The new Hilton Garden Inn hotel in Heathrow Terminal 2 and T3 is open

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• Michael says:

  4 Jul4 July 11:26

  Any harm in referring your parents to pick up a referral bonus? And then they just cancel straight away.

  • Rob says:

    4 Jul4 July 11:30

    No. But, at the same time, why cancel? Why not take the card, spend what is required to earn the sign-up bonus and then use the points yourself? (Bonvoy and Hilton points could go to you via their account, or you could put them into an Avios HHA with you).

    • Aston100 says:

      4 Jul4 July 11:54

      There must be some trust issues here surely.

      • Rob says:

        4 Jul4 July 15:31

        Not with your parents, presumably!

    • Michael says:

      4 Jul4 July 12:44

      Never thought of that. Thanks Rob.

• Vasco says:

  4 Jul4 July 12:26

  Think a Garden Inn is meant to be in the Holiday Inn segment, above Hampton and below Full Service Hilton and Double Tree.

  Pretty good in the States where you can cooked breakfast as a Gold, rather than just the buffet.

  • Anna says:

    4 Jul4 July 12:43

    The 2 HGIs I’ve stayed in were much nicer than any HI I’ve been to, and also much better than some of the distinctly shabby Hiltons I’ve stayed in.

    • Leo says:

      4 Jul4 July 18:20

      Well that’s really the thing about “Hiltons” – can’t guarantee what they will be like.

  • Lady London says:

    5 Jul5 July 23:28

    isnt HGI a bit above Doubletree? gym, etc.
    Doubletree only has cookies (an awful lot of which seem to be being consumed by reception staff)

• Harvey says:

  4 Jul4 July 13:06

  OT
  Virgin redemption- What is the cancellation policy? Same as Avios. Full points refund? Is there a charge? TY

  • Neil Donoghue says:

    4 Jul4 July 13:21

    Full points refunded and taxes refunded minus a fee. I believe the fee is £40 / £50 but 100% confident you get the points back

    • Prins Polo says:

      4 Jul4 July 13:53

      and the best thing is you can cancel a VS redemption by sending a text message from your phone if needed

    • lev441 says:

      4 Jul4 July 17:39

      It’s £30 cancellation fee but all points back as long as you do it before 24 hours prior to the flight

      • SG says:

        4 Jul4 July 22:12

        I believe it is 72 hours!

        • Lev441 says:

          5 Jul5 July 00:54

          Says that on the app but it’s not correct – it’s 24 hours – cancelled a flight last month with 24.5 hours to go and all was returned except the cancellation fee

• Craig says:

  4 Jul4 July 13:09

  OT: First statement generated following Green-Plat upgrade with the £450 fee charged. I waited until at least one Green statement had previously generated, in essence this has cost me £5 extra (£60/12 Green Fee) for 25000MR points. Not as good as a sign up bonus but not too bad.

  • Grant says:

    4 Jul4 July 15:19

    Where are you getting the extra 5k points from? I thought Green > Plat via the magic link was 20K

    • Sandgrounder says:

      4 Jul4 July 15:25

      I am presuming 5k is from the first supp.

      • Grant says:

        4 Jul4 July 15:32

        of course, yes

    • Craig says:

      4 Jul4 July 15:57

      Yep, 1st Supp.

  • MarkH says:

    4 Jul4 July 19:17

    Same here. Was worth a try though.

    Amex seem to have sorted their IT for these upgrades (unfortunately). I just upgraded my wife’s and on her MR account there is a counter for £4k spend to get 20k bonus whereas there never used to be when doing gold to plat.

    • Polly says:

      4 Jul4 July 19:38

      Plus 1

      • Matt says:

        5 Jul5 July 00:15

        No counter for £4K spend on my account.

• Ammar says:

  4 Jul4 July 13:17

  OT – RE 241 Redemtpions
  I have business class flights booked out to Male but was not able to get the same on the way back, so trying to be creative. Could I use my 241 voucher to use my already booked flights out to MLE but come back from DOH-LHR instead? Would that work ?

  • Neil Donoghue says:

    4 Jul4 July 13:20

    241 can only be used on BA metal! As you have the flights out, consider looking at a flight to somewhere that BA fly and then go home from there. Sadly with Male your options are very very poor. BA don’t fly to Sri Lanka so the next option would be India and then don’t forget the rule, the distance cannot be great that either flight

    • meta says:

      4 Jul4 July 14:49

      But you can fly DOH-LON and book a separate flight MLE-DOH. Open jaws are permitted on 241 vouchers as long as the sector in between is less than the distance then the outbound or inbound. So in this case MLE-DOH is I believe less than LON-MLE and DOH-LON. You can check on GC Map if not sure.

  • SimonW says:

    4 Jul4 July 14:52

    Search for BA flights back from Bangalore….. its 2 hours from Male. We did that when we went to the Maldives

    • yorkieflyer says:

      4 Jul4 July 16:49

      but don’t forget you will need an indian visa transit(paper) or visitor(electronic) as you can’t rely on through checking baggage

      • SimonW says:

        4 Jul4 July 16:57

        aaah that’s a great point. We did a week first in India, so we had visas arranged by the travel agent.

  • Anna says:

    4 Jul4 July 17:14

    Surely you can fly from Male to Dubai? DBX-LHR usually has decent availability.

    • Anna says:

      4 Jul4 July 17:18

      Emirates fly this route. It’s only a 4 hour flight so doable in economy.

  • BJ says:

    4 Jul4 July 18:16

    Fly MLE-BKK with Air Asia, get your return flight from BKK.

• nick says:

  4 Jul4 July 14:57

  Gatwick South flight this sunday at 3pm.
  airport expected to be busy? re bag drop queues, security and accessing the PP lounge?

  • Polly says:

    4 Jul4 July 19:45

    Worth pre booking the £5 fee for your lounge with PP tho. Annoying but at least you get in. Turn aways really on the up now. And there’s always Grain Store…

    • Matthew says:

      4 Jul4 July 21:39

      And you get fast track security so not all bad news….

  • Lady London says:

    5 Jul5 July 23:34

    tbh I would say not. not unless you really insist on getting into the lounge. personally I’m still trying to find a flight I can take out of the grain store terminal!

    I know it’s a busy weekend but would expect saturday to be busy – sunday will still be reasonable but not as rammed as saturday.

    Just depends on how sure you need to be that you will get through to everything you want easily. If you are travelling as a family that may make it more important.

• Lee says:

  4 Jul4 July 16:17

  OT – New Morrison’s offer on my plat card till the end of this month. only 5% with min £30 spend

  • Shoestring says:

    4 Jul4 July 17:43

    same on my Green – got enough 5% off coupons for diesel for the rest of this year so will give it a miss 🙂

    • Polly says:

      4 Jul4 July 19:49

      Did that too w the xmas 10% off. Covered most petrol and supermarket and gift cards spend for months.
      Only had 5% off this time so stocked up but am waiting for 10% to appear again on just 1 of our cards…

• N says:

  4 Jul4 July 16:55

  OT – Titanium staying at Moxy.

  As expected no breakfast. (I don’t get why, but thems the rules)

  But was surprised at checkin to find out that there is no F&B credit because it’s a points stay?! Wtf?!

  • E says:

    4 Jul4 July 20:54

    Was this the LHR one? They did something really strange with my invoice to say that most of my stay was actually charged as the cost of breakfast and the room rate was a fraction of what it should be. Only realised when they sent the invoice through later by email as the total they quoted me at checkout was correct. I took it up with Bonvoy customer service as I reckoned they did it just so they could post far fewer points than they should have (as F&B doesn’t count for points with Bonvoy). I got the right points credited in the end but wasn’t impressed with this although the hotel itself was fine.

    • N says:

      5 Jul5 July 00:09

      Stratford!

      Weird re the points – sounds like they were trying to save a few ££

    • meta says:

      5 Jul5 July 01:15

      I do think you get points for F&B spend at Bonvoy properties. I got them on all my stays since the merger without a problem. People
      reported here problems with Moxy Heathrow. I had no problem with Moxy Excel for example earlier this year.

      • Rob says:

        5 Jul5 July 08:39

        You’re not getting them at the HFP party, we have blocked that off 🙂

      • E says:

        5 Jul5 July 15:41

        Not at Moxy – room rate only qualifies. But agree that at most of their brands F&B counts. Should have been more specific!

    • Lady London says:

      5 Jul5 July 23:35

      sneaky bastkets. i was going to look at givin the Moxy Heathrow a few stays in the autumn, but if they are playing games like that I won’t now.

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