Bits: IHG Advent game, Priority Pass deal extended, new IHG luxury booking scheme

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• imbruce says:

  30 Nov30 November 12:33

  Does Priority Pass and hotel benefits come with the Amex Platinum Supplementary card?

  • the real harry1 says:

    30 Nov30 November 12:51

    yes

    • imbruce says:

      30 Nov30 November 13:04

      thanks @the real harry1

  • Rob says:

    30 Nov30 November 13:37

    Yes

• Stevie G says:

  30 Nov30 November 13:30

  OT. Remember recently there was a spate of refusals for Amex cards. I was one of those who got turned down for an SPG card despite having a 999 rating. It turns out there was a glitch in the acceptance system for a ‘number of days’. They are working through a backlog and they reprocessed my application and sure enough was accepted first time.

  • Cate says:

    30 Nov30 November 14:37

    That IS good news. Thanks Stevie G.

  • johnny_c-l says:

    30 Nov30 November 16:34

    I think they’re still having some system issues. I upgraded to Plat last week and found three cards & priority passes delivered to my home yesterday, two in the name of old canceled supplementary cardholders.

  • ankomonkey says:

    30 Nov30 November 17:50

    Did you need to ask them to reprocess/reconsider, or did they just do it? My wife was rejected for first time ever and I’d quite like her to have the Platinum card right now.

    • johnny_c-l says:

      30 Nov30 November 20:35

      Can’t speak on behalf of others, but I rang and the agent escalated to a manager for review. Card arrived a few days later with large(ish) credit limit.

      • ankomonkey says:

        1 Dec1 December 17:33

        Thanks!

    • Stevie G says:

      30 Nov30 November 22:04

      I wrote a letter to Amex about the non acceptance as my credit report showed zero issue. As I had not had a response I called the Platinum number and this is what they told me. They were going through a backlog of acceptance issues. Whilst we talked and without requesting it they run my application through the (fixed) system and said I was now accepted. Card would be with me in 5 days max.

      • ankomonkey says:

        1 Dec1 December 17:32

        Thanks!

• Rob says:

  30 Nov30 November 13:38

  Yes, covered it

• Ammar says:

  30 Nov30 November 15:37

  Have i missed a recent Virgin 20% Bonus Conversion with Clubcard vouchers?

  • the real harry1 says:

    30 Nov30 November 15:42

    last day today I think

    • the real harry1 says:

      30 Nov30 November 15:45

      https://headforpoints.com/2017/11/08/should-you-use-tesco-clubcard-points-for-air-miles/

      you’ve got a couple of weeks yet

• Andrew_A says:

  30 Nov30 November 15:51

  IHG related.
  I have 2 nights (Thurs / Fri ) booked in the IC Hong Kong next June using points. Can anyone who has stayed here advise on the type of room, views etc that I can expect? My AMB status will have expired by then and I am not sure if i am going to renew it before I go so no upgrade. Also, as the breakfast appears to be around £30-£35 per head, I am thinking I may be better trying to re-book through Bon Vivant if free breakfast, late check out is available.

  • Rob says:

    30 Nov30 November 16:16

    They do not change your view, so your street side view will remain street side. If you want harbour view then you need to pay for it.

    Given the crazy construction around the hotel on both sides – not sure what state that will be in by June – and the fact that the hotel is about to close for 18 months and is presumably running down with minimal day to day capex, I would keep a close eye on reviews and be prepared to move if necessary.

    • Andrew_A says:

      30 Nov30 November 16:23

      Thanks for the heads up, I will look at my options.

• the real harry1 says:

  30 Nov30 November 16:03

  Missing Vinoseleccion orders: I gave them a ring as my wife got her order last week but nothing so far for me

  they looked it up and in their system they had the order but had not sent the order nor was it waiting to be sent (even though they have some stock there now)!

  so Anna will get it to me by Monday/ Tuesday with the 240 Avios – but they weren’t going to action anything without my prompt

  I can only think that when they ran out of stock, they put the orders on hold – but when the stock came back in, some orders fell through the gaps

  if you haven’t received your order yet, you might want to give them a ring

  • mark2 says:

    30 Nov30 November 18:30

    Mine suddenly turned up yesterday with just a text from the courier.
    Not too impressed with the wine, but no pretensions of expertise.

• the real harry1 says:

  30 Nov30 November 20:31

  GBP-USD up another cent guys – $1.35 – https://www.dailyfx.com/gbp-usd

  it’s happening 🙂

  international travellers please take note

  • the real harry1 says:

    30 Nov30 November 20:39

    $1.39 by Xmas, $1.45 not too long after that

    or I’m a Dutchman

    should go up vs EUR as well, so there might be an opp where they priced one of the various buy Avios promotions in old currency – then we get a 5% blip and you can get them more cheaply

    • mark2 says:

      30 Nov30 November 20:49

      We are going to Boston in Oct 18 so it will go down before then.
      All we need is a big Corbyn lead in the polls and it will be down to £1=$1 or less

      • the real harry1 says:

        30 Nov30 November 21:02

        you can always fix/ buy currency now if you believe that 🙂

    • mark2 says:

      30 Nov30 November 20:51

      Aren’t you legally required to put ‘Despite Brexit’ in front of all good news?

      • AndyGWP says:

        1 Dec1 December 08:52

        Wasn’t it over $1.6 before brexit??

      • the real harry1 says:

        1 Dec1 December 17:59

        not in 2016 http://gbp.exchangeconversions.com/usd/charts (5 yr chart)

        more like $1.50

        had been $1.70 as recently as 2014

• Cate says:

  30 Nov30 November 20:39

  Just for info, canx my platinum card and was offered three points for every pound I put through the card for keeping it alive. Said no thanks at the time but now wondering if I’ve shot myself in the foot.

  • the real harry1 says:

    30 Nov30 November 20:41

    depends how much you put thru

    getting the welcome bonus on another card can be much better

    • Cate says:

      30 Nov30 November 20:49

      I could put the money through and beat the 30,000 welcome bonus. I was expecting him to talk about the 5k bonus so got off track when he mentioned it. Groan…I always miss something.

      • the real harry1 says:

        30 Nov30 November 20:54

        these Amex CS guys are pleasant & flexible – you could always ring back & say you would like the offer after all – might work

        OTOH if you are anything like my wife (who just got a brand new shiny Audi co car today!) you won’t like that agony of having to choose again after all 🙂

        just make it easy and take out 2/ 2+ new cards over the next 3 months for the same spend

        then it’s pretty obvious

  • Cate says:

    30 Nov30 November 21:24

    Thank you Harry and congrats to Mrs Harry on the new wheels 🙂

    • the real harry1 says:

      30 Nov30 November 21:42

      thanks! can’t wait to give it a go

      O/T I did a confidential research online study thingy with SomeResearch etc today to earn 250 Welcome Avios & it was all about the cards/ apps like Curve that combine all your other cards into 1 app or physical card

      sounds like there are many of them coming up – I think 16 were mentioned – most were mainstream names – Curve did not figure

      • the real harry1 says:

        30 Nov30 November 21:55

        eg Masterpass

        Sign up once.
        Bypass checkout forms forever.*
        1.)Confirm your identity, choose a password, and set up a security question only you know.
        2.)Tell us where you’d like your purchases sent.
        3.)Add your credit, debit, reloadable prepaid, and store cards along with your loyalty information.
        *Wherever Masterpass is accepted.
        https://masterpass.com/#en-uk/

        sounds like they’re all at it, not sure BUD will have a unique or winning angle

  • the_real_a says:

    30 Nov30 November 23:11

    THREE points… bloody hell i need to up my game with retentions!

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