A 40% bonus when you buy World of Hyatt points means a good Mallorca deal

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• Gavin says:

  27 Apr27 April 06:44

  Off topic but hotel related – Can anyone recommend hotels for Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City,will be paying cash, have IHG Gold, but will have dropped to Hilton Silver by then. Priorities are a good central location and a comfortable clean hotel to enjoy when we are not out and about.

  • IanMacK says:

    27 Apr27 April 07:30

    Hanoi – Sofitel Metropole (one of the absolute classic south-east Asia old-style hotels)
    Easy to walk to the lake and other city centre tourist attractions

    Ho Chi Minh – Park Hyatt
    Again easy to walk around the city sights

    Sorry if not on IHG / Hilton track !

    • Gregor says:

      27 Apr27 April 09:19

      I stayed at the Intercontinental Asiana Saigon – lovely hotel with a great pool. I was there a couple of years ago but I imagine it’s still excellent. I got a good cash rate. As a Platinum Ambassador I got upgraded to a high floor corner room with great views across the city, including down onto the roof of the building (mistakenly thought to be the US Embassy) on Gia Long Street where Hubert van Es took his famous Fall of Saigon photo of US staff clambering up a ladder into a Huey. The ladder – or at least a ladder – up to the top of the lift shaft was still there!

    • Gin and Tonic Please says:

      27 Apr27 April 10:20

      +1 for Park Hyatt HCMC. Great hotel!

  • Alistair says:

    27 Apr27 April 08:59

    Agree with IanMacK – the Sofitel Metropole is perfect for Hanoi for lots of reasons. In Ho Chi Minh City, the Rex has to be on the list. Yes, the rooftop bar may not be as swank as some of the more modern competition but the combination of the history and the ambience make it well worth the stay.

  • AndyW says:

    27 Apr27 April 10:03

    The la siesta in Hanoi was excellent

  • Gavin says:

    27 Apr27 April 10:19

    Thanks all, will check out!

• John says:

  27 Apr27 April 06:49

  OT:
  anyone tried the platinum upgrade link from a gold companion credit card after having already cancelled tne gold charge card?
  It let me apply but wondering if i will get the 20k points?

  • TGLoyalty says:

    27 Apr27 April 07:43

    Doubt it but you never know. IT isn’t always perfect

• Matt says:

  27 Apr27 April 07:12

  Hey I’m very tempted by the Park Hyatt Mallorca using pay with cash + points. I’ve never stepped foot in a Hyatt though let alone have any experience with their loyalty program. Anyone been to the Mallorca resort yet and have any comments? A quick glance at reviews this morning and it looks a great resort for a relaxing getaway. Also do you get breakfast included on redemption at the Mallorca resort?

  • Yuff says:

    27 Apr27 April 07:23

    It is a very very good hotel. I was there earlier this month and used Clubcard vouchers via hotels.com and breakfast was included. Cash rate was about £300 a night for early April albeit it was Easter school holidays.
    It’s very spread out but they have buggys, to transport you around, if you don’t want to walk. The rooms are high quality and the breakfast is excellent, as is the service.

  • Thywillbedone says:

    27 Apr27 April 08:57

    I just booked the cash + points rate for first week of August (2 adults, 1 x 2 yr old)- I’ve stayed in several Park Hyatts and think the price can only be a bargain for the standard of property/time of year.

  • JP says:

    27 Apr27 April 21:33

    You used to get breakfast at PH Mallorca before the changes to the Hyatt programme but it’s not included anymore unless you’re Globalist. Great breakfast though!

• John H says:

  27 Apr27 April 07:29

  I’m trying the Europcar one way car rental in the middle of next month for the first time, it seems like a good deal 24hr rental and a generous milage allowance all for £1 just add fuel. way cheaper than HEX and costs getting to paddington also I get to visit family on the way.

  • @mkcol says:

    27 Apr27 April 12:24

    I’m finding their site EXTREMELY slow today….overload from HfP or is it just stupendously painful?!

    • Lady London says:

      29 Apr29 April 19:05

      Just stupendously painful.

• Smid says:

  27 Apr27 April 07:37

  We did the £1 Europcar a few weeks ago. A Volkswagon polo. Took us two hours to drive it to heathrow. Then in new zealand three days later we got a garbled answer message asking where it was. Two days after that we finally got the email receipt telling us it was an audi. Seemed to me they gave us the wrong car to return. So be prepared for a whopping level of incompetence if you do use that offer.

  • xcalx says:

    27 Apr27 April 08:25

    Have used the deal many times and never had a problem Wakefield centre to MAN

• Eli Goldberg says:

  27 Apr27 April 08:05

  Is there any chance of picking up luxury cars in this Europcar deal?

  • Tariq says:

    27 Apr27 April 08:14

    Definitely a chance, but you get what you’re given. No choice at booking and unlikely to get a choice at pickup.

  • Bal says:

    27 Apr27 April 12:34

    I have used this offer 3 times and normally ended up with a Mini or Economy sized car.

• Waribai says:

  27 Apr27 April 08:33

  Used the Europcar deal last month from Kennington to Heathrow. The rep though tried the hard sell on excess waiver insurance. When I mentioned I had the Amex plat he then insisted it wouldn’t cover tyres or windscreen. Not to worry I told him. Lo and behold, I drove round the corner and low tyre pressure alert came on! I’ve been set up was my first thought but I pumped it up at the garage and it got us to Heathrow fine. A diesel Octavia it took all our luggage and just needed £6 to get the tank back up to full!

  • James knox says:

    27 Apr27 April 12:41

    how is the transfer from car drop off to the terminal?

    • Waribai says:

      27 Apr27 April 19:20

      Not too bad. There is a transfer bus every 15 mins. We always stay in the Sofitel though so I dropped everyone off first, checked in and then took the car for a refill and dropped it off.

• George says:

  27 Apr27 April 08:39

  Rob this is great. There is one economic factor you need to add. Breakfast is presumably not included in the points or points/cash rates but is included on all paid rates. There is nowhere near the hotel you can easily go out without driving, so looking at x2 breakfast = E80+ per night. Still cheaper than paying cash but narrows the gap.

  • Rob says:

    27 Apr27 April 08:44

    Would be very odd if ALL paid rates got it and only the 2-3 redemption rooms got billed. Hardly worth running a billing system.

    • JP says:

      27 Apr27 April 21:35

      PH Mallorca used to offer free breakfast for all guests (even those on redemptions) but after World of Hyatt was introduced they removed the benefit for anybody on a redemption stay that was not Globalist.

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