Get a 20% bonus on hotel and credit card points transfers to Etihad Guest

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• Chris says:

  4 Oct4 October 09:16

  I ordered a lot of wine from Aldi in the summer for our wedding. Whilst they were taking amex by that point they weren’t on the website which was very annoying. They may do now of course

  • Anna says:

    4 Oct4 October 12:21

    Yes I just placed an order and paid by Amex. I need to find a new Merlot to replace the my favourite Californian one which only Tesco Wine stocked!

• rob says:

  4 Oct4 October 09:22

  OT

  Really appreciate some help with this:

  My mothers PRGC had a date of 2nd October to hit her 20k points signup bonus. When I called her on the 2nd, the bonus was still showing as live although she hadnt yet made the 2k spend. I franatically got her to make a purchase, taking her over the 2k spend within the hour.

  She hasn’t receieved the bonus though. I can only assume it’s because the purchase was ‘pending’ or 2nd October meant midnight 1st October rather than midnight 2nd October.

  DOes anyone have any advice with this? SHould I speak to Amex and argue a case?

  Thanks in Advance

  • fivebobbill says:

    4 Oct4 October 09:31

    If the bonus doesn’t add just call Amex CS, you’d have to get a real jobsworth wouldn’t add them manually…

    • Benylin says:

      4 Oct4 October 11:38

      It takes a few days to process

• Oli says:

  4 Oct4 October 09:31

  So can we just book a prepaid hotel through Expedia through this and stay next year to get the 7000? Anything to look out for?

• Rts says:

  4 Oct4 October 09:43

  Still got sweet FA on any of my cards bar the Selfridge’s offer.

• Stoneman says:

  4 Oct4 October 09:43

  OT:

  Thinking of a holiday to Australia next year but wondering whether to hit Qatar to Canberra now from Oslo or wait for the sale. 2k per person at the moment; are sale prices that much cheaper? Any experience?

  • KevMc says:

    4 Oct4 October 10:13

    You should be able to get it down to at least £1500ish per person in the Qatar December/January sale (I think the lowest was £1350 last year), assuming you are free to travel outside the school holidays?

    • Stoneman says:

      4 Oct4 October 10:19

      Yes I am free to travel whenever so it looks like I am best holding off then. Thanks.

    • LM says:

      4 Oct4 October 10:25

      Is this sale likely to happen? It has been a long time since a decent Qatar sale it seems…

  • Stuart P says:

    4 Oct4 October 11:23

    Assuming you’re not actually visiting Canberra, Oslo to Canberra is a lot of faff either side. I would look for a deal that only requires positioning at one end. We did Stockholm to Sydney and Melbourne back to Stockholm for £1300 in may with Qatar, but they (qr) haven’t had a sale that good in a year now, so no guarantee. Etihad were doing a deal from Stockholm for 1900eur recently.

• Nick says:

  4 Oct4 October 10:01

  So Rob, hypothetically, if an airport operator says ‘you can use my lounge but it’s this price and it’s take it or leave it’ but that price is very high, what do you suggest BA should do? Pay up but be less profitable, not pay and not have a lounge (they’re not exactly key destinations), or perhaps pull the route completely? Is your ‘campaign’ to have a lounge at any cost?

  • Alex W says:

    4 Oct4 October 11:17

    Lounge access is supposed to be included in the price of Club Europe tickets. Otherwise you’re just paying extra for an empty middle seat and a prawn salad.

    • Shoestring says:

      4 Oct4 October 15:33

      You could always be paying (in cheap IB points) for an empty middle, a prawn salad, x2 checked luggage, x3 or 4 lounges in T3 🙂

      Main issue seems to be getting BA to accept the checked luggage more than 3 hrs before take off. Anybody got any ideas? I wouldn’t mind 4+ hrs in the lounges.

      • Rob says:

        4 Oct4 October 15:38

        There is no ‘opening time’ for the desks on CE tickets. You can check in as early as you want – albeit at outstations you’re unlikely to find a BA desk open to accept your luggage. No problem in London though.

  • Rob says:

    4 Oct4 October 11:47

    You have to assume that the airport is charging a commercially sensible rate, or the lounge would have no customers! And if it costs £5 more than other lounges, bung it onto the fare. Remember that a lot of BA routes don’t have any competition for Business Class passengers.

    • Rich says:

      4 Oct4 October 12:57

      I guess they also have to factor in the cost of people with gold and silver cards who travel in great numbers in economy seats to European leisure destinations, plus their guests? And the seller of lounge space has to manage volumes to avoid revenue damaging ‘service issues’ caused by over crowding.

    • Doug M says:

      4 Oct4 October 13:21

      Also say BA know that AY are paying €15 and BA are being asked €23 maybe that makes for a ‘No’ decision. We really don’t know what’s behind it.

  • Michael Jennings says:

    4 Oct4 October 14:21

    I flew Club Europe back from Bordeaux a couple of weeks ago. I wasn’t expecting a lounge due to having read things here before, but I was asked at check-in if I wanted to use the lounge. I was in a bit of a hurry and the lounge was closing – the BA flight to London was the last flight of the day. The lady running the lounge was taking the food away as I entered, but at least I had a quick gin and tonic.

    Not the fanciest lounge I have ever been in, but adequate, I think.

• Bob says:

  4 Oct4 October 10:29

  For the £250 spend / 7k points offer – just to clarify it can be on multiple transactions with the specified retailers totalling £250? Not limited to one transaction of £250+?

  Thanks

  • Shoestring says:

    4 Oct4 October 11:01

    Can’t see the T&Cs but check whether the spend should all be with the same retailer, if so, multiple transactions (cumulative spend) would normally be OK

• Rum says:

  4 Oct4 October 12:06

  No offers on either Plat or Gold for me too. The Gold one is going next month due to a lack of offers. It’s been over five months that I’ve had the card and the offers have been pathetic. Should be able to get a BAPP again from November so will be going to that too and using my IHG Premium card in between.
  The Plat has more offers in general, but the offering is still really quite poor for me.

  • RakishDriver says:

    4 Oct4 October 20:10

    I have found the Plat to have more offers compared to previous Golds.
    SPG zilch, though I’ve only just had my first statement, likewise BA card.
    I wonder how they allocate the limited offers; random, or if using specific algo(s), based on what, previous spend, stores?
    I did notice last year that lower spending family members would get the juicer offers on their referred golds.. maybe they keep chopping/changing

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