The Sunday Times Travel Magazine has closed

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• Stu N says:

  26 Aug26 August 08:18

  +1. I subscribed to get the 4,500 Avios, cancelled, bought on news at sands, subscribed to get a travel wallet, cancelled etc. No probs with cancelling though I did get Times Literary Supplement for a while which was presumably connected….

  Will be sad to see it go.

  • Neil Murray says:

    26 Aug26 August 10:57

    I subbed to it for the Avios, but then discovered I liked it and kept the sub running (thereby justifying the ST’s claim!). Always thought it much better than the ST’s newspaper travel coverage. And I had the same issue with the TLS – getting that stopped, even though it was free, took some time.
    I will be interested to see if they forget to cancel the DD sub.

• mark2 says:

  26 Aug26 August 08:52

  If they have just direct debited you for next year’s subscription when the magazine is now closed can you not claim from your bank under the Direct Debit Guarantee?

  • Dr Lee says:

    26 Aug26 August 23:24

    I have literally just done that (after not receiving a copy for months).

• Andrew MS says:

  26 Aug26 August 08:59

  6 months after they took my annual subscription, they took the same amount for a second time. When I queried this , they blamed a new distributer.

• Jenni says:

  26 Aug26 August 09:15

  I also had £30 taken from my account this week. I haven’t even received the magazine for a good 6 months for some reason, I had assumed it already was finished with!

  Phoned the customer service and lady said they had mistakenly cancelled my subscription earlier in the year and will now send me a £30 once they’ve ‘got to the bottom of this’. So I’m not holding my breath.

• Sam says:

  26 Aug26 August 10:09

  I’ve heard that the spa at the Berkeley is good and has been on my list to go, any way in which I can try that and trigger the offer too?

  • Rhys says:

    26 Aug26 August 10:16

    Only if you reach the spend on the room!

  • Rob says:

    26 Aug26 August 10:37

    Rules imply it needs to be linked to a room. I would guess a spa charge goes through as a different code.

• VINZ says:

  26 Aug26 August 11:37

  I was one of those subscribers… cancelled after a year but I still have some copies I received back then as I thought they were very well done.

  • Neil Murray says:

    26 Aug26 August 11:50

    I’ve just cancelled the DD and got Barclays to reverse the £30 they took from my account yesterday. The Barclays lady said she thought they were being naughty. Damn right.

  • Nick says:

    27 Aug27 August 03:30

    I did that offer too. Because back then, I’d hoover up any under-priced avios regardless of the admin involved. It is this logic that saw me hunting for very small cabbages in Tescos. Anyway – they continued to send the magazine long after I cancelled my subscription. It was a good read!

• Andy says:

  26 Aug26 August 12:55

  I usually get my Mum an annual subscription to Sunday Times travel mag for her birthday (the first time was for thr 4500 avios offer, but she liked it so we kept going).

  Any recommendations for a magazine for a couple in their 60s that typically only stay in 5 star properties?

  • Jerrry Butler says:

    26 Aug26 August 13:09

    Womens weekly, good food magazine, Conde Nast traveller for her, Viz, Readers wives and Golf Monthly for him.

    • Anna says:

      26 Aug26 August 14:17

      +1 for Conde Nast Traveller, it’s very similar to Sunday Times Travel and there are usually good offers on subscriptions.
      I miss Viz.

    • BS says:

      26 Aug26 August 14:22

      Isn’t Readers wives an, erm, Richard Desmond publication?

      • mark2 says:

        26 Aug26 August 16:32

        and?

        • Lady London says:

          26 Aug26 August 16:36

          im surprised @Jerry Butler didnt recommend the Sunday Sport then.

        • Anna says:

          26 Aug26 August 18:55

          Is that still a thing?! When I was a student we used to get it for the “London bus photographed on the moon” type stories.

• BS says:

  26 Aug26 August 14:18

  Wow – looked at the Berkeley.
  Despite VAT being 5%, the cheapest room is £420/night, room only. This IS cancellable.
  Even with £100 off, this is still £320/night. Even with an enforced £75 credit (which let’s be honest will just cover breakfast), this is an astounding rate for when there is a lull in bookings. For hotels at this cost there are far better ones available in London, which Emyr may well be able to get room credits on as well.

  • Andy says:

    26 Aug26 August 14:30

    Isn’t breakfast included and the £75 credit is a separate thing?

    • BS says:

      26 Aug26 August 14:38

      You are quite right on re-reading it. Fine – it will pay for a pair of cocktails in the bar on arrival.

      • TGLoyalty says:

        26 Aug26 August 17:44

        £300 for a luxury hotel in london on Harrods doorstep. I think you’ll do well to find something comparable for less.

    • Rob says:

      26 Aug26 August 19:23

      Yes

  • ken says:

    26 Aug26 August 14:45

    £320 seems like a nice weekend treat if breakfast & £75 bar credit thrown in.

    Where would you suggest ?

  • Harry T says:

    26 Aug26 August 14:56

    £320 a night for a luxury hotel in London sounds pretty good, no? The Connaught is pricing even higher.

    • TGLoyalty says:

      26 Aug26 August 17:46

      Stayed a night a while back. The grill is very nice and the breakfast wasn’t too bad either.

      At the time I had both a spend £300 get £150 so half price room, money off at the grill and a spend £100 at the restaurants/bar and get £30 back.

      I’d go back and if you like a good Martini it doesn’t get much better than here

      • Harry T says:

        26 Aug26 August 22:19

        Damn, that’s good going. Was that an amex offer?

  • Lady London says:

    26 Aug26 August 16:42

    These are very nice hotels. The Berkeley has IMO been the preferred hotel in London to stay in for a number of people I’ve known who could afford anything.

    For The Berkekey, I believe that price and this offer is indeed a discreet reflection of these times.

    Ditto The Connaught, in other ways.

    Unless anyone who’s stayed at these believes Accor ownership has ruined them?

    • Andrew says:

      26 Aug26 August 17:05

      For Platinum cardholders, both hotels are on FHR so get slightly higher credit of £85 (and the breakfast) and guaranteed 4pm checkout (rather than subject to availability) early checkin and upgrade are still subject to availability.

      • old bob says:

        26 Aug26 August 17:38

        I find this idea/policy of charging for breakfast quite ridiculous, if one is spending £400+ a night surely breakfast should be included. I remember the first time I came across this was in the late 80’s on my honeymoon with the first Mrs Old bob ( I can’t remember the name of the hotel, but it was in Causeway Bay and had a couple of beturbaned doormen) but I do remember going out locally for brekkie as the cost in the hotel was astronomical.

    • TGLoyalty says:

      26 Aug26 August 17:48

      i don’t think Accor has anything to do with them

      They were separated from the savoy a while back.

      • Lady London says:

        26 Aug26 August 22:28

        That’s cheered me up!!

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