New World of Hyatt bonus points promotion launched – but it isn’t an easy one

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• Jim Nicholson says:

  1 Sep1 September 07:30

  I had an offer on my BA Amex card of an extra 12500 Avios if I spent at least £415 on Avios (25000).

  • AndyR says:

    1 Sep1 September 08:13

    There was an article on Weds about that https://headforpoints.com/2018/08/29/buy-avios-promotion-british-airways-american-express-cardholders/

• KevMc says:

  1 Sep1 September 07:31

  O/T as bits. What is the best number to ring to add a return leg to a 2-4-1 booking when the flights are released? Is it still the US number 1 800 452 1201?

  • Bonglim says:

    1 Sep1 September 11:59

    I think the US number closes just when the tickets are released.
    I have used Japan in the past and it worked really well. I had a problem when booking a return flight on a weekend, that almost all the offices are closed Sat night / sunday morning – ended up calling the iran number (which is open on Sunday as not a weekend). The Iran number was a London 020 number, but just opened a little earlier than the UK BA number.

    I never have enough ‘spare’ avois, but someone mentioned that you can buy the flights with normal avois at release time online, then call and they will add it as a 2-4-1 and return avois and the difference in taxes in the morning.

    • KevMc says:

      1 Sep1 September 15:40

      Thanks I will try the Japanese number (I don’t need to ring until Tuesday night).

  • Annabelle says:

    1 Sep1 September 22:09

    I phoned the Japan BA office at 1am uk time when they opened ( 9am their time ) to return return leg of 2-4-1 booking just two days ago. Answered by Indian call centre associate who didn’t really know what he was doing. He asked why I can’t do it myself. I explained I couldn’t plus it was an open jaw booking! Took about 45 minutes. Bit stressful but worth it as I think the flights would’ve gone by 6am uk time. Good luck!

• Bill says:

  1 Sep1 September 07:41

  I saved the TripAdvisor offer on the 22nd. I paid a holiday rental balance on the 27th. Still not had a credit. TripAdvisor payment sent me via PayPal

  • KevMc says:

    1 Sep1 September 08:06

    It probably won’t work if you pay via PayPal – most of the Amex offfers state that the transaction has to be paid using the card directly and can’t be via a payment portal such as paypal, Apple Pay etc.

  • Tom says:

    1 Sep1 September 08:08

    You might need to ring Amex about that – the Offer Terms exclude transactions made “using third party Payment Aggregators”, which I think includes Paypal.

    • Bill says:

      1 Sep1 September 10:34

      Ok thanks for the replies. I don’t recall seeing any other payment option besides PayPal. I’ll take your advice and contact them

• Roger says:

  1 Sep1 September 08:02

  OT but this EK offer:
  How can I split one booking into multiple payments?
  For example, if the booking amount is £3200+ and if I want to use four card, is it possible.
  Booking will involve Children, so unable to make single booking per person exceeding £800+

  Any pointers appreciated

  • David says:

    1 Sep1 September 09:42

    Can you book it over the phone?

• Steve-B says:

  1 Sep1 September 08:39

  OT – I see that Creation have finally posted points to IHG account for last months spending (sorry if previously reported, have been ‘offline’ for last couple of days)

• Brian says:

  1 Sep1 September 08:49

  For clarity, it seems that ONLY the four UK MGallery hotels mentioned by Rob are participating in this Amex offer – others in other countries aren’t on the list.

• Nori says:

  1 Sep1 September 09:20

  OT. Still no sign of the new IHG Accelerate offer?

• Steve R says:

  1 Sep1 September 09:46

  O/T Looking to use Avios for Miami to Barbados next July – seeing virtually nothing, absolutely, but loads of reward flights to other the Islands.

  Would look at the other Islands but all return flights to the UK are to LGW, which is of no use, as the car will be at Manchester

  Any clues?

  Thanks

  Thanks

  • Rob says:

    1 Sep1 September 11:53

    Don’t drive to Manchester?!

  • Peter K says:

    1 Sep1 September 14:33

    Hire a car one way from LGW to Manchester?

  • Anna says:

    1 Sep1 September 20:14

    The Bahamas flight goes to Heathrow, you can connect to Manchester from there.

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