Here are some hotels where you can redeem your points for suites

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• Graham Walsh says:

  29 Jan29 January 10:40

  OT, I’ve upgraded from BA Blue to BAPP (via a new application online as chat couldn’t upgrade me, they said call up or do a new application). Logged in this morning and card now showing black with a new number. I think my existing blue card can still be used and will go against my BAPP now?

  • Graham Walsh says:

    29 Jan29 January 12:59

    Answered my own question. Used it for TFL and the pre authorised 10p is on my BAPP.

• Grimz says:

  29 Jan29 January 11:43

  OT Is the platinum bonus upgrade from Gold still available? If yes, has anyone got the link?

  Thanks in advance

  • Grimz says:

    29 Jan29 January 14:45

    Thanks MarkH

• Leo says:

  29 Jan29 January 11:56

  OT: Just tried to pay VAT with debit curve – wouldn’t allow it. Back to the drawing board then.

  • Rob says:

    29 Jan29 January 12:22

    Try £200 as a test. No reason why it shouldn’t work.

    • Alex says:

      29 Jan29 January 12:55

      several £ 200 payments were accepted; tried to pay £300 – payment declined…

      • Leo says:

        29 Jan29 January 12:56

        Was that VAT?

      • Alex says:

        29 Jan29 January 12:57

        …should have said that it was income tax payment, not VAT (probably does not matter anyway).

        • Rob says:

          29 Jan29 January 13:11

          You have a personal risk profile with Curve. Oddly a reader just emailed and said that he’d been OK getting £2k through (the daily Curve limit) which also makes me think it is partly down to who issues the underlying card and how they see large Curve transactions when they first turn up.

      • Leo says:

        29 Jan29 January 13:15

        I was going to ask that – because the Creation/IHG has a bit of a flaky 3D verification process. I could try the Virgin visa I suppose.

    • Leo says:

      29 Jan29 January 12:56

      Tried twice.

    • Leo says:

      29 Jan29 January 13:52

      Ok £200 went through ok. £500 did not. How may £200 payments can I make? Only ever made two payments maximum per tax.

• Louise says:

  29 Jan29 January 12:54

  OT: Lego City 1000 Clubcard points just started

• MarkH says:

  29 Jan29 January 13:29

  OT but hotel related – which hotel scheme is it that allows you to book reward nights without having the required number of points?

  I’ve read about it on here but before can’t remember which one it was…

  • New Card says:

    29 Jan29 January 13:30

    Marriott

    • MarkH says:

      29 Jan29 January 13:32

      thanks!

• wally1976 says:

  29 Jan29 January 14:27

  OT – I read a comment on here a week or so back saying someone thought that Avios.com were adding the option of booking one-way flights using the Lloyds voucher on the website rather than having to phone.

  I’ve been trying to do this today and have found that if you click “Use This” under your voucher and proceed to try and make a one-way booking it fails with a “Page Not Found” error. However, if you then go to the “How to spend” menu and click “Search for flights” as if doing a booking without the voucher it will proceed on the basis of using the voucher. I haven’t actually completed a booking but it looks like (via this circuitous route) you can now book one-ways online with the voucher :-).

  Incidentally I used the online chat and the agent was insistent that it is not possible to book one-ways using the voucher on the website. I asked why there was a tickbox for it and they said they’d feedback to the team. Waste of time (probably)!

  • Anna says:

    29 Jan29 January 16:51

    I had this conversation with them last week! They said their IT department was still trying to sort it out. If anyone manages to make the full booking, let us know!

    • wally1976 says:

      29 Jan29 January 16:52

      I’m waiting on availability to (hopefully) pop up for the date I want! Dummy booking was on an alternative date.

  • s***o says:

    30 Jan30 January 09:23

    I did this yesterday! (worked perfectly!)
    However I did use for quite the worst value ever LHR-AMS off peak and only saved 7,500 avios!
    But in my defense had 1 day to use the voucher before it expired!

    • wally1976 says:

      30 Jan30 January 14:55

      We don’t currently fly long haul so not getting the best value out of these vouchers either. Mind you, we have used a couple for Paphos which is almost the longest short haul you can get! Just difficult to find 4 x CE seats in the school hols.

• 304 says:

  29 Jan29 January 15:29

  O/T: Does the gold card deactivate once the gold to plat upgrade goes through or can I continue to use the gold card online/offline to work towards the spending bonus? Asking as will be traveling and won’t be able to get my hands on plat card but would like to start spending asap.

  • Louise says:

    29 Jan29 January 15:49

    No stays valid

• Brian says:

  29 Jan29 January 17:13

  Points breaks can now be booked…

  • Brian says:

    29 Jan29 January 17:31

    And there are some decent options. HIX Wandsworth and Hammersmith for 15,000 points – that really IS London! Plus Holiday Inn Nice!!

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