Bits: Amex Platinum USA goes metallic, £19 Monarch deal, Uber hits Chichester

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• Crafty says:

  3 Mar3 March 07:50

  OT: Hilton Honors Visa card.

  Any restrictions – in theory or practice – on what you have to spend your money on to get the 2,500 points x4 at Hilton hotels? Mine have not tracked after dinner at the Hilton KL and I am going round in circles with clueless customer service agents (four and counting).

  • Alan says:

    3 Mar3 March 08:04

    Routinely extremely variable in how well these post. Have you formally complained via secured messaging? I just requested the equivalent amount of cash to buy the points myself and they paid up 😉

• BA-Flyer says:

  3 Mar3 March 09:09

  Quick question about IHG accelerate. I booked a stay on the app in December, and completed the stay in January. The stay has contributed towards ‘Stay More, Earn More’, but not towards ‘travel with the IHG app’. IHG say this is correct, and the stay needed to be booked in January to count.

  Anyone else experienced this? It seems strange the stay qualifies for one target, but not the other.

  • Peter K says:

    3 Mar3 March 11:21

    There has been a lot of talk of this on here and it seems that what they are saying is correct. The t’s and c’s have deliberately obfuscated things so that it is harder to meet the targets. Annoying but as they are the t’s and c’s what can we do but get annoyed.

    • Fenny says:

      3 Mar3 March 18:23

      I have a “book 3 stays with the app” target and a “book a points and cash” target. I have 2 stays, both booked on the app, one cash, one P&C. Only the cash booking is showing as booked via the app. I don;t mind that it’s not counted in the “stay 8 nights” target, as I probably won’t hit that one and don’t need it for the completion bonus.

• Scott says:

  3 Mar3 March 09:14

  O/T – anyone experienced Gold card sign-up bonus MR points (22k from referral) being applied early after achieving only 10% of £2k spend within couple of weeks of getting card? Would you transfer points out and close account, or would you keep working toward £2k target?

  • andrew -a says:

    3 Mar3 March 09:47

    I have just had 22k added and have only spent £1500.
    I will just leave them though for now as I will easily hit the £2000 spend before mid April. I am keeping hold of the card to refer my OH later in the year.

    • Scott says:

      3 Mar3 March 09:53

      OK, looks there could have been a system error if it’s affecting multiple account holders, so I expect it will be noticed and the points taken back.

    • Sundar says:

      3 Mar3 March 12:25

      Move it, I say 🙂 You are anyways planning to earn it rightfully, so you may as well enjoy an earlier Xmas now…

• xcalx says:

  3 Mar3 March 14:20

  OT but Amex related. I applied via a referral from mrs xcalx from her Plat account and changed the choice of card to SPG She didn’t receive any referral points when I got the card. I have just noticed the following on the Amex referral page.

  “If your friend applies for an alternative Card, the reward you receive may vary.”

  Have not noticed this before.

  • graham says:

    3 Mar3 March 18:53

    Have definitely done this successfully for a platinum to gold referral

    • Genghis says:

      3 Mar3 March 19:14

      That’s different as it’s the same reward currency family and so officially permitted

• Clive says:

  3 Mar3 March 19:30

  Need a little help please ref Hilton Visa

  Is there anyway to see the Honors points breakdown
  How long does the free night take to post
  Does the 2500 points get delayed and is it shown on your visa statement or added when points are transferred

• roger says:

  3 Mar3 March 20:57

  OT – Nationwide Simply Rewards
  Just saw 6% CB on NW visa card with simply rewards

  • Genghis says:

    3 Mar3 March 21:06

    On what?

• roger says:

  3 Mar3 March 21:21

  Silly me, it is Emirates

• roger says:

  3 Mar3 March 21:26

  There is also Hertz 20% discount which seems to work for car rental with Accor discount code CDP 840267 for booking before 31 May.

  Plus there may be 3x points too.

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