Five UK Marriott hotels, mainly country clubs, are to leave the chain

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• Wally1976 says:

  4 Jul4 July 10:06

  OT – I’m a few hundred points short of an IHG redemption I want for tonight! If I buy the 1000 points do they post instantly? Otherwise will have to use cash+points. Thanks.

  • Wally1976 says:

    4 Jul4 July 10:07

    Just thought – I could transfer some over from my wife’s account for $5 – is that instant?

    • guesswho2000 says:

      4 Jul4 July 11:52

      No, I did this last year and it took a couple of days

  • BigSi says:

    4 Jul4 July 10:15

    I’ve called and asked them before for a small amount and they just gave me the points for free. Worth a shot.

• czechoslovakia says:

  4 Jul4 July 10:17

  90,000 avios dropped into my 3yo account nicely, cheers Rob. For reference, IB+ account only ever used for an infrequent dribble of Accor points, lastly in Jan this year.

• r* says:

  4 Jul4 July 10:28

  Whats the best option for using the Iberia avios for business flights to MLE? Searching ex-Mad/London seems to be turning up very few BA flights (are qatar not available for redemption on iberia site?)

  • Rob says:

    4 Jul4 July 10:32

    You must search for a return flight to find partner availability.

  • marcw says:

    4 Jul4 July 10:37

    Start from Athens, or somethings close to Doha. You save a big chunk of Avios doing it that way.

• CV3V says:

  4 Jul4 July 10:29

  90,000 points just landed in IB account. These will be redeemed for the cash equivalent of £900 of hotel rooms, great result.

  • Ian says:

    4 Jul4 July 11:01

    How do you get £900 out of 90,000. I’m looking at the hotel options, as I rather using BA voucher to get to Tokyo.

    Thanks.

    • CV3V says:

      4 Jul4 July 11:18

      In my case, i have spotted a hotel redemption for a hotel which is opening a new club lounge floor, the cash rates on hotels website for this are high, but its on discount/sale on IB website.

      i am looking at hotel redemption through Iberia, rather than transferring them out to BA and then ending up at minus 90000.

      Generally, i would expect the avios to worth about 0.5p each, so on 90k of avios it would equate to £450 of hotel rooms, then check against cost of cash booking to see how it compares.

      • Ian says:

        4 Jul4 July 11:26

        Thanks!

      • Jason says:

        4 Jul4 July 14:53

        Care to share hotel cvv

  • AndyW says:

    4 Jul4 July 18:32

    I saw the Edition in NY pretty cheap in March, close to a penny a point. Dates don’t work for me unfortunately

• MrK says:

  4 Jul4 July 10:44

  O/T:
  Had a look at the offers on my BA Amex and noticed that there’s this bonus avios offer from Kaligo where if we book more than £1,000 of hotel bookings within a qualifying period with the BA amex we’d get 20k extra points.
  Has anyone else seen this and is this worthwhile? I recently made a Kaligo booking but on a different card which I’m thinking about cancelling and rebooking using my BA Amex

  • Rob says:

    4 Jul4 July 11:53

    Covering this tomorrow. It is very good.

  • Anna says:

    4 Jul4 July 16:06

    Tempting…we have 3 nights in NYC next May and that could easily cost £1k for a decent hotel!

    • Mikeact says:

      4 Jul4 July 18:29

      In my experience with Kaligo, you need to compare like with like, and with the hotel itself…..assuming it’s coming out of your own Pocket.

• andy says:

  4 Jul4 July 10:46

  I have had my points credited, although it will not allow me to transfer to BA or Avios account? I seem to recall there was a post/comment that you can transfer to Aer Club? It doesn’t give you the option on the Iberia site, or Aer Club?

  • Paul says:

    4 Jul4 July 10:54

    No transfers can be made out of IB at present…they have obviously put a block on it

    • the real harry1 says:

      4 Jul4 July 11:09

      I just transferred 500 Avios IB—>avios.com, no problem at all 🙂

      • the real harry1 says:

        4 Jul4 July 11:14

        and now I just transferred 500 IB-BAEC (Mrs Harry not in HHA)

        so you CAN transfer IB Avios out again 🙂

      • andy says:

        4 Jul4 July 11:36

        Well I tried again, and I get the same message – combine my avios was unsuccessful

      • KingK says:

        4 Jul4 July 11:46

        Same here, only allows to transfer out non-promotional avios!
        Was successful in transferring old avios sitting in the account prior to the promotional ones credited.
        I suspect they have put a block on the promotional ones as widely expected?!

      • the real harry1 says:

        4 Jul4 July 11:49

        oh yeah, forgot to say I didn’t try transferring the promotional Avios, that would have been pointless 🙂

        these were odds & sods Avios outside the 90K, so they’re not ring-fenced

  • Rob says:

    4 Jul4 July 11:52

    Aer Club accounts ARE avios.com accounts. Use your account number as an avios.com number and it will work.

    • andy says:

      4 Jul4 July 12:10

      when i try to transfer on Iberia site, it gives the option of either transfer to Avios or BA? If I log in with my Avios account details, it still says unable to combine

      • the real harry1 says:

        4 Jul4 July 12:12

        you can’t transfer the ’90K’ Avios out of IB – they’re ring-fenced

• Sean says:

  4 Jul4 July 10:52

  Update from me – booked through the app and 3/5 have posted (27k avios). Will chase the other two, but just FYI in case anyone was worried they would not receive if booked through the app.

• Ian M says:

  4 Jul4 July 11:17

  My points have finally arrived and flight booked.

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