Win 2 x Business Class tickets to (virtually) anywhere with Qatar Airways

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• Polly says:

  7 Feb7 February 05:21

  Thank goodness it’s still open when we get back from Asia…hate not to be able to enter this one!

  • Darren says:

    7 Feb7 February 05:26

    +1

    • The Original David says:

      7 Feb7 February 06:31

      Plenty of cheap VPNs on the market, an essential piece of kit for the frequent traveller, I’d say!

      • TripRep says:

        7 Feb7 February 08:23

        Yep, don’t travel without one.

        Vital for security on airport/lounge/hotel WiFi etc

        • RussellH says:

          7 Feb7 February 11:04

          The only VPN I have tried is the free version of Tunnel Bear, which is often worse than nothing as a lot of sites refuse to connect via it
          Hilton (and anything else using one of the wretched picture captchas to log in) and the old SPG site particularly come to miond, but the have been others.
          And it did not help my partner check her National Lottery ‘winnings’ [the site is only accesible from the UK] from France, Belgium or the Netherlands.
          Maybe paid ones work better, but are they really worth it?

        • Doug M says:

          7 Feb7 February 12:44

          Why?
          Any site or host worthy of anything should be using encryption. When you use a https:// site the data is encrypted from your browser to the site. When you use a VPN, you’re adding the potential that they’re monitoring all the sites you visit, and you could argue that’s less secure than not using one, as you’re adding an additional layer to the the route. VPNs have their place, but regardless of whether it’s a coffee shop, airport lounge or wherever, you should not be using non secure sites and protocols.
          The number of people that use repeat passwords, or slight variations of, and then use these on non secure sites is a problem, but the better workaround for this is decent password management, not a VPN.

• Jack Watkins says:

  7 Feb7 February 05:40

  Frustrating not to be able to enter as I am travelling in South Africa and the competition is not available in my jurisdiction.

  • Eli says:

    7 Feb7 February 05:45

    Team viewer to a UK computer should sort that problem out.

    Can’t a Friend in the UK enter for you?

• Michael C says:

  7 Feb7 February 06:22

  Rob, is it true we’re allowed to dump 6-yr olds at the HFP office for a few days while the two of us enjoying our winning flights?! ;o)

  • Polly says:

    7 Feb7 February 13:45

    Love that comment!

  • Polly says:

    7 Feb7 February 13:48

    Love that comment.

• Sam G says:

  7 Feb7 February 06:25

  Just done the outbound of an Ex-EU with Qatar from Gothenburg – we weren’t the only Brits so hi to anyone who flew out on Monday morning! We stayed overnight prior at the airport hotel which was cute and definitely a less stressful way to do it.

  Possibly controversially we weren’t big fans of the QSuite on our Asia leg, it was a full flight and the crew really struggled to get the service done quickly (which is always desirable on an overnight) – it seemed not being able to see us easily really interrupted a “natural” service flow + it was incredibly hot. Though I’ve since read that the window seats have air vents, so we’ll take two of those for our return instead and eat in the new Singapore lounge prior to the flight

  But it was fantastic value for money and we’ll definitely be doing it yearly to lock in our BA silver !

  • The Savage Squirrel says:

    7 Feb7 February 11:23

    Any advice re: room requests or menu at the hotel? Staying in a couple of weeks time.

• Rob says:

  7 Feb7 February 06:34

  Great competition although disappointed by the restrictions. Competition closes 29th Feb.
  Must be used by end of June. The whole of May is blacked out, a big chunk of April is too.
  Don’t get me wrong I want to win but it’s surprisingly restrictive!

  • Bs says:

    7 Feb7 February 06:44

    +1

  • TimS says:

    7 Feb7 February 07:06

    I thought the same.

    As the winner won’t be announced until March 1 at the earliest, and there are only 4 weeks to book it, and 11 weeks (including the 4 week booking window) in which to COMPLETE the trip, it isn’t as good as first appears unfortunately.

    Also, almost three entire continents are excluded from the choice of destinations, which rules out over half of Qatar’s available destinations (though admittedly not close to half of their flights).

    It is still a generous prize, but not as generous as it initially appears.

    • Rob says:

      7 Feb7 February 08:09

      No-one is going to to the US, Canada or Europe via Doha so South America is the only real loss.

      • Lady London says:

        7 Feb7 February 12:21

        You know what ? On QR I wouldn’t necessarily ‘not’ go to the US via Doha if the price was right.
        Capetown via Doha geographically more sensible, of course !

  • DV says:

    7 Feb7 February 07:29

    Never look a gift horse in the mouth!

• Aron says:

  7 Feb7 February 06:38

  Looks like I’ll be going away on my own since my partner is a teacher and the holidays are blacked out (smh).

  • Wise young boy says:

    7 Feb7 February 09:23

    Take Mummy instead.

  • Aston100 says:

    7 Feb7 February 12:31

    Damn, did you win already?

• Alastair says:

  7 Feb7 February 06:59

  Not yet 7am and already more than 1,000 entries plus 1, so 2,000 .

  • MattB says:

    7 Feb7 February 07:27

    I would imagine most will enter in own and partner’s name so will get far more entries than readers, then extra when it hits freebie/competition sites.

    • ankomonkey says:

      7 Feb7 February 16:48

      I bet some people enter using their cat’s name for an extra entry. The same real or not-real cat they used for Tesco pet insurance…

      • Rob says:

        7 Feb7 February 17:28

        Very unlikely, given that the named winner must travel.

• Elspeth Gibson says:

  7 Feb7 February 07:16

  Looking forward to choosing from the wonderful range of Qatar flights as part of this competition

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