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Bits: get £20 for a TripAdvisor hotel booking, last call for Clubcard bonus on kids games

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News in brief:

Get £20 in Amazon vouchers with a TripAdvisor hotel booking

TripAdvisor is offering a £20 Amazon voucher when you book a hotel via their UK site for £150 or more.  Details are here.

It is a little fiddly but the deal seems decent enough:

Book a hotel via tripadvisor.co.uk for at least £150 before taxes (Marriott-owned hotels are excluded)

Review the hotel on TripAdvisor

Receive a £20 Amazon gift card by email

You need to book your hotel by 3rd October and complete your stay and submit your review by 14th November.

Full rules and exclusions can be found on the TripAdvisor site here.  There is a limit of one £20 voucher per person.

Tesco deals round-up

I wanted to do a quick summary of a few Tesco Clubcard offers currently available as these are easy ways of generating Avios or Virgin Flying Club miles.

Today (Sunday) is the last day to get 500 Clubcard points (1,200 Avios or 1,250 Virgin miles) for spending £30 on Hasbro board and kids games.

There are also bonus points currently available on HP printer ink and photo paper and Canon printer ink.  All give 100 Clubcard points (240 Avios, 250 Virgin miles) per product.


How to earn Avios from UK credit cards

How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (April 2025)

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

Get 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

30,000 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 – 30,000 points, FREE for a year & four airport lounge passes Read our full review

The Platinum Card from American Express

80,000 bonus points and great travel benefits – for a large 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, and the standard card is FREE. Capital on Tap cards also have no FX fees.

Capital on Tap Visa

NO annual fee, NO FX fees and points worth 1 Avios per £1 Read our full review

Capital on Tap Pro Visa

10,500 points (=10,500 Avios) plus good benefits Read our full review

There is also a British Airways American Express card for small businesses:

British Airways American Express Accelerating Business

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

50,000 points when you sign-up 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.

Comments (20)

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  • David says:

    Several of my pilot friends at Etihad have been giving out these same 2 codes to friends for a few years – it’s supposed to be a friends & family discount for staff I believe, hence the “STF” (staff) in the code! It’s been the same code for the last 3 years but varies between 15-30% discount, and normally the booking window opens around 5-6 times a year, for a few days each time. Expect the codes to work again sometime around the second week of December… 🙂

  • Peter K says:

    Does the connect an AMEX to trip advisor, post a review and get £5 statement credit still work?

  • Peter K says:

    Is it me or have the number of points needed for a redemption just gone up or the rewards chat miles changed or something? I thought Singapore was 120k miles return business when I checked last Dec but checking yesterday it 175k.

    • Peter K says:

      The rewards chart and mileage bands I mean.

      • Yuff says:

        It went up in May/June 2015 🙁

        • James67 says:

          I wonder what Peter has been doing for the last 18 months to miss that 🙂

          For benefit of anybody looking to book flights for next autumn, yesterday T-355 went off-peak again for the end of summer.

          • Peter K says:

            I know about that of course but it seems to have changed since December 2015. Maybe I just made a mistake then..?

  • Tom C says:

    Whilst I’m sure the fact that the Etihad discount code ends “BUS” and the economy one ends “ECO” shows what fares they can be used with, I think it’d be just worth clarifying that it cannot be used with first class.

  • JamesWag says:

    OT:

    When does the Airberlin / Etihad promo of 1,000 points per Mates’ email address supplied ? It was capped at 12 or 15 I believe.

    Anyone got a link to the promo ?

    Cheers.

    • Andrew H says:

      I don’t know about Etihad, but if you’re talking about the Air Berlin promo where if ten of your mates signed up, you’d get 1000 points, that has long since been pulled. Too many people were doing it.

  • Andrew H says:

    O/T update on the MTX Connect deal for 6000 Miles & More points. Yesterday it looked like the ddeal had been around for ages and we’d missed the boat. I emailed MTX yesterday, and they’ve informed me today:

    “We sure that you are one of the first 1000 people. Award miles are usually credited within a few days, but can take up to 4 weeks.”

    So it looks like MTX tracked all the people who registered for a SIM card with their Miles and More number, and then the first 1000 people who topped up their balance by 20 Euros will get the points. That’s how I read it anyway. I’ll let everyone know when the points start to show up.

  • Mark says:

    Missed out on the Tesco sound bar points offer last time. Just ordered one with the £42 Samsung bluray player using code TDX-HTNK to get £25 off £150 spend.

    Spent a total of £126 for both items plus 1626 cc points/3902 avios – valuing the avios at 1p each, that’s £87 for the player and sound bar.

    Happy with that 🙂 Thanks for the tip off Rob!

  • Scott says:

    I find myself increasingly disliking TripAdvisor. When they first came along it seemed great, but now I feel it has lost its value. There are too many dubious reviews, the rankings often don’t bear any reality with what are the best places in a given city, they treat operators with disdain. All the reviewers are providing the content for TripAdvisor to profit from and they get very little back for all the time they have invested. TripAdvisor desperately try to gamify the review process by trying to convince reviewers that their individual reviews actually mean something, rather than it is their way of keeping people providing content.

    A £20 gift card is not nearly enough for me to want to participate! Rant over!

    • Callum says:

      You get quite a lot back – a website with millions of reviews on it. It’s no different to contributing to this site.

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