Head for Points and hotel booking site Kaligo.com, which awards Avios points with every hotel you book, are running an EXCLUSIVE promotion this month.
It is a simple, straightforward and potentially lucrative one.
If you spend over £700 on hotels at Kaligo.com before midnight on Saturday 31st March, across one or numerous bookings, you will receive 8,000 bonus Avios.
These points are in addition to the everyday benefit of 5 – 10 Avios per £1 spent you will receive for every booking all year round.
Even better, if you are a new customer and have never before booked a hotel on Kaligo.com before, you will earn an additional 2,000 Avios with your first booking of any value.
That makes a possible total of 10,000 Avios for new customers and 8,000 Avios for existing Kaligo.com customers in addition to the everyday Avios earned if you manage to spend £700.
The stays only need to be completed by 31st December 2018.
You MUST register before you book at this special HFP promotional website in order to receive the bonus. For clarity, even existing Kaligo.com customers must register before booking.
As usual with such promotions, you need to check your pricing before you book. Kaligo.com is not always the cheapest place to book – it depends on the property. However, when you factor in the value of the 8,000 bonus Avios points for just £700 of spending – plus the base Avios you earn from your stay – they should be looking pretty good indeed.
Here is an example from the Kaligo.com site showing what you could earn:
Remember that you will usually not earn points for your room spend in any hotel loyalty programme linked to the property you book if you use Kaligo.com (or indeed any third-party hotel booking site). Depending on the hotel, you may receive status benefits or points for your food and drink spend.
This offer runs until midnight on Saturday 31st March 2018 although your stays can be at any time in 2018. I would start to think about your hotel plans for the next few months and see if you can find £700-worth which you can divert to Kaligo.com! Remember that you do NOT need to spend the full £700 in one booking – it can be across numerous bookings.
Remember that you MUST register in advance via this page on the Kaligo.com website.
It is fair to say that Kaligo.com’s customer service is excellent – their representatives even pop up on social media to answer queries – so you should have no concerns at all about your bonus posting properly. The company is also very punctual at posting your Avios posts once you have checked out.
Thanks to the team at Kaligo.com for making this exclusive deal available to Head for Points readers.
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The reason I’ve never used Kaligo is the way they describe rooms. You don’t know which room you are getting as they never match hotel descriptions – going for a non-chain hotel I’d rather use hotels.com.
This has worked well for me. Needed one night in Battersea in a couple of weeks and as a new user it’s earned me 2500 avios. Yes it’s only a Travelodge but Kaligo was also marginally cheaper than the hotel site so this clearly works for some!
Normally, use RocketMiles for my business stay. I visit Birmingham on business 1x night a week, and for a £100 prpn 3/4 Star hotel, I normally earn approx. 2,000 Avios a night. Kaligo noramly can not match this earning.
Based on 7 1x night stays between March and May, and in conjunctions with a newly opened Lloyds Avios card earning 2.5 Avios per £, I have calculated I could earn the following:
Total spend = £727 (7 nights) (Av night cost = £104)
Standard Avios = 11,500 Avios
Bonus Avios = 10,000 Avios
Avios from CC spend = 1,800 Avios
TOTAL AVIOS= 23,300 Avios
The same stays on RocketMiles would earn me approx. 15,800 Avios so this bonus makes a real difference.
Kaligo, you have a new customer!!! Thanks HFP!
Obviously doing this you have to pay in full for your booking. What happens if Kaligo goes bust. Are they ATOL protected? Just curious as to what happens should it all go belly up, given I’d never heard of them until today.
Booking by Credit Card would be the easy way to address these issues.
You have standard Section 75 coverage via your credit card. They have been around for a few years and most of the airlines work with them – see the run of logos on their main home page: https://www.kaligo.com/ I’ve also met the top team both in London and in Singapore. We’ve never, ever, had any complaints about late or incorrect posting of Avios.
Ive used them several times.. never had a problem, always get my avios soon as my stay is completed!
In the example photo, how did they get Everyday Benefit 18,900 Avios / Total 28,900 Avios? All the bookings I’ve looked at for around £750 have Rewards 3,600 Avios / Total 13,600 Avios.
They have clearly picked the highest paying hotel in Paris as their example!
I tried a few in las vegas, also give really good avios quantities. You need to pick a decent brand or * rating to get the best reward. 3 Nights at the Wynn or Encore @ ~£300 per night gives 30000 avios back
OT
IHG is now charging 35000 points at some of their HIX?
Where has the world come to?
Too much inflation in cryptorewardscurrency
Ba promo back with 35% hotels to avios back
https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/executive-club/collecting-avios/hotels/convert-your-points
Excellent news for a Marriott travel rewards redemption.
Yeah!
Yay!
I would also add, as per the article, that they have excellent customer service! Even if there was a price differential (forget the Avios), I’d pay a small difference for good customer service. It’s also a great way to top up miles currencies not widely available otherwise such is Krisflyer.