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• Jill says:

  29 Nov29 November 14:32

  OT if I cancel my Premium Amex on re receiving my 241, if I wait 6 months and reapply, will I receive another 241 if immediately spend £10000? Or can I only receive one 241 in a twelve month period even if two different accounts? Thanks in advance !

  • Genghis says:

    29 Nov29 November 14:34

    if I wait 6 months and reapply, will I receive another 241 if immediately spend £10000?
    Yes

• meta says:

  29 Nov29 November 15:29

  O/T My Hilton Visa points have finally posted this afternoon. I have also received two emails that my points have been transferred. I did points pooling two weeks ago which were processed within a day and already made a redemption. Some strange backend workings at Hilton IT!

  • RussellH says:

    29 Nov29 November 15:56

    +1

    I did contact them though this morning, though primarily to ask when my status gets upgraded to Gold, having done the £10 000 spending.

    Still no sign of my 7000 from e-Rewards though.

    • Roberto says:

      29 Nov29 November 16:17

      I messgaed them too and mine arrived this afternoon.

      • jane says:

        29 Nov29 November 16:34

        I didn’t message them but mine arrived too. hadn’t realised they were missing until I read the comments earlier this week.

    • FlyUpTop says:

      29 Nov29 November 17:15

      Same here but points coming through from other channels is a good sign.

      • Anna says:

        29 Nov29 November 17:38

        Yay, my 10,000 have arrived from HH visa as well,

  • The Urbanite says:

    29 Nov29 November 17:49

    +1 Plus weirdly my points from the IHG MasterCard only just turned up today too, almost a week late.

• KSB says:

  29 Nov29 November 15:57

  OT – BAEC Household accounts / 241 vouchers – my wife and I both have a 241 voucher and want to use it for a booking covering 4 people.

  Do we have to split the booking into 2 bookings of 2 people or is there a way of using both the vouchers so that we can make a single booking for all 4 people?

  • SimonW says:

    29 Nov29 November 16:10

    We do two separate bookings then phone BA to “link” them together. Not sure if that linking does anything specific though – however we have always been seated together as a four across middle of CW – which is perfect when travelling with 2 kids.

    • KSB says:

      29 Nov29 November 16:48

      Great, sounds like a good solution. Thanks

    • Anna says:

      29 Nov29 November 17:44

      Which call centre do you contact? Each time I’ve asked for a 2 4 1 booking to be linked to a separate cash booking they flatly refuse. Then they’re funny with us at check in because we’re on different PNRs. Had a real “do” with them one year because they wouldn’t initially accept that 2 of us could check in our 3 bags in CW (the 3rd booking wasn’t on a through ticket). They tried to insist that of there were 3 of us it had to be one bag each.

      • Mr Dee says:

        29 Nov29 November 18:56

        The 241 is for Avios redemptions only not cash!

      • Anna says:

        29 Nov29 November 20:18

        ? As in 2 of us on a 2 4 1 redemption and the other one on a cash booking?

      • SimonW says:

        29 Nov29 November 20:29

        Never tried to link cash and redemption bookings. They seem to be happy to link 2 x 241 bookings. I think we still keep the 2 separate PNRs (big deal), but benefit in always being sat together as a four as if it is one booking.

      • Lady London says:

        29 Nov29 November 21:00

        Wondering now if I saw something awhile back about British Airways not allowing pooling of luggage of people travelling together any more?

      • Shoestring says:

        29 Nov29 November 21:13

        But it’s just some numpty on the desk – CW is 2 bags each

      • Shoestring says:

        29 Nov29 November 21:29

        @ Lady London – pooling according to BA, that’s different:

        Question: We have an allowance for one checked bag each, up to 23kg maximum weight – can we pool our luggage and check in just one heavier suitcase?

        Answer: The maximum weight per bag is to protect the health and safety of our airport baggage handlers. This means that it’s not possible to pool your allowance/belongings into just one suitcase/bag that will be heavier than that maximum weight allowance. For example: If your ticket allowance is 23kg per person, and you pool your belongings into one suitcase that weighs 29kg, when one of you checks it in, an overweight bag charge will apply to cover the special handling arrangements for it. This page tells you the charges we make for overweight and extra bags: Extra and overweight baggage Unfortunately we can’t check in a bag that weighs more than 32 kg – you would need to arrange for such a heavy item to travel as cargo.

    • Lady London says:

      29 Nov29 November 20:57

      I think you ask for “TCP” (to complete party) on the bookings. I think that’s what they call it.

• Andy says:

  29 Nov29 November 16:08

  Quick Question: I am looking at car hire for USA and they all seem to come with CDW (£0 Excess) included in the price as standard on the compare sites. If I wanted to use the AMEX platinum protection instead is there anywhere to book the rental at a cheaper rate without this included?

  Also does the payment need to be made on the Plat card itself or will any AMEX do as long as hold the plat at the time.

  • Rich says:

    29 Nov29 November 16:36

    Which company? Try setting your country to US and see what it comes up with. They usually price without insurance.

    I don’t believe you need to put it on the/ an Amex at all. I think that’s just for the Travel Inconvenience Benefit.

    • Andy says:

      29 Nov29 November 16:58

      Just all the compare sites like rentalcars, easycar, holidayextras,kayak etc. Ill give the US location suggestion a try. I’m getting around £300 for 10 days Mustang Hire, seems pretty good to me but not sure of the market and if I can loose the insurance part would be even better id imagine.

      • Anna says:

        29 Nov29 November 17:45

        I had this issue last year, was told that if I had a non-US address I had to purchase basic CDW.

    • Clive says:

      29 Nov29 November 18:50

      Andy try Autoslash

  • Nick_C says:

    29 Nov29 November 20:55

    Don’t the Hertz/Avis Australia sites still price without CDW?

  • the_real_a says:

    29 Nov29 November 23:45

    Just be aware that if you decline the CDW they will try to block the full value of the car (say $50k) on your AMEX card which im sure would cause many people issues. Technically most US car hire companies will not allow foreign renter to decline all protections but that snot to say the agents on the desk will not allow you to drive away without anything. Having said that, basic CDW to reduce your excess to a few thousand USD is usually so cheap its not worth arguing. My last rental with Advantage was £130 for 7 days hire with CDW from Baltimore airport.

    • Andy Dawson says:

      30 Nov30 November 22:54

      Thanks for the tips guys

• Peter K says:

  29 Nov29 November 16:55

  OT.
  Just had my Barclaycard Hilton points come through for the month. It’s dated 22nd November but only just posted now.

• Mr Dee says:

  29 Nov29 November 17:32

  The HMRC site is very picky when comes to accepting payments especially multiple payments, if you’ve recently made another payment then leave it a week

• Alan says:

  29 Nov29 November 17:37

  Wish I’d had that 1% offer, still just on 0.5% although at least did get a 0% on purchases offer.

• Jas says:

  29 Nov29 November 20:19

  I haven’t been to the BA Munich ‘Lounge’ in at lest 4 years … but back then it was up in an almost hidden lift, around a dingy corner, into a smallish space, crammed with pale coloured sofas … ALL of which had horrible, sinister, ‘someone just had an accident’ stains all over them. It was truly a ghastly ghastly lounge.

  • Lady London says:

    29 Nov29 November 21:05

    About that same time ago I was going to trek over to the BA lounge from the other terminal at MUC where I’d landed. I had about a 4 hour wait till my BA flight home. The information person I asked where it was kind of hinted without saying that it was a dingy little hole and I probably wouldn’;t want to bother. I was kind of surprised at getting the hint!

    I had Regus worldwide membership at that time, so I walked over the road in instead to a Regus office and did some work instead. I;ve always wondered what I missed! Now @Jas, I know!

    I do wish another deal would come along for Regus, buying it outright again’s a bit pricey for me right now.

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