Bits: win 10000 Avios with Accor, Good To Go Parking sale, Charles Tyrwhitt / Avios deal

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• Timothy Firmager says:

  9 May9 May 07:21

  CT used to earn 12 Avios / £ for as long as I can remember up until the end of last year, when this rate massively reduced.
  In store purchase is a useful perk, but 4 Avios / £ is not necessarily going to sway to me be loyal to them going forward.

• Court says:

  9 May9 May 07:36

  OT but just thought I’d let people know, we had a baby April 2016 and both dropped to bronze July and October last year. I emailed baby@ba.com after they announced their new policy asking if there was anything they could do with us. We both woke up today to find we’d been promoted back to Silver as if we’d just achieved it, so valid till July and October 2018!

  Thanks BA, and there was me considering shuffling off to EZ after my last long haul in September.

  • the real harry1 says:

    9 May9 May 07:46

    very generous, maybe BA is going to try to be extra nice in Customer Service terms

    I might as well get on first the first stage of my claim for the free F&B, as I’ll need deadlock agreed in any case before taking it forward

    • TripRep says:

      9 May9 May 18:05

      Good luck getting the deadlock letter, expect the same rolled out template of insincere “apologies” x 3 before you get any success. Best to treat it as an amusing sport or a role play game, that’s a good coping mechanism for keeping your resolve and your sanity intact.

  • AVM says:

    9 May9 May 12:38

    Wow, that’s nice! Did you have to email a proof, i.e. a birth certificate?

    • Mark says:

      9 May9 May 13:07

      WHAT are you suggesting?!

  • jamie says:

    9 May9 May 13:18

    hi, emailed them with similar request on 3rd may – heard nothing. how long did they take to reply?

    cheers

    • Court says:

      9 May9 May 15:01

      I mailed them the same day I think – the day it was announced on BA.com. I expected nothing so was pleasantly surprised this morning to see us both get promoted.

      I sent an image of the birth certificate, the baby’s passport for the fun of it and all 3 of our BAEC numbers.

• Tim says:

  9 May9 May 07:53

  1500 avois for first order as well.

  I’ve just purchased 5 shirts plus free tie for £100. Went in store to try on for size and then ordered online.

  • Rob says:

    9 May9 May 08:26

    The 1,500 Avios is targetted to those who were mailed the card by BA. It doesnt accept your BA number otherwise – I tried it.

  • Moktar says:

    9 May9 May 08:29

    Is there a minimum order for the first order bonus? Can’t see it mentioned anywhere

  • GK says:

    9 May9 May 08:40

    Yes I got that offer in the post. Avios credited today, shirts on their way..

• Rob says:

  9 May9 May 08:25

  40 Savile Row are very good if you want made to measure shirts. Go see Max and tell him I sent you. I would actually spend £1k on 5 MTM shirts rather than a low end MTM suit, especially if your suit jacket hangs on a peg all day.

• Nick M says:

  9 May9 May 08:28

  Very OT, but as lots of you live/work in London I thought someone may be able to help…

  Does anyone know any suitable parking near Evelina hospital (St Thomas & Guys) – near Westminster Bridge? We’ll need it for 12-36 hrs.

  • Graham Walsh says:

    9 May9 May 08:54

    Have a look on here http://en.parkopedia.co.uk/ or something like JustPark etc. I only know of a little further away nearer Southward/Borough (under the arches on Union Street).

  • Nick M says:

    9 May9 May 13:33

    Thanks both – the Britannia one looks ideal and also showing as the top option on Parkopedia 🙂

• John says:

  9 May9 May 08:54

  The Mercure in the picture above is Manchester Piccadilly. This is one I used to stay in for £40 for happy Mondays. It’s very old and tired so is the one in Brighton. So old even the floors creeked through the night but for £40 you couldn’t complain. I once spent £60 extra in the bar in Brighton and used to meet people for a drink in the manchester one due to the view of Piccadilly. I can’t help think without some kind of offer or promotion these hotels will struggle without massive investment. Being happy Happy Mondays.

  • RussellH says:

    9 May9 May 19:19

    I have only stayed there once since it became a Mercure. Before that it was a Ramada Jarvis – a whole swathe of which became Mercures after RJ went bust. It seemed to be the Manchester base for Pakistam International aircrew.

    I used to be able to get very cheap stays through a wholesaler I worked with…

    One night the fire alarm went off at about 0200 – not fun walking down the many stairs of the fire escape! It was a genuine alarm, sort of. I spoke to the manager the next morning (he came into the breakfast room in order to apologise to guests); he told me that someone had been lighting candles in his room, which set off the alarm. Then, to try and stop the alarm, he kept on hitting it and smashed it off the ceiling…

    A large bill was going to be submitted – no idea if it was ever paid.

• n says:

  9 May9 May 08:55

  OT: After asking on the comments a few weeks ago re Avios seats to TYO of CPT, plans have since changed and things are leaning towards CPT now.

  No J availability for the outbound, but there is for the inbound (via JNB). Would it be worth booking PE out and J back and crossing fingers/toes/digits for J to open up (EF alerts across a few different flights) or is likelihood of that happening tiny?

  • Aliks says:

    9 May9 May 09:27

    I think the likelihood is slim – CPT is a very, very popular destination, and you are probably waiting for someone to cancel exactly the days you want.

  • MarkH says:

    9 May9 May 11:31

    Unlikely I would say if my experience this morning is anything to go by.

    I called BA to add my CPT return flights in J to my 2-4-1 redemption for April 2018. By 1.06am when they managed to get my booking details up the seats had gone so they added CPT-JNB and JNB-LHR instead for the same avios and taxes (which I thought couldn’t be used for 2-4-1 redemptions)

• JamesB says:

  9 May9 May 09:21

  There’s a fundamental problem with made to measure though, particularly in middle age.

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