Is British Airways running down Flight Pass?

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• AriseSirGenghis says:

  22 Mar22 March 05:44

  OT: If I book 4 Hilton nights (advanced non refundable purchase rate) using the Amex £50 off £250 spend, would it work? Thanks in advance.

  • John says:

    22 Mar22 March 07:43

    It isn’t meant to work, but provided that the hotels charge your card before the offer expiry (you can call them to ask if they don’t), it has worked in the past.

• Arielle Albon says:

  22 Mar22 March 05:48

  It’s a real shame about the Flight Pass, it is a really useful product for maintaining a consistent cost. I hope that IAG/BA consider implementing something similar with BAEC or Avios.

• Genghis says:

  22 Mar22 March 06:27

  OT. Any recommendations for a solid 4-5* hotel in Seoul for 2 nights? I’ve not yet done my planning but we don’t want to be too far from good restaurants (and if you have any tips for Korean restaurants (inc BBQ), please let me know). I have the usual Hilton, IHG (and will have another AMB cert), SPG/Marriott and MR currencies. Thanks in advance.

  • Relaxo says:

    22 Mar22 March 07:13

    Conrad Seoul is great if you dont mind being in the business district. Easy 1 hr bus ride from airport; great riverside views; didnt get charged for 10am checkin (useful for redeye flights); massive gym; grand breakfast. Not much around in terms of sighseeing but easy enough to get a taxi /subway into more central areas. There is an area about 20 mins walk away with loads of restaurants.

  • Mark says:

    22 Mar22 March 07:56

    We’ve booked Plaza Seoul, easy to get to, close to restaurants and as Marriott gold we get lounge access and breakfast.

  • Gavin says:

    22 Mar22 March 08:08

    My wife suggests Samwon Garden and Siksinhot for BBQ, it’s a little pricey, but in reality most restaurants will do you good food. Often restaurants specialise in one type of Korean food. Be prepared for the staff to be concerned that it’s too spicy for you, there is an assumption that westerners can’t handle spicy food.

    My favourite food in Korea is probably korean fried chicken and beer ordered to the park by the Han River though!

    Conrad Seoul is quite nice from what I saw, only been for a drink however.

    • Gavin says:

      22 Mar22 March 09:09

      For traditional approach you can stay at a Hanok Hotel, perhaps one is available on hotels.com

    • Michael Jennings says:

      22 Mar22 March 15:16

      It’s a city containing a great deal of good food. Choosing randomly is mostly fine.

  • johnny_c-l says:

    22 Mar22 March 08:23

    I’ve stayed at the IC Grand Parnas and really liked it. It’s a solid hotel, but location is a little further out than you may be wanting.

    • Jeremy says:

      22 Mar22 March 10:38

      Would also recommend the IC Grand Parnas if you need to be in Gangnam (for work), was there two weeks ago. I think it’s a bit far from the rest of the city otherwise.

  • Cate ⛱️ says:

    22 Mar22 March 09:57

    The Seoul Courtyard (Marriot) has been mentioned positively on HfP a few times.

  • Pangolin says:

    22 Mar22 March 10:42

    Courtyard Namdaemun has an excellent location and is right next to the street markets where food is served. They have an EL (Gold/Plat access) and the staff were great during my 5-night stay there last spring.

    The rates were a lot more reasonable than the true 5-star places but this is Asia and I felt the service levels were definitely 5-star in any case. Bear in mind that Seoul is an expensive city these days and you can put it in a similar bracket to Tokyo, HK and Singapore.

    • Genghis says:

      22 Mar22 March 13:18

      Thanks all. Taking everything into consideration I went for the Courtyard. Great value (£100 a night on hotels.com, used Tesco voucher as better than 25k Marriotts a night) with a cracking location and EL access. Fantastic.

      • Genghis says:

        22 Mar22 March 13:30

        Though maybe I shouldn’t have. Just cancelling a booking I had previously made at IC Parnas and it noted, “Thank you for booking direct with IHG®. You are on your way to earning 15389440 points for this stay.” Obviously tracking KRW, not USD. Chances of it paying out? 🙂

• Daniel says:

  22 Mar22 March 07:35

  OT. Are there any sign up bonuses for Heathrow Rewards scheme at the moment?

  • Liz says:

    22 Mar22 March 07:49

    There is still the offer on the Avios site for 3000 pts for £150 spend till the end of the year.

    • Cate ⛱️ says:

      22 Mar22 March 09:34

      Thank you Liz. I’d forgotten about that.

• Ben says:

  22 Mar22 March 07:41

  I’m not sure that lack of availability for 2019 means this is about to be killed. I’m pretty sure that each year this has run, availability for the next calendar year doesn’t open up until quite late on. Optiontown are pretty poor at responding to queries so I wouldn’t take that as a signal either – Rob, have you heard other murmurings about this? I hope it’s not being killed off, I find it very useful for my regular trips.

  • Save East Coast Rewards says:

    22 Mar22 March 08:30

    I was just about to say the same. It happens every year for some reason so there’s no reason to panic just yet. Now there’s CE on domestics I really want to see a CE flight pass. What’s more annoying is they rarely update the destinations list (e.g. they still offer LCY-ABZ despite that route no longer being operated by BA).

    It’s worth noting that the 4 hours notice Flight Pass gets 20 tier points rather than 10 with the other fares. Both can be a good deal. You’re effectively getting 10 TP rather than 5 if you take the 90 day option for dirt cheap fares and if you go for the flexible option then you still save money while getting the top rate of economy TP.

    Neither are good value solely for the TP but if you needed to make the trips anyway these will likely save you money. Also you get On Business points on these, just remember to manually add your number to manage my booking.

• Dave says:

  22 Mar22 March 08:20

  Hopefully aerlingus will operate out of Bournemouth, its in great need of some decent connections

• Louise Allen says:

  22 Mar22 March 08:56

  I looked at Flight Pass but if I remember correctly, you can’t book in Business and you can’t earn tier points (or avios?) on the flights. So I never signed up to it.

  • Save East Coast Rewards says:

    22 Mar22 March 14:06

    See my earlier post, you do earn tier points, Avios and OnBusiness points on Flight Pass. I’d never have used them otherwise!

• Graham Walsh says:

  22 Mar22 March 09:26

  OT Anyone else having issues logging into Avios? Error on site said to ring them, guy told me best to use Internet Explorer. Well done, I’m on a Mac!!!

  • JamesB says:

    22 Mar22 March 10:45

    Are you on the UK site? I’ve had issues with it defaulting to the USA site but when I change location to UK it works fine.

  • Intentionally Blank says:

    22 Mar22 March 13:21

    Every single time. I have to spawn a private window and use that

    Paul

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