Here is the latest edition of our regular feature which summarises offers that are ending soon. It pulls together the different deals mentioned on our Top Avios Points Earning Offers, Top Hotel Bonus .....

Here is the latest edition of our regular feature which summarises offers that are ending soon. It pulls .....

12 Jun 201612 June 2016 by Rob Burgess

Back in mid May, a HfP reader sent me some gossip which I found a little hard to believe and which I couldn’t verify. oneworld alliance airlines would no longer be required to check baggage .....

Back in mid May, a HfP reader sent me some gossip which I found a little hard to believe and which I .....

11 Jun 201611 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 192 comments

News in brief: Get 2,400 Avios with a £30 Singer ‘Handy Chest’ Tesco Direct has been offering 1,000 Clubcard points on a variety of Singer sewing machines for a few weeks. The cheapest .....

News in brief: Get 2,400 Avios with a £30 Singer ‘Handy Chest’ Tesco Direct has been offering .....

11 Jun 201611 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 9 comments

I wrote a few weeks ago about how the new InterContinental at the O2 had been reduced in price from 50,000 IHG Rewards Club points per night to 45,000. I thought this was rebalancing – the hotel .....

I wrote a few weeks ago about how the new InterContinental at the O2 had been reduced in price from 50,000 IHG .....

11 Jun 201611 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 37 comments

Club Carlson, the Radisson Blu / Park Inn / Park Plaza programme, has launched a status match programme. If you have elite status with another hotel group, it is worth taking a look at this.  It will .....

Club Carlson, the Radisson Blu / Park Inn / Park Plaza programme, has launched a status match programme. If .....

10 Jun 201610 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 35 comments

News in brief: Book £90 Thistle hotel rooms in London, including breakfast Thistle Hotels is running a four day promotion, starting today, to celebrate the 90th birthday of the Queen. There are 9,000 .....

News in brief: Book £90 Thistle hotel rooms in London, including breakfast Thistle Hotels is running a four .....

10 Jun 201610 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 66 comments

TODAY, 10th June, is the last day to take advantage of the current 100% bonus when you buy Hilton HHonors points – see this page and click through. Even with a 100% bonus, it is .....

TODAY, 10th June, is the last day to take advantage of the current 100% bonus when you buy Hilton HHonors .....

10 Jun 201610 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 33 comments

I received a private message via Flyertalk yesterday from a British Airways employee who said, to paraphrase, that he was fed up with the anti-BA bias that he felt runs through the site. In my .....

I received a private message via Flyertalk yesterday from a British Airways employee who said, to paraphrase, .....

9 Jun 20169 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 176 comments

News in brief: British Airways removes hot food from Band 4 flights In order not to appear to be unduly criticising British Airways again (see my main article today), I will assume that this is a .....

News in brief: British Airways removes hot food from Band 4 flights In order not to appear to be unduly .....

9 Jun 20169 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 90 comments

We have seen some interesting promotions over the last couple of years to drum up business for the British Airways Leeds Bradford to Heathrow route. We have had ‘kids fly free’ (up to 3 .....

We have seen some interesting promotions over the last couple of years to drum up business for the British .....

9 Jun 20169 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 8 comments

A couple of weeks ago I got the chance to try out the new Eurostar e320 trains on a trip to Paris.  That review will follow in a couple of days. First, however, I got to review the Eurostar .....

A couple of weeks ago I got the chance to try out the new Eurostar e320 trains on a trip to Paris.  That .....

8 Jun 20168 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 27 comments

News in brief: American Express ending Royal Academy partnership For the last year or so, it has been possible to get free access to exhibitions at the Royal Academy in London with your American .....

News in brief: American Express ending Royal Academy partnership For the last year or so, it has been possible .....

8 Jun 20168 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 37 comments

Back in April, to celebrate the new £195 Premium Plus fee, American Express increased the sign-up bonus on the two British Airways American Express cards. The Premium Plus version, now with a .....

Back in April, to celebrate the new £195 Premium Plus fee, American Express increased the sign-up bonus on .....

8 Jun 20168 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 37 comments

American Express is having a bad time of things at the moment. The loss of the Costco contract in the US was a hammer blow to the business (I thoroughly recommend reading the story here) and there has .....

American Express is having a bad time of things at the moment. The loss of the Costco contract in the US was a .....

7 Jun 20167 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 57 comments