Bits: £295 Qatar Airways sale, Hilton HHonors quirk

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• mark says:

  21 Jan21 January 06:10

  It’s a great time to be a leisure traveller with the fuel charges going down, i booked onto QR from MAN to DXB for <£280 and now from LHR it's £271.

  Roll on lower fuel charges, lets just hope that Scotland gets rid of the APD and then i will start taking the train from York to EDI and flying from here… When you can get from the North of England to EDI in about 2 hours – i bet they will see a massive increase in numbers of travellers….

  Love QR, but their last sale ended days ago and then they have another one??

  • JohnG says:

    21 Jan21 January 08:48

    There’s no way Scot APD will be dropped without, at least, APD being dropped in the North of England. Given that people, myself included, already travel to other European countries to avoid APD etc it’s clear that having airports just a couple of hours apart with vastly different duty would quickly put one of them out of business.

    • James67 says:

      21 Jan21 January 09:15

      What the Sckttish government does is not not dependent on ne England. Hopefully it is going to be scrapped as the noises suggest ir at least signifucany too. Hopecully that in turn will promote pressure to do tge same from Manchezter borth, and that in turn will see it go UK wide.

    • Rob says:

      21 Jan21 January 11:11

      It happened in Northern Ireland when Dublin dropped the tax so, yes, I would expect something similar. Dominos then topple – Newcastle is allowed to drop it and then Manchester and Birmingham say they are losing out to Newcastle …..

      • Brendan says:

        21 Jan21 January 11:58

        Yes, but it only happened for direct long haul flights…of which there are currently none until the United BFS-EWR flight returns in March.

• James67 says:

  21 Jan21 January 08:17

  Got Hilton T4 at £55 + 20k points earlier this month which was a great deal. IMO courtyard rooms feel vert claustrophobic and the hotel simewhat airless in general. They also have a habit if clising restaurants a d health centre early and without notice at quiet times. Convenience outweighs all that though.

  • Rob says:

    21 Jan21 January 08:29

    I won’t be there until 10pm so I doubt I will care. Will never actually see it in daylight!

• Camille says:

  21 Jan21 January 10:55

  I have only ever been to a fully inclusive resort once….it was crap! However, it was not in the spg, Hyatt, etc league, which i assume are much better.

  For points collectors with families though, there is potentially great value to be had on a well-timed redemption. I have no experience of availability, but would be interested to hear of anyone who has been through the booking process and whether redemption space was plentiful or limited?

  • Camille says:

    21 Jan21 January 11:23

    sorry….in particular at the spg, Hilton or IHG properties.

    btw, great find Raffes!

• Pol says:

  21 Jan21 January 14:56

  OT My bonus 10,000 points per supplementary amex platinum posted today.

  • Sebastian says:

    21 Jan21 January 15:18

    When did you apply for the cards?

    • Pol says:

      21 Jan21 January 15:50

      2 the day after the HFP post and 1 about a week later.

      • Rob says:

        21 Jan21 January 16:11

        Are the cards activated AND spent on? Or just activated? Or neither?!

        • Pol says:

          21 Jan21 January 17:06

          One was for my daughter at uni so she uses hers regularly. The other 2 were my parents, activated and used once.

        • Alan says:

          21 Jan21 January 17:19

          Data point #2 – 10k added to mine, for a card requested pretty soon after the HfP article. Not activated, not used.

          Two other cards applied for after New Year – nothing for them yet.

          Looks promising 😀 Need to find two other takers before the offer closes!

  • Rob says:

    21 Jan21 January 16:09

    Ooh … first one, I think! (Apart from the person who badgered Customer Services into adding them manually 🙂 )

    • Pol says:

      21 Jan21 January 17:08

      Now I just need an MR to Virgin conversion bonus!

• Pol says:

  21 Jan21 January 17:12

  Also OT booked a Eurostar return from London to Ansterdam and need to book my train from crewe to euston, anyone know how long I should leave for a connection. Also does platinum access at the Eurostar lounge include guests (traveling with my children aged 22 and 17) Thanks.

  • Rob says:

    21 Jan21 January 17:36

    No guests unfortunately. I got my kids into the Paris lounge but that was a favour (they were 6 and 3) and me and my wife both had Platinum cards to flash.

• Lady London says:

  21 Jan21 January 19:48

  Re the Hilton hotel experience where an awards room for 2 people was available but an awards room for 1 person was not. IME this happens frequently with cash bookings too.

  I usually travel alone. I’ve got into the habit of checking for rooms for 2 people as well as just for 1. Often the room for 2 people is the same cash price as for 1 person. Plus it’s a better room. Especially if you don’t let them know there is only one person occupying the room upfront, If you’re alone on reception checking in, keep an eye as if it becomes clear you’re travelling alone they may sneakily change your room allocation to a worse room.

  I believe single travellers are discriminated against in this way as hotels believe they get more ancillary revenue from a pair travelling.

  I personally get very p ed off with this as it’s bad enough paying the same or more per person, if you don’t watch out they will give you the room next to the lift or another worse room as well.

  So I always check for a room for 2 people, and often book a room for 2 people if the price is little or no different.

  • Tariq says:

    21 Jan21 January 21:43

    +1

  • Rob says:

    21 Jan21 January 22:14

    I must admit, I was pretty surprised by this and it took me a while to actually work out what the website was doing.

• Dee J says:

  21 Jan21 January 20:01

  All inclusive resorts get a bad reputation as there are a lot of cheap and nasty ones trying to do things on the cheap and sacrifice quality because of this.

  I’ve been to a few of the better all inclusive hotels and have had some good experiences but its best to research the hotel reviews carefully

• Danksy says:

  21 Jan21 January 21:09

  I got my 50k points posted today… None of the cards were activated or used

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