Marriott West India Quay hotel in London refurbishes – a good value redemption

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• Graeme says:

  30 Aug30 August 14:30

  If you were still receiving the STTM for free following the generous Avios offer around 2 years ago, I advise you to check your bank account. I’ve had £30 taken off on the 28th despite cancelling a year ago and receiving the magazine since then. I should have cancelled the DD!

  I’ve emailed customer service to have this refunded.

  • Robman says:

    30 Aug30 August 17:49

    I posted this yesterday which might be helpful to others.
    Off-topic warning re those of you with a Sunday Times travel magazine subscription.
    I had cancelled my subscription after the first year with Sunday Times magazine and cancelled the direct debit at my bank. I continued to receive the magazine for the next year and was still receiving it without having been charged the annual subscription fee. Yesterday, another £30.00 was taken from my account. I contacted the magazines customer service and was informed that they had taken over the subscription payment service from a previous company and they had reloaded all the direct debits for annual subscriptions as they had realised that the payments for the previous year had not been taken as they should have been.

    Anyway, I have now cancelled the subscription again and the direct debit at the bank. The gentleman at the customer services told me that they would process a refund and send me a cheque in the next couple of weeks. Just wanted to warn anyone who was still receiving the magazine gratuitously to watch out for the reloading of the direct debit on your subscription anniversary.

  • Kevin says:

    30 Aug30 August 18:19

    I now get two copies of the TLS every week.

    • Robman says:

      30 Aug30 August 23:35

      Poor you! I got this too, what an absolute bore of a magazine!

      • Rob says:

        31 Aug31 August 08:22

        Bet it impresses the neighbours when they pop round though ….

• New Card says:

  30 Aug30 August 14:53

  OT – has anyone had a retention offer recently on either the Amex BAPP or Amex Platinum cards, when calling to cancel? I know about the SPG offer some have got. Thank you!

  • the_real_a says:

    31 Aug31 August 13:04

    Since the call center has moved/expanded/re-routed to the Philippines the offshore techniques need to be used to get what you want. You need to be totally blunt and ask directly what you want. Ask them to pull up the retention offers on their system and ask for double points for x months or a partial refund on your annual fee.

• The Original Nick says:

  30 Aug30 August 19:51

  Has TRH gone off the radar again? I miss his humour!

  • Mike says:

    31 Aug31 August 09:02

    I miss Harry

• Neil Donoghue says:

  30 Aug30 August 20:11

  OT: I’m in T3 tonight flying to Spain on an Iberia ticket. Stupidly I only noticed the flight is being operated by Vueling. Rob, I know you’ve done a massive article about this in the past and BA tickets. Is it safe to assume the rules are the same and I’m not entitled to any lounge access as a BA Silver member.

  • Rob says:

    30 Aug30 August 22:24

    Not sure with BA status on an IB flight code on a Vueling plane! I guess no. Let us know tomorrow ….

    • Nick says:

      30 Aug30 August 23:59

      No, BA lounge access on a VY flight is only allowed with a BA code and ticket. That’s not to say you won’t get a generous lounge agent, but it’s against the access rules so you can’t complain if they say no,

      • Lumma says:

        31 Aug31 August 01:26

        You still don’t get any lounge access on a vueling flight with a BA code with silver. Need to be gold and no guests I believe

    • Neil Donoghue says:

      31 Aug31 August 16:57

      @Rob – Thanks for all the comments and replies. This was an Iberia ticket not a BA ticket, and was a codeshare with Vueling. I walked straight in to the Qantas lounge last night without any problems. I must confess, the girl at the counter (Michelle) did remember me from 3 days ago. I’ll be flying back to London tomorrow and then coming back to Spain on Tuesday (I have 4 return legs booked with Iberia / Vueling and will try the BA lounge on Tuesday. Rob, i’ll keep you posted by email.

• GabeS says:

  30 Aug30 August 22:09

  Hi all
  Can anyone advise please where to find the Gold to Platinum upgrade on your account,or is there a link?
  Come across it in the past but lost it now!

  • GabeS says:

    31 Aug31 August 06:36

    Thank you TG

    • Pug206 says:

      31 Aug31 August 15:50

      +1

• DaveL says:

  31 Aug31 August 00:05

  OT – Weird goings on with my SPG card. My balance for transactions over the last month appears to have been adjusted for the change to Marriot points – I.e 3 for every £1 I spend. On £700 spend I’ve had 2,100 points. However, I’ve just hit the sign on bonus this month and had 11,000 points credited (10k + 1k referral). So my ‘starwood’ balance to be transferred, according to Amex is just over 13k. Shouldn’t this now be 33k points, or have they just devalued the sign-on bonus by a factor of three for me, as I was stuck in the middle during the changeover?! My current balance is a messy mix of old points and new ones.

• Ian says:

  31 Aug31 August 06:49

  OT!!

  This website badly needs some sort of forum now. Came to the comments to see if there was much discussion about the McLaren offer, and nothing but 10 different OTs with people asking different questions.

  A small, simple forum would resolve this, and the comments can return to being comments.

  • Rob says:

    31 Aug31 August 08:19

    Are you volunteering to moderate it?!

    In general random stuff tends to go under a ‘Bits’ article. The other daily articles tend to have more structured comments.

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