Get 15% cashback from American Express with taxi app Gett

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• Mark says:

  25 Apr25 April 09:29

  I was always Uber but decided to give Wheely a go due to Amex offer. Estimated fare price was £29-36 so I was covered however when I got to my destination the bill came through at £23. Typical isn’t it?

  • David says:

    25 Apr25 April 10:15

    There have been reports here that you can ring up and ask them to whack on a bigger tip, to take it over £25…

    • MDA says:

      25 Apr25 April 11:03

      Confirmed, although my one was too short, ended up being £16 and I couldnt add a tip high enough to hit £25 however my fault for picking a short trip

  • Dudulle says:

    25 Apr25 April 12:47

    Beware if using Wheely from Airports.

    Booked them from LHR to central London. Bags took forever to arrive so we reached the car 1 hour after landing. Got a nasty surprise of £50 fixed fare being bumped by £41: £29 for waiting time and £12 for parking cost. total cost £91.

    It’s wrong commercially as if you book with Kabbee it’s an absolute flat fee, I have never been charged any extra in similar circumstances (base or exec service).

    It’s wrong legally as the waiting charge is not in their T & C’s (parking charge is however flagged at booking time so this one is fair).

    Put it with Amex, but the time I am wasting in the process not make the £25 worth it.

  • Lenchik says:

    25 Apr25 April 13:12

    Wheely – tried them using one of the codes posted here in comments earlier, was very impressed, IMO best way to get to/from Heathrow for £50. Drivers are way better than Uber or Kabbee, different league.

    Returning the favour, use B3DZM to get 20% off your first ride, works with Amex offer.

• Liam says:

  25 Apr25 April 10:13

  OT — I’m flying LHR (T5) to EDI this afternoon. Has anyone ever managed to get more than one guest into the Plaza Premium lounge on their Amex Platinum? I’m travelling with two friends, neither of whom has a Platinum or Priority Pass/Lounge Club.

  • Sina says:

    25 Apr25 April 11:08

    You can take one person with you for free, and the extra person will be offered a %30 discount.

• Joel says:

  25 Apr25 April 10:17

  One ‘tip’ with the wheely offer… if your fare falls short of £25, add a tip and this gets you over the threshold, worked for me two of the three times for shorter journeys to get the £25 credit.

• xcalx says:

  25 Apr25 April 10:19

  OT Tesco mobile offer. The website states rocket packs can not be used abroad however on the rocket pack sim card sleeve it states ” You can use your minutes,texts and date in any of our Home from Home destinations ”

  Anyone used the packs overseas
  Sorry if this has been mentioned before.

  • Fivebobbill says:

    25 Apr25 April 10:56

    Didn’t work for me in UAE last week,having said that didn’t expect it to so no loss.

  • Moktar says:

    26 Apr26 April 01:04

    Currently roaming in Malta. No issues here

• KP says:

  25 Apr25 April 10:59

  I’ve had the Wheely offer trigger on cumulative spend. Has anyone else tried that?

• Tracy says:

  25 Apr25 April 11:19

  O/T FYI Did a mattress run at a hotel on Monday. Did the usual checkin, mess up bed etc. Left key in the room, do not disturb sign on door and left. The stay hadn’t posted to my account so contacted front of house and requested the invoice. Invoice shows the whole charge as parking and no stay. Phoned hotel and room was checked for turn down even with do not disturb sign on the door and I was checked out 😭😭.

  • Neil says:

    25 Apr25 April 11:28

    You have to name the hotel now so we can all avoid it! Ouch

  • Michael says:

    25 Apr25 April 11:34

    How would they know though you just hadn’t popped out though?

    • BJ says:

      25 Apr25 April 12:36

      Yup, loads of people stagger in around 3am after the club’s close. Staff entering the room with a do mot disturb sign on the door is one of my pet hates. Had a real problem with it at HI Oxford Circus.

      • Tracy says:

        25 Apr25 April 13:01

        Totally agree

  • Peter K says:

    25 Apr25 April 11:41

    A turn down service on a mattress run hotel? Seems a bit upmarket for a cheap hotel to hit a target.

  • meta says:

    25 Apr25 April 11:56

    I would be claiming S75 via credit card. How on earth would they know you haven’t gone for a night out? Please name the hotel or at least the chain.

    • Bagoly says:

      25 Apr25 April 13:44

      Do they have staff spying for people leaving with their bags in the evening?

    • Lady London says:

      25 Apr25 April 17:11

      How would they know you hadnt gone clubbing, got lucky and not bothered to return? We need to know which hôtel this is …so much is wrong here.

    • Alan says:

      26 Apr26 April 07:46

      Agreed, you’ve paid for the room and turned up – whether you then sleep in it or not is up to you!

  • Tracy says:

    25 Apr25 April 12:32

    I am assuming as I left the key in the room they assumed I had left. No suitcases, bags etc in room. I have queried with hotel, manager to call me tomorrow as they are not working today. It was Marriott hotel chain, £40 paid.

    • john says:

      25 Apr25 April 12:50

      Just take the key with you next time. No need to return those plastic key cards. I don’t ever remember being asked for them when checking out at desk. I have a big stash of them in a drawer.

      • Tracy says:

        25 Apr25 April 12:59

        Will do next time, thought I might be charged for it….

        • Alan says:

          26 Apr26 April 19:19

          Haha nope, those are totally disposable. I hand them back if I remember, otherwise chuck them in the bin later. They could have issued two though, so one being left in the room didn’t necessarily mean you’d left!

      • Michael says:

        25 Apr25 April 14:05

        Marriot even allow you to use your phone to unlock your room these days. You could of been using that for all the hotel knew.

      • meta says:

        25 Apr25 April 17:19

        You can even check out via Marriott app as well.

    • Lady London says:

      25 Apr25 April 17:14

      This was moxy lhr wasnt it.

      If anyones doing a mattress run there put me as second guest checking in first and we can do a deal.

    • BJ says:

      25 Apr25 April 18:58

      Even leaving 2 keys in the room fails to justify their actions. I’ve had 3 and even 4 keys to a hotel at once for various reasons. And, you would not be the first to have gone out and forgotten your key.

  • the_real_a says:

    25 Apr25 April 14:11

    You have been charged for parking, you didn’t park… no more discussion required with regards AMEX charge-back. I would not be able to expense this invoice. I have very often taken a hotel just for the day with the previsio i might or might not return for a shower… and would expect an accurate invoice.

    • Tracy says:

      25 Apr25 April 16:56

      Will wait and see if the re-issue invoice with room rate and credit one night to my account. If not, will probably do as you suggest.

  • Lady London says:

    25 Apr25 April 17:08

    Why did you put the do not disturb sign the door? If anything i would thought this the thing not to do on a mattress d’un.

• Turntable says:

  25 Apr25 April 12:09

  Rob – what card do you see being launched next in the UK (if any) ?

  • Rob says:

    25 Apr25 April 12:20

    No idea. People who were promising stuff – Marriott, Hilton – have not followed through.

    What is more interesting to some extent is whether revamped cards like Lloyds Avios and Tesco Premium will be reopened in their new form.

• Shoestring says:

  25 Apr25 April 12:15

  No hot water for coffee/ tea on flight back Monday. First got a BS answer telling me how good M&S trolley is & sorry about no hot drinks. Challenged this, today we got 1000 Avios each for service recovery, which I think is about right.

  So full marks to BA for dealing with service issue correctly (second time of asking)

  • BJ says:

    25 Apr25 April 12:28

    And good initial guess on what it was worth, spot on.

  • Anna says:

    25 Apr25 April 13:27

    Did you call them? I submitted an online complaint a week ago about OH not getting any F & B in CE recently but got nothing yet except a case number.

    • Shoestring says:

      25 Apr25 April 13:41

      online complaint using the complaint portal when logged into BAEC

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