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• Stuart says:

  1 Aug1 August 04:18

  Poor old Rhys!

  • Rob says:

    1 Aug1 August 08:05

    Even worse …. yesterday I was invited to a 3-day party event hosted by Sir Richard Branson, outside the UK. All expenses paid. And I can’t go, because it is over half term. Guess who is getting that one too …!

    • Mike says:

      1 Aug1 August 09:15

      Enjoy Necker Island, Rhys!

      • Rhys says:

        1 Aug1 August 09:24

        Sadly not Necker! Think more along the lines of new Virgin routes 😉

        • BJ says:

          1 Aug1 August 09:38

          Flybe to Guernsey?

        • Genghis says:

          1 Aug1 August 09:51

          🙂 I enjoy my almost annual trip down to Guernsey. Fresh air and decent food. Couldn’t spend much more time there though..

• BJ says:

  1 Aug1 August 05:01

  Long-term readers also know that you say this every year but then in practice it usually ends up, more or less, business as usual 🙂

  • Rob says:

    1 Aug1 August 08:01

    It has, I admit, become more and more like that.

    The issue is that if we have paid ads, we guarantee a minimum number of page views and losing an article for more than a couple of days would put the target at risk.

• Genghis says:

  1 Aug1 August 06:16

  I hope Rhys produces accurate content 🙂
  “given that Avios only accepts transfers in chunks of 1,000”. Min 1k then in chunks of 500.

  • Rob says:

    1 Aug1 August 08:00

    Thanks 🙂

• Lee J Thornton says:

  1 Aug1 August 06:47

  Can we do a whip-round for Rhys if he manages to get a photo with Alex Cruz in his hi-vis jacket?

• BSI1979 says:

  1 Aug1 August 07:07

  Will look forward to Rhys’ reports/views on Rio. Off there in mid-September for the first time (courtesy of those £200 return flight deal) and am getting very excited.

  • BJ says:

    1 Aug1 August 07:22

    It’s awesome, enjoy. In September the weather will still be a bit chilly for the locals so you will not get the full beach experience unless the weather has gone crazy there too. However, a good month to do other stuff when it’s not too hot and humid.

  • AJA says:

    1 Aug1 August 08:05

    Enjoy! It’s a very photogenic city, Corcorvado with Christ the Redeemer at the top and the Sugar Loaf are definite highlights.

    That said unfortunately the beach at Copacabana was washed away by a freak tide a week ago!

    • BSI1978 says:

      1 Aug1 August 10:41

      I genuinely missed this news! The entire beach….?!

      • BJ says:

        1 Aug1 August 11:57

        I think AJA may be teasing you 🙂 Anyway there are many beaches around Rio to sample. There will be a fair few tourists as weather should be at least mid 20s, but don’t expect them to be packed with locals in September.

        • AJA says:

          1 Aug1 August 18:39

          BJ Copacabana Beach is man-made. They pumped sand in from the sea to create it in the 1960s. It happens occasionally that the tide washes the beach away.

          A similar thing happened to the beaches in Sitges south of Barcelona in 2013 except that was down to unusually harsh winter storms.

        • BJ says:

          1 Aug1 August 19:12

          @AJA, ok I believe you, it was just that I did a search and came up blank which is a little odd. I read about something similar in Thailand where they apparently spent hundreds of millions of Thai Baht creating a new beach in Pattaya. Wish I had the opportunity to see them do it.

      • AJA says:

        1 Aug1 August 18:29

        BSI1978 apologies for the delay in responding to you.

        Unfortunately I am not joking. See pictures in the link below to O Globo newspaper. It’s in Portuguese but translated:

        The strip of sand practically disappeared at the time of Post 5 of Copacabana Beach , one of the postcards of Rio . The news in the city landscape, seen on Wednesday, is one of the side effects of the hangover that hit the coast of the state of Rio in recent days

        https://oglobo.globo.com/rio/ressaca-encolhe-faixa-de-areia-da-praia-de-copacabana-23828808

• Nick says:

  1 Aug1 August 07:46

  Is 2500p Marriott bonvoy essentially worth 8333 avios?

  Looking at booing hotel for 25k bonvoy. Cash price is circa £100. Worth it?

  • Nick says:

    1 Aug1 August 07:46

    Thats 25000 bonvoy…

    • Shoestring says:

      1 Aug1 August 07:51

      3:1, with 5000 Avios bonus on 60K Bonvoys transferred, ie you’d get 25K Avios

      • Shoestring says:

        1 Aug1 August 08:06

        plus there now seems to be a regular annual 20% bonus transfer period, so the points are worth a bit more than that

    • Genghis says:

      1 Aug1 August 08:08

      If you have loads of Bonvoys, spend them. Otherwise I’d pay cash in this case.

      • TGLoyalty says:

        1 Aug1 August 09:40

        When places like the Langley cost 35k a night I’d pay £100 vs 25k Bonvoy point and save them for something nice.

  • Alex W says:

    1 Aug1 August 10:05

    You can get 1p of value from Marriott points if you spend them wisely. Therefore I’d say 25k for a £100 room is a bad deal. Converting to Avios also a bad deal. Can get better value by converting in 60k chunks to more exotoc airlines e.g. Alaska. Or spend them at better value hotels like the Langley or the new Courtyard Oxford 🙂

  • RedEyeDonkey says:

    1 Aug1 August 12:09

    I’ve managed to get over 0.8p/point with Bonvoys so unless you have tons I tend to think it’s best to save for good redemptions where you save the most cash or transfer to an airline only if you need a top up and don’t have MRs to transfer. In any event 25,000 of them are definitely worth more than 8,333 AVIOS when trying to figure out their value…. unless you’re 8,333 AVIOS short of a BA First redemption… but in that case those can be very valuable AVIOS…

• Kipto says:

  1 Aug1 August 08:25

  I am still waiting for my 1000 bonus nectar points ( thanks Harry) for booking a ticket on GNER back in June. Bonus should have appeared within 28 days. It didn’t, rang them up this week and they said they would pass my query to a back office team and I would hear within another 28 days 🤔

  • BJ says:

    1 Aug1 August 08:35

    Never had a problem with them until my last three transactions in May and June. Chased them up and got 2000 of the 3000 already. Had to send in proof that I actually booked LNER and Virgin services. Hope the agent who dealt with it is not the type to raise with management that I only spent £1.25 per ticket and gets the rules changed.

• EwanG says:

  1 Aug1 August 08:29

  Semi O/T – Nectar
  For those who booked a Virgin Trains West Coast mainline ticket from 20-26 June, expecting 1,000 bonus Nectar points. I think there were quite a few busy trains to/from Haymarket around that time 😉

  Check your account as only 25 bonus points were awarded in my experience.
  Chat were happy to add the missing bonus points, once I’d provided a screenshot.
  When I pushed them to say this is a widespread issue and would they proactively identify affected transactions, they confirmed they would only respond if customers contact them.

  Points post instantly, so good for using with the LNER credit promotion posted.

  • BJ says:

    1 Aug1 August 08:39

    Ok Ewan you can share the blame if they introduce a minimum spend requirement…I feel better already 🙂

    • EwanG says:

      1 Aug1 August 09:24

      Some of the offers have had a minimum spend – I decided not to travel then!!

      The tracking of these train travel bonus offers has been pretty flakey over the past couple of months. I also chased for bonus points on TPX and LNER too – a few hundred £ of spend, so not always short journeys!

      • BJ says:

        1 Aug1 August 11:59

        Thanks, I’ll check for minimum spend before jumping in in future.

  • Rui N. says:

    1 Aug1 August 09:06

    Thanks for the tip. Had forgotten about this, and they have only given me 25 points as well. Complained via chat, but did not get the points straight way, they are “looking into it”.

  • Crafty says:

    1 Aug1 August 10:23

    Same, chased yesterday, waste of my time. Told them I would raise a complaint as I have to manually chase these every single time.

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