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

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• Andrew_A says:

  1 Mar1 March 09:12

  OT – BA Companion Voucher
  My OH just hit over 10K spend on the free BA Card and upgraded to the BAPP card, her year end is not for another 6 weeks. The BA Companion voucher has landed in her account but is only valid for one year and we were assuming it should be two. I thought I had read recently of this happening to someone else but can’t find the post. Should she contact Amex regarding this or are we stuck with it?
  Incidentally, she received 6000 bonus points for the upgrade as well.
  Thanks

  • Optimus Prime says:

    1 Mar1 March 09:28

    I think you have tu upgrade to BAPP before hitting the 10K target in order to get the voucher with 2-year validity.

    • Andrew_A says:

      1 Mar1 March 09:37

      Thanks. I was hoping that wasn’t the case as we just went over the 10K a few days before she upgraded.

      • meta says:

        1 Mar1 March 16:46

        No, that’s not the case. At least it wasn’t for me last year when I upgraded. I hit £10k, upgraded a few days later. Got the voucher with 1 year validity, but I complained to both BA and Amex and they manually processed it (in about two-three weeks). They said it is in IT issue and I am entitled to 2-year one. You will need to call as it can’t be solved via Amex chat.

  • sedgie252 says:

    2 Mar2 March 00:09

    In 2017 I upgraded to the BAPP card just before my free card year end after spending £17k (I wasn’t going to make it to £20k) and got a voucher with 2-year validity.

• wally1976 says:

  1 Mar1 March 09:43

  OT – offer on my Amex Gold or £100 off £300 spend at Pride of Britain Hotels. Never heard of them personally but might be useful to someone!

  Save to Card to get a £100 statement credit on eligible spend of £300+ in participating hotel(s) at Pride of Britain Hotels by 25/5/2018. Valid once per Card for the first 15,000 Cardmembers to save. Terms, location & payment restrictions apply.
  See Participating Locations
  OFFER TERMS
  Book and pay by the offer end date.
  Available in participating hotel(s).
  Only one credit per UK Card.
  Offer only applies to spend made in Great British Pound (GBP) on the Card to which the offer is saved, including an American Express Card loaded into a mobile payment wallet.
  Offer does not apply to spend on other Cards you might hold and is not valid for transactions made using Payment Aggregators.
  An awarded credit may be reversed if qualifying transaction is refunded or cancelled.
  Credit should appear on your billing statement within 5 days from qualifying spend but may take up to 90 days from 25/5/2018.
  For full Offer Terms and more details about statement credits click here.
  By saving the offer to your Card, you agree to the Offer Terms.

  • wally1976 says:

    1 Mar1 March 09:43

    Participating Hotels:

    The Arch London, 50 Great Cumberland Place, London, W1H 7FD
    Ellenborough Park, Southam Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL52 3NJ
    Glenapp Castle Hotel, Ballantrae, Ayrshire, KA26 0NZ
    Seaham Hall, Lord Bryon’s Walk, Seaham, Country Durham, SR7 7AG
    Sopwell House, Cottonmill Lane, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL1 2HQ
    Swan at Lavenham, High Street, Lavenham, Suffolk, C010 9QA
    Whatley Manor, Easton Grey, Malmesbury, Wiltshire, SN16 0RB

    • Lumma says:

      1 Mar1 March 10:35

      Seaham Hall, although not quite as good as it was a decade ago (when I worked there 🙂 ha), is still one of the best hotels in the north east. So if that’s the stanďard of hotel, it could be a worth while deal

    • Rob says:

      1 Mar1 March 11:21

      Whatley Manor is very, very plush. No kids allowed.

    • Tilly says:

      1 Mar1 March 20:56

      Sopwell House and The Swan at Lavenham very nice.

• Alex Sm says:

  1 Mar1 March 10:37

  Could it be a case of putting a cart in front of a horse and just an indication of a PP lounge to be opened very soon at LCY? Rob, you should investigate!

• JamesR says:

  1 Mar1 March 10:45

  In regards to Kaligo… there’s a X2 promo on at the moment too.. a hotel I’ve got my eye on is giving me 16,000 for a 4 night £400 stay..

  Should I still wait? Because that promo runs out tomorrow.

  • Cate says:

    1 Mar1 March 11:14

    Can you reserve it at all on a fully refundable basis? 16,000 points is still good and would be a shame if you went double-or-quit and end up with the quits on an already good offer.

  • Rob says:

    1 Mar1 March 11:19

    Tricky. We will be offering 8,000 bonus Avios – on top of the standard earnings – for a £700 COMBINED spend over a period. If you are only spending £400 and don’t see an option to book another £300 of rooms (by end March for stays until 31/12) then take the current deal.

    • Kevin says:

      1 Mar1 March 20:13

      If booking via Kaligo would I still get the benefits in accordance with my hotel elite status, eg. Diamond of HH or Spire of IHG?

      • Rob says:

        1 Mar1 March 21:09

        No

• Kiran says:

  1 Mar1 March 11:30

  OT – AmEx cross referrals. I’m trying to refer from an SPG card to a BAPP but my referee and myself can’t see anywhere on either the e-mail or web page the link takes you to where you can select another card. Does this only work if you are referring from an MR-based card?

  • Genghis says:

    1 Mar1 March 11:42

    If you scroll down on the referral link page does it not show all the other cards?

    • mark2 says:

      1 Mar1 March 15:56

      are you doing this on a phone?

    • Kiran says:

      1 Mar1 March 16:04

      Nope – on a laptop (but also get the same result on a phone/tablet browser)

• RussellH says:

  1 Mar1 March 11:42

  Anyone else get a new offer from Billhop?

  Refer a friend and get a £500 of fee free transfers. Friend gets £250 fee free. Refer three friends and get £1500 fee free etc.

  I have not looked at the website, just quoting from their e-mail.

  • S says:

    1 Mar1 March 17:25

    Yeah, I got it. A send to many it seems. Sounds quite good, though the savings are quite small. Every little helps I suppose.

• Axel says:

  1 Mar1 March 13:10

  OT- Etihad offering 20% bonus conversions of points from HSBC, accor, IHG & Hilton through March

  • Alex Sm says:

    2 Mar2 March 10:31

    Have you seen any reverse offers? Need to use about 20,000 EY points due to expire soon and looking for options before the last resort option of simple cashing out

    • Rob says:

      2 Mar2 March 10:43

      Cashing out is not a bad deal because the weak £ makes PointsPay more attractive than it was.

      • Alex says:

        5 Mar5 March 10:24

        Thanks, I guess that we will have to end up with that anyways… Wanted to use them on Garuda regional flights but availability is poor and booking process is too tedious

• JamesB says:

  1 Mar1 March 13:38

  OT: There is a buy miles promotion on at Alaska. Superb for anybody wanting to explore Japan as an add on to an Asia trip. JAL business class is just 25k A-Japan stopover-B for regional flights including midhaul 6h+ flights to BKK, KUL and SIN. Many of these are overnight flights so flat bed comes in handy and saves on expensive Japan hotels with early am arrivals and late pm departures. There has been quite a lot of comments on Japan and Asia on HFP recently so I thought this was worth mentioning.

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