Hilton to open a hotel overlooking the Silverstone motor racing circuit

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• RC says:

  15 Sep15 September 09:18

  Annoyingly not seeing the co-op offer on my account

• Lee says:

  15 Sep15 September 09:28

  OT – hotel reward related
  Looks like Hilton has increased the points redemption rate yesterday quietly. Sweet spot
  DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Sheffield Park has went up to 20000 from 10000.

  • Nick_C says:

    15 Sep15 September 10:41

    Thanks for the heads up. Was a bargain, and I use it to visit family in Sheffield. Don’t think I’ll bother with Hilton Points in future. I see the Hampton in Sheffield has also gone to 20K points.

  • paulm says:

    15 Sep15 September 11:25

    Add the Hampton Liverpool Airport to the list of 10k to 20k.

  • John says:

    15 Sep15 September 14:20

    Also up to 20K: DT Johor, Hilton Salalah, HGI Krakow Airport, Hampton Gdansk Airport, Hampton Warsaw Airport, Hampton Minsk, DT Aqaba. HGI Tangier now 30K.

    If paid rates are cheap they may be less than 20K but unlikely to be as low as 10K any more.

    Still 10K: Hampton Newport (Wales), Hampton Krawow, DT Bratislava, some Turkish ones (HGI IST still 5K, but no point staying there once the new airport actually opens), DT Kuala Lumpur, Hilton Petaling Jaya.

• Optimus Prime says:

  15 Sep15 September 09:32

  OT – has anyone successfully applied for both Virgin Money credit cards?

  • Rob says:

    15 Sep15 September 10:22

    Needs 6 month gap and not 6 months old yet. Apparently. We will find out in 6-8 weeks I guess.

    • Optimus Prime says:

      15 Sep15 September 11:33

      Ok, thanks. Guess my OH will miss out on the 60k signup bonus for the Rewards+ Card since she first applied for the free one and the offer expires by end of this month 🙁

      • Mark1980 says:

        15 Sep15 September 19:28

        What was the 60k sign up?? Have I missed something?

      • swhostring says:

        15 Sep15 September 19:49

        4x 15K

  • Alan says:

    15 Sep15 September 11:11

    No, but with a lot of hassle I’ve managed to migrate from Rewards to Rewards+. Had to apply, get rejected, then call up to initiate request, then clear balance on existing card, then call back. They’ve promised existing credit limit will transfer across to new card and be eligible for sign-up bonus, will know in a week or so when it (hopefully) arrives!

• Mark2 says:

  15 Sep15 September 09:37

  OT
  I have looked at the referral links on my Platinum, SPG and BAPP cards and they all only allow applications for cards with the same reward currency.
  So it looks like they have reverted to the previous policy. Still it was very good while it lasted: we did seven referrals @ 18,000.

  • Graham Walsh says:

    15 Sep15 September 11:16

    Change browser and you should see other cards.

    • Louie says:

      15 Sep15 September 11:37

      Have a look and see if that still works for you. Doesn’t seem to work for anyone else, me included, any longer. Looks like a policy change.

      • RussellH says:

        15 Sep15 September 12:03

        Agreed. I used to need to use Opera to see the full range of cards offered as it did not work in Firefox. But not showing in Opera now either.

    • Mark2 says:

      15 Sep15 September 12:18

      I have tried on Edge, Chrome and Firefox with same result, unfortunately.

• Darren says:

  15 Sep15 September 10:10

  OT,

  BKK to city car service, any promos with Blacklane or similar available?

  • Rob says:

    15 Sep15 September 10:19

    10% off code from my recent article should still work.

    • Darren says:

      15 Sep15 September 12:06

      Thanks, will have a look

  • Roger says:

    15 Sep15 September 10:29

    On similar note, I need a transfer from SIN to Orchard Road, Marriott.
    Any Singapore expert here?

    Looking for best mode of transport, coming in late evening, departing early morning with a week’s stay in Singapore. Obviously with transport, will not be hiring car but with luggage would like easy airport transfer.

    • Axel Heyst says:

      15 Sep15 September 10:50

      Taxi or Uber S$24.

      Then use public transport or Uber like everyone else in Sing.

      • Alan says:

        15 Sep15 September 10:55

        Uber pulled out/were bought over by Grab earlier this year, not as good an app.

    • Memesweeper says:

      15 Sep15 September 12:46

      Grab Taxi

    • Pangolin says:

      15 Sep15 September 13:22

      From SIN there’s a reasonably priced shuttle bus which goes to many of the well known hotels.

      Don’t know if it stops at the Orchard Road Marriott but it did stop at the JWM South Beach (I just told the driver after buying the ticket and he took me there).

      You can buy tickets near the main exit/entrance. Grab is just okay – as others said, the app’s a bit crummy and drivers can end up at the wrong places for pickups.

  • BJ says:

    15 Sep15 September 19:43

    Why not just use a taxi, much cheaper and no hassle finding it.

• Stephen says:

  15 Sep15 September 10:57

  OT – similar to Simon’s post above, is there a website, or other way, to search for flights by date rather than destination (for points and/or cash)? Quite often we have a window of opportunity for travel, but with no particular destination in mind. As far as I can find there is nothing like this, and doing countless reward searches on ba.com is not ideal (and worse with the map tool gone).

  • Shoe string says:

    15 Sep15 September 11:01

    https://baredemptionfinder.com

    • Stephen says:

      15 Sep15 September 11:11

      I use that, but like most other tools requires a destination for a search. No way to say “show me all reward flights on the network from London to anywhere on a given date”.

      • Kevin says:

        15 Sep15 September 11:28

        Skyscanner has an ‘everywhere’ option. As an experiment I just looked to see where you could go if you left tomorrow, came back Tuesday. Cheapest is La Rochelle from Stanstead at £44 return. That’s searching from all London airports but you could put in Gatwick or Heathrow to everywhere.

      • Darren says:

        15 Sep15 September 12:16

        Ah, the days of the BA reward availability map….those were good days.

        The AA map below looks interesting.

      • John says:

        15 Sep15 September 14:23

        I believe you will need to buy Expertflyer or KVS or something like that to get what you want

    • pauldb says:

      15 Sep15 September 11:56

      https://www.aa.com/awardMap/home.do

• xcalx says:

  15 Sep15 September 11:20

  5% for me.

  • Wally1976 says:

    15 Sep15 September 22:05

    And me :-(. Maxed out the 10% last time on both First Direct and Nationwide paying council tax though!

• Peter K says:

  15 Sep15 September 11:29

  I withdrew £10 yesterday from an ATM on curve linked to IHG premium card to see what will happen. I’ll report back when it stops pending.

  • Roger says:

    15 Sep15 September 11:41

    Done the same on white card, nothing to update yet.

    • Dan says:

      15 Sep15 September 11:46

      Argh. The frustration for me is that was announced with zero notice. No matter what the new improved offer might be, curve have self inflicted some reputational damage here.

    • Peter K says:

      15 Sep15 September 13:30

      Agreed @Dan. Trust is hard to gain but easy to lose… especially when you are a faceless company like a fintech is.

  • John says:

    15 Sep15 September 13:41

    The improved offer may be that Amex can be used again. If that’ turns out to be true I guess you’ll forget all about this “reputational damage” and happily continue using Curve

    • Shoe string says:

      15 Sep15 September 13:49

      giveth/ taketh away —> taketh away this time? or both?

      My guess: no HMRC, but Amex coming back

    • Shoe string says:

      15 Sep15 September 13:50

      and in that case, I might demean myself with ATM withdrawals to hit spend targets 🙂

    • Dan says:

      15 Sep15 September 14:29

      I’m not sure. I think the introduction of amex *might* be a reasonable trade off – but I find I don’t shop too many places that don’t already accept Amex now – so it would be largely useless to me.

      Unless, of course, the loophole remains!

    • AT says:

      15 Sep15 September 17:39

      Amex is much more widely accepted than it used to be. I put very little value on being able to charge an extra few hundred quid to Amex (or for that matter, a few hundred quid of cash withdrawals).

      The value comes from being able to pay tens of thousands of pounds of tax. Very disappointed to lose that. On the same day my regular Hiltons shot up from 10k to 20k points…..

      My free Etihad custom luggage tags arrived, but I’d rather have all the points I got from paying taxes via curve last year.

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