Save an extra £100 in the BA Holidays sale

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• Lady London says:

  5 Sep5 September 11:03

  sounds like a cheap hostel or a car is the way to go then. The savings on the air fare component might still allow you to come out ahead.

• Nick says:

  5 Sep5 September 11:04

  Hello. I’ve got a BAPP that I just don’t need any more and want to cancel and reapply in 2 years. I’ve also got some unused 241 vouchers. What is the risk on doing this? Am I right in thinking that the voucher won’t be canceled? What about if I use the 241 after I cancel the card, but then want to amend my booking? And do I really need an amex to pay the “taxes” for the booking? Cheers.

  • Anna says:

    5 Sep5 September 11:23

    The vouchers won’t be affected if you cancel the card, even if you subsequently cancel a booking. But yes, you need an Amex to pay the fees, even if it’s someone else’s.

  • Geoff says:

    5 Sep5 September 11:40

    They will tell you that you need to keep the card, but in reality you don’t. We kept one until we had booked and paid to be on the safe side, then cancelled the card – and then needed to change the booking.

    Bear in mind that ‘amendments’ to rewards bookings are usually ‘cancel and rebook’ and any refund goes to the original card. The rebooking was no issue in terms of re-using the original voucher and paying taxes with a new card but the cash refund went back to the closed card – we then had to get on to Amex to recover the refund.

    • Nick says:

      5 Sep5 September 23:14

      Cheers both.

• Henk says:

  5 Sep5 September 11:10

  Eurostar having just announced direct services to/from Holland is shooting itself in the foot. Living in Surrey, there’s no just way I’m going to go all the way to St Pancras to catch a Eurostar train to the continent – always went to Ebbsfleet, or Ashford before Ebbsfleet opened – or indeed Waterloo when the trains used to leave from there.

  And yes, not being in Schengen/EU does add extra costs to this business, whatever the political merits of the case, and I assume this will have played a role in their decision. Plus it will most likely reduce travel demand.

  • Genghis says:

    5 Sep5 September 13:17

    I used Ebbsfleet when heading to/from home as only 25 mins on the A2 and then straight to the lounge in about 5 mins. Heading to St Pancras from home is more of a pain (train or car) and then much more of a pain through security. Much better (almond) croissants though.

    • Louie says:

      6 Sep6 September 00:03

      My family are ten minutes away from Ebbsfleet so in the unlikely event that they or I want to use Eurostar, we’d probably get the train from Ebbsfleet to St Pancras and then back through Ebbsfleet. That extra pain would be reduced (at no significant cost to them) for many people if they would stop to let passengers disembark at Ebbsfleet (or Ashford). No chance of that of course.

• WillPS says:

  5 Sep5 September 12:06

  Great news about Hampton Blackpool… I’m a bit dubious about the parking situation though.

• mark2 says:

  5 Sep5 September 12:18

  I have now used my BAPP with the saved extra Avios offer and received an automatic email saying I will get the points.
  I have just upgraded so this may be the reason.

• Anna says:

  5 Sep5 September 16:09

  What are you basing those figures on? The countries with the highest crime rates are those with the most robust recording measures; so you will see that Switzerland, for example, has a shockingly high robbery rate, but that’s not because it’s full of robbers, it’s because the recording and investigation of crime is meticulous. Other countries allow huge numbers of crimes to go unrecorded (and uninvestigated), so on the surface their figures look better.

  • Anna says:

    5 Sep5 September 16:11

    Not sure why this appeared here as well as in the intended spot!

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