American Express and Preferred Hotels launch an ‘extra night’ offer

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• BJ says:

  14 Oct14 October 06:38

  Got an offer from amex platinum for a 2* Michelin dining weekend at Conrad St’James from 23-25/11. £850 for two includes 2 nights hotel, afternoon tea at hotel on 23, a tour of 3x Michelin starred restaurants with started, main and dessert each being at a different venue. Transport provided by vintage red bus, shopping event at Mulberry. Sunday lunch hosted by Chris Galvin at Galvin.

  • Rob says:

    14 Oct14 October 08:24

    I got this – decent hotel and worth a look if you like that sort of thing.

    • BJ says:

      14 Oct14 October 08:41

      Rates are starting at £265/night for those dates so there is definitely value in it for those into fine dining. Could also be a good option for those witb something s
      pecial to celebrate.

      • Shoestring says:

        14 Oct14 October 17:06

        6 months anniversary with yer fella?

• Alex W says:

  14 Oct14 October 07:30

  Can the preferred hotels free night offer be stacked with “spend £600 at Amex travel get £200 back” offer? Thanks.

  • Tom1 says:

    14 Oct14 October 09:42

    Or the FHR?

    • TGLoyalty says:

      14 Oct14 October 10:34

      There’s a special landing page so I don’t think so

    • Alan says:

      14 Oct14 October 17:03

      Definitely not FHR, they’re specifically excluded in the T&Cs as has to be full prepayment.

• Phillip says:

  14 Oct14 October 07:33

  Krisflyer : similarly to South America redemptions, it is also one of the cheapest (in miles) for redeeming in North America (USA and Canada) where on some of the trans cons, you get widebody aircraft. Air Canada often operates 777/787 between Toronto and Vancouver. Just 20k one way in business, 30k in first. They are also one of the best options for redeeming to Hawaii from the US on Star Alliance.

• Marcw says:

  14 Oct14 October 08:32

  I guess the KrisFlyer option in southamerica is limited as only Avianca is the star alliance partner there

  • Andrew M says:

    14 Oct14 October 11:01

    Copa also can be used for Krisflyer redemptions within South America even though Panama City isn’t technicaly within that region. I made a 40,000 Krisflyer Biz redemption earlier this year on the folowing route, Santiago de Chile – Panama City – Quito – Bogota – Santiago de Chile using a mixture of Copa and Avianca flights. The Copa 737 has an OK business class with 2+2 seating but it’s not lie flat so not great for the long SCL-PTY overnight flight. Biz on the Avianca 787 was lovely,

    • Brian says:

      14 Oct14 October 12:33

      May I ask how you searched for flights? I’ve never used Krisflyer but I do use Avios and fly to South America quite a bit. I would certainly make use of good avios redemption fares if I could find them!

      • Andrew M says:

        14 Oct14 October 12:55

        I used the United Airlines website to check for avalibility and then booked over the phone with Singapore Airlines. Obviously you can’t use Avios of these flights. In this case the currency is Krisflyer Miles. You could use your Avios on LATAM’s extensive network in South America though, booking through the BAEC website.

• CV3V says:

  14 Oct14 October 09:28

  For Preferred Hotels offer, just to stress the point that it is a limited list of hotels, you need to go via the offer booking page to see what’s available.

• Whizz68 says:

  14 Oct14 October 09:36

  OT: HI, Does anyone know any good Avios/MR redemptions for flights between LA, San Francisco, and San Diego?
  Thank you,
  Have a good weekend!

  • Stu_N says:

    14 Oct14 October 10:02

    You can use Avios on AA. Find reward availability on AA.com – has to be MilesAAver awards – and book on BA.com. Rob has written articles about it. You can also use Avios on Alaskan who may cover those cities
    post-acquisition of Virgin America.

    Delta are an Amex MR partner too I think so that’s another possibility.

    • Mikeact says:

      14 Oct14 October 10:07

      I have a Delta reward booked between SFO and San Diego, € (not $) 24.16, Business return.

      • Mikeact says:

        14 Oct14 October 12:05

        It was only 22k burning on AF miles, even less on Economy, 11k and 5euros cheaper as well if you want to go down the back !

  • Lyn says:

    14 Oct14 October 10:21

    You might want to take a look at cash fares as well as redemptions, because they may be better value.

    For instance, Alaska’s fares on the SAN – SFO and LAX – SFO routes are sometimes around $50 or $60 one-way, and you can search using their low fare calendar a month at a time.

    The SAN – LAX market is different. There is less competition and the planes are small and basically full of passengers connecting to and from flights (especially international) at LAX. So the standalone fares are often quite high, in which case redemptions can sometimes make more sense even though it is such a short distance. It’s a pity BA stopped their 4,500 avios redemptions in the U.S. because they were useful for a route like this. A lot of people take the train instead.

    • BJ says:

      14 Oct14 October 10:38

      Agree, I would not burn miles on those routes unless cash rates were so high. Don’t forget there are other airports in the area apart from LAX and SFO. If you have the time it is really worth it to drive from Vegas to San Francisco via Yosemite and along the coast between SF and LA. I’d even recommend taking days off each city to accommodate this. If you don’t want to drive there are coach tours that do the same.

      • Peter K says:

        14 Oct14 October 10:44

        I’ve a friend who drove San Francisco to San Diego via Yosemite and Death Valley (he hired a big truck) a few years ago and it was the highlight of his holiday.

      • RakishDriver says:

        14 Oct14 October 13:38

        In addition, drive from LA further south and hit the beach communities and surrounding ( Newport, Laguna, Dana point, San Clemente etc.) and stay around there…you could then drive further south to San Diego ; nice Marriott (!) with rooftop in gaslamp quarter.

    • Nick says:

      14 Oct14 October 10:48

      The train service between LA and Dan Diego is excellent, it’s quick, cheap and frequent and I would only fly if I had a connection from another longer flight. LAX-SFO is also a good journey but significantly longer… fortunately there’s more competition on airfares on this route so it can be better value (and there’s more redemption opportunity).

  • Rob says:

    14 Oct14 October 11:05

    Alaska is probably the way but can’t be booked online.

  • Whizz68 says:

    14 Oct14 October 16:55

    Thank you everyone.

• xcalx says:

  14 Oct14 October 10:11

  OT

  Now that amex-spg transfers seem to be working again.

  I was about to transfer some Amex over and noticed that the account is linked to old SPG number. Should I change this to new SPG/Marriott number (which is my old Marriott number) or leave as is.

  Thanks.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    14 Oct14 October 10:16

    If you can I would update

    • xcalx says:

      14 Oct14 October 11:20

      That’s what I was thinking but wondered if I would have problems with 2 account numbers.

      • xcalx says:

        14 Oct14 October 11:36

        Amex add SPG account not available. sent to old SPG number.

• rams1981 says:

  14 Oct14 October 10:26

  OT anyone have luck with Amex or Marriott about the missing points or fact points were not multiplied by 3?

  • Nick says:

    14 Oct14 October 10:46

    Nope… still wrong. Some haven’t posted at all, the bonus has but at the lower (old) rate. I’m giving them a fortnight to sort it out naturally before raising a formal complaint.

  • Phillip says:

    14 Oct14 October 11:58

    After more than 3 months, my SPG Amex points have now all posted correctly!

    Still waiting on missing stays from August though.

  • Sam says:

    14 Oct14 October 21:28

    Watching this too now that they’ve finally posted!

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