How to see England v Ireland with your Marriott Bonvoy hotel points

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• TedL says:

  4 Jan4 January 14:29

  O/T, Will be going through LHR T3 soon along with travel companions who have Dragonpass lounge access. Just got Dufry Plat, thanks Shoestring, so was going to purchase lounge pass to join them but which lounge is the better one. Believe they can use No 1 or Aspire. On our return from JNB anyone any idea of best lounge there using Dragonpass.
  TIA

  • Shoestring says:

    4 Jan4 January 14:40

    these days you nearly always need to reserve (£5 on their site) which means No1

    No1 is probs the better lounge in any case

    if you don’t reserve, yes you can take pot luck but I’ve been told no room at the inn enough times to now always prefer the £5 & certainty

    if you were travelling at a really early or late time, you might be OK without reserving

• S says:

  4 Jan4 January 16:13

  O/T: Billhop – I’ve read that you can email them to negotiate lower rate for large transaction. How low do they go?

  • Peter K says:

    4 Jan4 January 16:27

    On a relatively small amount (£2500ish), they gave no discount for Amex and Visa/MC was down to 2%

• Henry says:

  4 Jan4 January 17:07

  Off topic just seen a rumour that Ba could be looking to launch some long haul routes from Manchester in the near future.
  Would be fabulous if it turned out to be true .

  • Shoestring says:

    4 Jan4 January 17:14

    anything that reduces the chance of hearing those dulcet Manc tones when I use LHR must be a good thing 🙂

    • Henry says:

      4 Jan4 January 17:41

      I concur I also wouldn’t have to put up with anymore of that southern fairy lingo again😜

  • Anna says:

    4 Jan4 January 17:38

    OMG OMG OMG (in a Mancunian accent, obviously) 🤞🤞🤞

    Source of rumours, please?

    • Anna says:

      4 Jan4 January 17:48

      Found the article now – come on Rob!

      • Henry says:

        4 Jan4 January 17:53

        The article reasoning does sort of make sense.

        I’m sure Ba would want to stop Virgin becoming dominant in the North and its much easier to act early when your oppenant is weak rather than late in the art of war.

      • Freddy says:

        4 Jan4 January 17:59

        Has BA just woken up now

      • Shoestring says:

        4 Jan4 January 18:07

        BA has just been focused on a strategic approach – forget talk of hub & spoke, it was just ‘Heathrow first & foremost means we can be most efficient’ – so other airports & their opportunities were ignored, which is understandable when you don’t have enough planes & crews for Heathrow anyway

        BA’s financial results bear out this strategic approach

        maybe now they are anticipating more capacity (in terms of planes & crews) – so might expand a bit at the next best UK opportunity/ airport

    • Doug M says:

      4 Jan4 January 18:06

      But what happens when the spoiler works? How are Oakland, Fort Lauderdale and I’ve forgotten doing now.

      • Rob says:

        4 Jan4 January 18:31

        Closed.

        BA has no spare aircraft, which is the fault in this story. It would need to stop retiring 747s and the oldest 777s.

        It also benefits BA if VS uses its fleet in MAN instead of adding capacity in London – which is the only Plan B if MAN routes close.

        • Anna says:

          4 Jan4 January 19:09

          There were quite a few Thomas Cook planes parked at MAN when I was there last month…

      • Lady London says:

        4 Jan4 January 19:16

        +1.

        • Freddy says:

          4 Jan4 January 20:50

          +1 Thomas Cook graveyard sat at MAN

• Benilyn says:

  4 Jan4 January 19:01

  OT: Looking to book car for 2 nights in AUH, really after cheap as possible. Any codes people can share? Many thanks.

  • Lady London says:

    4 Jan4 January 19:18

    Do people still use autoslash for car hire?

  • Clive says:

    5 Jan5 January 00:50

    Have you tried travelsupermarket?

    • Rob says:

      5 Jan5 January 09:21

      You know taxis are effectively free in the UAE? When I was in Ras in October is was literally £1 to the mall, each way. Given the low quality and high speed of local drivers there is no reason for a car AT ALL.

• Andrew says:

  4 Jan4 January 20:37

  Yes and No.

  It was there for years called “InStore”, suddenly you couldn’t update your cards, then it disappeared completely in June last year. It was good for Avios from Waitrose, Costa and a few othersl. It’s now been rebranded as “Collect on Card”, the options are pretty poor – 10 Avios per £1 at Odeon isn’t so bad though.

  There are various schemes that offer money, points or phone credit when pre-registering cards.

  Key ones are:-

  NextJump(employee schemes) – usually good for Waitrose, Morrisons & Matalan
  Virgin – usually good for Waitrose and a few others
  Airtime Rewards – New and a very wide range.

  I’ve registered with all 4 schemes and play roulette with the returns, you never know under which scheme you’ll get the return – sometimes more than one. Only Virgin & BA register Amex cards at the moment.

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