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• Sandgrounder says:

  6 Mar6 March 11:20

  OT- IHG Creation Free Night
  I have cancelled the card after the anniversary date but before the next statement date. I know from the article last year that this should be ok, but has anyone actually done this, and if so, how long did the night take to come through?

  • FlyingChris says:

    6 Mar6 March 12:21

    Likewise keen to know the answer to this. Is there a typical time for the free night to arrive after either the anniversary, or statement date – or is it very much YMMV as it’s Creation. Got a holiday planned 6-7 weeks after anniversary date, or 3-4 weeks after statement and wondering if there’s any hope of it arriving in time to be used.

    • Andy_H says:

      6 Mar6 March 12:30

      OT, but IHG Creation-related
      I currently have the free IHG card, but see value in the Premium card. I’m wondering if I would get the Premium Sign-up bonus for upgrading from free to Premium? Also not sure if this is best approached as a new card application or if there is another way to go about it? Thanks

      • Genghis says:

        6 Mar6 March 12:39

        It’s treated as a separate product by Creation so no upgrading / transfer of credit limits etc

      • Genghis says:

        6 Mar6 March 12:41

        But you would get the bonus on the black card. I’ve held black and white concurrently

      • Andy_H says:

        6 Mar6 March 12:52

        Excellent, thanks Genghis.

• Clive says:

  6 Mar6 March 12:27

  OT-ish: I’m finding ITA Matrix brings up some QR fares which then don’t work on the Qatar website, as the route then generates either an error or a higher price. Is Matrix showing results which aren’t really available or am I doing something wrong…? 🙂

  • Rob says:

    6 Mar6 March 13:03

    The Qatar booking system seems to reject certain flight combos, in that if you select a certain outbound then it will no longer offer the cheapest inbound on certain dates. This is a continual problem every time I do a sale article.

    It is possible that ITA just shows the lowest filed price whilst not showing or knowing what rules Qatar is applying when you try to combine them.

    • Clive says:

      6 Mar6 March 18:04

      Thanks for the reply – at least it’s not just me 🙂

  • Michael C says:

    6 Mar6 March 13:33

    Along these lines, yesterday I found GRU-LHR-GRU for 850 GBP (econ.) on SkyScanner with TAP, but on the airlines site the cheapest was twice that!

• rams1981 says:

  6 Mar6 March 16:54

  OT anyone aware of any good fares in business to Colombo ex eu? London fares are incredibly pricey.

• Optimus Prime says:

  6 Mar6 March 17:22

  OT: 100 Marriott points for tweeting an image with the following words: “Fans on the road… #RewardsPoints #LeafsFansTravel”

  • Stevie G says:

    6 Mar6 March 22:16

    Thank you. I’d sooner 1000 points but happy with 100 for 10 seconds work and a random pic.

• Bill says:

  6 Mar6 March 18:00

  OT I’ve looked at Man-Tfs and lon-tfs with BA next February. Prices from 480 return. Seriously? Will have to book Ryanair instead. Difference is too much for me.

  • Rob says:

    6 Mar6 March 18:08

    If that is half term then not surprising. Standard pricing for all the ski routes as well.

    • Bill says:

      6 Mar6 March 19:57

      Picked up outbound Ryanair for £92 single person passenger. Will book the return flight when it becomes available. But anticipate significant savings compared to BA.

      With those sort of prices it’s almost like they’re telling me that my Avios and me are worthless!!

  • Anna says:

    6 Mar6 March 19:12

    Have a look at October half term prices, around £800 from Gatwick to Tenerife in economy!

    • Alex W says:

      6 Mar6 March 19:57

      Uuurgh. I can’t think of anything worse than Brits abroad in Lanzagrotty etc. If the prices are so high why not spend the same or less and go somewhere a bit further / cheaper / nicer / not swamped with lads on tour.

      • Bill says:

        6 Mar6 March 19:59

        Depends on where precisely you go. Obviously !

      • Anna says:

        6 Mar6 March 20:56

        Exactly – hence we are going to the US and Caribbean in August (including return CW redemption seats) for the price of a fortnight in a European resort.

      • Bill says:

        7 Mar7 March 09:12

        I don’t wish to do a transatlantic flight with my kids 🙂

  • Lady London says:

    6 Mar6 March 19:30

    You could try Lufthansa or another airline that is not affected by uk school holidays.

    • Rob says:

      6 Mar6 March 19:49

      We did Lufty to Salzburg 2 years ago – still £300 each IIRC with an overnight in Sheraton FRA required too.

      • paul says:

        6 Mar6 March 20:03

        I find that that Munich is a better option and then the train. Even managed Avios seats for Feb half term.

        Vienna is often overlooked. Avois is generally good even at school hols and the trains, especially the business class product on OBB is superb. I am looking at this for next year

  • Tom says:

    6 Mar6 March 21:35

    I was watching the same. Ridiculous. Went for an Avios redemption instead and got the 4x seats I wanted.. win. And I can pretend I got really good value for my avios (£2,400 flights!)

    • Tom says:

      6 Mar6 March 21:35

      or even £3,200.. ahem.

      • Bill says:

        7 Mar7 March 09:14

        i considered using avios, but an alternative carrier had a flight for £92 single. I can’t justify using 10,000 or 12,500 Avios plus £35 in this circumstance.

• Mikee says:

  6 Mar6 March 19:42

  O/T – ref upgrading Amex Gold to Platinum, does referring myself for the Platinum card to generate a 9k referral bonus + 35k sign-up for Platinum usually work? I see the straight upgrade from Gold to Plat is only 20k.

  I recently referred myself for the SPG Amex which triggered a 9k bonus on my Gold card but wondered if it will work again on Plat.

  • Lee says:

    6 Mar6 March 19:56

    You won’t get bonus if you have already got gold card

• paul says:

  6 Mar6 March 20:00

  I have just listened via player and the narration became really irritating after about 5 minutes. Almost as bad as the current BA safety video which is horrific.

  I did laugh when Honolulu was mentioned as I did that tier point run – as a pure tier point run ( well I had 2 nights in HNL) but also as a family vacation starting in Dublin. I also did a run last year to LAS for 6 hours on the strip.

  In both cases the fares were very low and the tier points were obtained at less than £1 but I did rack up miles as well.

  I won’t do tier points runs now for the sake of it, but I will stretch a family holiday. This year I bagged a CAI – Hawaii with stopovers in London, Amsterdam, Philadelphia and Washington for less than £1200 each.

  I can’t see the point at all of chasing status with BA in particular. I have been gold silver and nothing at all with BA and it makes little difference to the sub standard experience.

• Johnny Tabasco says:

  6 Mar6 March 22:36

  Listened to the show tonight, correct if I’m wrong but did that guy really say that when he lost his Gold Tier status he compared the loss to a bereavement ? that’s a sure fire sign it’s all gone too far. Get a girlfriend mate.

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