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Bits: Gatwick Sofitel £69 via lastminute.com, BA Gate 365 bonus Avios deal

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News in brief:

Sofitel Gatwick from £69 via lastminute.com

On Tuesday I wrote about how the Sofitel Heathrow Terminal 5, attached to the terminal, is available as a lastminute.com Top Secret Hotel for under £100.

A reader got in touch to say that the Sofitel at Gatwick, attached to the North Terminal, is also available via this offer.

You need to visit the Top Secrets Hotels page at lastminute.com and search ‘gatwick’ for “Luxury Hotel at Gatwick Airport – North Terminal.  Walking distance and directly linked to Gatwick Airports North Terminal by a covered walkway.”  The price should be £89 or so.

When you’ve found it, use this code – 6167144261687469 – which was posted at Flyertalk and found on an obscure coupon site – to take a further £20 off.  This takes you down to £69.

The Heathrow property is reportedly very good at respecting your Le Club AccorHotels status even though you have booked through a third party.  I’m not sure if the same applies at Gatwick.

16 Avios per £1 via Gate 365 at Selfridges

Gate 365, the British Airways online shopping portal, is currently offering 16 Avios per £1 spent at Selfridges until 10th January.

This is interesting because selfridges.com sells a wide range of high end items, especially electricals, which you might have been thinking of buying elsewhere.

I was very annoyed to see that a £600 Ruark music system which I recenty bought in John Lewis (admittedly via Click & Collect to earn some Avios) is in there, for example.  That would have been 10,000 easy Avios.

Note that Apple products are excluded from earning Avios.

There are also Gate 365 promotions running with Argos, Banana Republic, Currys, Debenhams, Gap, Harrods, John Lewis, Joules, Laura Ashley, links, lookfantastic, The White Company and Uniqlo.

How to earn Avios from UK credit cards

How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (April 2024)

As a reminder, there are various ways of earning Avios points from UK credit cards.  Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses!

In February 2022, Barclaycard launched two exciting new Barclaycard Avios Mastercard cards with a bonus of up to 25,000 Avios. You can apply here.

You qualify for the bonus on these cards even if you have a British Airways American Express card:

Barclaycard Avios Plus card

Barclaycard Avios Plus Mastercard

Get 25,000 Avios for signing up and an upgrade voucher at £10,000 Read our full review

Barclaycard Avios card

Barclaycard Avios Mastercard

5,000 Avios for signing up and an upgrade voucher at £20,000 Read our full review

There are two official British Airways American Express cards with attractive sign-up bonuses:

British Airways American Express Premium Plus

25,000 Avios and the famous annual 2-4-1 voucher Read our full review

British Airways American Express

5,000 Avios for signing up and an Economy 2-4-1 voucher for spending £15,000 Read our full review

You can also get generous sign-up bonuses by applying for American Express cards which earn Membership Rewards points. These points convert at 1:1 into Avios.

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold

Your best beginner’s card – 20,000 points, FREE for a year & four airport lounge passes Read our full review

The Platinum Card from American Express

40,000 bonus points and a huge range of valuable benefits – for a fee Read our full review

Run your own business?

We recommend Capital on Tap for limited companies. You earn 1 Avios per £1 which is impressive for a Visa card, along with a sign-up bonus worth 10,500 Avios.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 12th May 2024, the Capital on Tap Business Rewards Visa card is offering a bonus of 30,000 points, convertible into 30,000 Avios. You must have a Limited Company to apply. Click here to learn more and click here to apply.

Capital on Tap Business Rewards Visa

Huge 30,000 points bonus until 12th May 2024 Read our full review

You should also consider the British Airways Accelerating Business credit card. This is open to sole traders as well as limited companies and has a 30,000 Avios sign-up bonus.

British Airways Accelerating Business American Express

30,000 Avios sign-up bonus – plus annual bonuses of up to 30,000 Avios Read our full review

There are also generous bonuses on the two American Express Business cards, with the points converting at 1:1 into Avios. These cards are open to sole traders as well as limited companies.

American Express Business Platinum

40,000 points sign-up bonus and an annual £200 Amex Travel credit Read our full review

American Express Business Gold

20,000 points sign-up bonus and FREE for a year Read our full review

Click here to read our detailed summary of all UK credit cards which earn Avios. This includes both personal and small business cards.

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Comments (30)

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  • Waribai says:
    8 Jan8 January 06:39

    Aren’t Selfridges rather restrictive about items which earn 16 avoid per £? I seem to remember many. laptops were a non starter…

  • harry says:
    8 Jan8 January 07:57

    We did similar many moons ago & it’s meant to be once per person. But I reckon different direct debit bank + different home address + different email address should work for a repeat.

    • whiskerxx says:
      8 Jan8 January 09:34

      and you can earn £20.16 to tell a “friend” when they earn £10

  • Simon says:
    8 Jan8 January 07:58

    Related question…… If I sign up to the Hilton Visa, and get the free weekend night voucher after the £750 spend. Can I easily use it at the Hilton Gatwick on a Friday night. And will I be able to book a family room with it. Doesn’t really help if I will only get a basic room that cant take my 2 kids in it….. anyone know how strict the vouchers are?

    • Tilly71 says:
      8 Jan8 January 09:13

      Either completing hilton stays or taking out their credit card, is this the only way of getting silver status on HH?

      • Rob says:
        8 Jan8 January 11:15

        Yes, I think so. There were some offers for certain companies which gave instant Silver if you pretended to work for them but they seem to be dead.

    • Rob says:
      8 Jan8 January 11:17

      You only get whatever basic rooms are shown for points redemptions at the standard pricing level – that is unlikely to take your kids. The hotel may agree an upgrade in advance for a few £ if you email them – a lot of hotels are flexible on that.

    • Andrew (@andrewseftel) says:
      8 Jan8 January 11:17

      If you can see a reward available at the standard redemption price (an exact thousand number) for that room then you can book it with the voucher.

  • harry says:
    8 Jan8 January 07:59

    O/T see if you have the £50 off £250 Hilton statement credit

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    • nobbynobchops says:
      8 Jan8 January 09:25

      If you’re referring to the recent Amex deal, this is yet another deal that didn’t redeem despite spending over twice the threshold in total.

      Amex deals very hit and miss

      • TimS says:
        8 Jan8 January 09:35

        Are you sure you redeemed at a European hotel that wasn’t excluded. If so, you should contact Amex CS & they will almost certainly retrospectively apply the credit for you.

  • Pawel says:
    8 Jan8 January 08:56

    I bought Iphone 6s and got avios points…so not all apple product excluded

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    8 Jan8 January 09:02

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  • Lewis says:
    8 Jan8 January 09:18

    Selfridges have offered 16 points per pound since the black Friday sales, so its not new. Spent several hundred pounds on the run up to Christmas at this rate, all tracked and credited.

    • Leo says:
      8 Jan8 January 13:03

      Same here. Did all my xmas gift shopping and stuff for myself in the sale at Selfridges. Points all tracked.

      • Dan says:
        8 Jan8 January 16:20

        Same here! Between this and a similar offer at the White Company, who offered 24 Avios per£ for a while, I earnt around 17k Avios on Xmas gifts.

  • John says:
    8 Jan8 January 09:19

    Mate, please don’t turn this site into hotukdeals or something.

    • BLT says:
      8 Jan8 January 12:46

      Agree wholeheartedly, there are lots of other websites out there for everyday bargains

    • Lady London says:
      8 Jan8 January 14:50

      as someone once described it “where good deals go to die” 🙂

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