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• ChrisC says:

  11 Jan11 January 12:54

  It ws grtting a mention on BBC today.

  I was looking at Brighton-London-Manchester.

  They were happy to sell me split tickets but with no saving over buying it as normal.

  And as I had to pay for the tube between Victoria and Euston under split tickets it was more expensive in toto!

  • jc says:

    11 Jan11 January 13:35

    To be clear, the potentially lucrative split ticketing concept is where you split at one of the stations the train calls at, not the one where you’re changing trains. You just stay on it, and show the new ticket if the conductor asks. I don’t see why that would lose tube access

    • jc says:

      11 Jan11 January 13:37

      In other words it sounds like you were trying to split at London, whereas the wins would be found by splitting at e.g. Milton Keynes.

    • ChrisC says:

      11 Jan11 January 20:22

      I’m quite aware of how split ticketting works
      I simply put in Brighton as start and Manchester as the end. I didn’t specify anything other than that.

      The trip split it came up with was something like Brigton to Victoria then Euston to Manchester with a split on the EUS-MAN leg.

      even with the split it was still more than buying it as a single trip where I would get the cross london tube included.

      So like all things it’s best to check the unsplit trip cost.

      • Shoestring says:

        11 Jan11 January 20:30

        I did a dummy purchase on Raileasy (22nd January after 10am – and it came up with a decent % saving (£6 off £53) plus it was clear the Tube was included when you connect stations across London
        [Part 2 was
        London Undergrnd Zone 1-2 to Manchester Piccadilly
        Advance Single (V2R)]

• Anna says:

  11 Jan11 January 13:00

  OT – has anyone ever used the Club America lounge in Concourse F at MIA? We will be there in April for an onwards flight in economy to the Caribbean and will have 2 free Lounge Club passes (but presumably will have to pay the fee for our teenager). I was considering using the passes there but the reviews on TripAdvisor are absolutely awful!

  • Michael says:

    14 Jan14 January 18:36

    It is truly awful. Visited a couple years ago when flying airberlin (that was their designated contract lounge). I walked in and left again 2 mins later. The terminal was grim too but seemed preferable!

• STJ says:

  11 Jan11 January 16:10

  OT. How quick does a 2 4 1 voucher post in BA account? I have spent the £10000 today and have flights I want to book

  • Anna says:

    11 Jan11 January 16:15

    Usually within a couple of days of the spend crediting, which may be delayed slightly at the weekend.

    • STJ says:

      11 Jan11 January 16:22

      Ahh, thank you. Hopefully availability still there

• Anon says:

  11 Jan11 January 16:14

  OT Amex: Is self-referral working again?

  • Peter K says:

    11 Jan11 January 17:48

    It’s more about whether Amex banning people who have done it will spread from the USA to here.

    • Mark1980 says:

      11 Jan11 January 21:11

      Ive been away for a while. Is self referring not allowed now?!

      • Shoestring says:

        11 Jan11 January 21:15

        there was a big purge in USA & Amex closed down offending accounts – not yet done the same in UK

• tom1 says:

  11 Jan11 January 18:02

  o/t New York Hiltons

  Seems there are about 20 Hiltons around Times Square of various guises.
  Having read about 300 trip advisor reviews, I’m still none the wiser if any are consistently better than others.
  Homewood suites seems to get good reviews, but 70k per night vs 40-50k, don’t think it’s worth it for me.
  Any recommendations please?

  • marcw says:

    11 Jan11 January 19:41

    Depending when you are travelling, you may consider paying cash

  • Peter K says:

    11 Jan11 January 21:53

    It depends on a few things like…do you get breakfast from status? If not then the free breakfast & kitchen in homewood suites would be useful (though not many supermarket stores in Manhatten). Same for lunch/dinner. On the flip side, homewood suites breakfast was very basic when I last used them so if you are gold/diamond then you may get more from elsewhere.

    Do you get lounge access from being diamond? If no lounge then you lose that.

    • Tom1 says:

      11 Jan11 January 22:17

      Yes – should have expanded.
      Gold so free breakfast wherever.
      However a lot of the reviews say even breakfast for gold is limited choice – I.e, water or tea or coffee or juice. One cooked item and one pastry.

      The other reviews I’ve read also suggest some hotels are charging destination taxes even on redemptions.

      So I guess I was really asking if anyone has suggestions of a Hilton that might give an upgrade for gold, has good breakfast, and doesn’t charge destination fees for reward nights!
      Not too much to ask?!

      • Rob says:

        12 Jan12 January 00:16

        No Hilton hotels charge resort fees on redemptions.

        • Tom1 says:

          12 Jan12 January 10:31

          Reading lots of tripadvisor reports, they do if they can get away with it.

        • Tom1 says:

          12 Jan12 January 11:05

          Actually Rob, is it written down anywhere? Would be handy to have.

        • Rob says:

          12 Jan12 January 11:16

          I think it is in the full rules, yes.

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