Get a great points deal at the new Crowne Plaza Sydney Darling Harbour hotel

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• AllezGlasgow says:

  11 Jan11 January 10:01

  I travel from Glasgow to Liverpool a lot and use http://www.trainsplit.com as it allows me to choose specific seats, especially useful as Avanti don’t offer this any more.

  • Shoestring says:

    11 Jan11 January 19:05

    Trainline said it had calculated that splits could be found on 64 per cent of journeys.

  • Lady London says:

    11 Jan11 January 20:50

    Well perhaps if they priced train fares in the UK, the rail industry wouldn’t have these problems then.

    It’s come to something when a flight to Edinburgh from London is £48 and can be much less, and the rail companies want £300 or even £400.

    No sympathy.
    I hope the rail industry has much more of these problems.
    Until they price fares reasonably.

• Brasov says:

  11 Jan11 January 10:36

  Melia’s homepage shows a £50 Amazon gift card with January sale bookings. Does anyone know the T&Cs – I can’t find any

  • Brasov says:

    11 Jan11 January 11:37

    Thanks. Worth an article perhaps? It’s as good as Hilton’s offer.

    PS. Are you going to the party?

    • Brasov says:

      11 Jan11 January 11:39

      I wonder how they define city hotel

    • Shoestring says:

      11 Jan11 January 12:04

      no – unfortunately impossible to justify the time required (I live in Cornwall) as my wife is often unavailable (eg in Germany for 6 days right now) and 3 kids to sort out

      hope everyone has a great time & look forward to some reports/ photos

• xcalx says:

  11 Jan11 January 10:36

  OT I used a lloyds voucher to book LBA-LHR-BCN for 2 x pax I was only allowed to upgrade 1 flight so chose LHR-BCN. Will I get CE baggage allowance, can I check in at CE desk and will I have lounge access at LBA. Thanks

  • BJ says:

    11 Jan11 January 10:50

    I replied to this for you late in the day you originally posted so you might want to have a look.

    • BJ says:

      11 Jan11 January 11:01

      Sorry, I see you clarify by mentioning two pax this time, that means you can only upgrade one way. However, you chose outbound so the LBA-LHR sector should also be in CE which would allow you the extra baggage, priority check in, fast track and lounge at LBA (if available) as well as LHR. The CSA has processed this all wrong so I suggest you get back on the phone. You will have no perks for return flight from BCN-LHR

      • Anna says:

        11 Jan11 January 11:40

        +1 – both legs should be in CE, I have never not had this happen with 5 Lloyd’s vouchers!

        • xcalx says:

          12 Jan12 January 10:21

          Thanks BJ and Anna. Sorry for not replying yesterday, was at the football (don’t ask)
          I should have been clearer this is only a one way booking to connect with a cruise to Tampa.
          The Agent was insistent that only one leg could be booked in CE so chose the LHR-BCN leg.

          I should have ended the call prior to booking as the guy was useless but it had taken hours of waiting on the phone to get conected to this “special department” to use the voucher. As it stands now I have 2 x pax LBA-LHR in economy then 2 x pax LHR-BCN in CE.

          However I am not ticketed because he said he could not take payment that day because of a system error that would not allow ticketing from any Canadian airport plus EDI and LBA and would be in contact when the problem was sorted. I will be ready now with your information when/if he rings back.

• letBagonesbe says:

  11 Jan11 January 10:42

  OT: Does anybody know that if I use my Virgin upgrade voucher to pay Economy miles for Prem Economy, can I then upgrade to Business by using more miles?

  • jc says:

    11 Jan11 January 10:50

    No

    • jc says:

      11 Jan11 January 10:51

      (“No you can’t” not “No, no-one knows”)

  • Ed says:

    11 Jan11 January 10:53

    I asked this question the other week and the answer seems to be that the PE ticket is issued in a class that isn’t able to be upgraded with miles. I wonder if you can use the upgrade bid section on MMB to upgrade with cash though?

    • ChrisC says:

      11 Jan11 January 12:42

      If it is offered (and accepted) then yes.

      But you definitly can’t use miles to upgrade to UC in advance. They might do it as check in on the day though.

• andy says:

  11 Jan11 January 11:23

  Rob – any news from your friends at IHG about a Q1 accelerate promotion? I’ve got some hotel stays to book that I’ll probably go with Hilton unless there is a good IHG promo worth holiday off for,…

  • Rob says:

    11 Jan11 January 11:24

    No, it’s a bit odd I admit.

    • Andy says:

      11 Jan11 January 11:49

      Hmm very! Oh well, I’ll give them a few more days and then book with Hilton if nothing comes up.

      • Andrew says:

        11 Jan11 January 16:04

        Maybe once the current x4 promotion ends at the end of this month

        • Lyn says:

          11 Jan11 January 17:41

          Perhaps they consider the “up to 4x” promotion good enough for the rest of January and are waiting to merge the different accelerate cycles from last year back into one.

    • Andrew says:

      11 Jan11 January 18:06

      Oh well, I had 4 IHG stays lined up for the next few weeks that I’ve switched to Hilton due to no Accelerate.

      • TGLoyalty says:

        11 Jan11 January 23:26

        4x was a pretty good promo had c33k from it so far I only managed 35k from the Q4 accelerate.

  • ChrisC says:

    11 Jan11 January 12:45

    Bit annoying isn’t it/

    I was hoping for one as well. I was in Manchester last weekend and booked a night in the Crowne Plaza and 2 at the Holiday Inn hoping that would set me on the way as I usually ger a ‘stay in 3 braands’ bonus.

    Still I got the 2 and then 3 x bonus miles so not all doom and gloom (as well as getting upgraded at both hotels)

• chef says:

  11 Jan11 January 11:24

  Neil, You may want to check the *taxes* on MAN-LHR-TLV in first as compared with LHR-TLV?
  Much as the Avios is the same us northerners get shafted on the extra *taxes*

• Shoestring says:

  11 Jan11 January 11:34

  [MONZO co-founder Paul Rippon has stepped down from the digital bank to farm alpacas with his wife in Northumberland.]

  smart – get out while the going is good

• luckyjim says:

  11 Jan11 January 12:22

  You cannot compare Darling Harbour to Sydney Harbour. The Holiday Inn is one if the best located hotels in the city for views of the Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge. The extra 10k is well worth it, particularly if you have status.

  • Rob says:

    11 Jan11 January 14:29

    I’m not – there is a HI Darling Harbour.

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