Priority Pass guest fee for American Express Platinum cardholders rising to £20

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• Mike G says:

  31 Aug31 August 16:18

  The PriorityPass changes are a pain in the backside for us, as my wife regularly travels with our two kids but without me. That means we have to pay the lounge fee which, at £15 was borderline acceptable, but at £20 is not.

• Nick G says:

  31 Aug31 August 16:47

  Has anyone had issues trying to use their Curve card (linked to my IHG) to purchase foreign currency in the UK? Had my card declined at Thomas Exchange earlier this week and it had happened previously at another place.

  • Rob says:

    31 Aug31 August 17:12

    May be coded as ‘financial services’ and so blocked (although their blocking is very random as most people have realised!)

  • Memesweeper says:

    31 Aug31 August 20:11

    Standard for it to be blocked. There’s nothing you can do.

• Mark says:

  31 Aug31 August 17:36

  Apologies if I have missed but is there any more news on the new Marriott credit card?

  • Rob says:

    31 Aug31 August 17:53

    No

• Russell Evans says:

  31 Aug31 August 18:16

  Slightly OT, related to Lounge Access and may well have been covered elsewhere but I’ve been offered, as a Vodafone customer, the option of buying an annual Dragonpass for £20 including one free visit. Not sure whether that represents good value or not, I don’t need it, but the details, for fellow Vodafone customers are here: https://offers.vodafone.com/gb/offer/details/gb-dragonpass-standalone-PK_DragonPass

  • GeoffGeoff says:

    31 Aug31 August 19:28

    I think that must be a targetted offer as the link doesn’t work for me.

    • Crafty says:

      31 Aug31 August 19:50

      You have to log in.

      It should be open to all Vodafone pay monthly customers.

  • Joe87 says:

    31 Aug31 August 21:44

    Dragon Pass website says you can buy access for guests and additional visits past the free first one for £16 in the FAQs. I took the Vodafone offer out as didn’t think it was too bad but to buy guest access or extra visit the actually charge is £20 so feeling abit misled and ripped off.

    • tartan says:

      1 Sep1 September 11:30

      You can buy single visit DragonPass access for £18.50 via the telegraph (you don’t have to have to be a subscriber – use the code TELEDP16). If you are only using lounges a few times a year then this might work out cheaper than a subscription

      • tartan says:

        1 Sep1 September 11:30

        Forgot the link : https://thetelegraph.dragonpassuk.com/

• Tracy says:

  31 Aug31 August 18:24

  O/T my husbands iberia avios from the 9k promotion finally posted today. He wants to move them from IB to BA. However, he is unable to do it on either BA or Avios. Both sites say “sorry your login details have not been recognised” for the Iberia part. He is definitely inputting the correct login that allows him to login through Iberia website and he even did combine my avios for 1 avios from BA to IB on the IB website. Any ideas?

  • simon says:

    31 Aug31 August 18:45

    We higly recommend you to enter your profile using Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox due to compatibility settings.
    quote I got when I had similar issues

    • Tracy says:

      31 Aug31 August 19:40

      And did it work?

      • RussellH says:

        31 Aug31 August 23:04

        Firefox almost always (95%) woks for me, but if you run Ghostery you must pause it in der to move your avios

  • Callum says:

    31 Aug31 August 22:15

    You are aware that this risks effectively blocking both his Iberia and BA accounts after Iberia take back the Avios in December? BA and Iberia balances will eventually merge into one.

• Graham Walsh says:

  31 Aug31 August 22:21

  OT Referring g/f from my Amex Plat to SPG and it says that I’ll get 9k points. That isn’t right is it? If I change the card to Amex Plat it says 18k points. Anyone else know why?

  • Mark2 says:

    31 Aug31 August 22:47

    My wife got 18,000 for referring me from Plat to SPG last week.

• Andrew S says:

  1 Sep1 September 02:08

  OT: Anyone waiting on SPG Amex points on retention offer/welcome bonus to be corrected as 3 Points/GBP, I had this from an Amex Rep:

  “Yes, all Starpoints not yet converted to points at a 1:3 ratio will be corrected by mid-September. This includes welcome bonus and adjustment/retention startpoints previously issued.”

  So I would be checking back in a few weeks to make sure they’ve been adjusted correctly.

  • Rob says:

    1 Sep1 September 11:54

    Thanks. I was sure it would work out in the end – Amex is not totally daft.

  • Jay says:

    3 Sep3 September 12:36

    Hoping this is the case as speaking to Amex this morning they were adamant the 11k Starpoints bonus would not be tripled in value following a case being opened to look into this for me.

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