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I have been sent, under embargo, some big news about changes to one of the major hotel loyalty schemes.

It isn’t the end of the world, by any means, but if you pop back after 1.01pm today (Monday) you will discover some changes to one of the major programmes.  And, for many of you, you won’t like them much, although it isn’t all bad news.

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  • John says:
    8 Jan8 January 12:49

    New York time 8am? Ummm which hotels’s headquarter is in NYC ?

  • adey says:
    8 Jan8 January 13:02

    Apparently not (13:02)

  • Huan Li says:
    8 Jan8 January 13:02

    1.02 now

  • Mr(s) Entitled says:
    8 Jan8 January 13:03

    It’s 1:02!

  • Pedantic says:
    8 Jan8 January 13:05

    1305

    • Rob says:
      8 Jan8 January 14:57

      Following our IT revamp we have aggressive cacheing in place. Most of what you see is not now served from our servers but is stored either in your browser or with Cloudflare. This means that changes to, say, the home page do not appear even though you click refresh as you are served a cached version.

  • Sergey says:
    8 Jan8 January 13:17

    16 min late

    • Rob says:
      8 Jan8 January 14:53

      You are, or the news was? Your PC had probably cached the home page if you didn’t see it at 1.01!

  • Andrew says:
    8 Jan8 January 20:25

    Rob, Just back from Sainsbury.

    They have signs up on their Gift Card section offering 20% off Uber Gift Cards.

    • Rob says:
      8 Jan8 January 23:17

      Thanks. Someone mentioned that recently but it wasn’t in either of the Locals near us.

      • Gavin says:
        9 Jan9 January 08:59

        I’ve seen it at a few Sainsburys (larger stores).They had plenty of cards in stock.

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