Get £50 off £100 Radisson / Park Inn / Park Plaza hotel spend as a BA Amex cardholder

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• JamesW says:

  31 Jan31 January 11:53

  Not on my BAPP.

• mark2 says:

  31 Jan31 January 12:10

  A related OT:
  would I be able to use my Avios to get tickets from LAS-DFW (if available) for my nephew and three of his friends?

  • Rob says:

    31 Jan31 January 12:23

    If American flies it, yes. Look on aa.com for cash tickets to see how they route it, or if it could be direct.

    Check Alaska as well – but you need to call BA to enquire about Alaska reward availability.

    • mark2 says:

      31 Jan31 January 14:57

      thanks Rob;

• Robbie says:

  31 Jan31 January 13:55

  Hi – Not even going to pretend I am sorry about going off topic this time as I seem to be doing it every day – I have now booked a trip to Dubai (The last off topic question I asked.) I couldn’t get the Qatar flight back I wanted so have now needed to return a day later so I have one more day in the UAE than I thought but the question is should I spend it in Dubai or Doha?

  I have brought my hotel with Points (a suite in the Melia) and am out of points so would be paying cash for any future night so will probably have to move from the suite to something cheeper (My goal has always been to maximize savings through points and an expensive cash booking would ruin that.) so I am thinking I will either move to Dubai airport to overnight and fly out in the morning or fly to Doha a day early and either stay somewhere there (is there much to see in Doha?) or stay at an airport hotel there (We fly back at 15:30 from Doha so won’t be rushed whichever we do.)

  Anyone got a preference?

  • the real harry1 says:

    31 Jan31 January 14:36

    there’s absolutely nothing to do or see in Doha (honest, NOTHING, unless you have a friend with a boat or want to go to a shopping mall) – at least in Dubai there’s a fair bit going on

    • Rob says:

      31 Jan31 January 15:18

      Agreed. If you want to be nearer Dubai Airport, although it isn’t as if Dubai is big, the InterCon / Crowne Plaza complex at Festival City is very nice, as is the Park Hyatt. The Meridien at the airport is a bit of a dump.

      • Robbie says:

        31 Jan31 January 16:50

        Great Thanks, Dubai it is then.

        My main aim is to find somewhere cheap rather than necessarily be at the airport. I just thought if Doha was worth a visit then maybe I would look at it.

        Maybe I will just suck it up and pay for another night in the Melia suite but my goal is to get as big a points saving as possible and so far I am getting just under 10K of value for about 500 quid and I don’t want to ruin that by paying 400 just for the extra night! And I can’t switch to a cheaper room at the Melia as then my wife may find out that the 5 Star VIP weekend hasn’t cost as much as she may think!

        • Genghis says:

          31 Jan31 January 17:02

          Are you not truly up front about the points game with your wife?

        • Robbie says:

          31 Jan31 January 17:10

          I was when I started collecting but there are only so many times I can talk to her with her eyes glazing over before I give up.

          But as she has never stayed in a Hotel Suite before and has never been in any class other than Economy on a plane I am hoping that after this trip she may be converted when she finds out it only cost 600 pounds (and a few years of obsessive compulsive collecting of course)

          You never know maybe after this she will stop trying to waste my Tesco vouchers on shopping!!!

        • Genghis says:

          31 Jan31 January 18:18

          I find informing my wife of how good things are collecting points gives me a bit more of a free pass with credit card sign ups in her name.

  • Alex W says:

    31 Jan31 January 16:46

    Doha is a dump.

    • the real harry1 says:

      31 Jan31 January 19:14

      some dumps got character… whereas Doha…

    • Ro says:

      31 Jan31 January 23:02

      What’s so bad about it?! (Im just curious as never been)

      • Rob says:

        1 Feb1 February 00:03

        It is basically all the boring bits of Dubai with none of the fun bits. No megamalls, no really good beach resorts, no indoor ski slopes, no Burj, no Palm etc.

        • HIDeHi says:

          1 Feb1 February 06:02

          I wouldn’t call Doha a dump but it is probably the worst major city in the world for tourist attractions. There are maybe 3 things to do and see in the whole city. We had 12 hours in the city and that was about 8 hours more than we needed to see literally everything.

        • the real harry1 says:

          1 Feb1 February 07:08

          if I had to spend 2 days there I would make sure the first day was a Friday and do the fairly fun expat brunch thing for about 5 hours then find a pool to snooze it off, obviously only a half-decent idea if you are with friends/ make friends easily

          the second day I would find a boat and go fishing which is always fun and a good way to get away from the fact you are in Doha – or you could hire a 4×4 and cross over to the other side with a minor bit of off-road larks and see a bit of desert etc with a picnic

          you still essentially come down to finding ways to avoid remembering you are in Doha

        • Johnny5a says:

          1 Feb1 February 08:51

          agree there isn’t much there. we visited for two reasons:
          – tick off another country
          – see a friend who was working there

• HayMow says:

  31 Jan31 January 14:15

  Gutted about the demise of Carlson 241 and 4for2 – the page was still live 2 days ago when I checked but I couldn’t find availability so that must’ve been why 🙁 That would’ve been great stacked with these promos. I found the Amex offer on my own BAPP but not as additional cardmember to my hubby’s BAPP, tho I did get in first thing this morning when saw Rob’s email – by the time hubby checked there was nothing on either of his BAPPs.

• JamesWag says:

  31 Jan31 January 14:27

  I just hope everyone who registered for the £50 makes use of it as plenty of people have wanted it but not been successful.

  • will says:

    31 Jan31 January 14:53

    It’s very much still alive and kicking, on my partners BAPP and just enabled it at 14.53

  • the real harry1 says:

    31 Jan31 January 17:20

    you could try giving Amex a ring and asking if they can put the offer on your card

• Mike says:

  31 Jan31 January 16:18

  Not on my BAPP or my Amex gold card. Checked my wife’s too, nothing

• CC says:

  31 Jan31 January 16:29

  Just checked and its available on my BAPP.

  • CC says:

    31 Jan31 January 16:32

    And I meant to add that it was not there earlier when I checked on my phone, if that might make any difference.

• John says:

  31 Jan31 January 17:18

  Just checked my BA card and it is there.

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