You can now convert Qatar Airways Qmiles INTO Accor Hotels points

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• ComeFlyWithMe123 says:

  9 Dec9 December 14:11

  O/T – Are we all driving our nice clean hire cars today? 🙂 🙂 🙂

  • anon says:

    9 Dec9 December 15:00

    i picked mine up today – Avis’s systems were down and reservations had to be completed manually. The attendant told me that there had been such a huge number of cars rented through this promotion and that it had meant that they had no more cars available for hire in their fleet. I was asked “Is this yet another Avios booking” when I arrived there. So, its been very popular and the branch rep informed me that he thought the promotion must be a mistake as there is no money to be made by Avis with such cheap rentals. (just over £40 for 3 day hire!). Anyway, lets wait and see if the Avios posts – it does me make nervous that the systems were down when I picked up the car.

    • Roger C says:

      9 Dec9 December 15:06

      All went smoothly when I picked mine up yesterday – but today the car first gave errors saying the engine has failed, and then the electrics died completely for a while. I think it will spend the rest of the weekend on my drive! Less than £40 for the three days, though….

    • TGLoyalty says:

      9 Dec9 December 15:23

      Being extra helpful they delivered yesterday even though my rental starts today, saving me having to mess around picking it up. Now on my drive til Monday when it will be returned and I’ll leisurely walk back home. Maybe I’ll give it a spin over a weekend 😉

      £42 for just under 19k Avios 🙂

      • Doug says:

        9 Dec9 December 16:46

        haha the attendent even mentioned that people were going to leave their cars parked the whole weekend, but I’m too shy to say that I also booked just for the points, so I stated I would be driving the car and the system was indeed down this morning, I hope this won’t cause any problems for posting those points!

        • w says:

          9 Dec9 December 17:45

          Same over here. Their system went down in the morning, when it came back up, they had 17 more bookings. Completely out of cars as well – but they had no idea why, and I didn’t hang around to explain things. Hoping for the best.

    • the real harry says:

      9 Dec9 December 18:02

      indeed – not only no money to be made – but serious money to be lost

      19K Avios = £190, you paid £40-odd but the car is depreciating, needs servicing, cleaning etc so of course that’s not £40 profit

      probably costing Avis £150 loss per vehicle

      however systems down = I’d be seriously worried about ever getting the points 🙂 probably going to need some chasing – at best

      • Genghis says:

        9 Dec9 December 20:49

        I have same feeling. Pleased I didn’t bite

        • the real harry says:

          9 Dec9 December 22:57

          they’ll call us nay-sayers lol

          but to me looks quite likely they won’t get the 19K, no chance imho

          whereas I stuck in another 32 buys on Shop Small today

          so £160 profit for me

        • Alan says:

          10 Dec10 December 00:07

          Nothing too cheap near me and for 0.4p/Avios it wasn’t worth the hassle for me. Good effort on the ShopSmall front, any good chains you’ve found that might apply across the country? Spent some at Margiotta (don’t know if they have them elsewhere but 4 in Edinburgh) – of course it didn’t track so have to send in secure message. Weirdly one did track on another payment I made that I never dreamt would be participating!

  • James67 says:

    9 Dec9 December 19:51

    Quite embarassing, my parents and partner are picking up hire cars with hire cars!

    • Gavin says:

      9 Dec9 December 21:29

      That is quite superb!

      • Cormac says:

        9 Dec9 December 21:40

        Very good.

• Concerto says:

  9 Dec9 December 16:02

  It was the same mess at Mulhouse station in France today, system was totally down and they were having to write contracts by hand. The woman was quite flustered with it. But I seriously doubt that this promotion caused that problem- can’t be THAT many people taking advantage of it!

• Clive says:

  9 Dec9 December 18:57

  New IHG Accelerate is out for Q1

  • Peter K says:

    9 Dec9 December 23:54

    Just checked mine. Mine is rubbish, basically 3000 pts per 3 nights.
    My wife’s is marginally better. Effectively 20k points for one weekend stay in jan but not worth going for the full whack of points.

• Clive says:

  9 Dec9 December 18:59

  Cheap Business to Asia and beyond

  https://www.google.co.uk/flights/#search;iti=FLR,FIR,ZMS_ICN,HKG,NRT,HND_2017-03-24*ICN,HKG,NRT,HND_DUS,QDU_2017-03-31;tt=m;sel=FLRCDG0AF1767-CDGHKG0AF188,NRTDUS0NH209;sc=b

  • Tom says:

    9 Dec9 December 20:02

    But can you actually book it via Alitalia?!

    • Gavin says:

      9 Dec9 December 21:31

      I am sure at that price it’s an error fare, also looks like the non-intercontinental legs book into Economy

• Alex W says:

  9 Dec9 December 19:17

  Just picked my car up in Bristol, no issues there.

  After refusing to credit loads of rentals, I figure Avis owes me a few points.

  My first “rental run” 😉

  • stephen says:

    9 Dec9 December 19:44

    Picked my car up at 10am in Belfast and no IT problems. it only took under 10 minutes. The agent said ‘are you going far’, I said no its only for the avios offer. Blank look in return. 3 tenth of a mile later car in work carpark and all nice and cosy until 9.30am on Monday and no fuel used. Hope Avis do another offer like this.

  • Danksy says:

    9 Dec9 December 22:02

    Picked mine up yesterday…from Bristol Bradley stoke

• Concerto says:

  9 Dec9 December 20:57

  Yeah when I mentioned the offer it was met with total incomprehension.

• Nick says:

  9 Dec9 December 22:07

  Picked mine up tonight from DSA. After narrowly avoiding the quickest hire car run in history (had to prove my address – luckily the Rep said anything will do I showed him a copy of my ba email for my recent Black Friday CE deal he agreed to hand over the keys….after I declined the excess reduction of £30/day but got stuffed by the £200 deposit I even got an upgrade to j class group which I thought was quite apt!

  Mondeo estate diesel auto titanium x…thanks v much until I went to check for damage in the dark and found it was a black car and hadn’t been washed in its 2k miles on the clock…que anger and expletives and picture taking on my phone as people walked past and even colleagues I’ve previously worked que me awkward laugh. The rep said any damage not listed just ring us up on our answer machine and I’ll pick it up on Monday. Most bizarre system ever I was all set for a rant back to the terminal when as if by magic the drivers returned and were passing saying are you okay. After explaining the odd scratch etc I found the v helpful chap wrote the new damage up and I made him write car filthy can’t check and gave me his details.

  Car deposited on parents drive 3 miles away. Both rep and service driver were like 18k avios that’s fantastic crack on que…funny looks. No intention of fuelling up car or using it taking it back Monday.

  As for the avios posting fingers crossed!

• Mikeact says:

  11 Dec11 December 08:37

  My rental went just fine, and a class higher. Will need filling up tomorrow morning with ,I guess around a pint of diesel !
  Regarding the FD Points Hound offer above, any ideas on the cheapest hotel anywhere in the world to take advantage?

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