TODAY ONLY: Win a return luxury London airport transfer with REAL Transfers

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• Greg says:

  14 Dec14 December 06:00

  What a shame “this promotion is not available in your region”. Shouldn’t such opportunities be open to us frequent travellers who just happen to be overseas ?

  • Stu R says:

    14 Dec14 December 06:21

    It is recommended you use a VPN when travelling overseas (or even away from home for that matter) when accessing public wi-fi’s. There are several affordable options (e.g. Cloak, ExpressVPN) from around £5 a month and any of these would allow you to enter regardless of where in the world you are located.

  • Tom says:

    14 Dec14 December 11:25

    +1. I’m in NYC for a couple of days and so can’t enter. VPN didn’t seem to work either, sadly..

• Sam wardill says:

  14 Dec14 December 06:16

  Just went to the site and it says it has ended and the winner chosen?

  • Rob says:

    14 Dec14 December 06:55

    Fixed, sorry

• Barry says:

  14 Dec14 December 06:17

  Rob-that link takes one to the previous competition that iit says is closed.

  • Rob says:

    14 Dec14 December 06:56

    Fixed!

• Gavin says:

  14 Dec14 December 06:47

  Worked fine for me, not sure if there’s an expiry date for using the free ride but hopefully a nice present for someone as I live outside the M25!

• Brian says:

  14 Dec14 December 07:06

  Rob – lots of people spend the night in London before a flight from Heathrow or Gatwick – no real need to live within the M25, you know! :))

  • JohnG says:

    14 Dec14 December 14:23

    Even if you don’t it gives you the option of getting the train down to London then getting a transfer from the station 🙂

• Think Square says:

  14 Dec14 December 07:43

  “Unlike London-centric companies such as Uber, they are able to provide cars and drivers anywhere inside the M25 and for travel anywhere in the UK.”
  That sounds pretty London-centric to me.

  • rich says:

    14 Dec14 December 11:40

    Every time something like this come out people complain.
    The company has to be based somewhere!!. I dont hear Londoners complaining that a Manchester cab company doesn’t do pick ups from London.
    Same as the BA complaints – ‘Should be called London airways’ -well they are a business who can choose to operate wherever they like. If there route network does not suit you then fly with another airline . Simple. You cant expect subsidies either. -I’m happy the free avios connection has been stopped on European redemptions. You wouldn’t hear an American complaining because someone in la was paying more than someone in nyc to get to London. The fact is its a free world & you choose where to live , and ba, real, uber etc all decide where to do business.
    Sorry rant over.

    • Callum says:

      14 Dec14 December 13:05

      While I agree with the sentiment, that’s probably because Americans generally don’t pay more (in miles) to get to London from LA than New York!

      • rich says:

        14 Dec14 December 13:32

        With ba they would. However I guess they never use ba because of taxes and charges.

      • James says:

        14 Dec14 December 16:38

        BAEC is the same, domestic connections remain free for longhaul award redemptions.

    • Stu R says:

      14 Dec14 December 14:54

      You are ‘happy’ with other people’s misfortunes, really?

      Oh, and by the way, it’s ‘their’ network, not ‘there’ network ….

      Merry Christmas!

      • rich says:

        15 Dec15 December 00:37

        I’m not unhappy at others misfortune, I just feel that its a fairer system now. I agree the regions should get free ling haul connections. But on a flight to Brussels for eg. The free connection from Edinburgh was a longer flight than the short hop to Brussels. -which simply wasn’t fair or viable for ba.
        Appologies for

      • rich says:

        15 Dec15 December 00:39

        I’m not unhappy at others misfortune, I just feel that its a fairer system now. I agree the regions should get free ling haul connections. But on a flight to Brussels for eg. The free connection from Edinburgh was a longer flight than the short hop to Brussels. -which simply wasn’t fair or viable for ba.
        Merry Xmas to you too. I do know the difference between there, their & they’re – it was simply a mistake. But thanks for pointing it out. I hang my head in shame.

        • Stu R says:

          15 Dec15 December 04:43

          You need to keep in mind that EasyJet, Ryanair, Norwegian et al are constantly expanding up here. Whereas 15000 + £35 to Malaga (for example) ‘was’ a good deal, 24000 + £70 isn’t especially given you can get a cash fare on the right day for little over £120 now.

          Regardless, it is what it is and us ‘debating’ here won’t change it …. genuinely, have a good Xmas!

• Mike says:

  14 Dec14 December 08:54

  For those of you that are overseas – consider the use of AdFreeTime – its a website or an app (depending on device) where when working over wifi, you can register the ip address you are using, then point the DNS settings at AdFreeTime’s nearest server and it enables you to select the “country” that you would like to be in (as well as blocking annoying ads)! For those of you that travel a lot, you can also use it to watch BCC iPlayer and other location specific services while abroad. It does however cost the princely sum of $2.99 USD per month…

  • CV3V says:

    14 Dec14 December 09:37

    I need a service like this, had found Hola (which is free) although yet to test it out. You ever had the chance to compare?

    • Amo says:

      14 Dec14 December 09:43

      I’ve used Hola for some time and it works fine.

    • Rob says:

      14 Dec14 December 17:04

      Tunnelbear, for iOS devices, is idiot proof in my experience and free up to 500MB per month.

  • Tim says:

    14 Dec14 December 13:47

    Mike, please spare a thought for website owners when using Ad Blocking software. By using ad blocking you may find that useful websites like Head For Points cease to exist.

    I’ve no idea how much revenue Rob makes from running ads but it must count for something otherwise we wouldn’t see them. No website owner wants to run ads but it’s a necessary evil.

    Running a website of any size is NOT FREE whether it’s HfP or Facebook, servers cost money, developers cost money, creating content costs money… it all has a significant cost and trying to starve any website of it’s income is pretty mean and ultimately you (and the rest of us) will lose out!

    I say all this with a friendly smile on my face but please allow websites small and large to operate a sustainable business.

• Jovan says:

  14 Dec14 December 09:00

  Would the return address have to be the same as on the outbound trip [providing they are both within M25]?

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