Get an excellent Qatar Airways business class flight deal from Oslo (eg Tokyo £1,377)

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• TripRep says:

  18 Jan18 January 10:15

  Apparently flights with BA long haul from T5 have no food today…

  • TripRep says:

    18 Jan18 January 11:21

    Sounds like the cause for a few delays, power issue at Gate Gourmet

    • ChrisC says:

      18 Jan18 January 12:29

      according to flyer talk it was power problem with the doors of the facility (bit not with the food processing) but all sorted at approx 10.30 GMT and deliveries back on schedule with relativly minor delays.

      so only a few early departures affected of they were catered for by Gate Gourmet

      Do & Co routes unaffected

• Mart says:

  18 Jan18 January 10:24

  Miss the old Qatar deals I’ve had in the past
  Bangkok £750
  Singapore £650
  Canberra £1100
  Although the Mrs is ruined now

  • marcw says:

    18 Jan18 January 10:36

    I guess you won’t see them anymore. Qatar has won a critical mass. They don’t need to discount heavily their C/J class anymore.

  • Polly says:

    19 Jan19 January 07:46

    Agree, we lucked out on some of those, apart from the oz akl ones. 1k is more the norm now ex eu, but considering BA taxes and fees are at the 700 mark, 1k is still v good for mostly 1 2 1 configuration in J.

• Sk123 says:

  18 Jan18 January 10:56

  OT: Which hotels in Abu Dhabi/Dubai would you recommend that offer a good kids club for children 11 years to 14 years? I’m finding my children find some of them quite boring as they are too old for arts and crafts, movie etc. They loved the one in Conrad Bali with cooking activities, kite making and flying etc. We’ve already stayed at the Jumeirah ones so don’t want the ones that give access to Wild Wadi. Atlantis is an option but any others? We just drop them for a few hours to avail the gym, spa etc so don’t need them to be there the whole day. Any personal experiences would be appreciated.

• ChrisA says:

  18 Jan18 January 10:57

  Just looking at Oslo to CPT fares, and the difference in BA fares ex EU never ceases to amaze me. As an example BA J ex Oslo to CPT is £1280…which is £12 cheaper than the same flight in Y if you booked ex LHR.

• Sam says:

  18 Jan18 January 11:23

  The same Qatar airways that flys over Iran? No thanks

• Harry T says:

  18 Jan18 January 11:35

  OT:
  Staying at an Intercontinental in Europe. Was originally planning to stay until Monday but need to go home on Sunday (nothing dramatic). I’ve prepaid for three nights – I accept that money is gone and have no desire to seek a partial refund. If I want to leave after two nights, will I be charged a fee for leaving early? Should I formally check out or just head off and leave my key card in my room?

  • marcw says:

    18 Jan18 January 11:37

    Talk with reception for your options. People are there to talk to – explain your situation, be honest and transparent.

    • shd says:

      18 Jan18 January 12:49

      If you tell them you’re leaving early you risk being hit with an early departure fee.

      • Tom1 says:

        18 Jan18 January 13:05

        I wouldn’t be so concerned. Say you “may” need to leave early and ask about options.
        If they say there will be an early departure fee, just leave your card in the room and don’t tell them.

        • marcw says:

          18 Jan18 January 14:52

          Exactly

  • Kai says:

    18 Jan18 January 12:00

    No need to talk to anyone. Just leave your key in the room as I have done this on multiple occasions.

    • TGLoyalty says:

      18 Jan18 January 12:36

      Agree. If it’s prepaid then your options are zero would just leave my key in the room and leave.

      Hopefully you can make some use of your room if you have a late flight out.

      • Harry T says:

        19 Jan19 January 16:13

        Thanks, I just left my key in my room and grabbed an Uber. Grabbed a cheeky last minute Avios flight back to Newcastle – thankfully there was a single economy seat available for the afternoon flights.

• BJ says:

  18 Jan18 January 11:52

  OT: Just tried topping up Monese at a PO I have sucessfully used twice before. Lady there said she got a message on screen saying debit cards or cash only. My suspicion was that she actually tried to process the cc payment but couldn’t. I didn’t want to push her for information, just suggested that it must be new and I would go to bank next door. Embarrassingly I had to claim that I had insufficient funds to cover a debit card payment lol.

  • Anna says:

    18 Jan18 January 12:28

    Round these parts there’s a deep suspicion of cc’s in general and exotic debit cards in particular, so I always tell retailers I collect loyalty points in case of cc payments, and that I like to have all my cc’s linked to a single card in the case of Curve or Revolut. It seems to reassure them that I’m not a bad payment risk or trying something dodgy!

    • BJ says:

      18 Jan18 January 16:25

      Haha, they’ll definitely have me labelled dodgy then after I declined to pay any other way 🙂

  • mark2 says:

    18 Jan18 January 14:15

    This happened to me this morning at two different POs. But yesterday I was successful.
    It did happen once previously at WH Smith Solihull but then returned to normal.

    • BJ says:

      18 Jan18 January 16:28

      I wonder if it’s just random, and if it might be related to amount topped up. I asked for £450 plus two stamps today. Possibly it might be safer to go for lower top ups at PO too.

      • prune says:

        18 Jan18 January 18:19

        It happens because they are choosing the wrong option. They have to choose settle then it will accept any payment. If they choose the wrong option then when you put the amex into the card machine the screen says american express and won’t let it go through. I have decent relationship with my local post office and had long chats about this.

        • BJ says:

          18 Jan18 January 19:03

          Brilliant, thanks 🙂

        • Jtz says:

          18 Jan18 January 19:19

          Thanks for this, explains what happened to me

        • r* says:

          19 Jan19 January 09:58

          Never looked at monese, can an amx be used to top up? Has to be done at post office?

        • Rob says:

          19 Jan19 January 12:07

          Yes

        • The Urbanite says:

          19 Jan19 January 14:37

          There is evidence that strongly suggests the Post Office is actively trying to shut this down as they have made other changes to their IT in the last week in addition to this. It’s only a matter of time before this workaround is “addressed”.

• Alex M says:

  18 Jan18 January 12:20

  OT: has anyone heard of amex taking action against self-referrals in the UK? Asking for a friend…

  • Peter K says:

    18 Jan18 January 13:34

    Not yet, but a lot of changes recently have come out of the blue and they will no doubt look at past history. Doing it is a real risk.

  • Rob says:

    18 Jan18 January 14:13

    Not yet, but the US action was retrospective ….

    • Tututuy says:

      18 Jan18 January 16:07

      So in theory someone who may have done this a couple of times 1.5+ years ago and is sitting on MR points (with a Plat) is at risk?

      Should this person be considering transferring out all MR points just in case…?

      • Shoestring says:

        18 Jan18 January 16:37

        up to you – if you’re sitting on 200K MR points I’d move them out! if it’s chickenfeed, relatively speaking, you’re not risking much @1p/ point

        yes – US abusers got their points removed as well

        • Tututuy says:

          18 Jan18 January 19:48

          What a dilemma!! I’m on about 150k MR points, and now the eternal question…what would I transfer to?

          Up until recently I used MR for Avios or SPG points, but recently have found a sustainable(ish) way to MS to generate these 2…would consider other rare avenues/sweet spot redemptions with other airlines/hotels? One of Rob’s comments of low redemption rates in Radisson piqued my interest. Any ideas anyone?

        • Rob says:

          18 Jan18 January 20:11

          Singapore Airlines has a lot of sweet spots if you search for our KrisFlyer articles. It is an interesting Star Alliance option.

      • BJ says:

        18 Jan18 January 16:40

        Worse than that; your accounts could be closed. I’ve avoided self-referrals since last spring and referred a bunch of new customers to them but still expect I’ll have problems if this arrives here within the next 15 months. If I hear it’s happening before it hits me I will probably close all accounts to start a 24m cycle.

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