A Marriott Bonvoy bargain opens in Corfu – Domes Miramare

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• Freddy says:

  6 Mar6 March 13:09

  Is there any other Marriott family friendly hotels in sunny climes anyone can recommend?

  • James says:

    6 Mar6 March 13:17

    Domes of Elounda in Crete

    • Rob says:

      6 Mar6 March 15:37

      There is one in Dubai Marina we covered once where reward suites sleep 5-6 I think.

  • James says:

    6 Mar6 March 13:20

    ah, whoops !

  • Mark says:

    7 Mar7 March 10:19

    Westin Mina Seyahi in Dubai (up to 4 per room) and Al Habtoor (5-6).

• Alex says:

  6 Mar6 March 14:27

  Gold Amex q – do the Lounge Club passes get renewed every year?

  • Rob says:

    6 Mar6 March 15:36

    Yes

• N says:

  6 Mar6 March 14:28

  What are the best airports for ex-EU ‘from’ searches? My go-to list is;

  AMS, ARN, TXL, OSL

  Any others worth including?

  • memesweeper says:

    6 Mar6 March 14:54

    DUB, Milan

• Chas says:

  6 Mar6 March 14:37

  If you get an interest rate refund from Virgin be very wary of how they apply it to your account. When they charge you interest it appears below the line of your total purchase spend, so you (rightly) don’t earn any miles for it. However, when they refund it to you it (wrongly) gets processed above the line as a credit against your purchases total, and hence you lose the miles in the process.

  It took me 90 minutes over 3 phone calls and various escalations before the Customer Complaints representative finally saw the error in the way their systems process interest refunds. She manually added together all my spend for the relevant month on a calculator to demonstrate to me that I was wrong, but in doing so proved herself wrong.

  Their way of making me whole again was hilarious – it is apparently too complicated and time consuming for them to add the missing miles to my account, so they offered to refund me an amount to enable me to buy the necessary miles I’d lost out on (and a few more as compensation….). When I pointed out that crediting me this value on my credit card would lead to the same issue occurring again, she was happy to refund the money direct to my bank account.

  • SimonW says:

    6 Mar6 March 14:52

    Out of interest, how many miles did you lose from being credited the interest back ?

    • Chas says:

      6 Mar6 March 16:37

      It was just under 500 miles. I appreciate that many people wouldn’t have bothered chasing it up for this sort of amount, but I’m a bit of a pedant….. I got £50 back from Virgin, so it was time well spent as far as I’m concerned. Especially as most of the time on the phone to them was spent on hold whilst they spoke with colleagues who also couldn’t understand the issue I was trying to raise.

  • Genghis says:

    6 Mar6 March 15:52

    🙂 Nice story.

• Sh83 says:

  6 Mar6 March 14:44

  Hi,
  Having problems paying HMRC VAT using Curve – anyone else experiencing problems?

• paul says:

  6 Mar6 March 15:32

  O/T…due to personal circumstances outside my control it looks like i’m going to be forced to ‘miss’ a flight since i wont now be able to get to the airport on time. in terms of Amex Plat travel insurance cover does this count as a valid reason…? i would of course go into greater detail with them if making such a claim

  • Rob says:

    6 Mar6 March 15:36

    All in the small print of the policy … exactly how closely related someone needs to be to you for illness to count etc, breakdown on way to airport, etc. No easy answer except that if you somehow had a choice in the matter at hand then probably No.

  • RakishDriver says:

    6 Mar6 March 17:04

    Might help, Plat holder – booked a BA shorthaul for my sister (she’s not a plat holder) – she got ill a day before the flight. Cancelled with BA, didn’t even get all my taxes back. Filled a an axa claim online, insurance excess applied, got most of the fare back.
    Note you must cancel the flight, not just miss it.

    • Paul says:

      6 Mar6 March 18:03

      Thanks both, I’ll give them a ring and see what they say

• Will says:

  6 Mar6 March 17:08

  The Amex Platinum benefits for Avis is Avis preferred? But that’s the standard membership meaning there isn’t actually a benefit?

  • RakishDriver says:

    6 Mar6 March 17:14

    yeah, I always wondered what extra I’m getting from Plat in the context of avis tier.
    You do get Raddisson Gold – match that to Sixt Plat – and then match that to Avis preferred plus or President, if you’ve rented a fair bit in the past with Avis.

    • Paul says:

      6 Mar6 March 18:08

      Hi, how do you match Radisson gold to sixt plat? ( I have a sixt booking coming up but never used them before) thanks

      • RakishDriver says:

        6 Mar6 March 18:32

        I recall not smooth, but was done in a day – login in to your sixt account, message them with a request to status match.
        You’ll need to provide a screenshot of your Rad gold when requested.

      • paul says:

        6 Mar6 March 22:05

        thanks, ok will give it a go

• Ian M says:

  6 Mar6 March 18:44

  I’ve tired 10 different dates but Domes Miramare Corfu shows as unavailable for all of them on the Marriott app. Wondering if this is a Marriott IT problem or if Headforpoints has caused a rush of bookings!

  • TGLoyalty says:

    6 Mar6 March 19:20

    Random dates in August. 520 EUR or 35k points per night.

    8th to 12th Aug.

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