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Yesterday, I did my best to respond to an email I received asking ‘What is the best credit card for earning Avios points?’. Because you can earn Avios points both directly and indirectly (eg via Tesco Clubcard or Amex Membership Rewards), the list of possible cards [...]
I recently had an email asking ‘What is the best credit card for earning Avios points?’. This is not as easy an answer as you might think. Whilst there are the BA and Lloyds TSB cards which issue Avios miles directly, there are other cards [...]
The Summer hotel promotions are starting to drift out from the major chains. Starwood launched ‘Double Take’ on May 1st. Marriott is now following up bringing back its MegaBonus promotion again, with the new version running from 15th May to 2nd September. This version is called [...]
I have been running an unofficial series of posts on Head for Points about good hotels for redeeming your loyalty points in the south of France. This is because it is a popular weekend break destination from the UK, with flights from regional airports across [...]
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 [...]
Quite a few Head for Points readers will collect Marriott Rewards. Very few Head for Points readers will know much about baseball! I was therefore in two minds about posting this, but I am sure that the keen Marriott Rewards collector will be able to [...]
This is the 11th 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 airline and [...]
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 [...]
Moxy Hotels is a new hotel brand that is coming to a city near you soon! (Well, it is if you live in Milan! There is a medium term plan to open 150 hotels across 10 European countries, though, including the UK.) Who is Moxy? Moxy’s [...]
I first wrote on this topic back in November. However, with major changes (of the bad sort) to the American Express Platinum and British Airways American Express sign-up bonuses this month, and the Starwood and Miles & More cards also having a lower bonus now [...]
The beady eyed may have noticed that a new page appeared at the top of the blog yesterday, called ‘Hotel Promos’. This page will provide a one-stop-shop for information of the current quarterly promotions for: Club Carlson Hilton HHonors Hyatt Gold Passport Marriott Rewards Priority [...]
It is clearly the season for devaluing hotel programmes. We have just seen Priority Club undertake one form of devaluation, when it moved from a brand-by-brand points table to a points table based more on average room rate. This led to increases in properties in [...]
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