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Avios Suitcase adds new points-earning badges

If you have been visiting the Avios Suitcase app on Facebook occasionally, it is worth checking back.  New ‘badges’ – Avios Apple Watch App, Instagram Avios For Apple Watch, Twitter Avios For Apple Watch – are now available.

Simply by clicking on each and completing a short task, you will earn a few points.  Other new badges may also be showing depending on how long it is since you visited.

The points are not huge – usually 20 per badge.  They are credited to avios.com and not British Airways Executive Club, although you can merge them using ‘Combine My Avios’.

You can learn more about Avios Suitcase in this HfP article here.

Avios Suitcase

$10 of free wi-fi call credit for IHG Rewards Club Platinum and Ambassador members

IHG Rewards Club, the Holiday Inn / HI Express / InterContinental / Crowne Plaza etc scheme, has launched a free ‘IHG Translator’ app for iOS and Android devices.

Covering 12 languages, all IHG Rewards Club members get access to 40 key phrases, a free audio lesson per language and local travel information.

If you have IHG Rewards Club Platinum or Ambassador status, you get free access to the Premium level.  This gives you use of a voice translator, 3 minutes of free access to a live dial-up translation service and over 2,000 phrases per language.

Here is the interesting part.  The Premium level also includes $10 of free Wi-Fi telephone credit for a service which works in a similar way to Skype.   This can be used to call anywhere in the world.  Even if you have no interest in the translation features, you may want to download it just for the free $10 of call credit if you are eligible.

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IHG One Rewards news

IHG One Rewards update – April 2025:

Get bonus points: IHG is not currently running a global promotion.

New to IHG One Rewards?  Read our overview of IHG One Rewards here and our article on points expiry rules here. Our article on ‘What are IHG One Rewards points worth?’ is here.

Buy points: If you need additional IHG One Rewards points, you can buy them here.

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Comments (47)

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  • Kai says:
    28 Apr28 April 10:16

    OT: Just found Indigo Edinburgh makes all room categories available for standard redemption. Booked a junior suite for 23-26 May with 2 free nights + 35k points. The cash rate is around £700, bargain!

  • Hilly says:
    28 Apr28 April 15:24

    Thank for this post Rob, A nice 1500 avios earned today via suitcase, with no dent on credit file!

  • Adam says:
    28 Apr28 April 17:58

    How do you sign into the apple stores on facebook?

    I have turned off my location notification settings on my ipad..

  • Adam says:
    28 Apr28 April 19:02

    I have checked in to the covent garden store (black logo), posted, says im there. Still no stickers emerging in my account- any help please!

    • Fenny says:
      28 Apr28 April 23:55

      Same here.

    • Fenny says:
      29 Apr29 April 08:35

      Took me a while. Had to resort to doing it on my tablet rather than phone, for some reason. Then got all the other badges and work out which FB account to check in to. The only one that won’t play for me is Instagram, even though I managed to remember my password and log in.

  • Andy says:
    28 Apr28 April 19:15

    Covent Garden Apple Store has No. 1-7 The Piazza in the title. If you don’t see it in the title, you probably have the wrong one. There are a few thousand checkins on the right page.

    After triggering that, it opens up a ton of other ones. If you complete all the checkins plus Twitter plus Instagram, you can get 1560 Avios total (120×13)

    • Adam says:
      28 Apr28 April 21:25

      Thanks for the helpful advise, now worked for all my stickers except Regents Street and Birmingham Bullring stores, any idea or help would be much appreciated.

  • badger says:
    28 Apr28 April 19:30

    Clearly anybody doing this is a complete loser.

    Wouldn’t mind 1560 free Avios though.

  • Fenny says:
    28 Apr28 April 23:56

    Can you link more than one FB account to the same Avios account? No reason why Ma can’t earn me a few Avios while she’s learning how to use FB!

  • Adam says:
    29 Apr29 April 07:37

    Thanks for the helpful advise, now worked for all my stickers except Regents Street and Birmingham Bullring stores, any idea or help would be much appreciated.

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