Bits: last chance for 40,000 points IHG credit card bonus, best travel bonus for Bicester Village

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• Cybrandian says:

  4 Jun4 June 10:08

  I applied for and received the free IHG card (and 20k points) back in March.
  Does anyone know or have experience of being able to apply for the premium IHG card as well and receive a further 40k points ?
  Thanks !

  • Genghis says:

    4 Jun4 June 10:19

    I (and a few others here) hold both

• Nick says:

  4 Jun4 June 10:45

  Can you apply for both the cards ? Just cancelled the white card so could now go for black if it’s an option.

  • Nick says:

    4 Jun4 June 12:03

    scratch the above, just read the last comment. ta!

• Simon Fisher says:

  4 Jun4 June 12:18

  The link to Bicester Villageoutlet on the Club Carlson site is defunct, so “perhaps” is the deal? May be why they are not on the partners list at the Bicester end.

  “The page you are looking for cannot be found. It may no longer exist or has moved to a new location.”

• Andy says:

  4 Jun4 June 16:05

  A bit OT but I had to take Barclays (IHG) to the FOS because after 8 weeks they still hadn’t replied to my complaint.
  After due consideration the FOS decided that Barclays only offering me pro rata refund of the £99 fee (£57) was sufficient and within their T&C’s.
  So no full refund of the fee or compensation for me reaching £9K of the £10K target

  • Liz says:

    4 Jun4 June 18:22

    I wrote to Barclaycard and complained when they told us they were cancelling my IHG card. My gripe was I probably wouldn’t be accepted for the Creation card and therefore I would be unable to continue to earn qualifying points with IHG through credit card spend and that they hadn’t given us enough warning – I’ve since been accepted so my problem was solved. I had already received my free night certificate as I was at the end of my anniversary year so didn’t expect anything to come of the complaint. I had previously complained about my Mar points not posting correctly and had already received £60 in compensation for that which was resolved. Last week Barclaycard called and offered me £50 compensation for the cancellation of the IHG card and also by mistake they had reopened the case about the missing points in error but after checking my details discovered I was somehow missing 7534 pts which hadn’t been previously transferred (this was wrong as I always check the pts are correct each month and I wasn’t missing any) and so she arranged for said 7534 qualifying pts to be added to my IHG account and offered me another £100 in compensation for my trouble – I said thank you very much – that will help towards my Spire Elite target for next year! Between Barclaycard and Lloyds I’ve had £522 back in compensation in the past couple of months!

  • the_real_a says:

    4 Jun4 June 21:45

    Did you submit evidence on your quantifiable loss? I was made a satisfactory offer through their own complaints process for £9k spend.

    • Liz says:

      4 Jun4 June 22:43

      No didn’t submit any evidence but Barclays can get information from IHG if they need it.

• Paulm says:

  4 Jun4 June 16:34

  I’m still waiting for the 2nd lot of 20k and have sent Creation a message today as it’s now passed the 8 weeks they mention in their t&c’s to award the points.

  I’ll update once I get a reply

• Cate says:

  4 Jun4 June 16:47

  Another OT but anyone know how to add the Club IC experience onto my Amstel booking (second night Ambassador reward night)? IC website suggests you can either use your certificate or have IC club – but not both. Can you just pay at the desk??? Thanks

  • wgbalf says:

    4 Jun4 June 17:33

    I was there in March – booked IC Club for the first night and it was carried forward onto the reward night. However not a great product IC Club, not a sniff on the IC Park Lane.
    Staff seemed unaware of the ‘Club’ as the ambassador rep was not working that weekend, couple of free drinks at the bar with a few snacks/bites and afternoon tea. Lovely hotel – if they upgrade you ensure a river view we lost ours for an uninspiring city view suite and had to complain, then bumped back down to original river view room. Also major renovations under way – ask for a discount…

    • Cate says:

      4 Jun4 June 18:10

      Thanks wgbalf

      Do you remember how you booked club world with the Ambas reward night? I can’t find a page which puts them both together. (Good tip on the repairs discount!!)

      • Cate says:

        4 Jun4 June 18:47

        Have sorted – thanks 🙂

• Rob says:

  4 Jun4 June 17:09

  Has anyone successfully received the full 40,000 points without having been invited to participate in the offer. If you just apply off the web-page that shows the two cards and the extra bonuses, is there any chance that they will just give you the full 40k points? I’ve applied off this page without the offer and wondered whether I might just get lucky?

  • Andrew_A says:

    4 Jun4 June 17:47

    I received the full 40k without being invited to get the card. I had held the Barclaycard version before but applied before my original one was closed. I had thought I received 20k after hitting the target spend but 40k just appeared in my account around 6 weeks later. When I check back there is no record of the first 20k so, tbh, I am not sure what went on.
    I also received my fee back and compensation from Barclaycard.

• Danksy says:

  5 Jun5 June 02:20

  It’s probably no coincidence that they’ve started emailing reminders for the sign up offer.. Might be worth checking your junk filters etc.

  Mine came through this morning.

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