Bits: £295 Qatar Airways sale, Hilton HHonors quirk, Hotels.com flash sale

News in brief:

£295 Qatar Airways economy sale launched

Qatar Airways – generous sponsors of our current competition – is running a ‘flash sale’ in Economy to desinations in the Middle East.

The prices are very competitive – Dubai from £295, Abu Dhabi from £295, Kuwait from £295, Bahrain from £300, Muscat from £305.

These fares are only available from London because there is a separate broader offer currently running on flights from Manchester and Edinburgh.  At the time of writing, a Monday to Sunday flight to Dubai over February half-term was coming up at £315 per person.

You need to book by 23rd January for travel by 31st March.  The Qatar website is here although the home page is currently promoting the broader sale.

A lesson to learn from Hilton London Heathrow Terminal 4

I will be writing more about this hotel in the next couple of weeks as I have a stay coming up.  However, here is an odd fact I discovered whilst booking.

If you book a reward room for one person, the hotel will only offer you a room with a single bed for the standard redemption price.  The rooms with queen beds are not available.

However, if you book a reward room for 2 people, the queen room is offered at the standard redemption price.

Here is the pricing for March 9th:

Search for 1 person – single bedded room = 60,000 points, queen bedded room = not available

Search for 2 people – queen bedded room = 60,000 points

Odd ….

48-hour Hotels.com flash sale launched

Finally, Hotels.com emailed me last night about a 48-hour flash sale which is running on Wednesday and Thursday.  It is valid for stays until March 8th.

They are promising discounts of ‘up to’ 50% although 20% seems more like it looking at the preview.  If you are booking hotels at the moment, though, it is worth a look – the link is here.