Save money on No1 Lounges access via a new special offer

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• Graham says:

  5 Apr5 April 10:21

  O/T: Heads up to anyone who might have used their IB 90K Avios to South Africa on Iberia…IB have binned Madrid – Johannesburg w/e/f 31 August.

  They haven’t bothered to tell anyone booked on flights after this date and I only found out by accident when viewing my booking…presume I’ll be re-routed via LHR on BA.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    5 Apr5 April 12:50

    Even better if you live in the UK?

    • Graham says:

      5 Apr5 April 13:40

      Yes, I do – but doubt that they would re-issue as LHR-JNB….I booked MAD-JNB so as far as I’m aware, that is the contract that they have to honour….

      • BJ says:

        5 Apr5 April 15:40

        tTy and see. I got exINV reissued as exEDI on request when they changed INV schedules.

  • marcw says:

    5 Apr5 April 13:46

    They will re-route you MAD-LHR-JNB if you want to keep that date. Change of origin/destination not allowed. You may be able to convince them to drop the MAD-LHR segment… but this is only likely to work if you are IbPlus Gold or above.

    • Graham says:

      5 Apr5 April 14:15

      Thanks – that’s what I thought. I’m BA Silver rather than IB Gold.

    • Lady London says:

      5 Apr5 April 15:29

      If you did that then guessing they’d try to get more taxes off you too. The BA rates of ‘taxes’ would then apply if they booked you on a BA flight and these are a LOT more.

      • Graham says:

        5 Apr5 April 15:58

        Yes, 100%.

        Yes. The Avios redemption was silly – Madrid to J’burg in Business was 85,000 Avios return and circa £150 taxes/fees.

      • Ricatti says:

        5 Apr5 April 18:57

        How is that even possible.

        It is not uncommon for airlines to re-book into commercial fares in these cases, earning airmiles. Ask to be re-routed on Qatar…

      • marcw says:

        5 Apr5 April 19:03

        Based on IB info. You will be rebooked on BA free of charge, but you have to accept to be re-reouted MAD-LHR-JNB-LHR-MAD. If you wante to change origin (let’s say from MAD to LHR), they won’t allow that – you’ll have to cancel and book again (with added surcharges by BA).

• AndyK says:

  5 Apr5 April 10:42

  OT. Any advise on a lounge in Tokyo Haneda please?

  • Matt says:

    5 Apr5 April 14:35

    Hi AndyK you need to give a little more away than that to receive advice. You haven’t advised what airline you’re flying, what class of travel, your status level. If you have PP/Lounge Club/Dragon Pass.

    • ankomonkey says:

      5 Apr5 April 16:39

      Haneda don’t have any lounges on PP/LC/DP, do they?

      • Stu N says:

        5 Apr5 April 16:41

        JAL F lounge at HND is probably my favourite airline lounge ever.

      • Pangolin says:

        5 Apr5 April 17:44

        If the OP is lucky enough to be flying JAL F he probably doesn’t need to ask which lounge is the best option!

  • Waribai says:

    6 Apr6 April 08:01

    There are a number of pay on entry options in domestic and one in the international. As mentioned the JAL lounges are best. You can actually pay to enter the JAL Sakura lounge but it’s only on the Japanese version of their website and you have to book in advance

• Michelle says:

  5 Apr5 April 11:05

  OT – I have the Virgin Atlantic reward + card and earnt my 2 for 1 upgrade voucher for spending £10k between taking the card out in April 2018 and January this year. Does anyone know when the clock resets for spending the next £10k towards the next voucher? I have called both virgin money and flying club twice and got nowhere! Many thanks for any help

  • stevenhp1987 says:

    5 Apr5 April 13:14

    It’s your card anniversary date. So if you took it out on 1st April 2018, then it will reset on 1st April 2019 (or whenever the 12th statement generated around that date).

    • Michelle says:

      5 Apr5 April 13:25

      That’s what I thought but flying club ‘guessed’ that it is as soon as you achieved your first voucher. Thank you, I best cancel some transactions and put them through again in a few weeks.

• Doug says:

  5 Apr5 April 11:10

  OT- LATAM LIS-GRU £470 one-way on J. The other way is around £550. I got tickets for this route flying BA via avios booked on iberia, Seems like I can cancel for 25 euros and book this, will award you 6500 avios each way plus tp

  • Matt says:

    5 Apr5 April 14:37

    Seems a low amount of avios to earn on a flight like that!

• Zara says:

  5 Apr5 April 11:29

  OT: I’m looking at racking up some Marriott Bonvoy points for a future stay. I need quite a few so will be using Amex points as a last option but I wanted to check if the SPG card actually still gives 30,000 (33,000) SPG points which would have previously converted to 99k Marriott points. This may have been answered many times before so my apologies but seemed bizarre if the brands have now merged… many thanks

  • Rob says:

    5 Apr5 April 11:34

    No, it is 33,000 Bonvoy points.

    • Zara says:

      5 Apr5 April 11:49

      Thank you for confirming

  • guesswho2000 says:

    5 Apr5 April 11:38

    It gives 33,000 Marriott points. It used to aware 11k SPG, which is 33k Marriott (inc referral bonus on all figures).

    • guesswho2000 says:

      5 Apr5 April 11:38

      *award, not aware

      • Zara says:

        5 Apr5 April 11:51

        Thank you – a shame as I need quite a significant amount, but not unexpected.

      • Ricatti says:

        5 Apr5 April 19:26

        The same as it was. Lucky to get that.

• Rui N. says:

  5 Apr5 April 11:51

  O/T about Tesco Clubcard
  This is from someone that has never used Tesco Clubcard for anything else that using the points for £1.50 vouchers to spend at Tesco. But I will know thousands of points from the SIM deal and want to understand how the program works.
  Usually, after reaching £1.50 I would receive the voucher in the mail and spend it at Tesco. And I am under the impression that those vouchers had an expiration date, right?
  So, now how can I use those vouchers to get hotels.com ones? I see that we have an option to avios automatically instead of the vouchers, but I’m not very interested in that. Do I have to convert to hotels.com right away? Or will the points just accumulate?

  Thanks!

  • Lady London says:

    5 Apr5 April 12:25

    You will find the info you need by logging into your Clubcard account. Select to spend your vouchers on travel and hotels dot com should be one of the very few options for spend now remaining.

    • Rui N. says:

      5 Apr5 April 12:33

      Thanks, but no I can’t find that info.
      I don’t have any voucher yet. Once I have them, do I have to convert them right away? That’s what I want to know. Or can I sit on the points?
      And there seems to be hundreds of options to spend the voucher on.

      • bsuije says:

        5 Apr5 April 14:40

        No you don’t. Vouchers are valid for 2 year, I think, so you can keep accumulating them and convert all in one go at a later stage.

        And yes, there are lots of options, but not all are worth it. The ones that get most mention on here are Avios, Virgin flying miles and Uber credit.

      • Rui N. says:

        5 Apr5 April 15:19

        Thanks. Appreciate it. I was under the impression that the £1.50 vouchers that I had received previously had very short expiration dates (like a month or so), but to be fair 1. I haven’t received that many of them (2 or 3 I believe, don’t shop at Tesco much) and 2. I tried to use them right away so I didn’t forget about/lose them.
        Thanks for the pointer about the most valuable options as well. Uber no option in my neck of the woods unfortunetaly! Would rather spend on hotels.com, but I have most of my travel for the year booked already (until end of summer at least).

  • Rob says:

    5 Apr5 April 18:52

    They will post you a voucher at the end of the quarter. This has a 2 year validity in which you have to convert it.

• Tom says:

  5 Apr5 April 12:19

  OT: Does anyone know if it is possible to use avios to get to Koh Samui from Hong Kong? I know that Cathay fly there on a code share with Bangkok Airways but BA.com wont let me search it – starts loading a page and then redirects me to a generic Avios page.

  Thanks in advance!

  • the_real_a says:

    5 Apr5 April 14:30

    As far as i know its not possible. You can do Avios on CX to BKK, but then you would need a cash ticket to Koh Samui, but you wouldn’t be protected in the event of a miss- connect. Personally i take the combo ferry ticket on air asia via Surat Thani which includes the van drop off at hotel. Of course the convenience factor is lacking, but cash price is agreeable.

    • BJ says:

      5 Apr5 April 15:51

      The airport owned by Bangkok Airways so they have vast majority of flights there so essentially get stuck with them. Flights are also mostly fully booked so in event of an emergency getting if the island quickly can be difficult and expensive. One could do avios to Phuket and then onwards from there with Bangkok Airways but that would cost more than via BKK.

      • Shoestring says:

        5 Apr5 April 22:33

        Flying in or out of Koh Samui airport is a very pleasant experience, though 🙂

        Beats Barra in terms of weather & friendliness lol

  • Crafty says:

    5 Apr5 April 18:45

    I had that same problem with the generic Avios page months ago. It must be deliberate, in the absence of taking the time to write A page that says “you can’t redeem on this route”.

    It’s a very expensive route. We gave up and went elsewhere.

  • Leo says:

    5 Apr5 April 22:27

    No. You can get closer I.e. HKT, BKK as mentioned. You’ll have to pay from there and deal with the change too.

• Sally Zhen says:

  5 Apr5 April 12:24

  Seems like the discounted lounge access offer is only valid on outbound flights. It’s not applicable to lounge access upon arrival (e.g. from a red-eye flight).

  • Lady London says:

    5 Apr5 April 15:05

    Only some lounges can be used as Arrivals lounges regardless of how you gained entry. Those airside tend to be departures only at least in Europe/UK.

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