Get tickets for the Goodwood Festival of Speed with your Hilton Honors hotel points

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• Tony says:

  21 May21 May 06:04

  Oops! Your Virgin correction has a typo: Last Vegas

  • Darren says:

    21 May21 May 08:06

    What a movie????

    • Rob says:

      21 May21 May 08:48

      Fixed

• TGLoyalty says:

  21 May21 May 06:23

  Thanks for the heads up on the goodwood, managed to reddem 2 for the Friday 🙂

  Good deal even if the WA viewing platform is no good as general admission is £50 each

• Rob says:

  21 May21 May 06:30

  Thanks Rob. I just managed to get the last weekend slot (Sunday) for Festival of Speed. Now all gone on Hilton Auctions. Thursday and Friday still available at 6.30am.

• Andy H says:

  21 May21 May 08:16

  Thanks for highlighting this. Sunday booked.
  This is why we love HFP 🙂

• TripRep says:

  21 May21 May 08:19

  You can get some great once in a lifetime deals via the Hilton Honors Auctions, especially if you keep looking and patiently snipe a bargain.

  However I’m not sure I’d value 25k HH pts at £85, for instance, if they were presented as options for a hotel booking I’d go for the cash alternative. Also 10k HH pts can get you a £60+ hotel, eg Hampton Newcastle or DoubleTree Sheffield. In fact I’ve seen the cash rate for these in excess of £140 when the points remained at 10k HH pts

  Totally O/T: UKs airport delay stats, Luton & LGW don’t fair well, LHR does better than I expected..
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44190066

  • Rob says:

    21 May21 May 08:38

    You can buy Hilton points for 0.4p in a sale so you can’t value them at more than that.

    • TripRep says:

      21 May21 May 10:54

      Fair point, but that assumes you wish to buy them in advance.

      And my example is still valid, I wouldnt use £140 when its only 10k for a redemption

    • TripRep says:

      21 May21 May 11:02

      Rob – on the same basis are you suggesting the max redemption value of Avios is what BA/Iberia sell them at in a Groupon sale?

      • Rob says:

        21 May21 May 11:19

        They are capacity controlled and less predictable than a Hilton ‘100% buy points’ sale – although given that the Groupon deals are coming round more often these days then you could begin to argue that.

        If you knew with 100% certainty that you could always buy Avios when you needed them, in the right quantity, for 1p then you would arguably change how you treated your points. Converting Tesco to Avios would become pointless, for eg, because you’d be getting what became a fixed 2.4p per 1p of voucher which is otherwise worth 3p of Uber credit or a bit less than 3p of hotels.com credit, amongst other stuff.

      • TripRep says:

        21 May21 May 11:41

        I havent converted TCC to BA for years, uber is rarely of use to me, but interesting perspective on hotels.com, thanks.

        For hotels I certainly think its fair to consider the redemption value of points against the lowest available cash flexible rate at time of booking. Following the 0.4p value it means that if you reliably knew the cheap 10k hotels you plan on staying in, you are guaranteeing a refundable £40/night hotel when the equivalent cash rate could be >£140.

      • Genghis says:

        21 May21 May 18:19

        @Triprep. You can only value something at max the cash equivalent purchase rate (otherwise you would just go out into the market and buy it).
        Re hotels.com, it works about about 2.5p / Tesco cc after taking into account effect of lost hotels.com rewards and any cash back etc.

• Tilly says:

  21 May21 May 08:45

  O/T – has anyone used AirPortr? Thought I’d try get a quote but their website is terrible. Jumps around when click on “get quote” and doesn’t actually take me to somewhere I can get a price.

  • Rob says:

    21 May21 May 08:46

    Yes, Anika used them (albeit we didn’t pay) if you do a search.

    • Tilly says:

      21 May21 May 08:58

      Thanks Rob. Playing around found the postcodes they service and mine isn’t included – odd given I’m on the tube in zone 6. So can’t use them anyway. I’m just being lazy so will now take my case into the office before heading to LHR in the afternoon on the tube.

      • The Original Nick says:

        21 May21 May 12:28

        Hi Tilly, have you had a reply from BA yet?

      • Tilly says:

        21 May21 May 16:59

        Hi Nick. No I haven’t. Have you?

  • Tom H says:

    21 May21 May 17:40

    Used them when I travelled a different route and met my wife and kid at our destination with 5 suitcases (moving to Calgary). Airportr were awesome, seamless booking process and pickup the night before. Would highly recomend

  • Brandon says:

    21 May21 May 23:19

    I used them also on a number of times… best was when i used them Xmas 2016 when everybody was snowed in, it meant i didn’t have to queue up to drop my luggage off, which saved HOURS as there were mega queues due to all the cancellations etc… plus its pretty cool to be fully checked in at home….

• berneslai says:

  21 May21 May 09:04

  Re: previous Amex offers and articles on this website – is there any chance you could put a health warning on highlighting offers through links that are (supposedly) targeted? After applying for a Gold charge card, I have been refused the bonus for the companion credit card and refused the bonus for the Platinum upgrade as both were deemed to be targeted offers. I’ve dispensed with Amex as of today

  • Mark2 says:

    21 May21 May 09:28

    That is surprising.
    I have had both bonuses very recently despite not being targeted. They must be tightening up.

    • Mr(s) Entitled says:

      21 May21 May 09:37

      I can’t find the link to the companion gold charge card (only a new one for for the gold cc). Thankfully the Platinum upgrade remains live so I’ll be giving it a go shortly. Never had a problem in the past so fingers crossed….

      • berneslai says:

        21 May21 May 09:47

        The link was to the Gold credit card as a companion to the charge card (now defunct) – that was about 2 or 3 months ago. Bonus refused.

        The link that has been widely shared in the comments on here and as a main article on InsiderFlyer for the Platinum charge card upgrade also led to another bonus refusal. Your mileage may vary.

    • Rob says:

      21 May21 May 09:58

      We don’t discuss this things in articles for this very reason. If people put them in the comments I can’t really control that.

      • radiata says:

        21 May21 May 15:59

        Equally a friend with the PRG charge card waited until the anniversary date to obtain the (?)15k bonus as had spent in excess of £10k during the year.

        Upgrade to Plat link used thereafter but no bonus after £1k spend. Awaiting resolution of dispute made by telephone. Reason given was that ought to have waited six months before upgrading but that nonsensical as nil to do with cancellation and reapplying. Advised to call again and hopefully will have a sensible response.

      • the real harry1 says:

        21 May21 May 16:29

        My wife used the upgrade link last week, got the Plat 3 days later, paid off some council tax and banked the upgrade points at the weekend – so still working fine (for some).

  • Anna says:

    21 May21 May 09:45

    When you say refused, do you mean via web chat? If you just go ahead and apply things can be different. I wasn’t targeted for a BAPP supplementary but got 3000 avios for one just yesterday.

    • berneslai says:

      21 May21 May 09:49

      I’d been accepted last week and enquired why my Rewards page on the app had not updated (even with my previous Gold card spend). Web chat asked about the bonus I was due and stated that it was not showing on my account (nor would it) and that is was a targeted offer not available to me.

      • AndyW says:

        21 May21 May 10:15

        Have you hit the required spend for the Plat? The rewards page didn’t update for me, and this is fairly typical, but the bonus hit once I had spent the £1,000. If you are not targeted this is always a punt (though one that generally works), and I think if you read the site and comments regularly this is clear.

      • Alan says:

        21 May21 May 12:11

        I’m just about to hit my £1K spend but don’t know wheher I’ll get the bonus or not. Hopefully I will but I know it was a bit of a punt. Prior to applying for upgrade I asked them whether I woudl be eligible for the 20K points _ i was told no but thought I’d chance it anyway. Hopefully, I’ll at least get the 18K points for referring my wife to a Gold CC from my platinum.

      • Alan says:

        22 May22 May 06:57

        Well, I’ve now gone through the £1K spend requirement and there is no sign of my 20K bonus points. Guess they aren’t giving them out to everybody anymore. The link didn’t mention that it was invite only which is slightly deceptive on AMEX’s part I think.

• Stu N says:

  21 May21 May 09:34

  OT: Any recommendations for hotel for Heathrow. Get into T3 at 2120 on a Sunday and out of T5 at 0700 on a Monday. T5 Sofitel would be a waste of money; is there anything directly connected to T2-T3 so I can jump on tube or Hex in the morning?

  • Grimz says:

    21 May21 May 09:54

    Premier Inn T4 – I got a family room for £33

    • Stu N says:

      21 May21 May 12:20

      Is a T4-T5 landside connection not a pain though?

      • Yan says:

        21 May21 May 13:15

        The free bus (482/490) from Premier Inn T4 goes to T5 as well

      • Roberto says:

        21 May21 May 13:17

        Its not a pian..
        Get the free bus outside
        Think its the 482 or 490 but its well signposted from both ends.
        And the Premier Inn at T4 is a great hotel for the price..

      • Nick M says:

        21 May21 May 13:45

        We did it with 2 children under 3 last summer, no issues at all…(plus parked at T5 Hilton to make it more convoluted!

        We need to fly out of T5 again next month for a weekend, but will need carseats etc this time – do people think the T5 Premier Inn will be a better option? Or any reasonable hotels that aren’t too expensive, have parking, family rooms and are easy enough to get to the terminal for an early flight with 2 seats?

      • Stu N says:

        21 May21 May 14:23

        The bus option makes much more sense – I was thinking T4-T5 was tube/train to T2 then change for T5. Given it’s £35 on my date vs £150ish for Sofitel and everything else is a bus ride away from T5 anyway, I reckon it’s got to be worth getting out of bed 20 minutes earlier to save £100+.

      • Leo says:

        21 May21 May 16:10

        I stayed at the Premier Inn at T4 in March flying out of T5 the following morning. I don’t really do buses if I can help it so used the train to T2/3 and then HEX. It took about 20 minutes. It was no hassle. I’d do it again.

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