Get 1,000 Avios points with your first Airbnb stay

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• Harry T says:

  6 Nov6 November 08:15

  OT:
  I’ve recently gotten a PRGC. When I activated the card, I made a new account to maximise offers, rather than tying it to my Platinum account. My Platinum and Gold Membership Rewards balances have not linked so I seem to have two separate MR accounts.

  Does this mean I could get past the IT and get a PRGC sign up bonus?

  Does this mean I could get referral bonuses from my PRGC, even though I’ve maxed out my 90k referral limit for the Platinum Card?

• Shoestring says:

  6 Nov6 November 08:21

  Iberia – buy Avios with 50% bonus (until 17th November)

  300,000 Avios for EUR3601 (=1.2c/ point)

  with the £ strengthened, = 1.03p/ point

  obvs going to vary for lower quantities

  • Shoestring says:

    6 Nov6 November 08:23

    and all from the comfort of your chair with a couple of clicks 🙂

    seriously worth consideration if you are finding it harder to accumulate decent quantities of Avios this year – I never regretted buying £1000 of Avios @ 1p/ point a few years ago

    • Rob says:

      6 Nov6 November 08:29

      BA 50% deal may or may not be about to launch, before you start incurring FX fees …..

      • Shoestring says:

        6 Nov6 November 10:44

        In May it was 300,000 for £3,215 – I can’t see BA offering anything much better than this so you’d be better off buying the IB Avios with a 3% fee

        or just use Halifax Clarity for no FX charge

  • Doug M says:

    6 Nov6 November 12:04

    I don’t think I could ever spend £3K on Avios. I can never reconcile to my own satisfaction swapping the complete flexibility of cash for the limited use of Avios. I know it’s not hard to get more than 1p per Avios, but the typical amount over that doesn’t justify the sinking £3K into something so inflexible for me.

    • Shoestring says:

      6 Nov6 November 12:45

      A couple flying Business on points long haul return would soon eat into the 300K Avios and could easily save £2-3000 on one return flight vs the cash fare

      add a couple of kids…

      • Doug M says:

        6 Nov6 November 13:10

        They’d face huge fees on the redemption, and limited choice compared to the cash fares. Sales come and go, ex-EU options, non OW flights, so many options with cash that don’t exist with Avios.
        I’m not denying it ‘could’ work, I’m saying I don’t think it justifies sinking £3K into something so limited on the chance you find something that costs up cheaper. Pay cash, then you’d earn some Avios and may find overtime you have 300K Avios or whatever miles anyway.

        • Shoestring says:

          6 Nov6 November 14:09

          2-4-1 LH Business?

      • xcalx says:

        6 Nov6 November 14:05

        Totally agree H
        I redeem for San Juan PR a few times a year and if I was not sat on over 2 mil avios and rising ( thank you Amex.) I would jump on the IB avios deal.
        The flights for next may for mrs xcalx and me are 136000 Avois plus taxes of £258.40 for 2 x business returns MAD-SJU
        Cash cost would be £8886.40. Cheapest dates for next May come in at Flex business £11276.40 and promotional Business £7364.40 ( no changes or returns). Avios earning would be 15869.
        I know this is an example of only one route and its never a cheap cash option.

• BJ says:

  6 Nov6 November 08:38

  O/T: Are readers receiving their amex BP offer statement credits ok? I’ve done two already without emails, app status changing to redeemed, or credits appearing. Both have been at PFS on participation list.

  • Stu_N says:

    6 Nov6 November 09:05

    No email, credit came through but took a bit longer than normal – maybe a week rather than 3-4 days.

  • BJ says:

    6 Nov6 November 09:21

    Thanks guys, I’ll give it until the end of the week before chasing.

  • Andrew says:

    6 Nov6 November 09:48

    No probs with Amex tracking.

    I am finding that when I click through from NextJump and use an Amex they are failing to track it every time though. Use a Visa or Mastercard and they work every time. If I raise a ticket, it sorts itself out, but as I click through when I book colleague travel and enjoy the generous returns it brings I try not to draw attention to my volumes.

  • GRIMZ says:

    6 Nov6 November 11:38

    Same here – didn’t receive an email from BP but statement credit received.

• Michael says:

  6 Nov6 November 08:43

  OT: My 3000 odd pending Avios points in BAEC from purchases through their portal have disappeared. I’m getting the message “You currently have no pending transactions.” Likely to be I.T glitch or something else?

  • LewisB says:

    6 Nov6 November 08:49

    I’ve been having an absolute nightmare with BAEC lately. Nothing is crediting as it should. I have around 48,000 missing points from Avios hotels back in August.

    • meta says:

      6 Nov6 November 10:03

      For some reason my previous post didn’t post. There is a message on the portal to say that currently it takes longer than normal to process and they are working on fixing it. I have a transaction awarded and not posted since last Wednesday.

    • Russ says:

      6 Nov6 November 11:09

      I can’t complain. I cancelled a flight and they owed me 60,000 points which didn’t reappear in my account. After seven weeks of chasing they apologized profusely and gave me 60,000. At the end of the month my refund appeared as well 🙂

      • meta says:

        6 Nov6 November 11:41

        Shush! These kind of glitches are best kept a secret.😀

        • meta says:

          6 Nov6 November 11:47

          Also it seems that now BA portal has serious issues. I couldn’t get a click through to load the retailer page (tried various browsers). Went through Aer Club in the end as BJ suggested below and it worked fine.

  • Peter K says:

    6 Nov6 November 09:10

    I gave up with this BA’s portal after a Hilton stay did not post (when a Hilton stay immediately before did) and BA refused to pay out.
    Why use something that gives you nothing despite meeting it’s terms. Rather than give them the commission and earn nothing I’d rather they didn’t get the commission and I still got nothing. (Our better, use Rob’s link).

    • Doug M says:

      6 Nov6 November 12:07

      That may have more to do with Hilton than BA

      • Lady London says:

        6 Nov6 November 12:31

        +1. Hilton never used to pay out as promised on Voldesite either. That felt so dishonourable of Hilton that I stuck with IHG for over 2 more years and avoided booking Hilton even when convenaient for work. It wasnt just me there were lots of comments from others that Hilton simply hadnt honoured and in thèse cases Voldesites give up readily and still posted Hilton despote such consistent bad feedback (DFDS was another case in point.)

        Currently Hilton Volde is offering 1% if you’re HHonors or 4% if not. I have no idéa if they currently pay out as I dont bother. After that history i prefer to support affiliate links.

  • BJ says:

    6 Nov6 November 09:17

    Use the avios aerclub version. I’ve only had two failures in recent years and no claw back at all.

  • Michael says:

    6 Nov6 November 10:01

    Thanks for the replies, that’s good to know. It’s not a significant amount of Avios but I’ll chase it up with BAEC and see what they say.

    • Spaghetti Town says:

      6 Nov6 November 11:32

      T*C*B is much more reliable. It’s not very often something from there doesn’t post

      • meta says:

        6 Nov6 November 11:45

        For hotel bookings my experience in the past has been with not to be namedportal has been 90% decline rate and then it’s the fight to get them reinstated. I stopped using it and go via BA now as never had one declined by them.

        • Spaghetti Town says:

          6 Nov6 November 12:45

          Only used it twice for hotel bookings and had both posted. I was due about 600 avios from a Marriot booking from BAEC portal which I never got so it was bye bye to them

      • ankomonkey says:

        6 Nov6 November 20:26

        I’ve had issues with Accor and them telling ‘that site’ that I didn’t stay. I even sent ‘that site’ my statement showing the points earned from the stay. They said Accor were refusing to pay so they couldn’t pay me.

  • Rooster says:

    6 Nov6 November 11:33

    They post when you get the confirmation email but not within the 3 days claimed more like 10 working days for me

  • Cat says:

    6 Nov6 November 13:19

    Just for reference, if you want to support HfP by clicking through one of their links (esp if Voldeportal etc. don’t have any sort of offering at the time), one way of doing this is to click “Privacy, Affiliate and Cookie Policy” in the very bottom LH corner of the site, and you will get a complete list of affiliate links if you scroll about 1/3 of the way down the page – there’s loads more than the few logos on the RHS of the page.
    If you find yourself looking through that list, and there isn’t an affiliate link, the best thing to do, to pay your subscription for the year (which is the very least you can do, to show your appreciation for all the brilliant information you get from this site) is to close the website you want to make a purchase from, then open HfP repeatedly, until an advert for the product you were just looking at appears on the RHS, then click through.
    Last time I made a booking with Melia (which doesn’t have an affiliate link), I looked at the hotel I was interested in, then shut the Melia site down, and reopened HfP several times until lo and behold, an ad for the Gran Melia Victoria popped up on the right hand side, then I clicked through and booked.

    • The Savage Squirrel says:

      6 Nov6 November 13:43

      Never knew that! Thanks Cat – will scroll through list and use when I can.

      • Rob says:

        6 Nov6 November 13:53

        Or indeed click on “A list of our partners is here” which is at the top of every article 🙂

        • Cat says:

          6 Nov6 November 14:15

          How have I never spotted that! For goodness sake!

        • Lyn says:

          6 Nov6 November 15:39

          Rob, perhaps there might be a way to make this more obvious? I didn’t know about the link at the top of each either until I asked you for a particular link.

          I think a lot of readers genuinely want to support the site, so anything that makes it easier to do so …

        • xcalx says:

          6 Nov6 November 18:22

          “Rob, perhaps there might be a way to make this more obvious? I didn’t know about the link at the top of each either until I asked you for a particular link.

          I think a lot of readers genuinely want to support the site, so anything that makes it easier to do so …”

          Me too.
          I only found out about clicking on the links to the right of the articles after reading a comment a week ago.

        • BJ says:

          6 Nov6 November 21:21

          A short reminded in a BITS article once a week would not be at all intrusive or over the top and would serve both as a useful reminder to regular readers and a signpost to newbies.

        • Cat says:

          7 Nov7 November 06:46

          👍 BJ

• Benilyn says:

  6 Nov6 November 08:43

  OT: How long does it take to get a Amex Platinum Supp, and then correspondingly the Priority Pass? If you don’t receive your PP in time, is there a work around?

  • BJ says:

    6 Nov6 November 09:10

    Same as it usually takes to get any amex card, 3-4 days. Cards approved before 10am are printed the same day. PP cards usually arrive same day as the platinum card or within a day either side. This is unimportant as you can get the app set up even if the card does not arrive.

• Sloth says:

  6 Nov6 November 09:12

  O/T…as I understand, due to the recent £1 RFS fee being introduced , if you cancel a RFS booking atm, no matter what fee you paid, you will only be charged £1 therefore getting the remainder refunded? Is there a cutoff date for this? Ie I booked some RFS flights I’d like to cancel and move to a different date, they were booked on this year for flights July 2020. Thanks

  • Sloth says:

    6 Nov6 November 09:13

    Sorry… they were booked 6 August this year for travel July 2020

  • Harry T says:

    6 Nov6 November 09:55

    I think you will pay more than 1£. You can click through the cancellation process and check your refund before confirming cancellation.

    • meta says:

      6 Nov6 November 10:09

      £1 only. No matter what Avios+Money option you choose.

      • sloth says:

        6 Nov6 November 10:47

        thanks both, i hadn’t realised you would see the amount due back to you before you committed to cancel. to update i will get full refund minus £1.5 so happy with that.

• Andrew says:

  6 Nov6 November 09:16

  As long as you never miss a legs day at the gym, a seat can never be too firm.

  • Shoestring says:

    6 Nov6 November 10:39

    both my kids are as fit as (firm buttocks!) – and they find GWR seats pretty uncomfortable (daily commute to school)

    • Lady London says:

      6 Nov6 November 12:34

      Do thé new GWR trains have the same seats as on thé new Thameslink zones? Those are massively uncomfortable even for short trios.

      • RussellH says:

        6 Nov6 November 15:28

        Probably not the same seat, but probably the same manufacturer, who I believe (without checking) are Fainsa. Their seats are usually cheaper than anyone elses seats, which is why they get chosen.
        DfT specifications for rail franchises never mention seat comfort, so there is no reasons for TOCs to request better seats.

    • Cat says:

      6 Nov6 November 15:36

      Tell them to hike the Tour du Mont Blanc! My buns of steel can cope with any seat now!

      • Lady London says:

        7 Nov7 November 21:17

        If its Thameslink even buns of steel will notice.

        OTOH I do recall some interludes you mentioned around your Mont Blanc and other holiday exploits Cat when alcohol might have been consumed Cat and this might help not ‘feel’ those seats more! Honestly the old wooden slatted seats they used to have on buses were much more comfortable!

        • Cat says:

          7 Nov7 November 22:59

          Moi? Sozzled?
          While that is absolutely fair, and I’ve no doubt I’ve benefited from alcohol cushioning many, many times (it’s the only way to survive long haul in cattle class, when I don’t have enough airmiles!), I do take the Thameslink to work most mornings (when I make the train, that is), by which time I’ve usually sobered up…

• will says:

  6 Nov6 November 09:55

  On Airbnb: I booked a stay back in May and subsequently signed up to the 3 avios/£1 promotion. I asked Airbnb if the offer applied to retrospective bookings so long as you hadn’t yet completed your stay (or paid in full in my case), but was directed instead to BA as they said they couldn’t help.

  Anyone else used the offer and seen it work?

  I am reluctant to pay BA 6p/min or however much it is to hear them point me back in the direction of Airbnb.

  • Rob says:

    6 Nov6 November 10:03

    You need to book via the BA link so retrospective credits are not possible.

    • SEJ says:

      6 Nov6 November 10:17

      Is there a way to chase up points that haven’t posted when booked using the link?

      • Rob says:

        6 Nov6 November 11:06

        No idea

      • Spaghetti Town says:

        6 Nov6 November 11:36

        When did you stay? It took about 3 months for my avios to post and they posted before I even completed the stay.

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