – again, there are none in any of the local villages.

• Nick M says:

  7 Dec7 December 07:38

  Glad it went well, will hopefully be able to come to the next one!

• Ro says:

  7 Dec7 December 07:39

  Great job Anika & Rob. A really successful evening. Looking forward to more

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