Black Friday 1: £100 off Virgin Flight+Hotel, Gatwick Parking, Opodo, 20% off Hotels.com
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Virgin Atlantic ‘flight and hotel’ Black Friday deals
We have looked at Virgin Atlantic‘s ‘flight only’ deals in a separate article today.
However, if you’re booking a ‘flight and hotel’ package, there are extra savings to be made. This offer also works on US breaks, whilst the ‘flight only’ sale is only for non-US routes.
The deal: £100 off a ‘flight and hotel’ package in Economy, £150 off a ‘flight and hotel’ package in Premium or Upper Class
Rules: Total booking must be £1200, book by Monday 26th November, travel by 31st March 2019
Code required: BF2018 which must be used on the Virgin Atlantic ‘flight and hotel’ site here
Virgin Holidays is also offering the same Black Friday savings (£100 with Economy flights, £150 otherwise) on packages booked by Monday for travel by 31st October 2019. Minimum spend is £2000 per booking. The code here is 2018BF and you need to book on the Virgin Holidays site here.
Official Gatwick Parking – save 20%
If you are travelling through Gatwick soon, you can save:
The deal: 20% off your booking
Rules: Park by 22nd December, book by 26th November
Code required: No code but you MUST use this special link – click here – and the discount will automatically show
Opodo ‘flight and hotel’ £70 Black Friday deal
Opodo is offering a discount on ‘flight and hotel’ packages.
The deal: £70 off a ‘flight and hotel’ package
Rules: Total booking must be £900, book by Monday 26th November
Code required: BLACKFLYDAY which must be used on the Opodo ‘flight and hotel’ site here
Hotels.com 20% Mastercard saving
Hotels.com is running a strong offer for Mastercard holders, but be wary of the small print.
You will save 20% on hotel bookings you make TODAY ONLY when you pay with a Mastercard (11% for other cards). Code BLACKFRIDAY20ES is required. You must stay by 31st March.
However:
virtually all chain hotels are excluded
you do NOT earn hotels.com Rewards credit
We rate Hotels.com Rewards highly as this article explains. It doesn’t pay out until you’ve stayed 10 nights, however, so if you never normally use hotels.com then you might be happy with the 20% saving anyway.
Full details of the deal, and booking, are on this page of Hotels.com.
Up to 40% off Priority Pass
A reminder of the Priority Pass lounge access card deal we mentioned earlier in the week.
As you can see here, there are some sharp discounts:
40% off Standard membership (reduced to £41 from £69) – no free visits, you and your guests pay £20 each time
25% off Standard Plus membership (reduced to £141 from £189) – 10 free visits then £20 for every additional visit or for every guest visit
25% off Prestige membership (reduced to £254 from £339) – all your visits are free, your guests pay £20 each time
The best deal, to my mind, is Standard Plus. You are paying £14.10 per lounge visit which is pretty decent. You can find out more, and purchase, on this special page of the Priority Pass website. The offer runs to 25th November.
and more …..
Here are some other Black Friday deals we couldn’t cover in full due to space:
Europcar – up to 35% off (and earn Nectar points), book by 26th November, pick up by 31st March – click here
Norwegian – up to 30% off net fares, excluding taxes and charges, on all routes from Dublin and Shannon, book by 26th November, travel between 3rd December 2018 and 31st March 2019 (excluding 17th December 2018 to 6th January 2019).
Singapore Airlines – Economy and Premium Economy deals from London and Manchester to Asia and Houston (from Manchester), travel between 16th January – 11th July (SE Asia/Aus), 16th January – 10th April & 22nd April to 11th July (NZ), 28th November 2018 – 30th June 2019 (USA) – click here
Accor Hotels (Ibis, Novotel, Mercure etc) – up to 40% off your stay, book by 26th November, stay between 1st January and 24th February
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As a reminder, there are various ways of earning Avios points from UK credit cards. Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses!
In February 2022, Barclaycard launched two exciting new Barclaycard Avios Mastercard cards with a bonus of up to 25,000 Avios. You can apply here.
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There are two official British Airways American Express cards with attractive sign-up bonuses:
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