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• mark2 says:

  5 Dec5 December 06:43

  I renewed my subscription to the Economist at end Oct under the previous identical offer and the Avios arrived before the first newspaper i.e. one week.
  I believe that It was the Iberia deal which took a long time to post the Avios.

  • Carl says:

    5 Dec5 December 08:44

    I can echo this. The Avios from this deal posted very quickly last time round. The Iberia deal the previous year took a while but still posted eventually without any follow up.

  • Clive says:

    5 Dec5 December 09:50

    It was also an avios.com version of the offer where they took months to post – not just an Iberia one. Glad to hear they are posting promptly now.

• JamesB says:

  5 Dec5 December 06:49

  For many of us in the UK the economist avios deal is somewhat redundant unless we want to have a print version. Many of our local libraries now offer their readers free online access to a range of ebooks, magazines, newspapers and audio books for free using RBdirect and Overdrive. The titles available often include the economist so if this option is open to readers they could then divert the £179 to buying avios or whatever at a lower price. Readers who are interested should search their own local authority library pages for details of what is available in their areas, many might be pleasantly surprised by what they find.

  • Lumma says:

    5 Dec5 December 07:48

    I’m also constantly offered cheap subscription deals to the economist, due to having taken out a free trial subscription once with them.

    Usually the offer is £1 a week for 12 weeks, so unless you can make it a tax deductible purchase, there are cheaper ways to get the magazine without the avios

• PlaneSimple says:

  5 Dec5 December 06:53

  I hate to comment on this Rob but having lived there… where did that image of Royal Brunei come from? It’s the old paint scheme which has never been on the new 787 pictured.
  Sorry!

  • Rob says:

    5 Dec5 December 07:44

    Official image!

    • PlaneSimple says:

      6 Dec6 December 23:04

      I assumed so! Face palm!

• rogue says:

  5 Dec5 December 07:12

  I need 1 stay at an IHG hotel to complete the accelerate promo, does anyone know if a qualifying stay has to be checked in to or would just booking a night and not showing to the hotel/not checking in also qualify?

  • TripRep says:

    5 Dec5 December 07:16

    Seriously doubt that a no show would qualify..

  • JamesB says:

    5 Dec5 December 07:19

    You need to physically check in but you do not need to stay. However, don’t check out early, leave the keys in the room and do express checkout next morning.

    • Genghis says:

      5 Dec5 December 07:47

      Is protocol to ruffle the sheets and run the shower though? 🙂

      • Rob says:

        5 Dec5 December 07:49

        It is for me! At least the room cleaner gets paid that way.

        PS. Had to drop my daughter at school at 7am today for netball, as that is the only time (in Central London) they can get access to a court – at Imperial College in this case. Total madness, hence why I am banging out comments before 8!

      • JamesB says:

        5 Dec5 December 10:15

        One of the times I was in Russia I checked into a hotel I was not using but I left a couple of large bags with clothes and work things there. When I went back four days later it was gone and I had a huge problem getting it back. When I did everything was there but it was all messed up, somebody had obviously been through it. With hindsight it might have been better to ruffle up the bed, run the shower and turn up briefly each day, unless it wasn’t the housekeeping that was the problem.

      • Alex W says:

        5 Dec5 December 13:53

        And what an excellent choice of university 🙂

      • JamesB says:

        5 Dec5 December 16:09

        Are you working at IC Alex?

  • Graham Walsh says:

    5 Dec5 December 08:03

    Don’t forget the toiletries if they are able to be taken 🙂

    • Rob says:

      5 Dec5 December 10:03

      Unlikely as this will presumably be a HIX run. You can take the teabags though 🙂

  • johnny_c-l says:

    5 Dec5 December 08:30

    YMMV but of the two no-shows I’ve had with IHG, both posted as qualifying for room credit and accelerate.

    If I was relying on the stay counting for an accelerate target then I’d certainly check in, as you wouldn’t have an argument in case it wound up not counting.

  • Melvin says:

    5 Dec5 December 08:37

    Did my first ever mattress run on Friday night at a Holiday Inn. I washed my hands, made a cup of tea and ruffled the bed. Left the room key on the side and the points started to post on Sunday.

    Cost £32 which should bag me 14,500 points through a combination of Accelerate plus a personal offer I received to “Return with 10,000 Bonus Points”.

  • Julie says:

    5 Dec5 December 09:30

    And of course YOU don’t have to do the check in-Just add a second guest who can check in for you….

    • Nick Burch says:

      5 Dec5 December 10:30

      Unless you’re in Spain or somewhere like that! IIRC Rob booked a mattress run there in his mum’s name with him as a second guest, and almost came unstuck…

• Anna says:

  5 Dec5 December 07:48

  OT – does anyone think it’s likely that Tesco will run another bonus Clubcard points on Experience Days soon? I’m coming to the end of all the vouchers I bought last time for meals, hotel stays and pamper days!

• Philip White says:

  5 Dec5 December 09:07

  My current Economist subscription runs until the 5th of Feb. Do we know whether they will “back-to-back” a subscription taken early or will they run it in parallel to the existing subscription.
  If the latter I’ll wait until later in Jan to subscribe through this means, otherwise I’ll get it out the way now.

  • EwanG says:

    5 Dec5 December 09:29

    From personal experience they will set up the new subscription to commence with the next available issue so if you were to subscribe now there would be a definite overlap and to try to sort that out will be more trouble than it’s worth (their customer service seems unable to use common sense and follow through on promises). You can defer a subscription although they need 2 weeks notice to do so and I wouldn’t trust them to set it up correctly.

    If I were you I would diarise to take up the offer around 22 Jan.

    • Philip White says:

      5 Dec5 December 14:17

      Thanks Ewan, much appreciated.

• Nick M says:

  5 Dec5 December 10:29

  OT – is it possible to combine IHG accounts?

  I apparently have an old one with 1000 points that are due to expire in January – if I can transfer them into my newer account that’d be great!

  • JohnNI says:

    5 Dec5 December 13:46

    It has disappeared from my BAPP card and also the suplemenrty card. I spoke to Amex and a very helpful lady checked and said even though it’s not showing the cards are still registered for shop small, she went onto say that if a shop is showing on the map but does not take Amex to call and they will credit the £5.

• Nick M says:

  5 Dec5 December 10:33

  OT – Shop Small

  Has anyone else been receiving fewer email confirmations for Shop Small purchases – I have only received 3/8 so far. In previous years, it was just the occasional one that seemed to miss…

  • Toby says:

    5 Dec5 December 12:10

    Only received 1 email out of 11 transactions.
    Chased up just now and AmEx saying:
    “There was an internal update received today about Shop Small credits. As per the update, the credit will take approximately 5-7 days to be issued from the date of transaction.”

    Will be interesting to see what credits appear!

  • David says:

    5 Dec5 December 12:39

    The shop small offer appears to have disappeared from my online account too (on all four cards). I think their IT may be having some issues!

    • Tom says:

      5 Dec5 December 12:49

      It’s vanished from my Plat card but is still showing on my BAPP. Odd.

      • Liz says:

        5 Dec5 December 20:49

        It has disappeared from all my SPG and BAPP cards – 7 in total.

  • Liz says:

    5 Dec5 December 17:18

    I did 30 transactions yesterday and only got 11 emails. I did 11 transactions in one shop and got 7 emails – and all 11 cards are registered so not sure what is going on. Fingers crossed they all credit ok.

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