The InterContinental Lyon hotel opens – and looks stunning

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• Brian W says:

  6 Jun6 June 20:37

  O/T Virgin Rewards + bonus sign up points must be getting applied using their IT now rather than manually. Got my first statement on Tuesday with the 30k points bonus showing at the bottom, the points all posted in my Flying Club account yesterday, and I got an email telling me they were on their way today. Pretty slick.

  I know Rob said it was a manual process, hence the delays previously, so something has changed for the better.

  • Shoestring says:

    6 Jun6 June 20:43

    might be tempted for the 2 of us to go for the paid cards, obvs with new email addresses 🙂

    when does it end, 30th June?

    • EwanG says:

      6 Jun6 June 21:52

      Although the 19 year old isn’t allowed to drink until he’s 21, is his credit rating good, and is he allowed any cards yet?

      • Shoestring says:

        6 Jun6 June 21:58

        Unfortunately already got turned down for his first Amex card, I was truthful about his income 🙂

        household income didn’t sway it

        • Shoestring says:

          6 Jun6 June 22:12

          he’s got quite a few gambling accounts though – probably up about 25,000 Avios so far 🙂

        • Keith says:

          6 Jun6 June 23:11

          Are there gambling sites that let you deposit deposit with no fees?

        • Shoestring says:

          7 Jun7 June 06:53

          the fees on deposits get charged on credit cards but not debit cards or PayPal – the gambling sites themselves don’t levy fees on deposits

        • Keith says:

          7 Jun7 June 16:38

          So are there sites that allow you to make a credit to your balance using PayPal linked to Amex? When I try my Amex cards show as ‘unavailable for this payment’?

        • Shoestring says:

          7 Jun7 June 17:10

          that’s correct, you can’t make a deposit to a gambling site using PayPal with Amex underlying – not in my experience, anyway

          works fine with PayPal with debit card underlying or using PayPal balance

          I’ve not tried to use PayPal with a credit card underlying for fear that you’d still end up paying the credit card £5 fee

          but PayPal is useful as an alternative to debit card as many gambling sites look for duplication of deposit method as proof of you opening multiple a/cs (and suspend your account if detected)

• Oh! Matron! says:

  6 Jun6 June 22:28

  There’s a targeted Instant Plat on Spire, with extended Plat if you match some very easy targets currently.

  Only for Corp users. I didn’t get an email, but once I’d changed my email address, I then found the relevant bumpf internally. Incidentally, it doesn’t use a promo code, so no good asking, as I’ve seen multiple, lower quality, FF sites asking for.

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