News: Big Avios / Kaligo promo tomorrow, the bizarre Priority Pass vending machine at City

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• Julian says:

  1 Mar1 March 07:14

  Presumably someone somewhere decided that because London City has a higher percentage of Business passengers or otherwise sophisticated singles or couples than almost any other airport this made it a good place to trial a dedicated Priority Pass machine, in spite of the lack of a Business Class lounge for regular scheduled (i.e. non private jet) passengers) at that airport.

  Or was the idea perhaps that as London City has no business lounge itself this would make those passengers keener to sample the novelty of business lounges at the return airport on their way home. Also the other logical point is that as London City has no business lounge of its own then perhaps many of its customers have worked out there is no point in buying a Business Class return ticket but feel it is worth having a way of access the Business lounge at the return airport without often having to shell out more than the total cost of the annual unlimited use Priority Pass to buy a Business Class ticket…………….

  Also At most other airports the majority of passengers will have no idea what a Business lounge actually is and nor would regular users of those lounges welcome access being marketed to the parents of loud and leery passengers with badly behaved children who would normally through ignorance happily remain in the Cattle Class lounge.

• Mike says:

  1 Mar1 March 07:23

  Am I the only one that got all excited there and thought that they might have installed a vending machine that accepts priority pass rather than one that sells them?

  • ebungle says:

    1 Mar1 March 07:51

    LOL, I didn’t, but I like the way you are thinking.

  • Jordan D says:

    1 Mar1 March 09:03

    I thought the very same!

  • Alex W says:

    1 Mar1 March 09:23

    Me too. I had visions of swiping my PP and mini bottles of champagne dropping out ????

  • Ben says:

    1 Mar1 March 10:24

    Yes I thought this would be dispensing something as a fairly crass yet novel solution to those airports without a PP lounge. Even a bottle of water would be better than nothing!

    • Lumma says:

      1 Mar1 March 10:31

      Would be an expensive bottle of water if you didn’t have an unlimited visit priority pass 🙂

• Roger says:

  1 Mar1 March 08:02

  OT-Marriott Travel Package

  I posted yesterday about two of the Marriott in Singapore.
  Tang Plaza has been more forth coming and would probably end up there for a week.
  I am still trying to convince myself whether that is a good use of another 30000 SPG points (240K total MR points). Note this includes booking for two adults and two kids.

  Any experience of upgrading Marriott travel package travel package and advice on pros and cons?

  • Jonny says:

    1 Mar1 March 10:30

    Personally I find the higher category Marriotts as better value point redemptions – modest point difference can often translate into a much better hotel (and better value per point).

  • JamesB says:

    1 Mar1 March 13:11

    Would be Barnet to stay 7 nights in Singapore, 7 hours is perfect. All you need is a free transit tour.

    • JamesB says:

      1 Mar1 March 13:12

      *barmy

• Roger says:

  1 Mar1 March 08:04

  Also, any ideas on how do I qualify for points saver rewards?
  Std stay requires 40000 points per night (for 7 nights it is 240 k – due to 5th night free).
  However pointsaver only requires 35000 points (a saving of 30000 marriott or 10k SPG points)

  Appreciate any thoughts on this.

  • ankomonkey says:

    1 Mar1 March 08:18

    I think Pointsaver prices are offered by certain hotels at certain times. As far as I know, everyone is eligible to book hotels at the Pointsaver prices. The key to this is that the hotel is offering them. I have no idea how it’s decided which hotels are in Pointsaver at any point in time.

  • Alex W says:

    1 Mar1 March 09:26

    I don’t think you can mix a travel package with points saver. Due the miles you get, travel package is surely better value.

• Walty says:

  1 Mar1 March 08:46

  Anyone else detest folks who jump in and start Off Topic threads!?

  No, its a bits thread and therefore the most appropriate place to ask a question / add a comment. You just stick to your option B if it annoys you so much.

• Lumma says:

  1 Mar1 March 08:56

  Or you could just ignore something that you’re not interested in?

  One of the best things about this site is that you can find out valuable information about this hobby from both Rob and other commenters who have superb knowledge on this subject. If the off topic comments were truly off topic (talking about last night’s television/recent sporting events, etc.) then you could have a point but I like the site the way it is.

• N says:

  1 Mar1 March 09:00

  Go for option B if you feel so strongly about this.

  Bits/comments/OT keep me coming back to this site a few times a day, and are sometimes more useful than the article itself (sorry Rob!).

• ebungle says:

  1 Mar1 March 09:06

  I agree it is very annoying.

  Btw I just bought a new car.

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