Exclusive: Get 100% bonus using Heathrow Rewards for shopping vouchers

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• Alan says:

  23 May23 May 14:47

  Excellent deal – received email from HR about it today too. Have passed on to my folks (we emptied their soon-to-expire Emirates miles into HR a couple of years ago) – looks like a good way to cash out. Sadly it means the VS miles I got under the promo a month or so ago weren’t quite as good a deal as I hoped 😛

  • Genghis says:

    23 May23 May 15:01

    And the 50% avios bonus I got actually cost me 1,33p (vs the 0.66p I thought) but it’s all notional.

    • Alan says:

      23 May23 May 15:06

      Hehe yeah – after making my UC redemption I felt best to replenish my VS miles a bit and I rarely buy anything in LHR anyway. Will be a good deal for my folks though – great cash discount on their EK fare to NZ a few years ago!

      • Genghis says:

        23 May23 May 15:51

        @Alan @Triprep. Booked our Scotland trip for first full weekend of Oct. We’ll be in Glasgow on the Fri and Sat night and Edinburgh on the Sun night. More of an FYI at the moment as I’m not sure Mrs G will want to talk points, although she enjoyed talking to @Ro in the CCR last month.

        • Alan says:

          23 May23 May 16:06

          cool – Sun night in Edin could def work for me, just depends if end up being away that weekend or not (all depending on a dreadful combo of Avios + my friend’s work availability!!)

        • Ro says:

          23 May23 May 17:09

          Ah glad to hear we didn’t bore her senseless Genghis!

• xcalx says:

  23 May23 May 15:46

  Rob, you previously mentioned that other airlines were due to join the Heathrow reward programme. any update as to which Airlines may be joining.

  Thanks.

  • Rob says:

    23 May23 May 15:48

    No, no news yet.

    • xcalx says:

      23 May23 May 15:53

      Cheers. Was hoping AA or Alaska would be joining.

      • Ro says:

        23 May23 May 17:10

        Alaska would be amazing

      • Rob says:

        23 May23 May 18:29

        My money would be Flying Blue or Qatar but that is wild speculation. I know that Qatar wants to do more to promote QMiles here but is clearly stifled by the fact that most people in the UK credit Qatar flights to Avios.

• Gin and Tonic Please says:

  23 May23 May 18:19

  OT – Now TV boxes are back in stock. 🙂

  • Rob says:

    23 May23 May 19:24

    Thanks. Original article is here – http://www.shopperpoints.co.uk/2017/05/20/now-tv-boxes-now-15-and-still-500-clubcard-points/

• Alex W says:

  23 May23 May 20:20

  Not sure there is anything I need to buy at Heathrow at the moment! I think I’ll wait for the next 50% bonus on VS miles.

  • the real harry1 says:

    23 May23 May 20:28

    I need to buy a few pints on Friday! 🙂

• nicholas danks says:

  23 May23 May 21:02

  Brilliant thanks for the headsup… 37000 points duly exchanged for vouchers 😀

  • the real harry1 says:

    23 May23 May 21:10

    get this man a stage & an audience

    • nicholas danks says:

      23 May23 May 21:14

      Haha – I’ve been waiting to cash out.

      • the real harry1 says:

        23 May23 May 21:27

        so how are you going to spend the vouchers in the timeframe?

        I mean: I use the pub – but that’s a lot of Guinness

        • Genghis says:

          23 May23 May 21:43

          I heard put behind the bar for HfP readers?

        • nicholas danks says:

          24 May24 May 06:31

          I was thinking of buying some tech at Dixons, specifically putting towards a new Galaxy S8plus 😛

  • Stephen C says:

    24 May24 May 13:39

    48,250 exchanged here 🙂

    • Nicholas Danks says:

      24 May24 May 13:55

      WOW – I thought I was doing well 😀 😀 😀

• K says:

  23 May23 May 23:38

  Does buying HEX tickets work for this offer?

  • nicholas danks says:

    24 May24 May 06:29

    Voucher can be used for, or towards, the purchase of goods and services at any of the participating outlets at Heathrow. Voucher is not transferable nor exchangeable for cash and cannot be used for purchases made for less than the full value of the voucher presented. Only the original voucher is valid. Photocopied, damaged or defaced vouchers will not be accepted. Passengers may still be liable to various taxes which will vary depending on the ultimate destination. Voucher is valid for one year (12 months) from the date of issue. Expired vouchers cannot be replaced or reissued.

    Voucher is not valid in the following outlets: Bureaux de change, vending and gaming machines, Staff Eurest restaurants and the BA Highlife staff shop. This voucher is not valid for transactions for medicines, prescription items, infant formula, gift vouchers, postage stamps and tobacco products or for Heathrow Express train tickets.

    • K says:

      24 May24 May 06:38

      I was thinking whether this counts towards qualifying spend in order to receive 3,000 bonus points as a new Heathrow Rewards member. Cheers

• Gbit says:

  24 May24 May 12:55

  Hello

  Hope you don’t mind my asking a couple of questions here. I have approx 600k Skywards which I’m considered burning with this Heathrow Rewards promotion. I won’t have opportunity to use them for flights in the near future and figure that £4000ish of Heathrow Rewards vouchers is probably more valuable than other non-flight redemptions such as hotels. So, first question, would you agree this is a reasonable use of the skywards?

  Secondly, I don’t have any flights from Heathrow coming up until December (and then it is long haul to Oz so I don’t fancy carrying £4000 of goods all that way and back again). Is it possible to go shopping at Heathrow without flying anywhere? I’d envisaged booking the cheapest possible internal flight in order to get a boarding pass, going on a shopping spree, advising the airline that I would not be traveling, that leaving through arrivals with the goods. Would this be possible?

  Apologies for any naivety that these questions display!

  • Rob says:

    24 May24 May 14:38

    You can do that – as long as you have a boarding pass for an EU destination (and so you have actually paid VAT on whatever you buy) you can ask to leave the terminal without flying.

    I have actually done this a couple of times, once because my flight was cancelled and the other time at Terminal 2 after it opened in order to review some of the lounges.

    Remember that there are lots of smokers in transit at Heathrow and they all have to be walked out of the terminal, landside, on a regular basis. You won’t be on your own. You may have to wait – I think T5 does one ‘walk out’ an hour from the info desk in the middle of the lower level – but that is the only issue.

    PS. Obviously this works best if you want, say, a designer watch because you can ask the shop to order it in for you. Turning up with £4k of vouchers and no plan of what you buy could be tricky.

    • Gbit says:

      29 May29 May 20:56

      thanks Rob.

      Just completed an order for £4290 of vouchers. I wonder if that will raise an eyebrow somewhere!

• Gurdeep says:

  24 May24 May 15:49

  That was an excellent article and I have just ordered my points. £245 should be worth double, enough for a new iPad I’ll be needing soon with some change.
  Thank you very much for the heads up.

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