Black Friday: 25% off at Hackett, 40% off Accor hotels, £19 Conde Nast Traveller, NCP savings

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• Sandgrounder says:

  29 Nov29 November 08:50

  I have been tracking some Accor hotels in the run up to this, for a trip to the UAE in the new year. Room only prices are cheaper, but some of the better b&b rates have vanished during the week. To add breakfast to these rates seems to wipe out most of the savings. Still, I have saved a few quid on Abu Dhabi. There is also up to fifteen percent back at the site that shall not be named.

  • ankomonkey says:

    29 Nov29 November 09:50

    I have booked Accor through both the main £back sites and it never pays out in my experience – even when I’ve met all the criteria and not used any codes. YMMV.

    • Sandgrounder says:

      29 Nov29 November 09:59

      I used to be quite a frequent guest and I can’t say I’ve ever had it declined myself, but then again I don’t use Accor that often these days. Perhaps things have changed.

      • ankomonkey says:

        29 Nov29 November 20:55

        I’m 0/3 right now for completed stays. I have 1 pending for a stay next August, but I’m not expecting to get it based on my previous experience.

• Nate1309 says:

  29 Nov29 November 08:57

  I wish the sunday times travel mag offer would come back

  • LB says:

    29 Nov29 November 11:42

    +1. A far better read than Business Traveller.

• Andrew says:

  29 Nov29 November 09:00

  Accor will stack with the 10% Corporate Perks BF offers if your Employer does NextJump

  Additonal fully stackable BF offers on NextJump are:-

  15% – IHG
  12% – Virgin Atlantic
  15% – Harvey Nichols
  15% – Disneyland Paris
  10% – Hilton
  20% – Philips
  18% – Under Armour
  25% – UniQlo
  8% – Ebookers (inc Flights)

  20% at the Microsoft Store is back on again this morning, there seems to be a daily tranche and will stack with the £100 off £400 on Amex.

• ChrisC says:

  29 Nov29 November 09:16

  check the payment option on the magazine offer

  default is direct debit which renews every SIX months

  credit / debit card is a single 12 month sub

• Benilyn says:

  29 Nov29 November 09:27

  OT: Need one lounge pass for Abu Dhabi long stop over in January, anyone seen special offers?

  I think my HSBC Premier Credit Card (free one) only allows for me to buy a pass for myself right?

• James says:

  29 Nov29 November 09:29

  Off topic:
  ICC AMEX PLAT.
  Do they still require a reference from your bank ?
  Is it your £ bank or your €/$ bank ?

  • Rob says:

    29 Nov29 November 10:04

    No, they stopped that years ago. You must have been a UK Amex cardholder for 6 months though.

• Sam Bessey says:

  29 Nov29 November 09:46

  OT not sure where else to ask this…

  Me and the other half are supposed to be off to Mexico (CW, Amex 241) in April, but we have just found out she is expecting..!
  According to the travel advisory sites, pregnant women should avoid Mexico. For logistical reasons late March/ April is our only window to take a holiday in 2020. Does anyone have any suggestions for easy CW Avios redemption that would be suitable for a pregnant lady? All I can think is LAX/ SFO and doing the Pacific highway, or going East/ West across the southern part of the USA. Availability for most other places is very restrictive at this stage…

  Thanks

  • Shoestring says:

    29 Nov29 November 10:08

    Zika virus I guess? Highly unlikely esp if you take precautions – but no point arguing with your wife. That rules out Pacific region, South and Central America, the Caribbean, Africa, and parts of south and southeast Asia.

    So sure – sounds like N America if you want to get good use out of the 2-4-1 – or somewhere further flung (Japan/ Australasia etc) but you might struggle with availability. Try the 2 reward seatfinder apps, seatspy being the newest of pay the sub on https://rewardflightfinder.com

    • Sam Bessey says:

      29 Nov29 November 10:24

      Thanks I suspected this would be the case.

      I will check Reward Flight Finder out!

  • Spurs Debs says:

    29 Nov29 November 10:28

    Congratulations …. just remember wherever you go but especial USA to make sure your travel insurance covers the pregnancy. If you are thinking about west coast you could fly on to Hawaii, redemption flights on AA or Alaska airlines seem reasonable.
    You might find availability to Japan but that’s peak cherry blossom season.
    How about Canada ?

  • John says:

    29 Nov29 November 10:49

    If the 241 is valid for a while longer, I’d postpone it to when the baby is 4-5 months, and travel within Europe during the pregnancy. Main reason being if she isn’t feeling it for whatever reason you can be back in the UK within 3 or 4 hours.

    By that stage of pregnancy my wife was sleeping 12 hours a day, although still keen to do things when she was awake. No idea how anyone manages to continue working beyond the 2nd trimester

    Unless one of you is American I would avoid the US. We did not want our child to be born in the US at any cost (you are setting them up for a lifetime of trouble with bank accounts and tax. If they want to move to the US when they grow up, that’s their choice)

    4-5 months can be a good time to travel because your baby will likely be sitting up and able to look around, but not eating yet. Once they start eating you’ll have a lot more things to carry around. In our case it turned out not to be a good time because he stopped being able to sleep for more than 2 hours ine one stretch.

  • Andrew (@andrewseftel) says:

    29 Nov29 November 11:30

    If you’re staying in Mexico City then no need to worry about Zika – it’s too high altitude for the mosquitoes. Would avoid the coast though.

    Oman is worth a look if you’re after winter sun – shortish flight, no Zika, plenty to see by car and you won’t be drinking much.

    • memesweeper says:

      29 Nov29 November 12:12

      Try Jordan. Good Avios availability and a great country to visit.

  • Anna says:

    29 Nov29 November 11:58

    Congratulations – when is the baby due (you don’t say how early you have found out about the pregnancy)? Most travel insurance policies will only cover you up to a certain stage in pregnancy -possibly 36 weeks but you should check your own policy. Also, you probably wouldn’t be covered if you go somewhere that’s advised to be unsafe.

    I appreciate what John says about waiting, however travelling with babies and children is utterly different from travelling as a couple, so if you fancy a last couples holiday, go for it. Your first few years of travelling with a child isn’t really a holiday at all, it’s basically attending to your child, just somewhere else, very possibly with fewer amenities than at home! You certainly won’t be relaxing a beach very much!

    • Anna says:

      29 Nov29 November 12:03

      The Canaries would be nice and warm in March/April and you would have a short-ish flight and good hospitals and other facilities if required, also English is widely spoken.

  • Genghis says:

    29 Nov29 November 12:52

    We went to Seoul and Hong Kong in Oct last year (baby came in March this year). Both zika free and decent for pregnant women

    • Sam Bessey says:

      29 Nov29 November 18:19

      Thanks all! It is super early days yet (Not due until end of July)… The voucher expires late 2020, so we will probably have to use it before the little one arrives.

      I’ve had a good peruse of BA’s availability charts, and our options seem to be either:

      In/out of Miami and Austin and travel along the southern part of the US… Texas, Louisiana, Florida
      OR
      In/ out of San Fran/ San Diego or LA and head down the Pacific Highway, Yosemite, etc.
      OR
      There seem to be a few options to China (Totally new to both of us!) but no idea if this is a good idea half way through a pregnancy…

      Most other Asia destinations (Tokyo, Hong Kong, S.Korea, etc.) don’t really fit with the time we have, and with the exception of Japan, we have done a lot of those places already.We have about 2.5 weeks set aside for our trip.

• Chris says:

  29 Nov29 November 09:57

  GLA sells it’s own on-site parking now (used to be NCP). Their Black Friday code is BF2019 for 20% off valid till Tuesday for stays till end August. Valid for first 1000 uses.

  • EwanG says:

    29 Nov29 November 12:32

    Thanks for this heads-up. I checked at ABZ and they too have a Black Friday sale on just now, useful as we have half term flights from there next Feb, as EDI flight prices were crazy.
    I’m sure I could have got the standard price down using someone like Holiday Extras, but booking direct they also offered free fasttrack security on my long stay option, so it made sense to got for that!

    Just a normal Friday at EDI today!

    • Rob says:

      29 Nov29 November 12:39

      Just adding these to our lunch round-up as it happens.

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