The Marco Polo Club lounge at Venice Airport joins Priority Pass

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• Steve says:

  21 Mar21 March 15:39

  Very much OT (& apologies if you have flagged this previously Rob) but I have just booked a number of tours / excursions via Aviator and using the Avios landing page. Currently paying 14 Avios for every £1 of expenditure which didn’t seem too shabby at all to my mind.

  I’ve booked a number of tours via Viator in the past and whilst it’s very much dependent on how good the tour operator or firm on the ground is, this strikes me as pretty good value – worth it if you are considering booking some trips before you fly/travel.

  Typically usually 7 Avios per £ I believe, offer runs until month end.

  • mark2 says:

    21 Mar21 March 21:28

    you can also get Marriott points (higher rate I believe) at Marriott MORE. It depends which you want.

• J says:

  21 Mar21 March 16:02

  OT: Received Avios/Tesco email today:

  “Thank you for entering our recent competition by turning your Tesco Clubcard vouchers into Avios.
  You are the lucky winner of 5,500 Avios
  You don’t need to do anything to claim your prize, 5,500 Avios will be credited to your account in the next 28 days.”

  I converted 45,000 avios over the period.

• Chris L says:

  21 Mar21 March 16:06

  OT: now that I have earned my BAPP Companion Voucher, can I downgrade to the free card until the new membership year and receive a pro rate refund, and also keep the voucher’s 24 month expiry date?

  • Genghis says:

    21 Mar21 March 16:20

    Yes

  • TGLoyalty says:

    22 Mar22 March 08:22

    Or just cancel and sign up again in 6 months for so for a nice bonus

• Alistair says:

  21 Mar21 March 16:33

  OT – I have an Air France flight LHR-CDG on Friday which now looks like it may be cancelled due to AF staff calling for strike action on Friday (there’s a national strike in France on Thursday).

  I have 50k Flying Blue miles due to expire in a couple of weeks, which I was why I was using AF for this flight. Assuming my flight (not with AF) out of CDG on Saturday isn’t affected then I’ll be away on holiday and unable to take another AF flight until after my flying blue miles expire.

  Am I ever likely to get them not to expire my miles?

  Worst case, what’s the best option for exchanging or using flying blue miles in a hurry?

  • Chris Palmer says:

    21 Mar21 March 17:22

    An AirFrance booking I made from Nantes to Paris was cancelled for tomorrow. However, from what I remember reading on the AirFrance website, it is only internal flights being cancelled. All international flights are fine.

    • JamesB says:

      21 Mar21 March 17:43

      My partner got involuntary downgrade on outward journey due to strike (still no compensation) and has had return flight rebooked for Monday. Rotten luck with dates.

  • JamesB says:

    21 Mar21 March 17:22

    Pointshound?

• Darren says:

  21 Mar21 March 19:02

  OT, BA redemption dynamic pricing.

  Just checking BA HKG redemptions and noticed that in Feb 2019 I was quoted 165000 rather than the usual 150000.

  On the BA redemption finder site the off peak/peak option is greyed out from 2019.

  Have I missed the role out of this or is it common knowledge?

  • Darren says:

    21 Mar21 March 19:03

    Should say these were tagged as offpeak on BA.com

  • Rob says:

    21 Mar21 March 19:26

    Off peak dates are showing fine in the booking engine above the dates.

    • Darren says:

      21 Mar21 March 20:02

      The specific dates were 4th to 18th Feb, CW both ways, both tagged as off peak.
      Tried again and the journey summary was 165000.

  • JamesB says:

    21 Mar21 March 19:46

    Booked an off peak CW seat for January 20th, everything was as expected.

• Tom1 says:

  21 Mar21 March 20:42

  o/t – a quick thank-you to all on here.

  Just back from our first real HFP inspired holiday. We managed to cram in these offers…

  £50 off £200 on Amex travel (EK economy flights)
  5 nights points redemption at Habtoor Grand. (5 nights for price of 4)
  Amex plat for SPG Gold = Marriott gold = executive lounge (breakfast, afternoon tea and free alcoholic drinks 6-8pm)
  Upgrade to 1 bedroom club suite.
  Held on to plat a little longer than needed to use airport lounges in UK and DXB.
  Travel insurance through platinum also.
  Curve card used everywhere in Dubai, linked to Hilton Visa.

  After all of the above, my favourite achievement was using Deliveroo (with signup bonus) for Five Guys delivery to the pool for lunch – cheaper than a single cheese toastie at the pool bar!

  Thanks again to all – now for planning the next one!

• Ali says:

  21 Mar21 March 21:22

  OT: I need £500 more spend on BAPP to trigger my 241 voucher. Q1. any good MS ideas? I’m thinking oyster topup and supermarket gift cards… Q2. if the purchase that triggered the voucher is refunded after voucher is triggered, would the 241 voucher be revoked? Thanks!

  • Anna says:

    21 Mar21 March 21:33

    I don’t know about the refund but I suspect there will be something in place to stop people doing this deliberately. You might just go into minus avios for next time. Not sure what they would do if you’d already used the voucher!

    A good way of hitting your target – if your council takes PayPal it’s a new council tax year in 10 days. Otherwise gift cards for shops you use a lot (or Amazon top ups), or buy Xmas & birthday presents in advance.

    • Anna says:

      21 Mar21 March 21:36

      There aren’t many good sources of MS in this country. I don’t know if anyone has had any success with buying gold (not jewellery) and re-selling it when the price goes up? I know you can buy relatively small amounts as an investment but i’m not confident enough to do it!

      • Genghis says:

        22 Mar22 March 06:14

        Look a bit harder…

  • Rob says:

    21 Mar21 March 21:44

    No, not revoked. However if the refund goes into your new card year then it increases the spend needed next year, so you would have a £10500 target and not £10000.

  • Darren says:

    21 Mar21 March 22:41

    I triggered a 241 a couple of months early when I had a refund, then paid for something but the refund was not taken into account. So yes it’s possible but not in the spirit of it.

  • Tracy says:

    21 Mar21 March 23:08

    Not sure if you have kids or not but parentpay works for me. I top it up using my amex and use it to pay school lunches, school trips etc. Only good if your school uses it though 🙂

• Simon says:

  21 Mar21 March 22:59

  OT
  I want to travel LON-NYC on BA.

  I have 40k amex points and 3k avios. I’ve not bought any points. My flights will be a shade over £1k for 2 people in economy. Can anybody suggest the cheapest way to book these flights?

  Thanks

  • Clive says:

    22 Mar22 March 04:12

    Simon before you commit at those prices for economy check Dublin to US as prices in economy can be very low. You can use your Avios for RFS to Dublin.

    • Simon says:

      22 Mar22 March 11:48

      Thanks Clive, I’ll get on that now!

    • Simon says:

      22 Mar22 March 13:11

      Thanks, but the flights seem to go back via Heathrow, and are more exensive :S

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