Vote in the HfP Travel & Loyalty Awards 2019 – and win 10,000 Avios

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• Andrew says:

  18 Nov18 November 06:01

  OT (no bits) – 1,000 Avios for £100+ spend at BA is back on my BAPP. Spend by 17 December, first 50,000 people to register.

  • SammyJ says:

    18 Nov18 November 06:40

    I also have a slightly less exciting one for £20 back on £150 spend at Avis.

  • BJ says:

    18 Nov18 November 06:47

    Also on Blue but dates don’t work for me. Other new offers today include £30 for £100 spend at Thistle Hotels, £10 for £40 at Top Shop or Top Man, £100 for £300 at 40 Savile Row, and 10% for £500+ at Castle Fine Arts.

  • Anna says:

    18 Nov18 November 07:37

    Thanks for the heads up, got it on blue and BAPP. I’ve got a BA holiday to pay off so this works well.

  • zark says:

    18 Nov18 November 11:06

    I see that this is not cumulative this time. Says a transaction of £100+.
    Pity as used for Reward Flight Saver fees previously.

    • Stu_N says:

      18 Nov18 November 12:48

      Many airline and hotel offers are cumulative regardless of what the T&Cs say. You’ll often see airline spend split down by individual passengers so your £150 charge for 2 will be billed as 2 x £75. If you’re spending £100+ with BA anyway I’d use the card the offer is saved onto – there’s a decent chance it will trigger.

      • zark says:

        18 Nov18 November 15:13

        What if it is ‘RFS’ for 2 at £25 each on one booking & transaction to one destination & then , seperately the same to another destination …..

• BJ says:

  18 Nov18 November 06:28

  That was unexpected and fun. The voting page looks very slick. Two problems though. Firstly, there is no ‘Other’ category for Question 12, Innovations. Secondly, the best lounges categories cannot really be described as ‘best’ because the result will be heavily skewed in favour of LHR given the huge volume of people travelling through there with personal experience. Thus, responses to these two questions will more likely measure the most popular lounges as opposed to the best lounges.

  • The Original David says:

    18 Nov18 November 07:31

    Not necessarily – the only one from that list that I’ve used is Plaza Premium LHR T2, but it wasn’t great so I just left that question blank. No 1 LGW North was better in my view, but I’ve only been there once since Easyjet moved there and it seemed to be going downhill…

  • Rhys says:

    18 Nov18 November 08:54

    There’s definitely an ‘other’ option for me? Perhaps you needed to scroll down a little?

    • BJ says:

      18 Nov18 November 09:35

      Yes, apologies Rhys, it’s there. Just did a dummy run and saw it. Must have been too early when I submitted my responses 🙂

  • Rob says:

    18 Nov18 November 09:00

    That’s why we have ‘Editor’s Choice’ though. Whilst we didn’t fully explain it in the article for brevity, ‘Editor’s Choice’ winners will be chosen from those on the shortlist who don’t win, plus whatever readers write in the ‘Other’ box.

    There will be various ways we will decide on these, but a disproportionately high vote for a niche lounge / card / whatever, but which still isn’t enough to win, would definitely put it on the way to an ‘Editor’s Choice’.

    Non-London lounges and airport hotels would be prime candidates to get one of these.

    • BJ says:

      18 Nov18 November 09:37

      Good move.

• stevenhp1987 says:

  18 Nov18 November 07:18

  OT (no bits).

  Does anyone else use Avis and pay using a BA amex? I’ve paid using said card for my last two rentals and no sign of the 250 bonus points hitting my account.

  Does anyone’s post automatically? Not a fan of continually raising tickets to get them to sort moving forward!

  • AJA says:

    18 Nov18 November 11:37

    Stevenhp1987 you’ve just reminded me to go back and check how many Avios I earned on my last Avis rental in September paid by BAPP

    I also don’t appear to have been credited the 250 Avios for paying by BA Amex. Weirdly my account was credited with 735 Avios. I paid £311 for 13 days car hire so on the basis that you should get 3 Avios for every £1 I should have been credited 933 Avios +250 = 1183 in total. I also joined Avis Preferred (which is brilliant btw, easiest car pick up and drop off ever) so should also get 1,000 bonus Avios for my first rental. That said I did also get a miscellaneous 311 Avios with BA Holidays on the same date which is suspiciously the same amount I paid for the car hire.

    I think I need to contact Avis. Or do I contact BA Exec Club?

    • stevenhp1987 says:

      18 Nov18 November 16:31

      Last time it happened I rang Avis who posted the points a few weeks later.

      They now have an online ticketing system so I’ve opened a ticket for them to post the missing points.

      Did you book the car with BA Holidays? You get 1 bonus point per £1 spent if you book a package with them. That is on top of the avios from the flights/car rentals. That would explain the extra 311 points.

      You should be given 3 points per £1 spent with a minimum 700 for 3+ day rentals. Raise a ticket online with the details and I’m sure they’ll fix it.

      Odd they’re not posting the bonus points for the BA card automatically though.

• Alex W says:

  18 Nov18 November 07:19

  Best hotel loyalty scheme was a really tough question as they’re all terrible in their own way.
  Marriott – best for spending
  IHG – best for earning
  Hilton – best mid tier benefits.
  If it wasn’t for all the merger shenanigans and devaluing the travel package by 50% then I would have said Marriott hand down. Went for Hilton in the end.

  • Peter K says:

    18 Nov18 November 07:24

    If only we had some way of finding out what the general consensus of opinion on HfP was… 😉

• Andrew says:

  18 Nov18 November 07:32

  Maybe the whole site could be rebranded with that slick logo and brown and gold colours – much classier and professional.

  • BJ says:

    18 Nov18 November 07:46

    That was my first thought when I saw it too.

    • Shoestring says:

      18 Nov18 November 07:54

      there’s a good reason merde brown isn’t popular as a website colour

      • JK says:

        18 Nov18 November 08:48

        Black and gold works for me

        • Rhys says:

          18 Nov18 November 09:00

          HFP won’t be moving to a ‘dark’ theme….although we are working on something.

      • BJ says:

        18 Nov18 November 09:45

        Doesn’t need to be brown but I thought the overall effect was striking so despite commentx from Rhts belos I don’t think they should dismiss a contrasting dark colour out of hand. That said, I do still like the simplicity of the HFP layout.

        • Rob says:

          18 Nov18 November 09:49

          Any HFP redesign will be black on all white, don’t worry!

    • Rob says:

      18 Nov18 November 08:56

      It’s all part of an ongoing process ….!

  • RichS says:

    18 Nov18 November 08:53

    It looks very similar to the Sofitel corporate colour scheme – although unlike the Sofitel website the IT here actually works.

• Neil Donoghue says:

  18 Nov18 November 08:43

  Love the voting page site! It’s crisp exactly to the point and isn’t overwhelming! Great idea

  • The Original David says:

    18 Nov18 November 10:22

    That’s down to Typeform, not HfP though. Rob & Rhys just did well in choosing the best survey tool in the business 😉

    • Rhys says:

      18 Nov18 November 11:18

      Don’t forget our special Awards logo 😉

• S says:

  18 Nov18 November 08:58

  O/T: I had a security block on my IHG card due to some large transactions. Phone agent told me business transactions are not allowed on personal card and they would have to close down my account! I said I will stop and she seemed to be fine with that. But is that really true?

  • Rob says:

    18 Nov18 November 09:07

    Might be in the small print.

    Let me explain why. Transactions on personal cards come with Section 75 coverage if the retailer goes bust. On Business cards, you don’t get this. Creation may feel it shouldn’t be providing free insurance for your corporate suppliers.

    • Bagoly says:

      18 Nov18 November 10:41

      Is it also relevant that Business cards don’t have the regulated fee cap, so those credit card companies who provide both would prefer that customers use their Business cards to get a higher rate?

• Kier says:

  18 Nov18 November 09:55

  I think there is a slight flaw. There should be an N/A answer so if a section of the voting doesn’t apply to you, you’re not forced to choose something

  • Jon says:

    18 Nov18 November 10:04

    Just press the down button in the bottom right. Questions aren’t compulsary.

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