Earn double Club Eurostar points on Eurostar trains to the Netherlands

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• Robert says:

  17 Feb17 February 16:41

  OT: any news on Emirates flights sale? Prices in December are extortionate!

  • BJ says:

    17 Feb17 February 16:47

    Do they have them? I honestly don’t recall seeing any advertised.

    • Robert says:

      17 Feb17 February 18:43

      Thanks BJ, was hoping admin or readers here would be aware if they did, often see comparisons to other airlines sales per year and hoped Emirates might be the same, guess not

      • BJ says:

        17 Feb17 February 21:32

        Ages since I looked at their website but ISTR they almost always had a few special offers listed that changed regularly. If that’s still the case it migbt be best to keep an eye on those. I have also noticed that Emirates fares are featured/promoted on Skyscanner. These are generally incompetitive with other carriers IME but whether they are cheaper than going via Emirates own website, or that is where they are for, I don’t know. I have noticed too that skyscanner finds some very attractive fares at times but the agents selling them are usually very obscure companies I have never heard of so I’ve avoided them to date. An exception has even Opodo but when I look I cannot find the fare rukes so that puts me off them too.

        • Robert says:

          18 Feb18 February 02:29

          Thanks I’ll give those a try online. Will also call in Kuoni and see what they can do, as I require a few nights hotel stop over in Dubai on the return leg.

• reader reader says:

  17 Feb17 February 16:59

  OT: Has anyone topped up Monese with Curve-frontede Virgin MC? Is this treated as a cash advance or purchase by Virgin?

  • xcalx says:

    17 Feb17 February 17:43

    Up until a few weeks ago was doing virgin direct to revolut with no charges, things have changed now.

    Paid Brighton £1200~ on Friday Virgin via curve then paid virgin within the hour 0.04p interest.

    • Shoestring says:

      17 Feb17 February 18:02

      sounds like a decent workaround

      • Boi says:

        17 Feb17 February 18:39

        Are you saying virgin now attracts charge via curve?
        Thought it was only for Revolut…

        • xcalx says:

          17 Feb17 February 18:45

          My first time using that route so don’t know if interest is a new thing.

        • Shoestring says:

          17 Feb17 February 18:50

          4p on £1200 earning points worth £12 sounds like a decent outcome

    • jc says:

      17 Feb17 February 20:01

      Virgin is either cash advance + interest, or neither. So *IF* you did get charged immediate interest for that transaction, you’ll also be charged 5% cash advance fee..

      • Spaghetti Town says:

        17 Feb17 February 20:03

        Since when were virgin charging interest on curve transactions? I did it last month, left it two days before paying off and all seemed fine.

        • Tom says:

          17 Feb17 February 21:07

          Never been charged pulling out cash, but don’t pay Brighton or anywhere else with it – don’t want to be banned from Curve

• Shoestring says:

  17 Feb17 February 17:30

  My wife had a wee spot of bother using her Dragonpass app on the way home today – the desk agent had never seen it before & needed some convincing it was genuine! I got the impression she’d never heard of Dragonpass either – slightly unclear what happened but my wife got in.

  • BJ says:

    17 Feb17 February 17:44

    Seems odd, most lounges clearly indicate someplace (usually at the door) all the different ways you can get in.

  • Lady London says:

    17 Feb17 February 18:09

    Bit like Tesco where if the till person says it won’t work you can maybe just say to them “can you just try it ” and it works?

    • Shoestring says:

      17 Feb17 February 18:16

      yep I didn’t get much detail but I distinctly remember my wife saying ‘she had to look it up’

• BJ says:

  17 Feb17 February 17:42

  OT: looks like there is a competition to win 10,000 bonus points/miles on Rocketmiles social media pages.

• Clive says:

  17 Feb17 February 17:45

  Any news on the Barclays AVIOS tie up as yet? Seems like some new opportunities may be opening up.

  • Michael says:

    17 Feb17 February 18:17

    A few posts up

    • Rhys says:

      17 Feb17 February 18:35

      Early days yet, not clear what exactly this will entail. You’ll be hearing from us when it’s evident!

  • Rob says:

    17 Feb17 February 18:38

    Not allowed to tell you, beyond what is in the press release 🙂

    • Sloth says:

      17 Feb17 February 23:01

      Will more than likely just be exchanging the current monthly reward payments for Avios instead of cash as it is now and incentives for taking out new products

• Liam says:

  17 Feb17 February 18:36

  OT — is either of the T5 Galleries lounges better than the other? I’ll have a couple of hours to spend there on Wednesday afternoon.

  • Rob says:

    17 Feb17 February 18:57

    I prefer North, purely because of layout. 5B is best if flying off B or C though.

    • Liam says:

      17 Feb17 February 19:17

      Thanks.

• Harry says:

  17 Feb17 February 19:34

  You write: :To be fair to BA, this is a better solution than flying a totally empty plane between, say, Gatwick and Heathrow at 4.30am just to fill the 4.45am landing slot.

  Why? How many people are going to fly from Athens to London leaving at 2.40am to land exactly at 4.45am, killing a whole night? It will have to one hell of a great deal. The world is not wholly made up of people who so highly value 160 tier points!

  • Peter K says:

    17 Feb17 February 19:45

    “The world is not wholly made up of people who so highly value 160 tier points!”
    True, but that’s only because they are already BA gold for life 😂

    • Shoestring says:

      17 Feb17 February 20:47

      this could turn out to be a £160 return flight (with the 3000 Avios taken into account)

      4x £160 = £640 for Silver

      • Shoestring says:

        17 Feb17 February 20:51

        probably more useful to top up TPs when you need the final few

    • BJ says:

      17 Feb17 February 21:12

      TP are horrible things, they’ve been spoiling my lounge experience for years.

  • Alex Sm says:

    17 Feb17 February 23:48

    A lot of people do the same or similar departure/arrival for ME to London flights and it’s ok

  • Lumma says:

    18 Feb18 February 00:15

    It’s not that terrible a flight if you live in Greece and want to travel to London. A quick nap on the plane, Breakfast in Central London and drop your bags off at your hotel, so some sightseeing/attend meetings then check into the hotel in the afternoon.

    There’s an Aegean flight that lands in Athens at 4am which I’d rather take than an early morning flight or an afternoon flight that would require an extra night in a hotel

• Pid says:

  17 Feb17 February 21:48

  OT – just tried to book an open jaw reward flight over the phone using a 241 voucher in my wifes account. The agent was adamant that I must use her BA card to pay the taxes, which I did not have as I am currently overseas. I also do not think we have it any more as the card was cancelled. She stated this was for security reasons and they needed to match the card to the voucher. Never come across this before, has anyone else?

  Fortunately they have held the seats for 24 hours while I get the correct card. I am hoping when I ring a different agent tomorrow with a card in my wifes name, which will be a BA sup on my account rather than the card that earned the voucher, they will accept it.

  • BJ says:

    17 Feb17 February 21:56

    First we have heard it I think but we are all (half) expecting it might come along in light of recent amex changes. I suspect and hope everything will be fine. You could call USA number if you don’t want to wait until morning.

  • Rob says:

    17 Feb17 February 22:10

    I have heard this before, very occasionally. I doubt that the call centre can tell one Amex from another, frankly. Amex also doesn’t do name verification so you can give any old Amex card number and it will clear as long as the billing address is fine.

    It certainly makes no difference for online redemptions.

    • TGLoyalty says:

      17 Feb17 February 22:18

      Always say it’s in the name of the voucher holder. It will go through regardless.

      • Pid says:

        17 Feb17 February 23:02

        Thank you – I will see tomorrow when I manage to get my wifes card details!

        • Pid says:

          18 Feb18 February 13:45

          All worked fine and they did not even ask the name on the card. Should have just given them my card last night!

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