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• Gary says:

  27 Jan27 January 05:41

  Weird how that new design is very similar to the old MBNA virgin Atlantic card!

  • Alex W says:

    27 Jan27 January 07:27

    I knew I recognised it from somewhere!

• Shoestring says:

  27 Jan27 January 07:22

  I looked up Ohrid on wiki – didn’t seem a great place to go 🙂

  • John says:

    27 Jan27 January 07:35

    Much better than Spain IMO

  • Pangolin says:

    27 Jan27 January 11:33

    Alongside Lake Bled it’s one of the undiscovered gems of Europe – except that Lake Bled is now becoming increasingly well-known to travellers from outside the Balkans.

    • RussellH says:

      27 Jan27 January 13:02

      Bled is lovely. Was there in summer 1968, staying in the youth hostel. Did not go back, sadly, until January of the year Slovenia joined the Euro (on the first of the month). It was a visit sponsored by the Slovenian Tourist Board. We were greeted by the mayor on the steps up to the chapel on the island in the middle of the lake, and given rooms in the (rather faded and tired) 5* hotel on the bank of the lake. According to the mayor, the Slovenes see their kindred spirits in Europe as the Austrians and the Swiss, not the other Salv nations.

      • Alex Sm says:

        27 Jan27 January 22:49

        It does look like Switzerland! I lost the sense of where I was for a couple of times and was absolutely certain that I was walking alongside Lac Leman!!!

    • Cat says:

      27 Jan27 January 17:47

      Try Lake Bohinj, if Bled is becoming too touristy. It’s gorgeous.

      • Alex Sm says:

        27 Jan27 January 22:48

        Just came back from a week of skiing near Lake Bohinj and can only confirm it’s amazing, together with Bled and Ljubljana. Courtesy of Balkan Holidays

• Andrew (@andrewseftel) says:

  27 Jan27 January 07:23

  Someone should have told them that Mastercard has a new logo too!

  • John says:

    27 Jan27 January 07:40

    And “Macedonia” has a new name…

    • TripRep says:

      27 Jan27 January 08:35

      Topical… Every day’s a school day

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47002865

  • Heathrow Flyer says:

    27 Jan27 January 08:04

    That is the current Mastercard logo?

    • Chrisasaurus says:

      27 Jan27 January 20:52

      the Mastercard Symbol represents Mastercard better than one word ever could”

      Except the word MasterCard, one would think?

      Lols all the way to the bank…

• Sam G says:

  27 Jan27 January 08:01

  I’ve got various offers for Amba/Thistle etc on my Amex expiring at the end of the month. The sale rates are supposed to be prepaid – but you may need to call the hotel to prompt them to charge the deposit before the offers expire (I’m assuming the deposit is charged by the hotel directly – usually is!)

• Si says:

  27 Jan27 January 08:39

  Has anyone got any Avios redemption ways of getting to Mauritius from London? There are currently no business redemptions available [no 1st Class on plane] on the daily BA flight this side of Christmas.

  Last year is used Doha as a launch pad for Seychelles, but Qatar don’t fly direct to Mauritius.

  I have a companion ticket i can use to get somewhere, and then hoping to use avios for low-tax flight onto Mauritius.

  Many thanks

  • Craig says:

    27 Jan27 January 08:46

    Comair via JNB but availability looks low.

    • meta says:

      27 Jan27 January 09:02

      You could try BA to SEZ and then pay cash to fly to MRU on Air Seychelles or Air Mauritius. It’s only a 2h30 flight, though tickets might not be cheap. There is also Nairobi on BA and then cash to MRU on Kenya Airways or South African from JNB to MRU. MRU route is impossible to get in CW unless you book at midnight 355 days out. No tickets are released after that.

• TripRep says:

  27 Jan27 January 08:58

  Tesco cutting costs, Clubcard next?
  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/tesco-job-losses-meat-fish-deli-counters-a8748586.html

  • Mr Dee says:

    27 Jan27 January 10:07

    No reason to believe so, a devaluation possible but loyalty program planned correctly can have benefits for the businesses…

    • Roger says:

      27 Jan27 January 11:53

      I have stopped shopping at Tesco when they stopped doing MOCs on my club card.
      I have last £30 or so worth of CC vouchers left.
      Once I spend I am not going to Tesco unless they start offering better CC deals/MOCs

      Quite happy for my grocery shopping between Sainbury’s / ASDA / Morrisons / Aldi.

      • Anna says:

        27 Jan27 January 12:43

        +1. Tesco has become so expensive compared to other supermarkets like Aldi, or even ASDA, that the Clubcard benefits aren’t worth it any more, especially sine the closure of Tesco Direct and its associated offers. I’m going to use the last of my Clubcard vouchers for a nice hotel stay then call it a day.

      • Shoestring says:

        27 Jan27 January 12:50

        we still get the MOCs & that’s the only thing making me shop @Tesco, otherwise my spend will be 100% directed elsewhere (currently maybe £2000 pa so not that great anyway)

      • xcalx says:

        27 Jan27 January 14:59

        I opened 3 new Tesco accounts last September at MILs address have spent on 2 of the accounts and no MOCs. However the account that has had no spend on has received 2 lots of MOCs the first at Christmas 1 x £12 and 2 x £10 off £80 and then some last week 3 x £8 off £40. On my home accounts nothing for a couple of years.

      • Polly says:

        28 Jan28 January 10:37

        Using Morrison’s more too, as walking distance.. and bought a load of those paper vouchers when amex had the 10% off there until Dec 31st. So will be using them up over next few months. Tesco is a drive in heavy traffic, so using them only for major shop, and petrol, these days.

• Roger says:

  27 Jan27 January 09:05

  OT – Curve Metal

  Would there be any maximum limit of amount that can be loaded from an Amex Card to Curve Wallet?
  Has anyone experienced the Curve spend limit going up purely as a result of taking Curve Metal card?

  • Rob says:

    27 Jan27 January 09:58

    Curve told me limits are not linked to card type.

    • Roger says:

      27 Jan27 January 12:34

      Anyone for first question?
      How much can be loaded in one go, on my dummy topup of amex, it lets me go up to £10K.
      May earn BA 241 in one single TXN?

      • Rob says:

        27 Jan27 January 12:52

        Would Amex let you make a £10k charge though? If you don’t normally put £10k charges through your BA Amex you will trigger fraud checks.

      • TGLoyalty says:

        27 Jan27 January 13:02

        Ofcourse. But then you have £10k to spend and it’s cost 0.65% to do it.

        If you are thinking of spending £10k getting the voucher then refunding I think AMEX will get fed up of that if they cotton on.

      • Memesweeper says:

        27 Jan27 January 15:04

        Curve are not a bank. I’m not personally going to deposit £10k with anyone without deposit protection ! Certainly not when the only upside is some points and maybe a flight voucher.

      • Alan says:

        28 Jan28 January 13:44

        Issues as highlighted are (a) what Amex will let you top up, (b) costs of doing so from Curve (if Blue/Black), (c) how quickly you can spend it given the daily/monthly spend limits from caps. I’m less concerned re protection given the wallet is covered by Wirecard’s protections.

• Frankie says:

  27 Jan27 January 09:16

  OT but Bits. I’ve been trying to submit a claim online on BA.com for EU compensation for a delayed flight. When I’ve spent my time filling in all the details, at the last stage, when I click ‘submit’ I get an error saying there is a technical issue and that if I’m in the middle of submitting a claim all my data will be lost and to try again later.
  I’ve tried each day for 4 days and always the same error. This is very frustrating. Has anyone any experience of this or any guidance on how I can get my claim to BA?
  Thanks in advance.

  • Qwerty Bertie says:

    27 Jan27 January 09:35

    How inconvenient for you, and how convenient for them…especially if in your frustration you eventually give up. I wonder if their IT department got something right this time? (Is that too cynical?)

    Practially though, have you tried using an alternative browser? In your position I would be taking screenshots to prove each attempt and the time spent on it, and then see where I could get on the phone complaining/possibly obtain an alternative means of data submission. If that weren’t successful I’d populate a letter with all the data the form wants, and send to them recorded delivery.

    • tartan says:

      27 Jan27 January 09:39

      Try using incognito or private browsing mode and make sure you’ve disabled any adblockers such as Ghostery that can break online forms. If that doesn’t work then Querty’s suggestion of an alternative browser is also worth trying

  • Shoestring says:

    27 Jan27 January 09:41

    Use a different browser

  • ADS says:

    27 Jan27 January 10:46

    if BA.com won’t work for you, how about trying resolver.co.uk

    it helps you do your own claim, it’s not lawyers, and they don’t take a cut.

    i used it for a Ryanair claim a few months ago, and it worked very well.

    • Shoestring says:

      27 Jan27 January 10:52

      There’s nothing wrong with the BA portal, it’s user error

      • Frankie says:

        27 Jan27 January 11:40

        I am not filling in the form erroneously. I am going through page by page successfully and uploading receipts successfully and reviewing the complete form. When I click submit I am getting an error message from BA.com saying there is a technical issue. I submitted another question on the same portal yesterday. On the ‘OTHER’ section. The error I am getting is in the ‘DELAY/CLAIM’ section. The issue is not user error. I know how to fill in a form. If the browser is causing the issue that is not user error.

      • Shoestring says:

        27 Jan27 January 12:14

        It’s user error because you clearly have some app or adblocker or somesuch stopping you from completing the form.

        Ie the problem is your end not BA’s – which *IS* user error.

        You have it within your control to resolve the problem & to suggest that the problem lies elsewhere is illogical, as boards such as FY would be full of similar comments if the BA online complaint/ compo portal had been down for 4 days.

        Why not do the obvious which is to download a new browser (eg Chrome/ Safari/ Opera) which shouldl be clean of adblockers etc – & file your claim?

      • Frankie says:

        27 Jan27 January 14:02

        I will do. Thanks Harry.

      • AndyGWP says:

        27 Jan27 January 16:21

        Frankie – haven’t done a BA claim before, so unsure what logic they mandate on the claim forms, but, it’s also worth checking your image attachment sizes are not too large (ie. over 1mb each)

        Also make sure you’re not using any characters that may be assumed to be injection attempts (ie. & [ ] etc etc )

      • AndyGWP says:

        27 Jan27 January 16:22

        …this site has stripped out some of my examples above 🙂 (it was the arrows you get when pressing shift and fullstop, or shift and comma)

      • frakie says:

        27 Jan27 January 17:01

        Harry, I have now tried on my partner’s laptop and downloaded a brand new browser on that laptop and I am still getting the same error when I finally submit the form.
        ‘Sorry, there is a problem. It looks like we are experiencing some technical difficulties at the moment. It you were in the middle of submitting a complaint or claim your information will have been lost. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Please try again later or contact customer relations for anything urgent’

      • Jonny says:

        27 Jan27 January 17:59

        Though thought Harry said he was walking away from HFP for 2019?

      • Alex Sm says:

        27 Jan27 January 22:57

        @Jonny what does that mean?

      • Jonny says:

        28 Jan28 January 00:58

        Alex Sm – it’s not clear to you? I’ll try again. Harry posted a comment at the end of 2018 which stated that he was walking away from HFP. I am unable to provide any further clarity should any be sought.

      • John says:

        28 Jan28 January 09:42

        It’s like a drug, once an HFPer always an HFPer

  • Alan says:

    28 Jan28 January 13:46

    Have heard a friend recently had a similar issue when trying to submit a claim – it does sound like there’s a bit of an intermittent issue at BA’s end…

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