Good Groupon deal on the Emirates flight simulator in North Greenwich

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• Will says:

  12 Jan12 January 07:46

  Brilliant! I’ve been waiting for a good flight sim deal since they stopped doing them at Westfield WC.

  • JamesB says:

    12 Jan12 January 10:04

    At the same web site you will find several simulator deals at the moment including an F16 if interested.

• Concerto says:

  12 Jan12 January 08:03

  Do NOT waste your time with those M&M car rental promotions, they almost never post, or not without an immense amount of follow up. I am a long time user of Miles & More and this is the thing that annoys me the most about that FFP. For decent car rental deals I use rentalcars.com and the savings I make there far outweigh the value of any miles you “might” get from these false promotions. If I count the time I’ve wasted on those M&M promotions in actual money, I really prefer not to think about it.

  • xcalx says:

    12 Jan12 January 09:47

    Totally agree. I gave up chasing points via car rentals years ago . The last straw was a 21 day rental with the promise of 500 continental miles per day. Months of follow ups and nothing. I now use skyscanner to search rentals.

• Jake says:

  12 Jan12 January 08:19

  Has anyone been to the emirates flight simulator?

  Been wanting to try it.

  By the way where did Anika do her experience? Cant wait until next week!

  • JamesB says:

    12 Jan12 January 10:12

    I’ve taken three differeng sets of visitors there and they all enjoyed it despite it being a static simulator. It was a first time experience for all of them. I also took them across the river on the cable car which was much enjoyed too as it was a clear blue sky with excellent visibility every time.

    • RussellH says:

      12 Jan12 January 11:56

      100% agree re the cable car (always assuming the weather is good). Did it a few years ago free as part of a prize my partner got to see Dolly Parton in a private suite at the o2. Free night at the CP on the north bank (which still netted her some 5000 IHG points), transfer to the o2 by cable car.

      So good we decided to pay for the cable car again the next morning.

• W says:

  12 Jan12 January 09:08

  I could need some help. Trying to book a flight from LHR to SFO at the end of the month with BA, slight preference for the A380. There is reward availability in economy, but not in premium or business. What are the chances that something still opens up, and is the best option booking economy now and changing the booking down the line? I’d only need a one-way flight, hence a slight preference for a reward booking, but could also just book a return cash and pre-date the return flight for late in the year.

  Thanks, W

  • Matt says:

    12 Jan12 January 09:33

    No-one can predict that, unfortunately. Depends on how you value the avios + taxes/fees etc vs the cost of a return economy ticket. If the cash economy ticket books into a class other than Q, O or G then you would be able to upgrade it to WTP if avios availability opened up, but not into Club World.

  • Alex says:

    12 Jan12 January 10:45

    I’ve got a different question, but same route, I’m flying J to SFO from LHR (747 for me, upper deck :-). It turns out that I would like to fly up to YVR as soon as I land to visit a friend up there. There’s no AA direct flights, only DL and AC, so I can’t call to just extend my booking with a OW partner. Any way I can be guaranteed to get a flight in case of missed connection? (Amex Plat. coverage?)

    • Lady London says:

      12 Jan12 January 11:27

      You can use your BA miles on Alaskan. You have to phone to book. Alaskan fares can be quite high close in so this could be a good use of miles. Lowest cost on North American routes is now 7500 Avios. Leave enough time for your incoming flight to be late as I’m unsure if BA can add to same ticket to protect you even if loads of airlines including IB put their own flight numbers on Alaskan flights as codeshare.

      I also think I saw somewhere that Alaskan will let you on an earlier flight same day subject to space – could be worth checking.

  • Charlie says:

    12 Jan12 January 16:37

    Have you tried Oakland? I remember seeing plenty of availability for Oakland last year. However it is an older aircraft which I thought was a bit shabby (e.g. partition did not go up in my seat).

• Lottietiger says:

  12 Jan12 January 09:15

  OT looking for some advice please. I don’t have any BA status at the moment and my year end is April. After April I have enough flights booked to get me to silver in the following TP year. Is it worth me getting to bronze before my tier year ends in April, I need 1 more flight, or does it not make a difference. I’m pretty new to this sorry!

  • Matt says:

    12 Jan12 January 09:30

    It doesn’t make much of a difference – you would get Bronze benefits for the flights you’re taking in your next year before you hit Bronze then, so 25% avios bonus and seat selection 7 days in advance. It doesn’t have any effect at all on how quickly you reach Silver.

    • Lottietiger says:

      12 Jan12 January 09:37

      Thanks. I guess it’s worth it if I can get a cheap flight as I will not reach silver until October and I’ll get 25% extra avios on my flights prior to then.

  • Lumma says:

    12 Jan12 January 09:35

    Would depend on how you’re getting the tier points to get silver in your next year, 7 day seat selection could be handy if lots of your flights are on BA before you would get bronze anyway. If you’re getting 560 tier points from say a Qatar return to Asia, then getting bronze this year is probably not worth the time and money

• rotundo says:

  12 Jan12 January 10:28

  FYI – double points at Shell until 14th February, so 4 avios per litre of V-Power and 2 avios per litre otherwise

  • Rob says:

    12 Jan12 January 11:20

    Thanks.

  • Lady London says:

    12 Jan12 January 11:35

    Pretty sure Shell promos are targeted. You’d get an email for the promotion if you registered your Shell points collection card.

    If you are mostly a low value Shell purchaser beware. After longstanding history of getting promotions of extra points for fillups in £10-15 range due to mostly filling up my motorbike for around £10 I just once hired a van and filled it with fuel for around £45. After that every promotion I received wanted £40-45 spend. That much fuel physically won’t fit into my motorbike. It’s taken more than a year for my promotions to go back as far as wanting £25 or so after that one big fill.

    • Lev441 says:

      12 Jan12 January 13:31

      This current promo is open to all.

      Count yourself lucky to be targeted, I haven’t had any driving club offers for fill ups in almost a year!

      • Stu N says:

        12 Jan12 January 22:59

        I’ve had loads of offers, enough to habitually refresh the App
        before heading to the local Shell station as there is usually something sitting there. My fuel buying follows my use of the car which has no discernible pattern, even to me.

        Occasionally buy 70l twice a week, other times I buy 20-30l a couple of times a month. Buy VPower anyway so the points are a nice bonus.

• James says:

  12 Jan12 January 10:49

  OT – I have already booked and paid for my room at Mercure hotel southampton. If when I am there I book a breakfast and a dinner and pay separately but have it all charged to the room will that still earn me status points and rewards points? I know in other hotels the answer would be yes, but I need the extra status points and the last thing I want to do is eat there breakfast and dinner and not receive them! employer paid for the room hence me doing it separate.

• Gavin says:

  12 Jan12 January 11:42

  off topic – any views on the Doubletree Bristol, am Hilton Gold.

  • Alex W says:

    12 Jan12 January 13:42

    Pretty good I think. Stayed there a couple of times, no lounge but good breakfast. Upgraded but not to a suite. Got free parking too which saved £15 I think. Am diamond though, not sure if gold would get it but worth asking.

    • Alex W says:

      12 Jan12 January 13:44

      NB this was the one in the city centre. I haven’t tried Bristol north.

      • Gavin says:

        12 Jan12 January 21:21

        Thanks – I’m most interested in the parking, it is the central one I meant!

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