Qatar Airways offering free stays at The Ritz-Carlton in Doha

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• Alex W says:

  14 Nov14 November 04:53

  OT. Does food count as qualifying spend at IHG? Both normally and for the double points promotion?
  I’m having real problems getting base points for food and as a result struggling to meet the 15000 target. IHG being totally unhelpful and it’s just “computer says no”.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    14 Nov14 November 06:33

    F&B has counted for base points and elite bonus on my last stays and I’ve got the double bonus too.

    Were the stays paid?

    • Alex W says:

      14 Nov14 November 07:10

      Yup, paid stays and only the room rate has counted for base points. Same issue last 2 stays.

  • Bagoly says:

    14 Nov14 November 10:14

    And a little further OT.
    I was looking for a table of what hotel schemes offer points on spending when non-resident.

    The best I could find was https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/intercontinental-hotels-ihg-rewards-club-intercontinental-ambassador/1456452-earning-priority-club-points-food-beverage-spend-without-being-guest.html
    “SPG and Hyatt are the only chains that you can earn points w/o being a guest”.

    That’s from 2013.
    I can confirm that Hyatt works (in Berlin, this year – effectively 2 Avios/M&M per USD after deducting VAT)
    Has the SPG idea transferred to Marriott?
    Any other updates?

• jamie says:

  14 Nov14 November 05:30

  O/T my husband has 175k amex points and we want to fly business from melbourne to lagos at least one way. What is the best way to achieve this say with emirates or qatar.. unless theres another alternative.

  • Bluenose says:

    14 Nov14 November 08:00

    Google Flights shows Emirates and Qatar does Melbourne to Lagos. Should be able to book the Emirates flights as Qantas flights. So determine which airline partners you can move the AMEX points into. You would want Emirates Skywards or something One World. Use the Skywards/BA/Qatar/Qantas/Cathay/AA etc. FF sites to look for availability and how many points and dollars each wants to charge. Then move the AMEX points into the best FF programme and book.

    Good luck.

  • Rob says:

    14 Nov14 November 10:27

    You need to look at every Amex airline partner, dig out their zonal reward chart and see which is cheapest for Africa to Australia.

    • Jamie says:

      14 Nov14 November 11:48

      Ok thanks Rob.

      • Tom H says:

        14 Nov14 November 20:35

        Awardhacker will help

    • TM says:

      14 Nov14 November 13:02

      Is there no tool to do this quicker?

      • Rob says:

        14 Nov14 November 13:22

        Do you have any domestic staff who could help?

      • TM says:

        14 Nov14 November 15:43

        Hahaha, sadly no.

      • Shoestring says:

        14 Nov14 November 20:58

        It’s quite fun to have domestic staff – best ever was when we had a full time cook & sweeper plus a part time laundry woman/ ironer & a flower girl. Between the 3 of us bachelors lol

        Looking back, not quite sure how the full timers did their 40 hrs but that wasn’t the point. Didn’t cost too much. Food was good & apartment was very clean.

        Call me Lord Shoestring from now on.

      • Chris says:

        15 Nov15 November 01:22

        Shoestring – I despair.

• May says:

  14 Nov14 November 05:32

  O/T I have 127k miles in the emirates family pool, but a one way business ticket on emirates is 131k points. Does anyone know if its possible to transfer points into this family pool to reach the amount I need to make up to 131k? How annoying if I cant use these points yet just because I am 4k or so off. Doesnt look like you can use points in your own personal account to make up the remaining!

  • Steve says:

    14 Nov14 November 10:04

    Just looked into this, you are right no transfers or
    mixed use between family pooled points and individual points, spoke to emirates CS to try and get our tiny sum of 6k points out as we will never make enough from cash flights to make a decent redemption, but told closure results in a forfit of miles – so this scheme is nothing at all like BA.

    Does clicking through after selecting your skywards redemption allow you to cover the shortfall with cash?

    • May says:

      14 Nov14 November 11:47

      It sucks that there isn’t the flexibility as with BA. I’ll call Emirates and see what they can do. I haven’t tried putting through an example flight to see what happens. Thanks for the advice

• TripRep says:

  14 Nov14 November 06:55

  Habanos had at the Ritz is good vibe in an evening, Westerners need passport to get in, one of the few places to drink alcohol..

• SG says:

  14 Nov14 November 07:08

  Rob,Genghis and other readers
  Apologies for my mistake yesterday with Amex MR to SPG to Marriot
  Don’t know why I remembered that MR to SPG was 1:1!
  Can anyone please post the link to Hilton worldwide redemption map,done a search on the website,I remembered it was posted at some point by someone in the comments!
  Much appreciated!

• Peter K says:

  14 Nov14 November 07:16

  Bangkok was named enough times in this article that it could almost be used for a drinking game ????

• Boon says:

  14 Nov14 November 07:19

  Anyone know if the £100 off £500 United promo also apply to partner airline flights (eg Singapore Airlines) booked on the United.com website?

  • Roger says:

    14 Nov14 November 07:22

    It says UK departure only. So if you are able to book as code share flight (UA flight number) on any Star Alliance airlines, I imagine it would work.

    • Oh Matron! says:

      14 Nov14 November 08:26

      Fantastic. Needs flights to Stockholm for my birthday (gifts should be deposited in my swiss bank account, ta very much) and I also need flights to Tromso in Jan. Will report back if successful.

      Matron.

• Neil says:

  14 Nov14 November 07:35

  O/T – Just booked an Avios Redemption through Avios and using my Lloyd’s Upgrade Voucher on a BA flight to JFK. Having used my BAPP Amex, do I qualify for the 3 points per £ for BA spend?!?

  • Liz says:

    14 Nov14 November 07:48

    No – it goes on your credit card as Avios not BA

    • KevMc says:

      14 Nov14 November 11:39

      If you booked via the Avios.com website, then you won’t, but I thought that the upgrade voucher could only be used by calling BA now? If so, I would suspect that the transaction will show as BA, and therefore will get you triple points.

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