Get 35% off Hertz car rentals …. plus earn Marriott or SPG points

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• Peter K says:

  15 May15 May 16:28

  OT. It was being discussed yesterday about cancelling the IHG premium card after getting the free night and getting the 2nd year fee refunded. I’m planning on doing that next month and wondered how much hassle it is to get the fee back or if possible to cancel after the free night hits but the free hasn’t.
  I’ll stop spending on it to avoid that being an issue.

  • Peter K says:

    15 May15 May 19:05

    Thanks Rob.

  • Neil says:

    16 May16 May 00:50

    No hassle at all – I did this last week. Free night appeared on my IHG account within a week of the card anniversary. Then a quick call with no holding to Creation. They then refunded the card fee back to my account and sent me a letter confirming account closure.

    • Mark says:

      16 May16 May 13:21

      A word of warning re: IHG card “anniversary date”. I asked and was given a specific date (which did not seem to correspond to the annual statement date),. After that I increased my spend via Curve assuming it would count toward the new year’s spend.
      But I discovered the spending was still clocking up to the previous year, *several weeks later*. Meaning I would have to spend even more in Y2 to hit £10k target.
      When I queried it, they launched an “official complaint” process, and I am still waiting for an official response!

• xcalx says:

  15 May15 May 18:16

  OT Amex gold spend on sup card last Thursday showing on spend but no points added do the points usually take this long to show.
  Want to get spend done and upgrade Nana xcalx to plat in case of any changes.

  Thanks.

  • Peter K says:

    15 May15 May 19:02

    Or seems to have been very slow the past week, or rather nothing happened. Today points I expected last week and spend towards my platinum target posted….in two lots as the day progressed!
    I think there must have been a blip in the Amex system.

    • ankomonkey says:

      15 May15 May 19:10

      Same for me on SPG card. No points for a week, then a barrage today.

• Ali says:

  15 May15 May 19:34

  Out of interest did this reader who won the 20000 miles have the free or paid card?

  • Rob says:

    15 May15 May 19:54

    No idea.

• BrotherBear says:

  15 May15 May 19:37

  OT – I’d booked 2 economy Avios return tickets from London to Bilbao last year for the late May bank holiday weekend coming up in just under a fortnight and was planning to go to San Sebastian with the missus but now I have a friend’s stag do in Valencia instead and so I will be cancelling the flights to get my Avios refunded.

  Not 100% they will be available to book as reward redemptions once I cancel but in 2 for 1 experience they do become available again.

  If anyone fancies the flights, I can cancel at a time to allow someone to book if they become available again – let me know and we can arrange.

• Anna says:

  15 May15 May 20:38

  OT – just marvelling at efficiency. We have some building work to pay for so I worked out the best option miles-wise was to apply for a 2nd BAPP as we’re nearly at the £10k mark on the OH’s. Applied last Friday and the card has arrived today – is this a record?!

  • Peter K says:

    15 May15 May 21:13

    I think same thing happened for my wife referring from Plat to SPG last Friday. Arrived today.

    • Anna says:

      15 May15 May 21:16

      Referral points posted as well. Impressed.

  • Genghis says:

    16 May16 May 01:07

    Do your builders take Amex or have you decided to use Billhop despite the fees?

    • xcalx says:

      16 May16 May 07:36

      I accept Amex through Payatrader.

    • Anna says:

      16 May16 May 09:21

      Decided to go through Billhop. The referral plus sign up bonus plus spend avios I’ll get for the whole thing, plus the push towards another 2 4 1 will outweigh the fee.

  • Alan says:

    16 May16 May 09:27

    I applied for my Platinum Card (Upgrade) on Sunday and it arrived Tuesday. Thought that was pretty impressive

• Chris says:

  16 May16 May 09:22

  Rob, I can’t seem to get the Swiss voucher to work. Was this communicated to you by them? The return flight I want totals £105 so should qualify – unless the minimum of £95 is post discount or excluding taxes? Cheers

  • Rob says:

    16 May16 May 10:04

    What they sent us is what we published. Will check later when back in the office.

    • Chris says:

      16 May16 May 17:02

      Thanks 🙂

• Farah says:

  20 May20 May 22:38

  Re the Swiss Air offer. I too tried the code for a one way ticket that cost £111 from LHR to Geneva and it didn’t work. Called up customer service and they said they are not aware of the promo/voucher code.

  • Chris says:

    22 May22 May 07:03

    They gave me an email address for ‘Voucher Support’ promising a reply within 24 hours, it’s been almost a week now. And of course the flights have now increased by the same value as the voucher. Rob, if you have any contacts there, please tell them to stop being so useless! 🙂

    • Farah says:

      22 May22 May 19:33

      Here is the right code – SWISSUKTCGVA18 – which I just used.

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