50% bonus on Heathrow Rewards transfers to Miles & More – sign-up promo worth 4,500 miles

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• Paul says:

  1 Aug1 August 07:27

  Whilst the offer may be generous you do need to consider how expensive goods and services are at Heathrow. I have noticed a huge increase in the price of some brands of alcohol for example and it is often cheaper to buy from Tesco!
  An example from yesterday is Baron Otard Cognac. 1 litre at LHR is £60.99. Amazon grocery will sell you 70cl bottle at an equivalent price of £45 a litre and send it to you home for free!
  Rip of charges for parking and in particular the outrageous cost to pick someone up at T5 also adds to the feeling that rip off LHR has moved to a whole new level.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    1 Aug1 August 08:15

    £50 gift card from WH Smith is still worth £50 though 😉

    • Rob says:

      1 Aug1 August 09:39

      Duty Free from World Duty Free has always been a bad deal. On the other hand, one benefit of filling T5 with designer shops is that these places rarely discount outside sales – and the sales are just for seasonal stuff – so you do save.

    • Andrew says:

      1 Aug1 August 10:00

      As long as it wasn’t a £50 WH Smith Gift Card from WH Smith. It would be expired before I found anything worth buying!

      The eye-opener for me at Heathrow and other Airports is the humble Toblerone. A 150g Toblerone is £1 in stores like Poundland, Poundworld and B&M (albeit perhaps not the typical preferred retailer for the HfP reader) – that’s 66p per 100g.

      A 360g bar at WDF is £4 or 111p per 100g

      Even the three x 360g for £10 offer works out at 92p per 100g

      • AVM says:

        1 Aug1 August 10:23

        How about 150£ Waitrose/John Lewis or Boots gift card? Or any other gift card they sell over there?

      • Rob says:

        1 Aug1 August 12:36

        There is no duty on Toblerone of course, only VAT!

        • the real harry1 says:

          1 Aug1 August 15:47

          play the other one 🙂

          duty free is normally taken to mean VAT- & tariff-free, not that it means anything in EU anyway

      • Anna says:

        1 Aug1 August 15:40

        Poundworld is awesome – a bargain is a bargain, whether it’s a £1 Toblerone or CW for the price of WT!

  • john says:

    1 Aug1 August 09:52

    Jo Malone candles are cheaper. Their standard 200g are £44 on high street, £34.95 at T5 (even if flying to Europe). Significantly cheaper, particularly when you are buying 8 for wedding gifts! I’d recommend the Heathrow Shopping reservation service also.

    • john says:

      1 Aug1 August 10:06

      Although one bridesmaid had hers taken away by security from hand luggage at LHR T2 on her way back to the states! Somewhat ironic since it was originally bought airside at LHR and it left Italy fine in hand luggage!

      • AIcatti says:

        1 Aug1 August 19:12

        Another lesson about connecting at Heathrow..

  • D says:

    1 Aug1 August 17:29

    Two hours free parking at long stay T5 to collect people if that helps. They just take the free bus to the car park.

• Rob says:

  1 Aug1 August 18:10

  Good spot.

• Simon says:

  4 Aug4 August 12:25

  Supposing 🙂 you have 3 x Heathrow Rewards accounts already — one of which has already sent points to a Miles & More account in the past — would you still be able to open a new HR account [using a different email account BUT having to use the same given and surnames], take advantage of the above 3,000 point offer, and then make a transfer to M&M? My hunch is no, but would enjoy being contradicted. 🙂

  On a separate tack, the Rocketmiles/Heathrow Rewards tie-up may prove useful here if you can get quick stay in, especially as M&M miles seem harder to come by in the UK. Just a thought.

  • Rob says:

    4 Aug4 August 12:44

    M&M is offering 5000 miles for first-time users of its hotel booking site again. We are staying on this deal tomorrow (non chain hotel so no benefits lost) – 2 rooms, 1 in each name, so 10k between us.

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