Marriott opens Parklane, the first luxury branded hotel resort in Cyprus

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• Nigel the Pensioner says:

  18 Apr18 April 06:05

  Limassol, luxury, hmmm……….

  • Prins Polo says:

    18 Apr18 April 06:51

    Lol

    +1

• Louise says:

  18 Apr18 April 06:20

  OT new Amex offer for Morrison’s. Spend £50 10% back till 8/5
  On my Platinum

  • TGLoyalty says:

    18 Apr18 April 07:13

    Got it on my SPG. Unfortunately not my Plat yet and that’s the card I’m likely to keep

    • Shoestring says:

      18 Apr18 April 07:17

      Good for 10% discount on Amazon giftcards 🙂

      • BJ says:

        18 Apr18 April 07:38

        Or petrol.
        Currently 10% on Halifax too.

      • Andrew says:

        18 Apr18 April 08:44

        Filling Stations are usually excluded from the Halifax, BoS & Lloyds offers.

      • Alan says:

        18 Apr18 April 10:28

        Haha yep, although I’ve still got a few k from the pre-Xmas offer to use up first!

      • Jonny says:

        18 Apr18 April 10:57

        It’s strange, because the T&Cs do exclude gift cards being purchased, but I’m guessing because they can’t see exactly what you bought that doesn’t matter?

      • BJ says:

        18 Apr18 April 11:30

        When I raised question on this 2 weeks ago was that Morrison’s vouchers could be used for fuel though.

      • Jimbob says:

        18 Apr18 April 12:38

        It doesn’t specifically mention Morrison petrol stations are excluded. Would I be ok to fill up and get 10% back?

      • BJ says:

        18 Apr18 April 14:24

        Thanks Ewan, I’ll do 3x£50 at the same time on my Halifax.

  • Alan says:

    18 Apr18 April 08:01

    Nothing on any of mine. 🙁

  • Louise says:

    18 Apr18 April 08:11

    Yes on my charge card

  • John says:

    18 Apr18 April 08:48

    Not on Gold or BA, but used it a lot last time (March)

  • Rob says:

    18 Apr18 April 09:01

    If you know you will get more than 0.8p, whilst factoring in possible devaluations and tax hikes, clearly it works. But that is down to you.

  • Allycat says:

    18 Apr18 April 09:42

    Got the new one on my Pref Rewards Gold and my wife’s supplementary. Had the previous one on my supp on my son’s Pref Rewards Gold and it did payout 10% for Amazon gift card purchases.

• Kieran Fox says:

  18 Apr18 April 07:03

  I may be going mad but I can’t see any mention of the 10% discount at Brewdog in that press release?

  • Gavin T says:

    18 Apr18 April 07:24

    Me neither. I only get 5% discount on drinks (nothing on food) in the bars as a Brewdog shareholder!

    • IanMac says:

      18 Apr18 April 08:11

      Gavin – need to check on the food discount – current EFP benefits just state 5% / 10% discount in our bars. I’ve always got my 10% discount on food and beer.

    • IanMac says:

      18 Apr18 April 08:25

      We’ve also challenged whether the ‘BAEC discount’ will stack with existing EFP Benefit discounts – awaiting feedback.

    • Rob says:

      18 Apr18 April 08:35

      Doh. BA emailed me a press release which contained this info. I linked to the online version without checking that they might not be the same.

    • Paul Stevens says:

      18 Apr18 April 11:32

      There are different levels of EFP benefits depending on how much you have pumped in.

  • Andrew (@andrewseftel) says:

    18 Apr18 April 07:37

    It used to when it was originally published earlier in the month! Looks like they’ve edited the press release without mentioning the update.

  • Trevor says:

    18 Apr18 April 07:53

    No sign of it. That was a good offer and excuse for me to pop down to my local Brewdog. Shame.

  • IanMac says:

    18 Apr18 April 07:58

    Message from @BrewDogCam on the EFP Forum
    “Hey

    Just to clarify this press release is slightly wrong and further details will be sent out to executive club members

    it will be time limited from launch until the 100 year anniversary in August

    Final details are still being worked through as the launch was brought forward but this is a partnership with BA and we are hoping there might be some benefits for our EFPs coming the other way :slight_smile:”

    • Rob says:

      18 Apr18 April 08:26

      Will update, thanks.

  • Big Dave says:

    18 Apr18 April 08:36

    nothing on the brewdog nor ba site about said discount at all…

• Crafty says:

  18 Apr18 April 07:16

  Strange decision from Brewdog. No brand salience there at all. It’s Virgin they should be teaming up with.

  • Shoestring says:

    18 Apr18 April 07:20

    BD is a small concern & would be happy to get any deal at all – they want the opportunity to get the beer sampled by people who fly & won’t be making much money out of the deal, though it should improve brewery efficiencies.

    • Gavin T says:

      18 Apr18 April 07:37

      I mean it’s no AB InBev but they did £171m in revenue last year. You’re correct the additional exposure is valuable but given the short-haul network in particular I also imagine BA can shift a lot more beer than Virgin too.

    • IanMac says:

      18 Apr18 April 08:04

      Currently estimated value GBP 1 billion +
      Not bad going in 10 years from 2 men + dog and from EFP ‘crowdfunding’ and injection from TSG a couple of years ago.
      BrewDog is a British success story if ever there was one – Breweries in UK, USA, building in Oz and soon to be Berlin, next up then is China.

      • Rob says:

        18 Apr18 April 08:25

        Yes, not small at all. The two founders took out £100m when the private equity firm bought its stake. Don’t be fooled by the ‘we are two blokes doing this in our garage’ hype.

      • Alex Sm says:

        18 Apr18 April 08:58

        Rob, one does not exclude the other

      • Shoestring says:

        18 Apr18 April 14:50

        aha – caught out, a bit behind the times

  • kt1974 says:

    18 Apr18 April 10:09

    Annual BA passengers = 45 million
    Annual Virgin passengers = <5 million
    I wonder why BD chose to deal with BA? You think they care more about their brand or the £££s?

    • Crafty says:

      18 Apr18 April 10:19

      That’s exactly my concern, as a (very minor) shareholder. The Tesco deal was questioned by quite a few.

      They aren’t the only rapidly growing beer company to face such a trade off, look at Beavertown. I just have a feeling that of the two Beavertown is handling brand management slightly better.

      • kt1974 says:

        18 Apr18 April 10:24

        Mate, they accepted a £213m investment from the PE house that owns Pabst (as in Blue Ribbon). If you’re worried about BD selling out, they did so long, long ago… and well before Beavertown was a twinkle in Heineken’s eye

      • Lady London says:

        18 Apr18 April 12:00

        As have most so-called “craft beers” being marketed. They’re not craft beers at all. I was in one of the largest food & drinks manufacturers in the world when they turned their attention to buying and marketing craft beers a few years ago. The whole craft beer thing has been an excellent marketing success. But craft beer, 99% of the time, it generally ain’t.

      • Stu N says:

        18 Apr18 April 16:16

        @Lady London – the problem is “craft beer” has no agreed definition so anyone from a man in a shed to a multinational conglomerate can market a beer as craft, and no-one can really argue that it isn’t.

      • Crafty says:

        18 Apr18 April 16:38

        Not worried about selling out. Worried about brand management – customer perception.

    • IanMac says:

      18 Apr18 April 11:40

      Possible answers :
      – opens up a huge market of BA travellers to try BD craft beer (and get hooked)
      – opens up a huge market of BA travellers to become BD Equity Punks in Round 6 (support the fund raise, get long term / lifetime benefits and discounts)
      In the Brandz 2018 report, BA ranked 47th, BrewDog in 65th place by brand value
      Special mention of ‘1 million pint giveaway’ (…..) for innovation
      EFP6 comes with a lottery for one investor to win £1 million in BD shares

  • Mark says:

    18 Apr18 April 14:23

    Punk IPA is sold onboard Easyjet flights- is it, or any other Brewdog product, available on any BA flights?

    • Stu N says:

      18 Apr18 April 21:42

      Not at the moment. Speedbird 100 coming on 1/5/19 and a special Overworks Brett IPA for First. We are flying F on 2 May so look forward to trying both. I’m keeping the can of the Overworks one for sure.

• SSP says:

  18 Apr18 April 07:34

  was the Parklane not previously Le Meridien Limasol?

  • TGLoyalty says:

    18 Apr18 April 07:44

    Yep looks to have opened following a €70m renovation. Have to say I’m not a fan of the room decor in the pics but maybe better in the flesh

• Leo says:

  18 Apr18 April 08:01

  OT: Just booked a return flight to Greece – it’s by way of a TP run because I found myself much closer to re-qualifying for Silver than anticipated (but it’ll be a fun trip anyway as crashing other friends’ holiday so not entirely down to a TP run). After carefully checking the ticket fare class on both sectors (R and N) I was certain I would get the TPs I needed. I stupidly then added a car onto the booking for £15 – which I thought was a great deal. This had the effect of lowering the N fare to a G fare and I lost 10TPs as a result. Adding the car turned the booking into a package (and as we know from HfP this can be really effective regards price). I realised this immediately AFTER I’d done it – but at no point during the booking process was I alerted to the change in fare class of the Y sector. Called BA to cancel and was told I could not cancel “flights” within the 24 hours as per usual as I had booked a package. I did resolve the issue by paying to upgrade the G ticket to an N fare… Purpose of this post is – be careful if the TPs are an important part of a booking not to add a car or hotel.

  • Reddot says:

    18 Apr18 April 08:13

    Thanks for sharing these pitfalls!

    • Stu N says:

      18 Apr18 April 10:35

      This does happen, and it’s very hard to see what class you are booked into. It’s gone in my favour with flights going from I to J class too.

      • Alex W says:

        18 Apr18 April 10:56

        Wow, in which case adding a car etc could pay for itself! Definitely something to check before booking.

      • Leo says:

        18 Apr18 April 11:17

        The thing is though – you have no idea with what your fare class will be after adding the car, so not something you can “check” – ok I guess if you don’t care about said fare class.

      • Lady London says:

        18 Apr18 April 12:05

        As I said in a post couple of days ago more fare class transparency and ability to choose desired fare class according to conditions (and now tier points) would be a good thing if BA would built into its booking systems that customers use. the OTA’s couldn’t match it as they deal with too many airlines to make the investment and the ability to choose t’s and c’s/benefits is most likely to be valuable to an airline’s existing customers. The OTA’s service those who are simply after cheapest cash fare (the majority, so not sure if it adds up for airlines to add greater fare class transparency but wish they would)..

• Rob says:

  18 Apr18 April 08:44

  As long as the hotel was on the list you can retroclaim via Amex but they are a slow in processing them.

• Brian says:

  18 Apr18 April 08:49

  I had that. Didn’t get an email from Amex saying I’d triggered the offer, but statement credit came through ok

  • John says:

    18 Apr18 April 09:13

    Thanks, txns only moved from pending yesterday so maybe it will take another couple of days.

    Although mine is cumulative from 4 different stays… if it does come through, that’s 5 nights for £30 each!

    (I earned 30K points with the current promo and spent 20K for the 5th night, got free breakfast / semi-upgrades as diamond, and one of the hotels even had a lounge)

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