The new Club Aspire airport lounge is now open in London Gatwick’s North Terminal

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• the_real_a says:

  13 Jun13 June 12:14

  I had a weeks car hire for £130 via europacar/advantage last year for a road trip. The service is appalling – the staff REALLY do not care, its so bad that its quite funny if you can connect with them a little. The great was new and in good condition. Watch out for the toll transmitter if fitted, mine was “working” even in the off position which despite declining the use, charged $30 a day for the full length of the rental. I needed to do a charge-back via AMEX.

  • the_real_a says:

    13 Jun13 June 12:14

    great = car!

  • pauldb says:

    13 Jun13 June 15:32

    I don’t think there’s much point trying to create a reference for this type of thing as price is the most important thing and fluctuates so much. I can see Advantage as the cheapest for a 2 week SUV at MCO in August – £316, and that’s what I’d take, regardless of the reviews (I believe they are on-airport, not shuttle). I just ensure I know how not to get ripped off.
    We hired from Hertz there at Easter, £364 for 2 weeks full size SUV. We got a rather tired Toyota Highlander (as a Presidents Circle member) and the staff were equally disinterested. The only emotion shown was incredulity that I wouldn’t take a “special discounted upgrade” that cost more than the rental to a newer Chevy Tahoe.
    Incidentally if you have Hertz status (through Amex Plat) and book a mid-size at the main US stations, they will typically offer a good choice of cars, called Ultimate Choice, which should dependably include 5 seater SUVs as well as premium cars – it just didn’t work out for me as we needed 7 seats.

• Dougie Forde says:

  13 Jun13 June 13:15

  OT About a week and a half ago I added by telephone the second leg of a 2 for 1 flight with BA. The flight is appearing on my account but no Avios have so far been deducted and no payment for taxes and charges has appeared on the credit card. Is this normal? How long should I wait. Concerned that the flight may disappear!

  • Dougie Forde says:

    13 Jun13 June 13:16

    Also noticed there is no ticket number allocated for the return flight but there is one for the outgoing flight

  • Genghis says:

    13 Jun13 June 13:19

    The flight won’t disappear. It needs to be manually processed by the back office team and should be in due course closer to when you fly (most likely not yet ticketed, though I have seen it both ways). If you’re in a rush to cancel the credit card, last time I contacted BA by Twitter and got a call back with payment taken. If not, I would’t worry now but make sure it’s ticketed closer to the time.

    • Dougie Forde says:

      13 Jun13 June 13:44

      Thanks Genghis, that’s good to know. Appreciate that.

  • Lee says:

    13 Jun13 June 15:28

    I got same problem, I called after two weeks then been told the first agent forgot to add £35 change fee to the booking so the tickets couldn’t be issued. Tickets was issued 3 days after I give BA the credit card authorise for extra £70.

    • Louie says:

      13 Jun13 June 23:51

      Was this adding on return flights that you couldn’t book when you booked the outbound because the return date was beyond T-355? If so, you shouldn’t have been charged a change fee in any case.

• james says:

  13 Jun13 June 14:39

  OT- I’m flying LHR-JFK with BA, then after a few days JFK-CUN with AA , then CUN-LGW-LHR-MAN again all with BA.

  I have AMEX Gold with 2 long passes, any idea which of the airports lounges above would be best to use the 2 lounge passes?

• Darren says:

  13 Jun13 June 15:06

  OT, I referred a friend for SPG from Platinum last week, how long would it take for them to be accepted? They got the normal “we will get back to you” online response but have not had a letter or email yet.

  Thanks

  • Mark says:

    13 Jun13 June 16:09

    in my experience there card arrives first, then an email about going paperless and then the acceptance email. usually around 5-7 days YMMV.

    • Mark says:

      13 Jun13 June 16:13

      *the card

      • Darren says:

        13 Jun13 June 19:24

        Thank you

  • thehornets says:

    13 Jun13 June 16:09

    Took about 6 days when I did one recently

• No Ads for me says:

  13 Jun13 June 17:20

  o/t Is it just me or is anyone else seeing the HFP page fail to load completely (just left with blank page) if an ad blocker is turned on? (safari on mac)

  Turn the ad blocker off and the page loads.

  • the real harry1 says:

    13 Jun13 June 17:22

    Haven’t you basically solved your little conundrum already? 🙂

    • No Ads for me says:

      13 Jun13 June 17:26

      No, as I refuse to have ad’s forced on me. If this is an attempt to block those making a free choice to avoid ad’s, it’s a really bad choice.

  • Rob says:

    13 Jun13 June 19:08

    That shouldn’t happen. We have set up a banner at the top which tells you that some articles will not render properly if you have an adblocker (which is true, as you have seen from the many moans on here in recent weeks). You can dismiss the banner and it will not return. It should not stop the page loading and you are welcome to keep reading regardless.

    Not a single other person has reported this happening today and we have done – at 7pm – 14,000 page views today via Safari.

    The % using Safari is also unchanged – 39% today vs 40% yesterday before the banner went up. Our Safari for the last month is 38% so we’re actually above trend today.

• No Ads for me says:

  13 Jun13 June 17:35

  Only seems to be in Safari. Chrome has the little red banner pop up (easily closed) but loads without ad’s

• the real harry1 says:

  13 Jun13 June 20:01

  O/T Xmas Saver – turning water into wine – so today I headed to a bigger T and they happily turned my Xmas Saver TD purchase back into points, enough nearly to fly 4 of us out RHS one way @ peak ie 30K Avios. Not bad at about £25/ ticket (+ the £17.50 fee on top). I make it 0.33p/ Avios.

  This bigger T had an automated system that could see via transaction ID that I paid in points so refunded me in points, there was no phoning up or other contact with TD apart from the jock on the service desk processing the refund. My forward XS strategy might be to use only the bigger Ts, because the smaller Ts don’t have the system to see if you paid in points/coupons or cash (or mix) so it might be more difficult to get a refund in points. Going to try with a small store TV or something like that come November.

  • Genghis says:

    13 Jun13 June 20:07

    Surely you’re buying at 1/2.4p = 0.42p? Not fancy keeping this deal to yourself? I wouldn’t be publicising such a great scheme.

    • the real harry1 says:

      13 Jun13 June 20:13

      0.42p it is 🙂 always check the math when Harry’s in town lol

      I’ve always been far too sharing, guilty m’lud – but with the demise of TD, most others won’t be bothered to try their luck I’m sure.

      • Genghis says:

        13 Jun13 June 20:19

        I’m sure many will be come the time if you can buy £1 of Uber Credit for 33p say. More difficult of course without TD but I’ll just buy stuff from larger Tescos

      • the real harry1 says:

        13 Jun13 June 20:35

        If you can order non-food item online (whether thru Gr or TD lite), you’ll have an order ID same as now, so if you decide you don’t want the item, that is as good as your receipt to get a refund. A bigger T should be able to refund you onto the payment method/s you used.

    • lev441 says:

      13 Jun13 June 20:18

      Sharing is caring Genghis! 😉

      @TRH1 – When did you make the purchase? Must have been in the last 30 days otherwise they wouldn’t have given you a refund? Also – I know the TD refund process worked on a different system than the store system so this may not work again!

      • the real harry1 says:

        13 Jun13 June 20:23

        that’s what we need to test come XS 2018 (November onwards)

        same principle should apply in theory

        jock on the till said T is still going to have online ordering of non-food items, limited range, maybe some kind of TD lite?

    • BJ says:

      13 Jun13 June 21:25

      There is a huge peach at Tesco that has never been publicised here or elsewhere as far as I can tell. I did share it with somebody but they have never mentionec it either.

      • the real harry1 says:

        13 Jun13 June 21:51

        you okra tell us about that one 🙂

      • BJ says:

        13 Jun13 June 22:03

        If anybody has all the tesco tools and know-how at their disposal to figure it out then it is you Harry. However, I just found out by accident. Your comments today were lukewarm in some respect!

  • Jimbob says:

    13 Jun13 June 22:29

    Sorry for the newb question – but can’t you directly turn Xmas saver vouchers into Avios?

    • the real harry1 says:

      13 Jun13 June 22:33

      no, that’s the point here

• Allan says:

  13 Jun13 June 21:48

  Got the MBNA letter today for my Miles & More card, converting to a horizon one. Any ideas on how this will affect miles expiry – will the 36 month ago flights drop off instantly? Need to spend those miles otherwise.

  • the real harry1 says:

    13 Jun13 June 21:55

    Your miles expire in September

    • Rob says:

      13 Jun13 June 22:26

      That is the worse case scenario, yes. Need to see what the mysterious letter from LH brings.

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