In MeliaRewards? Did you get some mystery bonus points?

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• Nick Burch says:

  16 Aug16 August 09:56

  Back in July I got an email from them about 4000 points, but none showed up in my account. I contacted them online to ask why, no response for 2 weeks, then a reply online (but no email!) saying there had been a mistake + points had been credited + I had under 48 hours to use them! Since they didn’t email me about it, I didn’t know and missed it… I wonder if enough other people had the same problem with that promotion that they’ve decided to run it again?

  • Rob says:

    16 Aug16 August 10:00

    I got a similar email. I THINK what happened is that there was a cut off date for joining to get the 4k, and I misses it. However, they then sent the email to everyone. Only a guess, though.

  • Mikee says:

    16 Aug16 August 12:36

    I’ve found posting a question via their Facebook account got me a response within 24 Hours. They were extremely helpful. Worth a try.

    Mikee

• P Coleman says:

  16 Aug16 August 14:19

  In the July promo of this nature, temporary bonus of 4,000 points intended to encourage a points+cash booking, the email included this condition: “Bonus points can only be used for hotel bookings and will expire on 31st July 2013. ” That would suggest that it shouldn’t be possible to transfer them out to an airline scheme, or certainly that is their intention even if the I.T. permits it.

  • MaltapointsTom says:

    16 Aug16 August 15:48

    Interesting point – has anyone successfully transferred these bonus points to airline miles and also seen the airline miles land in their account?

    • Rob says:

      16 Aug16 August 19:00

      Mine happily left my Melia account yesterday, far too early for them to have arrived at Iberia

    • Stephen says:

      16 Aug16 August 19:00

      My 6000 points have been zeroed and I’m waiting for 900 Avios to turn up in Iberia.

• Tom says:

  16 Aug16 August 22:24

  I had a handful extra from incidentals from my free Amex stay..wonder if that will make a difference! Let’s see..

• danksy says:

  17 Aug17 August 08:27

  I transferred 4,000 to Iberia and then tried to transfer the remaining 2,000 to Mrs Danksy’s Iberia Avios account, but it declined. Tried transferring the remaining to my iberia plus account and it failed again.

  In the end I created Mrs Danksy a Melia Rewards Account and transferred them to her, she got the opening bonus of 2,000 bonus, but guess what …. yep, none of these can be transferred to Iberia Plus, or back to me!!!

  Oh well c’est la vie

  • Rob says:

    17 Aug17 August 09:21

    Got my 900 IB points!

    • danksy says:

      17 Aug17 August 18:56

      Yup… I got my Avios in IB too!!!!

• Andrew says:

  18 Aug18 August 12:55

  I got my 900 IB miles but as I only opened the IB account on Friday for this purpose, when I’ve come to combine my Avios on ba.com I’m getting this error message: “Sorry, your selected account has to be three months old to use Combine My Avios. Please try again at this time”. Is this a new rule? Not that it’s a problem for me as I’m not I’m not in a rush to burn them, but wondered if this was new?

  • Sir Stamford says:

    18 Aug18 August 13:09

    The 90 days old rule isn’t new.

    This has been highlighted several times in HFP. Most recently here:
    https://headforpoints.com/2013/07/27/iberia-still-offering-up-to-30-bonus-when-you-buy-avios/

    Sir Stamford

• Alan says:

  18 Aug18 August 13:07

  That’s my trip report now up on FT from my Gran Melia Fenix stay…

  http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trip-reports/1495081-cheeky-wee-jaunt-madrid-thanks-amex.html

  I opted to convert to AA miles – 6k converted OK but nothing showing up in my AA account as of yet.

  • Alan says:

    23 Aug23 August 16:06

    Still nothing in my AA account a week later – not looking hopeful :-((

    • 21h21j says:

      23 Aug23 August 17:19

      My Melia balance has just gone back to 6000 today, although I did a transfer to AA on the 18th.

      • Alan says:

        23 Aug23 August 19:16

        Interesting – I see mine are back in my account now too! Might try a Flying Blue transfer before settling for IB Avios (as I’m rather Avios rich just now!)

        • YL says:

          23 Aug23 August 21:04

          I transferred 3000 points to flying Blue on 16th and 3000 points to Iberia On 17th.
          IB posted very quickly but still no sign of the Flying blue points:-(
          Just checked my Melia account, points have not came back either….

    • Rob says:

      23 Aug23 August 21:17

      Had a tweet this morning from someone who had a Miles & More transfer go across OK, and my Iberia transfer also arrived.

      • Alan says:

        23 Aug23 August 21:19

        See my other post – points appeared back in my account – now attempted an FB transfer…

      • DontLikeFruit says:

        25 Aug25 August 02:00

        My transfer of points to Miles & More has also just succesfully completed.

• Tom says:

  19 Aug19 August 23:41

  All posted fine for me to IB!

• Alan says:

  26 Aug26 August 21:28

  Well no luck with AA (the points reappeared in my a/c) and so far no luck with FB – not bounced back yet. If they so I’ll just have to hope IB still works!

  • oliuk says:

    27 Aug27 August 18:05

    The AA conversion failed for me too and points were added back into melia account after around 5 days. Then transferred to IB, went through no problems and showing in iberia within 48 hours 🙂

    • Alan says:

      27 Aug27 August 18:20

      Well assuming the FB one doesn’t go through and bounces back (fingers crossed!) I’ll be trying IB too.

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