QHotels switching its UK hotels to Marriott’s Delta brand

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• Crafty says:

  6 Jan6 January 04:32

  Crewe Hall getting more mention here than it deserves. Accommodation is fine but restaurant is abysmal. Only stay here if paying under £90, otherwise it doesn’t justify the price differential with the Premier Inn.

  • Peter K says:

    6 Jan6 January 08:30

    Family who have stayed here said that a room in the old hotel building is nice but the newer section could be any hotel.

    • Matt says:

      6 Jan6 January 08:44

      The old building is lovely but the new building is just terribly dull and corporate feeling.

      A very good Q hotel on the other hand is The Midland. I love staying there when I visit Manchester.

      • TGLoyalty says:

        6 Jan6 January 10:10

        The midland isn’t a QHotel. Don’t know if it was once but not anymore

      • Jon says:

        6 Jan6 January 10:20

        It was when I stayed there last, but changed ownership last year to the owners of the Leonardo brand. It wasn’t perfect under Qhotels and was a little tired compared to the nearby Radisson Blu, but for example when I stayed there the price differential with the nearby Premier Inn was £10, so it could be a very good offering for the price at times.

      • Andrew says:

        6 Jan6 January 12:43

        As mentioned above, it’s now a “Leonardo Royal”, but apparently it’s excluded from their “Miles & More” points affiliation scheme.

        The Midland is forever changing brands. I did 6 months in there when it was a Crowne Plaza years ago. Since then it seems to be a different brand every time I stay there. At one point I wondered if it was going to be a Britannia next – but it seems to have tidied up a bit.

        The OH was laughing when I read out the Leonardo Women’s Rooms blurb:-

        “The highlight for female guests: the »women-friendly rooms« have been specially designed with today’s women in mind: light-flooded and with several extras, such as soft cushions and blankets, a selection of women’s magazines, a fluffy bathrobe and fresh flowers. The room service spoils the female traveller with light food and a mask menu. Dimmable lights and a lilac and white colour scheme ensure an especially comfortable ambience.”

        Clearly she wasn’t on the focus group as her top three concerns as a single female traveller are:-

        Reassuring lock
        Decent hair dryer
        Bedside Sockets or USB ports that are easy to access.

        Neither of us are entirely sure about the “mask menu” from room service.

      • Lady London says:

        6 Jan6 January 15:25

        +1 for The Midland.

      • Peter King says:

        6 Jan6 January 18:10

        The standard rooms at The Midland are nothing special but, if you want to splash out, the Midland Suite is amazing value. Usually about 1/3 the price of the top suite at the near by Radisson and much better.

        Also The French is by far the best restaurant in town!

• Crafty says:

  6 Jan6 January 05:07

  OT: Hilton’s recent IT issues continuing. My stay from 2 January to 4 January, which should have triggered the previous promotion (double/triple points), has instead triggered the new one (2,000 points). Worth others who stayed on the shoulder of promotions checking too.

  • The streets says:

    6 Jan6 January 08:49

    I stayed at a Hilton on night of 2 Jan and checked out 3 Jan and got the previous promotion. I then stayed at a different Hilton on 3 Jan checking out on 4 Jan and got the new promotion bonus. It must be based on when you check out

    • Crafty says:

      7 Jan7 January 03:01

      The terms were very clear that the promotion would apply on a per night basis. Of course, got the customer service stock reply “We are not aware of this promotion”, which is laughable (as usual) for a global promotion.

• Jamie says:

  6 Jan6 January 06:06

  Seems appropriate – accoring to Wikipedia, Delta in mathematical finance references to sensitivity to price…

• Max says:

  6 Jan6 January 06:42

  She’ll. How do you calculate that each Avios costs 1p?

  A litre costs well over a pound.

  • John says:

    6 Jan6 January 07:40

    Because your options are to either take 1p in Shell vouchers, or 1 Avios.

    The price of the fuel is not relevant.

    It would be relevant if the options were to get 1 Avios or 10ml of fuel for free.

  • Chris says:

    6 Jan6 January 10:51

    Because Rob isn’t suggesting that you buy the fuel purely for the Avios. (And you were I assume thinking just pour it down the drain?)

• Anna says:

  6 Jan6 January 07:22

  OT – sorry if it’s already common knowledge – Travelodge appears to accept PayPal now (and therefore Amex). Haven’t stayed in one for some years but I’m looking at a family trip to that London and Hilton prices are a bit silly given that their “family” rooms won’t accommodate 2 teenagers who don’t want to share a sofa bed!

  • Perkypat says:

    6 Jan6 January 09:34

    Have paid with amex at Travelodge for at least the last 3 years, booking via the website.

    • Kipto says:

      6 Jan6 January 09:57

      +1

      • Anna says:

        6 Jan6 January 11:15

        It must be longer than that then 😳 Need to re-visit.

• Kayleigh says:

  6 Jan6 January 07:53

  OT – Iberia Transfer
  What is the exact rules behind getting points out of Iberia? Is it that the account has to be 90 days or 3 months old? I opened my account on 08/10/2018. An online calculator tells me that 90 days from this date is 04/01/2019; however when I log into Avios to pull the points from Iberia, it says the account is not yet old enough. Any thoughts?

  • FlyUpTop says:

    6 Jan6 January 08:31

    Leave it another couple of days, then try again.

  • Kayleigh says:

    8 Jan8 January 07:54

    So I’ve logged in today (8/01/19) and it’s letting me start the process of a transfer, so it’s definitely 3 months, not 90 days. I guess if you join in Jan though, it probably works out to be 90 days with Feb being so short.
    In other news, Iberia is down so won’t let me complete the transfer! I called their helpline but they said they had IT issues and to wait a couple of hours.

• Graham Walsh says:

  6 Jan6 January 09:33

  Some random OT topics

  Was looking to book a hotel in Barbados. Virgin Holidays came up the cheapest plus VS miles and takes Amex. Oh and some cash back and bonus cash back too.

  Was looking for hotel + car to Dublin, BA £507, Amex Travel £497. Then with my £200 off meant I triggered the discount (as I got another BA flight this week to AMS via Amex Travel). I gave up on the idea wasting avios on this trip.

  Then when booking the hotel in Dublin via hotels.com I was unable to use reward nights. Kept coming up with 0 discount. Called up the Gold helpline and she booked it for me there and then.

  • Peter K says:

    6 Jan6 January 13:22

    I’ve found hotels.com is coming up with strange results at the moment.
    For example, offering cancellable rates only on some hotels at £60 and not offering nonrefundable rates (whereas going direct nonrefundable was only £43) or pricing up at £93 with breakfast somewhere else when going direct was only £44 for the same room+breakfast!

• MarkH says:

  6 Jan6 January 09:34

  OT but Eurostar related- I am looking to book a trip to Paris as my first redemption on Eurostar. Can reward tickets be cancelled / changed?

  • N says:

    6 Jan6 January 14:17

    One free change, no cancellation.

    • MarkH says:

      6 Jan6 January 19:45

      Ok great thanks

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