Earn 3+ Virgin Flying Club miles per £1 with chauffeur service myDriver

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• MilesFromBlighty says:

  13 Sep13 September 03:46

  About 50% more than my usual provider BATransfer for my trips to Heathrow, and about twice the price (£46 vs £25) for trips from the office to London City Airport.

• Genghis says:

  13 Sep13 September 04:33

  Note that virgin trains 500 miles bonus has posted

  • harry says:

    13 Sep13 September 06:44

    Did you do the Edinburgh trip? My wife & I both got 3 miles 🙂

    Anybody got 500 for the Edinburgh jobby?

    It was definitely Virgin Trains on the correct line. I’ll just wait & see if they post today, otherwise a ‘wee’ appeal lol

    • Genghis says:

      13 Sep13 September 09:53

      My son and daughter (wife’s account) both enjoyed their trip across Edinburgh 🙂

  • Allan says:

    13 Sep13 September 08:19

    Not for me yet. I booked an Aberdeen to Edinburgh one.

  • Mr Dee says:

    13 Sep13 September 09:32

    Not here either

    • harry says:

      13 Sep13 September 13:22

      Just wanged off a couple of emails – to save you time it’s customer.services@fly.virgin.com
      + journey details & membership number

      • roberto says:

        13 Sep13 September 17:22

        Also emailed from myself and Mrs Roberto…. Thanks for the reminder folks..

      • Graeme says:

        13 Sep13 September 17:38

        Thanks Harry – very helpful. I’m just hoping I didn’t do the obvious and fail to put my VFC number in when I booked on the app. Unfortunately they don’t seem to hold the details on the west coast site unlike the east coast site, where your reward preference is stored on your account.

• Roger says:

  13 Sep13 September 07:21

  OT-Re: Thames Water

  Has anyone managed to pay Thames water using Amex? If so how?
  Website only takes Visa or Master card.

  • Genghis says:

    13 Sep13 September 09:54

    I’ve requested a paypoint card from them. That was about 3 weeks ago but not yet arrived

  • Jude1234 says:

    13 Sep13 September 10:09

    Can you do this with any bills such as council tax etc?

    • Genghis says:

      13 Sep13 September 10:12

      Most – though I wouldn’t do it with gas / electricity as often get DD discount. I do it with council tax – just pay in one go to hit a sign up bonus.

      • Genghis says:

        13 Sep13 September 10:26

        So do I but 1% on 123 for council tax vs circa 20% back on hitting an Amex Plat sign up bonus (valuing MR at 1p), I know which I’d choose.

      • Roger says:

        13 Sep13 September 12:54

        Yes, although my council does not accept paypoint (Only PAYZONE is accepted),
        it only charges flat £2 fees even say you are paying full £2k council tax in one go.
        Very useful for hitting signup bonus in one go for Visa/Mastercard.
        Wish they accepted Amex.

        • harry says:

          13 Sep13 September 13:10

          It’s hardly downmarket if you get the Paypoint card or instalment book/ barcodes & go into your Co-Op & pay £400 in one go 🙂

  • Roger says:

    13 Sep13 September 12:55

    Getting Installment card from TW seems too downmarket to me.
    So might just continue to pay using DD.

    • xcalx says:

      13 Sep13 September 15:13

      Why? No one is taking any notice of you when you make the payment.

      • Graeme says:

        13 Sep13 September 22:16

        ha ha sounds like something overheard in Waitrose

• Brian says:

  13 Sep13 September 08:32

  Simple Airport Transfers will take you to or from South Kensington for about £30 – it seems to vary according to the time – I’ve paid £34 and £27 to practically the same address. It has always been in a decent-sized Mercedes. They do NOT charge for waiting times at Heathrow and I’ve always been pleased with the service.

  How can Uber get away with charging £50? I thought they were supposed to be cheap!

  • Rob says:

    13 Sep13 September 08:56

    Uber is £90 in a S-class Mercedes now. To be precise, £98.22 and £91.94 South Ken to T5 looking at my receipts.

    Uber isn’t meant to be cheap, Uber is meant to be convenient. UberX is ‘cheap’ but there isn’t really anything to compare it with unless you bung your neighbour £20 to drive you somewhere!

    • Matt says:

      13 Sep13 September 09:05

      UberX is fully licenced in the UK and therefore comparable to other local minicab firms. Based on my UberX receipts, you’d be looking at around £30 Heathrow to South Kensington so very similar to the prices quoted above.

      • Rob says:

        13 Sep13 September 12:06

        What I meant is that not many minicab drivers turn up in a Prius!

        • TimS says:

          13 Sep13 September 13:32

          Round by me (NE London), 90% of the drivers at our local minicab firm drive a Prius!

        • Genghis says:

          13 Sep13 September 13:48

          And SE London!

        • Mike says:

          13 Sep13 September 15:12

          Uber is simply a minicab circuit but they charge their drivers commission per fare, as opposed to weekly rent. Many driver are on more than one circuit.

• Russell says:

  13 Sep13 September 12:34

  OT – Hertz Gold Plus Rewards.

  Good news – I just received a second creit of 900 points for some reason!

  Bad News – a total failure to transfer points to IHG or Marriott.

  I get conflicting advice from Hertz CS – eg Marriott Rewards is not an option, when it is still on the pull down menu.

  Anyone had success with this? And if so, what browser did you use? (I use Firefox. but with a number of security add-ons, and these seem to cause the Hertz site to hang.) I have tried Pale Moon, which appears to work, but no transfer takes place.. Hmm

  • xcalx says:

    13 Sep13 September 15:17

    “Good news – I just received a second credit of 900 points for some reason!”

    That sounds promising, did you get the first 900 manually credited.

    • Russell says:

      13 Sep13 September 15:49

      Yes

• lisa says:

  13 Sep13 September 13:15

  I was speaking to a Virgin Atlantic adviser today and they said that the rewards and mileage booking system/requirements would be changing in 12 months. Does anyone have any information on the changes? Thanks

  • Rob says:

    13 Sep13 September 15:10

    Nope …..

    • Alan says:

      15 Sep15 September 19:29

      I can predict they won’t be good though 😉

• xcalx says:

  13 Sep13 September 15:29

  Keep getting address incomplete from any address I try in Leeds

• james says:

  13 Sep13 September 17:19

  I did a fare check

  Near tooting broadway to Heathrow terminal 5

  My Driver – 59 Pounds
  Addison Lee – 41 pounds
  Uber X – 37 pounds
  Uber XL – 51 pounds

  Its nice to have a better car, but I will most likely stick with Addison lee.

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