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To be frank, the best flight deals in Europe at the moment are out of Scandinavia.  I’m not sure who started it – potentially Qatar Airways – but other airlines have been forced to join in.

Here, for example, is Oslo to Cape Town on British Airways in Club World in May.  The fare is the equivalent of £1,250 return:

BA Oslo Cape Town deal

If you look at IDENTICAL flights for just Heathrow to Cape Town, on the same dates, you will pay £701 in Economy ….

Anyway, back to Australia and New Zealand.  Whilst there are plenty of Australia deals out of Scandinavia, Singapore Airlines has an excellent reputation for food and service.  If you book by tomorrow night (23rd) there are some attractive fares available.  In May, for example, I found last night:

Stockholm to Sydney – SEK 23,372 return (£1,881)

Stockholm to Auckland – SEK 23,145 return (£1,863)

Stockholm to Perth – SEK 21,873 return (£1,760)

Stockholm to Brisbane – SEK 23,336 return (£1,877)

Stockholm to Canberra – SEK 22,396 return (£1,802)

Stockholm to Melbourne – SEK 23,201 return (£1,867)

Stockholm to Christchurch – SEK 23,122 return (£1,860)

There is a ‘7 day’ option for search results so you can easily find days with the best fares.

If you don’t have a credit card with 0% foreign exchange fees, your best option for paying is American Express Preferred Rewards Gold which offers triple points – 3 per £1 – when you book flight tickets in a foreign currency.  This is because the transaction triggers the ‘double points for airline spend’ and the ‘double points for foreign spend’ bonuses.  Our review of Amex Gold is here.

Singapore Airlines is in Star Alliance so you can’t earn Avios or BA tier points.  You can credit the flights to Singapore’s KrisFlyer scheme (learn more about KrisFlyer here) and top them up with American Express Membership Rewards points at 1:1, or to any other Star Alliance scheme such as Lufthansa Miles & More.

You can also credit Singapore Airlines flights to Virgin Flying Club – details are on the Virgin Atlantic site here.

You can book on the Singapore Airlines website here.

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  • JImbob says:
    22 Jan22 January 09:03

    Ihg credit card prize draw if back working again

  • Shoestring says:
    22 Jan22 January 09:20

    Blower (DT)
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2020/01/21/010blower22-1-20_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqqdjb-p7zzJOPNWzBBDV6FE0PBM-OMgZ95SXRPMk8vS4.jpg?imwidth=450

  • David says:
    22 Jan22 January 09:27

    Anyone have any insight / predictions as to whether the Singapore fares (or any other airline) to Australia are likely to pop up again later in the year?

    There are c£1850 fares over Xmas which feels like a great price however I am reluctant to jump on right now as I am already paying off other holidays at the moment!

  • David Moritz says:
    22 Jan22 January 09:28

    Just booked for June with Qatar. Got the QSuite too from DOH-CPT (note that Google Flights cited a A350)

  • Stefan says:
    22 Jan22 January 09:52

    Any chance to get off in London on the way back while still getting all applicable tier points etc.? I suppose it might only work with hand luggage?

  • Benilyn says:
    22 Jan22 January 09:52

    OT: Hilton Honors – is it free to transfer points to someone else i.e. friend?

  • Michael C says:
    22 Jan22 January 10:02

    OT Boston hotels: is there any remote chance of any offers at all to combat the absolutely insane prices for all Boston hotels in Oct. 2020?!!

    • RedEyeDonkey says:
      22 Jan22 January 10:23

      Check out H0tw1re – I’ve been lucky with that in Vegas a bunch of times when a big conference has been on and my usual go to hotels have been crazy direct. Saved $100/night this year on an upcoming trip. You want to use one of the ‘hot rate’ supposedly secret deals. You can usually work out which hotel it is going to be from the clues they give you:

      * 2x lists of guaranteed 3 hotels (one on the search and one when you click for more details) – often these don’t fully overlap revealing the only one that’s possible or two of the three on the list AREN’T in the section of the city it guarantees the hotel will be in.
      * the ‘last person got’ clue
      * sometimes the location gives it away/you can search again with the exact hotel address and make sure the one you think it is gets super close.

      I looked at a random week and on average the hot deals are saving $60 but you do need to be somewhat careful as there are HW fees so double check the final prices vs the best options you can find direct with hotels – some hotels you have to call in and speak to bookings to get their best prices. In the past I’ve had them come in lower sometimes but this time in LV they were still more/wouldn’t throw in enough extras to even it out.

    • Anna says:
      22 Jan22 January 10:41

      Have you tried Air B n B or similar? I think BOS hotels are expensive generally and especially in the autumn when lots of people visit to see the leaves in full Fall colours.

      • Jonathan says:
        22 Jan22 January 11:26

        Always exorbitant in Boston I’m afraid, generally a brilliant use of hotel points/Creation IHG voucher. If it’s October you’ve got time to generate some points but I wouldn’t expect cash prices to drop below £150-£200 for a grotty holiday inn or £350+ for an Intercontinental etc.

        • Stu_N says:
          22 Jan22 January 12:13

          Definitely look at redemption options, we found it ridiculously expensive in May of last year too so suspect it’s a year-round thing. Great city though.

          • Anna says:
            22 Jan22 January 19:25

            In May I think they have student graduation ceremonies so they have families rocking up from all over the country driving the prices even higher! It’s always a good ides to check those articles with names like “When is the most expensive time to visit…?”

        • KevMc says:
          22 Jan22 January 12:40

          +1 to this. I used an IHG free night voucher @ the Intercontinental and also had enough points to book 4 extra nights straight away. I then bought more points when IHG ran a 100% bonus offer to pay for the last two nights (I seem to think cash prices were $400+ per night in October half term 2018)

    • Sussex Bantam says:
      22 Jan22 January 12:12

      Have a look a bit further out – I’ve had some success in Cambridge for instance and the T line is pretty good for getting back and forth..

      • AB says:
        22 Jan22 January 15:33

        Seconded I stay at the end of the greenline in Newton Riverside, (Indigo Hotel is fine), its usually about half the price of the city centre and usually slightly nicer (stayed in the DoubleTree downtown on rewards last year and thought it was a bit grotty).

        I think the T runs quite late, but was about $80+Tip back in a cab from downtown which was about half the nightly saving (and probably cheaper in an Uber).

        • Anna says:
          22 Jan22 January 19:27

          Also the airport is very close to the city and a very pleasant boat ride across the harbour. Though hotel prices still not cheap as I recall!

  • Ken says:
    22 Jan22 January 10:14

    OT:

    A friend of mine booked me a flight to Bali. It was EDI – DOH – DPS and same on the way back Qatar.

    Friend didn’t enter any Frequent Flyer numbers when they booked.

    I think I am correct in saying that crediting this flight to Iberia rather than BA would have been more lucrative points-wise, so after the trip I created an Iberia account, then made a request for missing miles. The request was refused though – possibly because the Iberia account wasn’t live at the time of the flight? They didn’t give a reason.

    I do have a BA Executive Club account that was open at the time of the flight. Should I be able to request the missing miles be attributed to that account, albeit for fewer points than I would have got by crediting to Iberia?

    Thanks

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