Another Scottish castle – Inverlochy Castle – you can now book with World of Hyatt hotel points

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• Benylin says:

  18 Oct18 October 06:31

  OT: Overpaid into my Creation IHG account, how hard / how many questions will be raised if I call creation and ask them to BT the money to me?

  • Sandgrounder says:

    18 Oct18 October 07:05

    You could always get a Revolut and top it up with the excess, and then send it to your bank account with no human interaction at all. Or is that not possible for some reason? How much are we talking? I imagine you don’t want anyone looking at your account if you are so concerned- big time Curve user by any chance? 🙂

    • LewisB says:

      18 Oct18 October 07:26

      Shhhhh

      • screwed_by_revolut says:

        18 Oct18 October 07:33

        Good old days when you could do that at scale. I guess word got around and now Revolut comes down on you so hard for cash recycling if you load then withdraw any value worth bothering with 🙁

• SH83 says:

  18 Oct18 October 06:32

  Hi. I’ve been transferring Avios between BA and Iberia the past week or so using the Iberia website.
  They have done a VERY good job of hiding the functionality within their website! Smallest font size ever, but it’s there!!

  Login to your account>
  Click Buying or Transferring Avios>
  Right at the bottom of the page, above the banner, see this link:
  “Don’t forget you can combine your Avios with those of other customer loyalty programmes.”

  Works a treat for me. Hope it does for others too.

  • Peter K says:

    18 Oct18 October 07:13

    But it doesn’t work via that method if you have a BA household account.

  • Craig says:

    18 Oct18 October 07:53

    I moved 2k from Iberia to Avios that are now missing despite getting the emails to say it was successful!

• The Lord says:

  18 Oct18 October 06:48

  OT – Taking our first long haul club word flight in a couple of weeks (thanks Rob and HFP). How likely is it we will get an on the day Elemis appointment at T5? Flying on a Saturday morning

  • Frankie says:

    18 Oct18 October 07:25

    I’ve never had an issue getting a slot. I do however always get to airport about 3.5 hours before holiday flight in CW. Go straight to the spa on arrival at the lounge complex and get booked in.

  • Genghis says:

    18 Oct18 October 07:29

    Try 5B

    • Anna says:

      18 Oct18 October 08:01

      +1 – availability is better at T5B (though not guaranteed) and the lounge is generally quieter and a much better option if your flight is leaving from B or C concourse.

    • Simon says:

      18 Oct18 October 12:32

      Blimey, I have been reading this site for 7 years now and I’ve clearly missed a trick here: I thought the gratis Elemis spa massage slots were purely a perk of F? So, from the above, this perk is also open to J pax, too? (Fortunately, with mainly flying other airlines, I don’t do many long haul BA J flights, so I’ve not missed out too much.) But could fellow HFPers kindly confirm this? Many thanks! 😉

      • Nick Burch says:

        18 Oct18 October 12:41

        If flying F, you can ring a month before and book a slot. You’re then sure to get it

        Flying long haul J (or long haul economy as gold) you turn up and see what slots they have. Generally 3-4 hours out at A gates, often 2 hours out at B gates. If there’s time they book you in.

        Handy tip – ask them to check B gates availability if nothing in time at A, they often won’t think to

        • Simon says:

          19 Oct19 October 17:22

          Very interesting, Nick — many thanks. 😉

• Cat says:

  18 Oct18 October 06:49

  Inverlochy Castle is just outside Inverlochy and Fort William. I was wondering about staying there in May – I’ve never hiked up Ben Nevis, which seems like a massive oversight that I hope to correct!

  • Liz says:

    18 Oct18 October 08:27

    We stayed in our caravan at the foot of Ben Nevis last July and watched people walk up the first part every morning and then people come back down again later in the day. On our last full day we decided to give it a go – weather conditions perfect – cool and dry – not expecting to get to the top. 3.5 hrs later we were blown away with the wind and views from the top and excited to have bagged our very first munro! That trip we also booked the afternoon on the Jacobite steam train (Hogwarts Express] and also stood at Glenfinnan another day to watch the steam train go across the viaduct! Also climbed the Jacobite Monument for stunning views down Loch Shiel. Beautiful part of Scotland.

    • Stu_N says:

      18 Oct18 October 09:13

      The Lime Tree is our go-to place in Fort William:

      https://www.limetreefortwilliam.co.uk/

      • AndyGWP says:

        18 Oct18 October 14:59

        The travelodge is my go to place! 😀

        It’s dirt cheap in February and March, and the parking nearby is free too (though it also has it’s own car park now).

        I usually need to take a bit of extra kit to tackle the mountains around there at that time of year though 😉

  • RussellH says:

    18 Oct18 October 16:13

    I guess any hillwalker will want to ‘do’ Ben Nevis at some time, but there are any number of more interesting walks, TBH.

    • Cat says:

      18 Oct18 October 18:45

      Which ones are your favourites, Russell?

      • AndyGWP says:

        18 Oct18 October 19:38

        I can butt in and highly recommend the 30 minute drive south to Glencoe (or a stop there on the drive up) and hitting up Buachaille Etive Mòr (not sure what it’s like in summer but the North Gully is great in winter) and also do Bidean nam Bian which takes in the Hidden / Lost Valley

        Around Fort William, do the Ring of Steal 😉

        • Cat says:

          18 Oct18 October 20:57

          Thanks Andy and Harry, will look those up when I get home! Am celebrating half term finally arriving by watching (coincidentally) the Cursed Child! It is absolutely amazing, for anyone who is a fan and hasn’t been !

• Thomas Tuyaerts says:

  18 Oct18 October 06:52

  Gosh, For a moment I thought that Rob had bought a Castle called Sinead!!!….. That would have been news, Welcome Sinead.

• Cat says:

  18 Oct18 October 07:11

  Welcome Sinead! Looking forward to the post-Xmas party!

• Big Dave says:

  18 Oct18 October 07:15

  I hadn’t used Combine my avios for ages – I found I had some points dormant in the avios account that vueling club forced you to open. I have not been able to move these and it always failed.
  On the 4th october I managed to do it after contacting their online chat – I just gave them all my details and told them to make sure the account was as I said – the DOB was wrong for some reason even though in vueling club everything was always correct and thats why it hadn’t been transfering.
  Looks like I got in in time.

• Mike says:

  18 Oct18 October 07:22

  Good luck Anika and welcome Sinead.

  • ankomonkey says:

    18 Oct18 October 09:47

    +1.

    Looking forward to Sinead giving us some insider VS tips and thinking we should start helping Anika with baby name suggestions. I’ll go first:

    Eva (Air) for a girl, Conrad for a boy

    • Bagoly says:

      18 Oct18 October 10:11

      Calin
      Peach (economy only, so not really suitable)
      Pia

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