Bits: win 100,000 Virgin Atlantic miles, Monarch sale, a good family ski resort
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News in brief:
Win 100,000 Virgin Flying Club miles
I have written about the Virgin Red smartphone app before. It is a new product which tries to bring together customers from various Virgin Group businesses and cross-sell them other products.
Today, it will be running a competition to win 100,000 Virgin Flying Club miles. (It is a reverse auction, where you make a cash bid for the miles. The person who places the lowest unique bid wins (e.g. if 10 people each bid 1p, 2p and 3p but only one person bids 4p, that person wins – once they have paid their 4p).
Their is a £1 entry fee which I would have assumed went to a good cause but, it seems, does not! It is up to you whether you think a chance of winning 100,000 Virgin miles is worth £1.
Monarch Airlines launches a £33 flash sale
Monarch doesn’t get a huge amount of coverage on HfP but if you live in the regions it is a reliable option. Their flights can, of course, be booked via avios.com using Avios points. You can also redeem Tesco Clubcard vouchers for Monarch flight credit at 2 x face value.
Until midday on Friday, Monarch is selling 5,000 seat at £33 each way. They are valid for departures from 9th – 23rd March, 12th – 29th April and 4th – 26th May.
Full details can be found here.
A good family ski resort I recommend
Whilst I don’t intend to review it, this is the hotel where we stayed in Austria last week, Ellmauhof.
If you want to take your kids skiing, I thoroughly recommend it. Under 5’s have a dedicated ski school at the hotel whilst older children can walk or be driven into Hinterglemm to the main ski school. The hotel, as a member of Kinder Hotels, is fully geared up for kids of all ages and it worked well for adults too.
The swimming pool also has a fantastic water slide!
All of the front line staff speak English and it is a 90 minute taxi ride from Salzburg Airport. Recommended.
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