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Priority Pass adds sleep pods in Dubai

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You can’t accuse airport lounge card Priority Pass of standing still.  After adding a restaurant / bar at Gatwick South (you get £15 of free food and drink by showing your Priority Pass) and seven restaurants / bars in Sydney, it is now offering its first sleep pods.

When I was in Dubai in March I walked passed the YAWN area and thought it looked …. umm …. interesting.  This is a new airport sleep concept, whereby you can get a 2-hour session in one of 20 Igloo Sleep Pods.

The pods are available 24 hours a day and come with free wi-fi and power points!  They are situated in Terminal 3 of Dubai International Airport so ideal for anyone flying on Emirates or Qantas.

As a Priority Pass member, you can get two hours use of a Sleep Pod for free.  Full details are on the Priority Pass website here.

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The Platinum Card from American Express comes with two free Priority Pass cards, one for you and one for a supplementary cardholder. Each card admits two so a family of four gets in free. You get access to all 1,300 lounges in the Priority Pass network – search it here.

You also get access to Eurostar, Lufthansa and Delta Air Lines lounges.  Our American Express Platinum review is here. You can apply here.

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American Express Preferred Rewards Gold is FREE for the first year. It comes with a Priority Pass card loaded with four free visits to any Priority Pass lounge – see the list here.

Additional lounge visits are charged at £24.  You get four more free visits for every year you keep the card.  

There is no annual fee for Amex Gold in Year 1 and you get a 20,000 points sign-up bonus.  Full details are in our American Express Preferred Rewards Gold review here.

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HSBC Premier World Elite Mastercard gets you get a free Priority Pass card, allowing you access to the Priority Pass network.  Guests are charged at £24 although it may be cheaper to pay £60 for a supplementary credit card for your partner.

The card has a fee of £195 and there are strict financial requirements to become a HSBC Premier customer.  Full details are in my HSBC Premier World Elite Mastercard review.

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PS. You can find all of HfP’s UK airport lounge reviews – and we’ve been to most of them – indexed here.

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Comments (40)

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  • the real harry1 says:
    19 May19 May 06:46

    O/T http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/18/air-miles-may-die-youunless-put-will/

    but you can get around this easily, at least with BAEC/ avios.com, provided you adopt one of several strategies

    • Crafty says:
      19 May19 May 07:50

      What would you recommend? I’d be very interested to see an article on this.

      • Andrew says:
        19 May19 May 08:06

        Just make sure your next of kin has your password. Have them slowly run down any balances you may have and NOT tell avios you’ve died. While they’ve been compassionate in the past they would be perfectly entitled to make all of your miles disappear.

      • the real harry1 says:
        19 May19 May 08:16

        1. You can put everything in a household account and not tell BAEC or avios.com when a family/ friend member dies

        2. To minimise future problems (it is preferable to have individual a/cs in some ways, eg for permissibility of switching points between BAEC/ avios.com/ Iberia) – if one member looks like they’re about to shuffle off the old mortal coil: make your HH a/c the avios.com one, then close the a/c after death (not informing avios.com of the death) allocating 100% of the points to the surviving member.

        3. Set up the BAEC HH a/c AFTER death of the person in question, having first removed all points from your own a/c over to avios.com single a/c. Don’t inform BAEC about the deatjh. You can then use up all the points as BAEC takes them proportionately from all a/cs but if only 1 a/c has points, 100% will come from that a/c.

  • John says:
    19 May19 May 07:11

    Is there no WiFi in the terminal? I think at least 4 hours would be necessary but perhaps the point is to get you to pay

  • Ryan says:
    19 May19 May 09:20

    OT – BA 2-4-1 question
    I’ve read the two “Everything you need to know about the 2-4-1” article and I can’t see an answer to this specific question. I think it may have been discussed in comments before but I can’t find the answer.
    If I book a return (open jaw, if that’s relevant) on the 2-4-1 and then want to change one leg (i.e. outbound or return) if a better flight opens up, can I change one leg without losing the whole booking? If you can’t change and need to cancel and rebook, do the flights instantly go back into the pool and then can be rebooked straight-away?

    • Rob says:
      19 May19 May 09:45

      Yes, a competent agent can change one leg without any trouble. There is no guarantee that a cancelled ticket goes back into the pool – the system looks to see how full the flight is and, if it looks as if the tickets can be sold for cash, they go back as revenue tickets.

      • Louie says:
        19 May19 May 18:48

        If by a better flight you mean a different time or a different day, you should be fine. If you mean a different destination, you can only change if the new destination is in the same zone (so same number of Avios required) as the original one.

        • Ryan says:
          20 May20 May 09:18

          Thank you. Great to know where I stand and I trust this advice far more than whoever picks up the phone at BA.

  • Billy says:
    19 May19 May 13:28

    Delighted that PP are continuing to innovate as add value to their card.

  • Sussex Bantam says:
    19 May19 May 13:42

    @therealharry1 – you won our exchange rate bet ! Well done…

    Remind me which charity you wanted the money to go too ?

  • Wally1976 says:
    19 May19 May 14:44

    OT – just wanted to thank those who gave me a bit of advice yesterday. For anyone interested, it is hopefully now sorted. I phoned Tesco Bank and then had to phone Lloyds too. I made the initial call both times and handed over to my wife to do the security bit then hand back to me. There was a brief ‘moment’ when Tesco unexpectedly asked her for her first car (a question I hadn’t prepared her for) but otherwise fine :-). Hopefully that’s the end of it. Lesson learned is not to request a balance transfer to an Amex card where possible!

    • the real harry1 says:
      19 May19 May 15:00

      did they let you off the interest becoming payable issue as well?

      • wally1976 says:
        19 May19 May 20:36

        Yes, no problem at all, they said they’d waive any charges and make sure the 0% deal still stood 🙂

        • the real harry1 says:
          19 May19 May 20:56

          always pays to be pleasant 🙂

          some people (unfortunately includes my wife!) think you get good results by being a bit: ‘I know I’m right, put it right, lowly vassal!’

          she probably is right, 100% of the time

          just that the vassals don’t like being spoken to that way 🙂

  • n says:
    19 May19 May 15:24

    O/T – Re the 2-4-1, if I book over the phone, would I be able to split the payment across two different cards? Wouldn’t mind combining a 2-4-1 redemption with the £100 off £500 Amex offer!

    • Genghis says:
      19 May19 May 16:02

      Officially aren’t you meant to pay with “the card”? Difficult to explain that one…

    • Jerry says:
      19 May19 May 16:34

      When you come to pay they will ask for the relevant BA Amex that the voucher was earned on. You can read out any Amex number, but not 2 different ones. They will also charge the offline booking fee wiping out £30 of the £100 saving. So I would book online and be happy with the £100, this worked for us last time the offer was on our card.

    • TripRep says:
      19 May19 May 17:37

      Outbound online on one card then another card for the return on the phone

  • Curious says:
    19 May19 May 15:52

    O/T

    BA Holidays – is it possible (either on a flight+hotel booking or a hotel only booking) to select a specific room type? Am looking at a Hilton and BA only seem to say ‘Double with Continental Breakfast’ but no option to choose a differing room type?

    Also, if booking & paying via this for example, https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/flights-and-holidays/hotels etc, will payment show as having been BA on my credit card statement? (for the 100 off 500 offer)

    Lastly, anyone know the BA holidays telephone number?

    Thanks

    • Anna says:
      19 May19 May 16:49

      If there are different rooms available, there’s usually something along the lines of “see other room choices” and a link to a page showing the options and different pricing.

      You can make telephone bookings via the usual customer service number, but they will charge you for doing so unless it’s a trip you can’t book online.

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