Bits: Hilton / Avios sign-up working, SPG Moments ‘steal’ in Paris, Hyatt Place Heathrow

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• Steve says:

  13 May13 May 07:05

  That Hyatt place may be 20 mins from Heathrow T1-3 during non rush hour, but is on a very busy commuter route, so will be more like 40 minutes in peak times.

• RC_Hammer says:

  13 May13 May 07:31

  I had problems registering for the Hhonors Iberia promotion yesterday and had the same problem (invalid user credentials) this morning when entering my Hhonors number but when I used my username instead it worked.

  • Gareth Morgan says:

    13 May13 May 07:58

    Username worked for me too.

• Genghis says:

  13 May13 May 07:50

  OT. Paid council tax this morning with Amex via paypoint at Co Op for the first time. Max £200/payment so made two payments. 40% closer to my SPG sign up bonus. Thanks to the regular posters that often draw our attention to this method.

  • Liz says:

    13 May13 May 11:57

    Glad it worked for you !

• Charlie says:

  13 May13 May 08:23

  When registering my Iberia number on Hilton do I need the ‘IB’ included too or just the digits?

  • Sarah G says:

    13 May13 May 10:29

    I just used the digits and it seems to work fine for me.

    • Charlie says:

      13 May13 May 12:16

      Thank you

• Alan says:

  13 May13 May 08:50

  Reminder for those making use of the Avios offer…

  Although you can change your earnings preference (from p+p to p+m or vice versa) up until 23:59 MST on the day of checkout, the specific airline programme you will credit to is set AT TIME OF BOOKING. Changing this online has no effect on existing bookings, merely on future bookings. The only way to change it for an existing booking is by getting hotel reception staff to do so – personally I would do so at checkin and then verify again at checkout.

  • Sarah G says:

    13 May13 May 10:33

    I’ve not had my earning pref set to points and miles before so changed it today to take advantage of the offer. I’m also checking out today after a four night stay, so should I point this out to the reception staf when I check out? If I’ve never had an airline partner registered on my account will this stil work! I’m keen to get the points on this as a four night stay is a real rarity for me!

    • Alan says:

      13 May13 May 10:36

      Personally yes, I’d point it out to reception staff – ask them to double-check that your airline partner number is correctly recorded on their system. The issue seems to be that the airline partner is set at time of booking based on your preferred partner in your HHonors preferences. Subsequent changes to preferred partner has no effect except on future bookings. It’s easy for them to check/confirm on their hotel IT system.

      • Sarah G says:

        13 May13 May 10:53

        Fab. Thanks for the tip. Luckily I had a late checkout of I would have missed out completely!

  • Kai says:

    13 May13 May 14:40

    I used to let the reception staff do it for me once, but miles still posted to the wrong airline program. However, one email to the customer service got it fixed quickly!

    • Alan says:

      13 May13 May 14:56

      Well done – I tried changing it after it had credited to the wrong programme and customer service couldn’t do anything to help as the miles had gone across to the other programme.

  • Gareth Morgan says:

    16 May16 May 11:08

    I got my Iberia bonus (and the double base points) for my 1st stay on the 12th. I rang customer services to change my airline to Iberia on my existing two bookings, made before this offer, and was told that I’d get Iberia points automatically on those as well, even though they were originally booked when I had Virgin set as the airline.

    • Alan says:

      16 May16 May 21:21

      Personally I’d still double-check at the property – they may have fixed how their IT system does this now but certainly in the past changing the preferred partner made no difference, it was only the earning style that could be changed after booking. Nothing to lose from asking the property to confirm, all reception agents seem to be able to find it quite easily.

• mark1980 says:

  13 May13 May 09:22

  OT – looking to book a room at a Conrad on points. There would be my wife and I and our just turned 1 year old. If I book for 2 adults I get the standard redemption rate, but if I book for 2 adults and a child I get the ridiculous non standard points figure e.g. 115,763

  How would the hotel react if I just booked a standard room and brought our own travel cot? Am I likely to get turned away, will they accomodate us or will we be asked to pay more? I’m a diamond if that makes any difference…

  • Oyster says:

    13 May13 May 09:35

    The hotel will not provide anything extra for your 1yr old for those extra points.

    We travel with lightweight tent cots (think they’re called arc) for our 3 and 1 year olds and just book as 2 adults.

  • Nick M says:

    13 May13 May 10:08

    Shouldn’t have any issues – if you want the hotel to supply a cot just call/email them after you’ve booked. The only slight problem I encountered was with a lady at the Hilton booking centre who said that she could not knowingly put an extra person in the room due to fire regulations and so she wouldn’t add a note to the booking system

    Highly recommend the sun tents as an alternative to a travel cot!

  • Rob says:

    13 May13 May 10:41

    You definitely don’t need to bring a travel cot to a Conrad.

    Hotel booking systems are not very sophisticated. When you say ‘1 child’ they assume you want to bring a 12 year old who needs a full length rollaway bed which may not fit in the room, as opposed to a tiny cot.

    • mark1980 says:

      13 May13 May 11:00

      Thankyou all for your helpful responses. Oyster / Nick M – definitely looking into those lightweight travel cots /sun tents now – especially for the beach.

      Rob, random question – did I saw you walking through Victoria station around 3pm last Saturday??

      • InsideFlyer Tom says:

        13 May13 May 15:36

        What happens when you book 1 adult and 1 child? That’s what I always do (well in my case 2 kids), and then I just rely on the “Second Guest Stays Free” benefit for the wife (not that I’ve ever had to point it out).

        Technically I suppose they could say this is one of the kids but given that it used to be called the “Spouse Stays Free” rule, it’s fairly clear the intention is that it applies to the adult.

• pointsarb says:

  13 May13 May 09:28

  @ Mark1980 you’ll be fine, i do this all the time!

• pauldb says:

  13 May13 May 10:11

  Not quite a new-route availability-flood, but BA announced yesterday they’d be flying direct to Muscat (and Doha) from October. There didn’t seem to be any award availability yesterday but right now F and J seem to be wide open for redemption next winter.

  • Rob says:

    13 May13 May 10:37

    Not surprising, I think these flights won’t work. Article tomorrow or over the weekend.

    Pushing back Abu Dhabi by 2 hours is also stupid. A lot of Dubai travellers take the Abu Dhabi flight because it leaves 4 hours before the first Dubai service and gets you into Dubai at a sensible time.

    The Abu Dhabi flight will now lose the Dubai passengers to Emirates and the Muscat passengers to the direct service.

    • John says:

      13 May13 May 11:03

      If you want to take EK or EY you already have plenty of options don’t you? (esp if non-Londoner)

  • JamesLHR says:

    13 May13 May 11:28

    Muscat is 772 and Doha 789 for reference.

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