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Via Loyalty Lobby, Hilton has launched a new promotion for its European hotels. It is not valid for UK properties, but does cover hotels in Spain, France, Netherlands, Italy, Greece etc. You need to book by May 20th but you can stay at any point [...]
British Airways has launched a special promotion in conjunction with Hilton’s two luxury brands – Conrad and Waldorf-Astoria. On the face of it, it is not a bad deal: Free bottle of champagne Upgrade on arrival, subject to availability Triple Avios points for your stay [...]
I have updated the ‘Credit Cards Update‘ page at the top of the blog for May. We have had a couple of great months in terms of new offers being launched. In March, we got the new promotion on the Lloyds TSB Duo Avios cards [...]
I had an email from a reader recently who asked me about how easy it was to ‘churn’ various credit cards, ie cancel them and then reapply, picking up another sign-up bonus. He suggested that I write a specific post about it. I said that [...]
Back in August, I wrote this post about the three different types of credit cards you can hold, based on a structure originally discussed by Gary Leff at View from the Wing. To summarise, these are: Cards you get just for the sign-up bonus, and [...]
I have written a few posts recently, mainly here, about the massive Hilton HHonors devaluation. This saw some of the most valuable redemptions almost double in price (ie Conrad Maldives up from 50,000 to 95,000 points per night) with equally crazy rises in London and New [...]
If you have been reading Head for Points for a while, you will realise that I am very keen on the Hilton Hhonors Platinum Visa credit card. It is not the greatest card in the world for long-term spending – especially with the recent Hilton [...]
Hilton HHonors has started to drip feed a number of promotions into the market which offer bonus miles for people who choose the ‘Hilton HHonors points and airline miles’ collection option when staying. (Hilton is unique in offering BOTH points and airline miles when you [...]
Over Easter, I will be answering a number of the reader questions that were submitted via this article. If you didn’t take part this time, don’t worry as I will be re-running this feature in the Summer. Feel free to expand on or critique my [...]
Over Easter, I will be answering a number of the reader questions that were submitted via this article. If you didn’t take part this time, don’t worry as I will be re-running this feature in the Summer. Feel free to expand on or critique my [...]
This is the 7th of my series of posts looking at the major UK loyalty credit cards and discussing whether of not they are worth applying for. These posts will be linked to the relevant sections of the ‘Credit Cards Update‘ page. My other UK [...]
Virgin Flying Club has announced that it will be offering double miles on all Little Red domestic flights until June 30th. This means that you will earn 3,000 Flying Club miles per return flight, instead of 1,500. More interestingly, you will earn double miles on [...]
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