News in brief: Accor and Amex launch new cashback deal Accor Hotels, which operates Sofitel, Novotel, Mercure, Ibis, M Gallery, Pullman etc, is running a new cashback deal with American Express. There .....

News in brief: Accor and Amex launch new cashback deal Accor Hotels, which operates Sofitel, Novotel, Mercure, .....

5 Aug 20165 August 2016 by Rob Burgess • 50 comments

airberlin, a British Airways partner in the oneworld alliance, announced a big increase in its US flight schedule yesterday. This is excellent news for Avios collectors.  The taxes and charges on .....

airberlin, a British Airways partner in the oneworld alliance, announced a big increase in its US flight .....

4 Aug 20164 August 2016 by Rob Burgess • 31 comments

News in brief: Avios.com launches its own Tesco conversion competition We have already seen the competition launched by British Airways to encourage Avios transfers to British Airways Executive Club .....

News in brief: Avios.com launches its own Tesco conversion competition We have already seen the competition .....

4 Aug 20164 August 2016 by Rob Burgess • 44 comments

News in brief: Get a half price stay at Park Hyatt Mallorca Hyatt Gold Passport has brought back its 30% bonus for buying points.  Until 31st August, you will receive a 30% bonus when buying 5,000 .....

News in brief: Get a half price stay at Park Hyatt Mallorca Hyatt Gold Passport has brought back its 30% bonus .....

4 Aug 20164 August 2016 by Rob Burgess • 17 comments

News in brief: Tesco / Virgin Flying Club 20% bonus promotion is live Over the weekend I wrote about what appeared to be a secret Virgin / Tesco 20% conversion bonus. Emails went out yesterday .....

News in brief: Tesco / Virgin Flying Club 20% bonus promotion is live Over the weekend I wrote about what .....

3 Aug 20163 August 2016 by Rob Burgess • 69 comments

If you have an account with ride app Uber, you may have received an email this week promoting a deal with hotel booking site booking.com. If you book a hotel room via the link in the email (this is .....

If you have an account with ride app Uber, you may have received an email this week promoting a deal with .....

3 Aug 20163 August 2016 by Rob Burgess • 26 comments

Small Luxury Hotels of the World is a consortium of 520 luxury hotels in 80 countries. These are primarily independent properties, many of which are well known in their respective markets. SLH has its .....

Small Luxury Hotels of the World is a consortium of 520 luxury hotels in 80 countries. These are primarily .....

3 Aug 20163 August 2016 by Rob Burgess • 20 comments

This is my review of the brand new menu and relatively new seat in Virgin Trains East Coast First Class. I had to dash up to York and back yesterday which gave me my first exposure to Virgin East .....

This is my review of the brand new menu and relatively new seat in Virgin Trains East Coast First Class. I had .....

2 Aug 20162 August 2016 by Rob Burgess • 49 comments

If you remember my ‘five lounges in three hours’ tour of Heathrow last year, you will remember my review of the Swissport Terminal 3 lounge. It was my most depressing UK lounge visit .....

If you remember my ‘five lounges in three hours’ tour of Heathrow last year, you will remember my .....

2 Aug 20162 August 2016 by Rob Burgess • 24 comments

Two of most interesting travel credit card offers around at the moment come from two newly released cards: HSBC Premier World Elite Mastercard comes with a bonus of 20,000 Avios points (or Cathay, .....

Two of most interesting travel credit card offers around at the moment come from two newly released cards: .....

1 Aug 20161 August 2016 by Rob Burgess • 67 comments

Hilton HHonors has arranged another tour of the McLaren-Honda factory at the Norman Foster-designed McLaren Technology Centre in Woking. The date is the afternoon of Friday 30th September. .....

Hilton HHonors has arranged another tour of the McLaren-Honda factory at the Norman Foster-designed McLaren .....

1 Aug 20161 August 2016 by Rob Burgess • 18 comments