hotels.com is running a generous promotion at the moment, giving out Marks & Spencer vouchers with bookings at selected properties. When you look to book a hotel at hotels.com, certain properties will show as participating in the M&S promotion. Book one of these and you [...]

2,000 Avios for £8.74 is not a bad deal!  And you don’t even need to leave the house for this one (should you be sick of visiting Tesco stores trying to find 3V cards ….). You can even get something potentially more valuable for your [...]

Barclaycard has launched a range of special deals called Bespoke Offers, which are currently being promoted in TV ads. Weirdly, to put it mildly, you do NOT have to have a Barclaycard to take part in these offers.  Even more weirdly, for offers which require payment, [...]

As you are constantly hearing from the Government, from British Airways and from Heathrow Airport itself is that the airport is – to all intents and purposes – ‘full’. This is, to put it mildly, a bit of a shame if you are an ‘up [...]

Avios is giving away 20,000 Avios points in a competition to predict the winner of Saturday’s Eurovision Song Contest! The competition is being run via Facebook, so you will need an account there to participate. Here is the link to take part. Everyone who correctly [...]

Two Head for Points readers both contacted me separately in recent weeks to point out the excellent deals being offered by avios.com when you use them to book a package holiday. The first thing to note is that these are avios.com promotions, so you will [...]

I don’t usually cover general aviation news on Head for Points, but this story will have an impact on a lot of readers who may be planning to head to Dubai next year. As per this website, one of the two runways at Dubai International [...]

My recent posts on the 3V Virtual Visa card have focussed minds on the topic of ‘manufactured spend’ – ie creating artificial financial transactions purely to generate credit card spend to generate airline miles. It is very low-key topic, because by definition it depends on [...]

If you are planning a US trip this year, this may be worth a look. Expedia, via this link, is offering £50 off £500 ‘flight and hotel’ packages and £100 off £1,000 packages. The clever thing with these Expedia deals is that you can use [...]

This deal is in the Daily Mail today, but I will do you a favour and save you having to buy a copy! Mail readers are being offered a free ‘Family & Friends Railcard’, which will be valid until 31st July. This would allow you [...]