New Avios earning partner – Direct Ferries

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• Daniel says:

  6 Jan6 January 10:55

  In relation to the Direct Ferries – from the booking page it would appear you can allocate your points directly to Avios, BA Exec, Iberia Plus or Meriidian Club.

  One question:
  When you book direct with a ferry company like Stena Line you can earn their own reward points scheme which at Gold level earns 10 points for every £1 spent
  • Redeem 1 point at a value of 1p
  • Free entry to the Stena Plus Lounge for you and a guest
  • No service charge for non-web bookings and booking changes

  If you book with Direct Ferry am I correct in thinking you be unable to claim points with the ferry company?

  • Frenske says:

    6 Jan6 January 11:26

    I would say you are correct. Furthermore you night want to compare the prices of DirectFerries with StenaLine prices. There might be a significant difference.

  • JQ says:

    6 Jan6 January 11:38

    I think you need to spend £5000 to get to Stena Gold. Their points expire in 2 years and basically amount to 5% or 10% rebate.

    I prefer to use Clubcard points for ferries, which works out at 0.8p per Avios of true savings

• Anon says:

  6 Jan6 January 11:30

  Shame, doesn’t look like they do Calmac, was planning a Scottish western isles trip this spring…

  • Liz says:

    6 Jan6 January 12:52

    If you phone Avios.com they will probably be able to book it for you and give you 2 Avios per £ – every little helps. We booked via Avios for our recent Ornkey trip – it was through Direct Ferries but we only got 2avios/£ back in November.

• Oleg says:

  6 Jan6 January 13:05

  Thanks for the heads up!

• Jaz says:

  6 Jan6 January 13:42

  Are people confident that by paying monthly for pet insurance, and cancelling after the first month, there will be no further cost liability? I know that for (car) insurance paid fully in advance, the amount you get back on cancellation is often less than the pro-rated period remaining due to insurers’ admin fees.

  • harry says:

    6 Jan6 January 14:02

    Tesco themselves talk about customers cancelling, on the pet insurance website bit – so it will be perfectly ok

    you can cancel any uk insurance policy at any time – but not if you have entered into a finance vehicle (loan agreement) to pay the insurance – which won’t be the case here

    • Jaz says:

      6 Jan6 January 14:36

      From the policy agreement, it appears you are entering into a loan agreement, by paying monthly. Under Policy Payments:

      “If you decide to pay your premium in monthly installments under a linked loan agreement we continue to take payment unless you tell us to stop”

      However this clause also seem to imply that they will stop when you tell them to.

      • harry says:

        6 Jan6 January 15:55

        That’s to be avoided, just in case. A monthly direct debit arrangement with no linked loan is the way to go.

        • Mark says:

          6 Jan6 January 17:37

          They would have to allow cancellation if the cat/dog died…

• Roberto says:

  6 Jan6 January 13:52

  Sorted out insurance for my daughters imaginary cat oddly called avios.. Thanks for the heads up.

  • Gavin says:

    6 Jan6 January 22:19

    Love it! Will organise the fake pet insurance at the weekend!

• David says:

  6 Jan6 January 16:01

  We use P&O ferries twice a year normally (overnight sailings from Hull), and used to book via the AA (for a ~10% discount) but if we needed to make changes to the booking, we found P&O obstructive and unhelpful. This was in sharp contrast to their helpfulness when we’d booked directly with them.

  I didn’t like their tactics, but they serve an ideal route for us, so we now book directly with P&O. This may be worth factoring into the equation… But I’m tempted to give Direct Ferries a try!

  • Kris says:

    7 Jan7 January 01:09

    Odd. We use Donegal Travel to book P&O for Irish Sea crossing. They’re always cheaper than direct and have changed sailings a couple times now with now bother.

• signol says:

  7 Jan7 January 17:20

  We’re only with Utility Warehouse as they were the incumbent when we moved in, in the summer 🙂 So no fixed period, but they are still currently the cheapest with our electricity only Economy 7 tariff.

• Keri says:

  12 Jan12 January 16:23

  Hi

  My daughter’s finance booked ferry tickets recently with Direct Ferries.

  When it came to the pop up asking him for his Avios number, (he is not a member and neither is my daughter) he asked her if she wanted to join Avios in order to start saving Avios and in order to get those which will be awarded with the booking he was making.

  My query is :-

  My daughter is not the lead passenger – she is the 2nd one

  although her fiancé put himself as the lead passenger and my daughter gave her email address for the booking and all correspondence, will she still get the Avios, as up to now, nothing has been credited into her new Avios account.

  Many thanks

  • Keri says:

    12 Jan12 January 16:24

    oops – that should read fiancé … lol

  • Rob says:

    12 Jan12 January 16:29

    It depends on whether Direct Ferries just sends Avios a list of account numbers to credit, or if they also send surnames (and if they then must match). We don’t know this.

    • Keri says:

      12 Jan12 January 16:38

      Thank you

      I was wondering because on your information at the top of the page it says :-

      There is no special booking link. Book as usual on the main Direct Ferries site. When you create an account with Direct Ferries you will find a box to enter your Avios number. Once done, you will automatically be credited with points from all of your bookings.

      Does this mean that the points go onto your ferry account before transferred to Avios ?

      and by saying automatically be credited, that sounds like soon . if that is the case, then there is nothing in her new Avios account.

      oh well…. 🙂

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