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• Ant says:

  8 Nov8 November 08:30

  OT: Amex travel. I have the offer on my Platinum card. I tried to book a car hire but it wasn’t going through so live chat suggested i call the Platinum number. The transaction is now showing as “AMEX PLATINUM & GOLD CARD TRAVEL SVS” as opposed to all others “Amex Travel”. Do you think the car hire will count towards my £600 spent?

  • Nigel the Pensioner says:

    8 Nov8 November 11:49

    If its a weekend with Hertz or Avis it will probably cover your £600 spend and some!!!

• Boi says:

  8 Nov8 November 08:52

  OT: does barclaycard(Hilton) treat Revolut as cash advance or purchase?

  • Simon says:

    8 Nov8 November 11:53

    +1 ?

    • Bazza says:

      8 Nov8 November 18:33

      you won’t get any points for

• Charlieface says:

  8 Nov8 November 09:14

  OT slightly: does anyone have a good suggestion for a 1-night anniversary stay within 1.5hr drive of Manchester, pref with points? I have SPG, IHG & HH points. The DT Chester has a good report but looking expensive. Any ideas appreciated

  • Rob says:

    8 Nov8 November 09:31

    Hilton St George’s Park? We have reviewed.

    • Charlieface says:

      8 Nov8 November 16:47

      Ok so I’ve narrowed it down:
      DT Chester £175/40k
      H St George £125/40k
      M Preston £86/17.5k
      M Breadsall Derby £105/25k
      I’m mainly going for quiet hotel, nice room and nice area/grounds, don’t care about restaurant or pool.
      Don’t mind paying a bit more or in cash if it’s really nice, and I have Gold in both M and H.

  • Nick M says:

    8 Nov8 November 10:07

    Personally, I’d probably look for somewhere in the Lakes – but would be cash rather than points.

    If using points and DT Chester don’t have any standard redemptions, I think Marriott will probably have the best options

    • Anna says:

      8 Nov8 November 10:19

      I’ve given up on the Lakes – it seems like a beautiful idea until you’ve sat in traffic for 2 hours either way and I only live 60 miles from Windermere!

      • RussellH says:

        8 Nov8 November 13:38

        Moral, avoid the A591 through Winderemere, Ambleside and Grasmere at weekends in season. (One of attractions of living in the Lake District is driving south through these places on a Friday , or north on a Sunday – and gloating).
        🙂
        For the Lakes. I would head for Ullswater instead. A few nice hotels and you do not need to come off the M6 until Penrith.
        If you like really remote, head east from Preston or Lancaster into the Forest of Bowland. No fancy hotels, but there is excellent food to be had. The HI Lancaster is just an HI, but was fully refurbished after the 2015 floods

  • Anna says:

    8 Nov8 November 10:15

    I got a really good DBB deal at the Chester Doubletree for a Sunday night in December, £175 for 3 of us in a family room. I’d also booked a couple of massages and am planning to use the £50 back offer.

    The North West isn’t well served in any respect (I’ve cancelled my National Trust membership as well!), although Liverpool is a great city to visit these days, much nicer than Manchester IMO (and speaking as Mancunian by born and bred!) and has some very nice hotels, including a couple of Hilton properties.

    • BJ says:

      8 Nov8 November 11:05

      It is a nice hotel but our room smelled badly of damp although I could see no visible signs of it (windows don’t open so a ventilation problem I think). Older rooms might be better, perhaps others can comment.

    • RussellH says:

      8 Nov8 November 13:48

      As an escapee from London (the exact opposite to Rob!) I like Manchester, but have been very pleasantly surprised by Liverpool. Stayed there for a weekend last Feb at the Aloft former Royal Insurance HQ) at the silly price of 3000 SPG points per night (cash rates were around £120, but if Liverpool are at home it can easily be twice that. I suspect that Everton do not have the same out-of-town following as Liverpool). Liverpool has more listed buildings than anywhere in the UK outwith London. And the excellent Museum of Slavery tells you very clearly where all that wealth came from.
      If you have not (yet) been, go.

  • Charlieface says:

    8 Nov8 November 13:43

    Thanks guys. St george’s is full. Chester has availability for sat night when I wanna go but was looking for something else. I could have sworn there was a country hall from Marriott near Bradford but it’s gone from the site. What about Marriott Preston, anyone got an idea?

    • RussellH says:

      8 Nov8 November 13:53

      I have not been to the Prerston Marriott for a few years now. It was the first Marriott we ever went to, I think, when we first discovered loyalty points. A pleasant green approach, but TBH the hotel never struck me as anything special. Perfectly comfortable though.
      It is probably the best base from which to explore the Forest of Bowland. As I mentioned above, no fancy hotels, but there is excellent food to be had.

      • David says:

        8 Nov8 November 17:55

        I think the Gibbon Bridge is decent enough, or Northcore Manor is nearby if a Michelin star denotes ‘fancy’

      • Lady London says:

        8 Nov8 November 21:32

        What about Ludlow? I remember an excellent foodie weekend staying in Ludlow, it was awhile ago though.

    • Crafty says:

      8 Nov8 November 15:58

      There definitely is/was a Marriott country hall near Bradford, my old boss used to stay there each week. No idea what might have happened to it.

      • Lee says:

        8 Nov8 November 16:09

        Do you mean Hollins Hall Hotel, Golf & Country Club? It left Marriott early this year.

• Phil Duncan says:

  8 Nov8 November 09:40

  The LH offering is very limited, I downloaded the Beano recently in the absence of anything else I had ever heard of. It was a bit of fun fifty years later though!

  • RussellH says:

    8 Nov8 November 14:00

    Beano is still worth a look, I reckon. I shall admit to some childish behaviour over 40 years ago when I was working as a research assisitant in an American university. Montreal was only 2 hours drive north, and WH Smith at the railway station sold the Beano, so I always picked up a copy when visiting.
    I pinned up the centre double page spread of the Bash Strret Kids on the outside of my lab door; once I opened the door to find a huddle of very young (presumably freshman) students who had been studying the Bash Street Kids and trying to work out their signicance to Organic Chemistry..

• BrianN says:

  8 Nov8 November 10:24

  Exchange rate ???

• sunguy says:

  8 Nov8 November 10:24

  Not sure if this is something new or not.

  My other half ran away to Germany on some organised R&D freebee thing the other day. When booking the flights, the company refused to let her fly back on the weekend for compliance purposes.

  However, I noticed that from 24hrs before her outbound flight, in the exec account, she was able to make changes to both flights via BA rather than directly via the travel agency.

  We didnt do it, but the change fee was £60 (ticket Ts&Cs) and pleanty of availability – the other note was that if she did change the flights via ba.com, then all subsequent changes would have to be done via BA and not the travel agency.

  Is this something new or is it just because I havent looked for it previously ? I thought all travel agency bookings had to be changed by the travel agency prior to the 1st outbound flight?

• Harpo says:

  8 Nov8 November 10:29

  OT just a quickie. AW says my wife’s Marriott Rewards due to expire next week. She has no stays but has been earning points through SPG Amex (accounts combined) – this is “activity” right?

  • Liz says:

    8 Nov8 November 12:26

    This is what I was trying to sort out with Amex and SPG the other day. I called Amex to ask them to change my hubby’s old SPG number to the new merged number but was told it was already changed. I have loaded Marriott twice to AW – with the old SPG number and the new combined number. His Amex pts are going into the old SPG account and have an unknown expirry date against it. But when I phoned Amex they say it is correct at their end – while I was on the phone she called SPG rewards and I was able to speak to them too – she said even though I couldn’t see the actual expiry date as long as I had activity ie SPG Amex spend or MR transfer the date is 2 yrs from the last activity. Keep an eye on it though just in case. I have made a purchase on his account via the shopping portal which closes on 15/11 and an MR transfer on my account using the new account number in the hope that it all resets. Still waiting for both points to post to see if it works.

• BJ says:

  8 Nov8 November 10:58

  OT: 8% back on Hilton in ME, Africa and Turkey from Halifax cards. Might be useful for those who have already used their amex offers.

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