Bits: two good Avios / Tesco toy deals, Opodo discounts, HfP Dubai competition winner

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• Roger says:

  26 Jun26 June 07:20

  Some new Amex offers this morning.

  Eurostar
  TicketMaster
  Co-op Will (99+Vat)

• JamesB says:

  26 Jun26 June 07:53

  As always, check Tesco you pricing carefully. Just before this offer they were selling a £25 item I was looking at for half price. It is now back to full price.

• Geoggy says:

  26 Jun26 June 08:09

  Congrats to Aileen!

  As the original winner I am glad it’s going to be out to some use.

  • Geoggy says:

    26 Jun26 June 08:09

    put

    • Memesweeper says:

      26 Jun26 June 13:26

      And well done you for handing it back

• Gareth says:

  26 Jun26 June 08:20

  Hotel related- just about to book 4 nights at Hilton Malta, diamond honours member so want to book direct. Signed up for the avios and diamond triple points offers recently seen on here. Any other scheme or discount I should be considering? Thanks

  • JamesB says:

    26 Jun26 June 09:30

    You would get 500 points for booking via the app but with a four night stay it is worth risking those 500 points for a bigger return via one of the online shopping portals of your choice. I say risk because there are mixed reports on here as to the success of the various portals. Befire booking any Hilton online now I always call the hotel direct to enquure if they have any cheaper inhouse offers, if they do then you still get the points so long as they process it as a Hilton reservation.

    • Gareth says:

      26 Jun26 June 09:33

      Brilliant will try that. Didn’t actually think of the shopping portals. Cheers

      • JamesB says:

        26 Jun26 June 09:53

        If you really want to go the extra mile you could take out a new credit card just to book the hotel. I recently did just that to collect a stash of miles on a £1000 hotel bill. Don’t forget to sign in to your account and check your offers page before booking, sometines there can be obscure niche offers you can apply. Some people have also reported receiving unique personal offers although I have never received such myself.

      • Doug says:

        26 Jun26 June 11:33

        Shopping portals are a risk. Hotel com through Avios say you will getting a lower reward if you use hotel com rewards too, but are not specific. For me the Avios usually track, but you don’t get the Avios until 90 to 120 days after the stay, and I’m finding that the posting of the Avios from the previous pending state is unreliable, and further more, the amount of Avios can change at any time. I’ve been a big fan of hotel com for some time, but find I’m looking closer at HHonours.

  • Jonny says:

    26 Jun26 June 14:43

    I stayed there last October and (as a Diamond) received a fantastic upgrade from a standard sea view room to a corner suite – perfect with 2 kids.
    FYI for some reason it was cheaper splitting my booking into 2 reservations (covering consecutive dates) and then asking the hotel to combine

    • Gareth says:

      26 Jun26 June 16:42

      That’s promising, it will be our first visit.

  • Andrew says:

    26 Jun26 June 19:47

    If you stay regularly at a Hilton, keep your eye on the Bank of Scotland or Halfax apps. There is nearly always an offer if you pay using a BoS or HfX credit or debit card.

    At the moment, there’s just the two offers on mine for Hilton UK & Ireland and Waldorf/Conrad Hotels but they change frequently.

• Liz says:

  26 Jun26 June 09:00

  There is also on offer of up to 1500 on some Samsung tablets till 28/6

  • JamesB says:

    26 Jun26 June 09:38

    I’ve been using a Tab S since it first came out, never had a single problem and android upgrages regularly three years on. I like it much better than my partners ipad so if anybody is tempted and these are good offers at tesco then they could be worth going for. All samsung devices come with a two year waranty to best of my knowledge, and if any problems you can just take them into a Samsung store.

    • Liz says:

      26 Jun26 June 09:52

      My hubby has had his Samsung tablet for a few years but I love my Aye Pad!

      • JamesB says:

        26 Jun26 June 09:58

        Having both in the household doesn’t do any harm as sometimes one works and the other doesn’t…the tablets I mean!

• rams1981 says:

  26 Jun26 June 11:24

  OT after cancelling my HSBC credit card I’ve got 30 days to transfer out the points. Any idea if they’ll have their bonus for transfer to BA again any time soon?

  • Rob says:

    26 Jun26 June 12:53

    It is usually November when they run one. I was told last year it wouldn’t happen again after 2016 but you never know.

• Adam says:

  26 Jun26 June 11:30

  OT – Is it possible to earn Diamond through spend on the Hilton Visa card? I have just got the card and points appearing on my account as a Bonus?

  • Alan says:

    26 Jun26 June 11:32

    Sadly not in the UK (you can in the USA) – you get Gold after £10k spend, but that’s handled by Barclaycard contacting Hilton; as you say the points themselves only post as bonus points (as opposed to IHG where they count as base points and can earn you status).

  • Rob says:

    26 Jun26 June 12:52

    No. You can earn top tier IHG status via card spend, because card spend points count for status, but this doesn’t work for Hilton.

• CC says:

  26 Jun26 June 12:03

  Its Sales not sale for the Opodo offer btw:

  SALES45
  SALES110

  I copied from article and had a sweary rage at the computer screen before double checking on their webiste 🙂

  • Rob says:

    26 Jun26 June 12:43

    Grief, they sent me some rubbish last week then – I was also told it was £600 and not £800 …. Sorry.

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