Important dates for your diary – offers about to close which you shouldn’t miss (June 2017)

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• Talay says:

  25 Jun25 June 05:41

  Add in 3rd July as last day to book Etihad and get a free chauffeur, even if in First !

  For those with Silver and above, this is 4 x chauffeurs as they also give you chauffeurs at your destination up to (about) 60km as well as to and from the home airport.

  Not sure about redemptions as I was able to view a redemption for Q2 2018 which would also include the chauffeurs but that could be because it is not yet 3rd July. I suspect chauffeurs on redemptions will be lost also.

  I guess at the moment PointsPay is about 0.55p. I have 180k or so left and a points plus cash redemption for next year is circa £650 (incl taxes) plus the miles as short of the 230/240k needed.

  So my 180k would give me £990 plus the theoretical £650 making £1640 which is nigh on the current cheapest LHR-BKK fare in business on Etihad. Pull the chauffeurs though and it drops in value.

• Liz says:

  25 Jun25 June 08:07

  I was going to take out the Virgin ISA yesterday but the link shows the offer is on till the end of July now. Will wait till next month to do it.

  • Rob says:

    25 Jun25 June 08:08

    Thanks, will update

• Grimz says:

  25 Jun25 June 10:51

  Can I refer my Partner for Virgin white as I currently have this card? If you can how do you do this?

  • Genghis says:

    25 Jun25 June 10:52

    Ask MBNA for a referral link or wait for it to arrive

    • Boi says:

      25 Jun25 June 19:50

      How quickly do these bonus miles post and how do I chase? Been waiting over a week

      • Rob says:

        25 Jun25 June 19:53

        You’re having a laugh. You are likely to be waiting up to three months.

      • Genghis says:

        25 Jun25 June 19:54

        Up to 90 days. I’ve been waiting about 75 so far. I’ll chase MBNA once 90 days up if not received as it’s their promo

      • Genghis says:

        25 Jun25 June 19:56

        Actually apologies.
        “The recommender’s 3,000 bonus miles will be credited to their respective Flying Club account within 60 days of the recomendee’s first card purchase being made, within 90 days of the account opening date. You cannot refer yourself.”

        I guess I need to start chasing…

    • Grimz says:

      25 Jun25 June 23:00

      Do you call them? Not much time now!

      • Genghis says:

        26 Jun26 June 05:03

        Call them

    • Grimz says:

      25 Jun25 June 23:01

      Tried that but ‘page not found’

• Kevin says:

  25 Jun25 June 10:51

  OT, I used Supercard to pay my Bangkok hotel trip. But IHG platinum credit card only given 2 points per pound rather than 4 points for abroad spend. Is this the case for using Supercard or curve card for abroad spend ?

  • Genghis says:

    25 Jun25 June 10:54

    Yes. So for work I occasionally pay using my IHG card directly for 4 IHGs (as work pick up the 3% charge)

  • Alan says:

    25 Jun25 June 10:59

    Yes, that’s what you’d expect – using Curve or Supercard has avoided the 3% forex fee on your destination card (albeit cost you 1% on Curve) and as you’ve been charged I’m GBP you can’t expect to receive the higher earnings rate as they’re not making the forex fee profit. Some did have glitches before where even GBP transactions processed abroad earned the higher rate, but that doesn’t really seem to happen now.

    • Kevin says:

      25 Jun25 June 14:10

      Thanks for the clarification

• Genghis says:

  25 Jun25 June 10:57

  OT. Do Melia provide any gold status benefits for third party bookings (hotels.com)?

  • Stu N says:

    25 Jun25 June 11:47

    Not tried hotels.com but have had status benefits in Melia hotels booked as part of BA Holiday booking. Worked in ME Madrid and Melia Berlin. They are good with corporate travel bookings too.

    • Genghis says:

      25 Jun25 June 11:56

      Cheers Stu. Will report back later on what I’m given.

  • Will says:

    25 Jun25 June 16:04

    Last year melia gold benefits seemed to go largely unacknowledged for the 3 stays I had with them at separate properties.

    This year revisited one and good fully explained at check in + didn’t have the usual haggle over the bill on checkout that had accompanied previous stays.

    Like the chain, really nice properties and service levels improving all the time.

    • Genghis says:

      25 Jun25 June 16:11

      Only benefit given was free internet. Oh well…

      • Stu N says:

        25 Jun25 June 22:34

        Boo! We got upgrade at check-in both times when I showed my Melia Gold card plus free breakfast for partner in Madrid.

        Got some Melia points for Berlin about 3 days later which bore no relationship to anything – way more than incidental spend, but less than anything resembling the nominal cost of booking.

        The Madrid one landed us a very large number of points about 6 weeks later.

        Redemptions on Melia feel fairly expensive but points can be converted to IB+ Avios so it’s still a very useful scheme. You might get lucky…

• Luke says:

  25 Jun25 June 20:45

  It would be useful to have an opinion on the maximiles credit card.

  • Genghis says:

    25 Jun25 June 21:05

    Had to google it but looks rubbish. Free card but 5k bonus and 1 points per £1. Poor value at low redemptions. 7k points for £25 Sainsburys gift voucher as a benchmark so 0.38% return ongoing and a sign up bonus of £19 doesn’t really turn me on

    • Alex W says:

      25 Jun25 June 22:13

      There’s nothing maxi about that! Looks like you can’t get any miles either!!

• James Wagner says:

  28 Jun28 June 20:07

  Totally Off Topic.
  If I cancel my BAPP (which I’ve meant to do for about 12 months now !) will I be able to apply for the Starwoods Amex credit card (looking for the 30k Startwood Points for 90k Marriot points) straight away (couple of weeks lets say) and still expect to qualify for the 30k bonus ? Or will I have to wait at least 6 months from closing the BAPP ?

  I’ve held the BAPP for several years and had some good use from the 2-4-1s but now as I’m single (and the surcharges are huge & the numbers of Avios needed have increased) they are far less useful and thus so is the BAPP.

  Cheers.

  • Alan says:

    28 Jun28 June 22:21

    The 6/12 rule only applies for cards within the same family (MR, Avios, SPG, Nectar). There’s no minimum time period between families and indeed you can simultaneously hold cards from multiple families.

• James Wagner says:

  28 Jun28 June 20:08

  …..and that’s before even mentioning the £195 BAPP fee !

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