Earn Avios via Clubcard with The Orchard at Tesco

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• SM says:

  25 May25 May 13:23

  I have been a member of BzzAgent since 2007 and The Orchard since it launched (whenever that was).

  I barely earn any points as I don’t do much of the social media stuff but I do provide what I hope are helpful reviews and the tests are usually for items I would buy occasionally anyway.

  I am usually aghast when I see how cheesy and overt they expect ordinary members of the public to be about the goods (e.g. in the examples of “exceptional” contributions) and even more surprised when I see people doing it! The same as the whole blogging phenomenon I suppose. Due to me not being “exceptional” I only get invites every couple of months or so. 😀

• James67 says:

  25 May25 May 14:38

  OT: anybody know what is going on with BA pricing at the moment? When trying to book EDI-LHR ow I get an HBO fare of £35, select flight and click continue and fare is now £47.50 but fare, taxes and fees breakdown bears no resemblance to either of the two aforementioned figures. Likewise, tried a RFS and price is quoted as 4500 avios plus £11. Select and continue and it’s now 4500 plus £17.50 as you would expect. Furthermore, it is pricing as 4500 despite showing as an offpeak day.

  • CV3V says:

    25 May25 May 14:55

    James,

    I tested this out from GLA for comparison. Random date in July (a Friday), off peak it priced one way on RFS as 4000 avios and £17.50 all the way through.
    The same flight as HBO quoted as £85, then billed as Fare £61 and Tax etc of £23.26, total cost £84.36

    Looks like the BA booking website is having ‘one of those days’.
    It hadn’t occurred to me that off peak pricing applied to domestic RFS flights. However I still prefer Little Red out of EDI whilst it lasts – lower points for redemption, less delays and better lounge options than BA (if I want something to eat. If I want to get drunk then a BA lounge is the place to be!).

    Also OT but I see via the ads on HfP that the BA KL flight starts in a few days. Will be interesting to see how old (or new) the aircraft is once the first trip reports come in, as I have to flights booked on it.

    • CV3V says:

      25 May25 May 14:59

      correction, the random date was June not July. Friday 19 June.

    • James67 says:

      25 May25 May 15:31

      Thanks, will try again later when new cc arrives. Needless to say I would have booked were the price oddities in my favour but alas not. You are probably right, I just assummed offpeak spplied to domestic. Never gave* it much attention as I never used RFS except on close in bookings. Sadly, little red will be long gone by dates in question. I have what will likely be my last flight with them tomorrow. Sorry to see them go too but much of the blame with Virgin, I don’t think they tried hard enough and I suspect virgin trains and eastcoast played a part in the end. I will be on KUL route in September and again in November in CW. My u derstandi g was that it will be a new four class 77W but time will tell. Cannot see that it will make much of a difference other than there should be a few less crumbs on the seats and a little less rubbish on the floor. Personally I’ll be happy if it goes tech and I get rebooked on MH a380.

      • CV3V says:

        25 May25 May 15:55

        Off peak does seem to apply to domestic, 4000 off peak avios versus 4500 peak one way. It was just me who hadn’t caught up.

        Agree with comments on BA Club World, my KUL bookings are June and March so will find out soon enough. If it’s a newish plane then that will spare some of the embarrassment when comparing to MAS A380 (which IS being kept on the route). BA Redemption availability seems to have opened up well when looking 11 ish months ahead.

        Also, if you google it, you will see the new boss at MAS has given his first interview to Reuters on the changes to be announced shortly.

        • James67 says:

          25 May25 May 16:30

          Thx, look forward to your feedback. Come June I will probably envy you the CW crumbs as I am stuck in my EY economy seat to BKK. I am already begining to regret that experiment when I could have booked J from AMD for £800ish.

        • pj says:

          25 May25 May 22:24

          You didn’t know that when you booked

• Tilly71 says:

  25 May25 May 16:01

  Hi Raffles,
  Many thanks for taking a look at my routes, i worked out you had to be in BAEC section to use ba avios points but can you advise me how you do a dummy run using two flights in BAEC?
  I put my Newq route in but took me to the payments page, how do you keep a flight in your booking system so you can go and book a connecting flight?

  • James67 says:

    25 May25 May 16:25

    Search Newq to your final destination. Click to search. It will then give you option for stopover on next page. Check the circle for stopover then further down page is a box, choose stopover London. Choose departure date London same day as you arrive London. Click again and next pagr will let you choose options for each flight sector on same day.

    • Tilly71 says:

      25 May25 May 18:34

      Thanks but when i select my destnation from Newq and click continue i dont get the page with stopover options, you have to confirm email address etc are correct and then continue to nearly payment page?
      I am using an ipad, would this make a difference?

      • James67 says:

        25 May25 May 20:02

        On BA homepage login top right corner. On thelogged in landing page down the left hand side you will see a booking column/panel. Change ‘book with money’ to ‘book with avios’. Fill in flight origin, destination, dates etc and click continue or whatever it is. That will tske you to nect page offering stopover as I described previously. Sorry I cannot be more specific than that as I am unsure from your description which page you are starting from.

• Mark says:

  25 May25 May 19:06

  OT: Just amended a pre-28th April Avios redemption today. LHR-AUS outbound amended with both a change of class J to F and date.

  The extra avios charged was 25,000 as it would have been under the old rules. Had to pay the change fee, but got back a small amount (£2.80 each) in reduced taxes and fees.

  This was for two of us with a 2for1 voucher.

  • CV3V says:

    27 May27 May 09:34

    Thanks for the prompt, after reading your post I checked First availability on my existing CW booking (made pre 28th April), and there was some! So avios points transferred in, 20 minutes on hold for BA to answer my call and my 2-4-1 booking now amended to First. Was charged the amendment fee and the BA rep was very helpful. For me, this is a good use of avios and amex voucher as the KUL flight is just over 13 hours.

• Tilly71 says:

  25 May25 May 19:18

  When i search a booking via ba.com i get the stopover option just under the destination box but i dont get this when searching a booking via ba executive club avios reward flights?

• pj says:

  25 May25 May 22:10

  I get the impression Orchard is for thick people?

  • Rob says:

    26 May26 May 06:37

    As many on here have said that they use it that is a bit judgemental and likely to offend.

• James67 says:

  25 May25 May 22:51

  @pj didn’t know what?

  • Danny says:

    26 May26 May 07:10

    I don’t use Orchard and pj’s comment is offensive and should be deleted.

    On a rather cheerful note, this code XXG4Y7 can be used by anyone to get £12 off £60 online for a Tesco grocery shop for delivery or collection, to 16th June 2015.

• Tilly71 says:

  26 May26 May 09:09

  Why would the Orchard be for thick people – please explain for us all PJ???

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