A new Qatar Airways flight discount code is launched

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• Lynn says:

  6 Feb6 February 06:17

  When using the Curve card for IHG hotel stays, the accelerate programme does not appear to recognise the purchase as spending on my IHG credit card. The purchases show as Curve purchases on the statement, does this mean they do not attract the same points compared to using my IHG credit?

  • Lee says:

    6 Feb6 February 06:21

    You will not get additional points just regular points as it is the same as any other payment.

  • The_real_a says:

    6 Feb6 February 07:01

    Creation sees the payment merchent as curve, and not the hotel so you dont recieve the bonus points as technically you are not using the carf at the hotel.

    • Liz says:

      6 Feb6 February 09:20

      Is this the same for foreign exchange charges if you use Curve. Will you only get 2pts on the Premium IHG card instead of 4.

      • JP says:

        6 Feb6 February 10:07

        Unless you change the card currency to be that of the country you are in. Ie adding the Post office or Halifax card as a euro card means no fees for using curve in Europe etc.

        However unless on expenses you will be getting less that 2% back in IHG points but they are probably charging close to 3% in foreign exchange fees.

      • Pangolin says:

        6 Feb6 February 13:50

        It’s only 2pts.

        IME the effective charge for use abroad is never above 1%, so if I’m earning points at around 1p or above it’s essentially free to use.

  • Mr dee says:

    6 Feb6 February 07:16

    Only standard ihg credit card points as your using Curve not the ihg card direct

  • RussellH says:

    6 Feb6 February 09:51

    I just got credited last week for spending on my IHG M’Card – only I have not spent anything at IHG this year. I have made three redemption bookings, which are guaranteed by my IHG card, but the stays are in April and May. The only actual payment on the card is a couple of months water bills.

    • JP says:

      6 Feb6 February 10:09

      I have had that with Hilton BC with redemptions before, just the guarantee was enough to get the extra 2500 for one of my first four bookings.

  • Alan says:

    6 Feb6 February 12:13

    Same as if you pay via PayPal, etc. – for any of these direct card benefits you have to pay on the card itself, not via Curve.

• Lee says:

  6 Feb6 February 06:19

  When I put the first few numbers of my curve card into a checker it comes back as a debit card and not aa a prepaid credit card. Although mine was an early one so doesn’t say debit on it. So not sure

  How long does it take to get a replacement card?

  • Andrew M says:

    6 Feb6 February 06:43

    Mine arrived in about 2 days.

• James says:

  6 Feb6 February 06:44

  The availability of a debit card version had completely passes me by !
  That will be more useful.
  I will switch over. Thanks for the heads-up.

  Are the points you recieve exactly the same value as the original credit card version ?

  • Rob says:

    6 Feb6 February 07:35

    You mean Curve Rewards? Seems so, yes, as long as they don’t switch you to the consumer version by mistake.

    • Genghis says:

      6 Feb6 February 07:39

      I now have the consumer debit card and still have Curve rewards (switched from the business pre-paid card).

• James says:

  6 Feb6 February 06:50

  Are there any really good biz prices on those Qatar routes mentioned which then attract the additional 15% off ?
  Thinking of sub £900 flights 😉

  • Polly says:

    6 Feb6 February 06:59

    No James. We all got to wait for their next sale! It’s % off base fares excluding apd tax prices. Still too high for us. We didnt even book in the Jan sale 1st time for ages.

  • jtz says:

    7 Feb7 February 16:00

    Just seen this on insideflyer: Europe to Asia-£990 return (Sofia-Shanghai), Helsinki to Krabi £1065
    https://insideflyer.co.uk/2018/02/cheap-qatar-business-class-europe-asia-990-return/

  • Polly says:

    8 Feb8 February 09:44

    And james, l saw secret flyer with fares from HEL to Pattaya on qatar for,999 euros.. worth a look.

    JTZ thanks will open it up now..x

• James says:

  6 Feb6 February 07:20

  Earning miles with Curve?? I thought those days were looong gone??

  • Genghis says:

    6 Feb6 February 07:33

    It never stopped. No Amex as underlying card though.

• Sergio says:

  6 Feb6 February 07:35

  O/T: If I book a flight+hotel using BA holidays to get the flight cheaper (I’m seing more than £1000 difference) do I need to checkin in the hotel? Can I just pick the cheapest thing and don’t show up there at all?

  Thanks in advance

  • John Munn says:

    6 Feb6 February 09:55

    yes

  • Peter K says:

    6 Feb6 February 10:26

    Should be okay to not stop at hotel.

  • @mkcol says:

    6 Feb6 February 12:34

    You’re fine to skip the hotel.

• Memesweeper says:

  6 Feb6 February 07:37

  +1 to Robs advice to use Curve everywhere to build up your history and risk profile with them.

  I use it most days, at home and abroad, they upped my limits six months ago and I’ve pushed £3k through HMRC self assessment recently on the new debit card.

  Holding this card just for big ticket tax payments is not going to work out well for you or them I don’t think.

  • John says:

    6 Feb6 February 09:20

    Yeah but I prefer to use Amex everywhere.

  • kt1974 says:

    6 Feb6 February 17:22

    What’s your definition of “use it most days”? I’ve had my Curve for well over a year now, and generally make small, but frequent purchases – a few £100s a month. My limits are still £2k/day, £5k/month, £10k/year, and haven’t increased. That doesn’t come remotely close to either my VAT or corporation tax bills, which historically I paid for by personal credit card… Has anyone had any joy asking Curve for credit limit increases? My various normal credit card companies fell over themselves to give me higher credit limits when I discovered I could pay my tax bill though them…

    • Rob says:

      6 Feb6 February 18:03

      Email them, they seem happy to increase limits if pushed as per other readers experience.

• Kevin says:

  6 Feb6 February 07:48

  Typo alert. I think you mean to say ‘referral code’ not ‘referral card’.

  • Rob says:

    6 Feb6 February 07:58

    Thanks

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