A potentially interesting United MileagePlus transfer bonus

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• Mattb says:

  9 Sep9 September 10:26

  I’m getting £106 for a Saturday next April for our Easter trip so not so last minute!

  • Sam says:

    9 Sep9 September 13:26

    Though I wouldn’t advise you to book such a long future booking. Lastminute.com has a notorious record of not refunding money despite phone calls and email chase by frustrating customers. They only paid me how much they owed me after I resorted to a chargeback. And that’s 3 months wait whereas I would have got my money back in a week if I was dealing with more honest OTAs such as Expedia or agoda (instant).

    You’re not allowed to change your booking on lastminute.com. Instead you’ll have to cancel and rebook one and this will trigger the the experience I had.

    • Baresi says:

      10 Sep10 September 00:08

      Same happened to me, had to go through the chargeback option. I even had a call from Italy asking me to drop the chargeback!
      I have vowed never to use this company again….

• bafan says:

  9 Sep9 September 11:43

  United miles are great for short haul Europe flights, good shout Rob. I hate United as an airline but MileagePlus has bailed me out more than once, similar to American and AAdvantage. I’m working on the Chase United Explorer bonus at the moment.

  • N says:

    9 Sep9 September 12:54

    What airlines in Europe?

    • bafan says:

      9 Sep9 September 13:08

      I’ve used them for SAS, Aegean and Lufthansa. Still feels expensive compared to the LCCs but there are times where I’ve needed to fly last minute and been very grateful I have an MP stash. Also used them for Air Canada in the past.

• Chris D says:

  9 Sep9 September 12:04

  OT, but I received the following incredibly curt text message from Creation:

  “ With immediate effect we will be unable to process any transactions using your Curve Card where the transaction is allocated to your Creation issued credit card”

  • Kevin D says:

    9 Sep9 September 12:16

    Me too, just now

  • Neal says:

    9 Sep9 September 12:36

    Same, what is going on?!

    • JamesLHR says:

      9 Sep9 September 12:41

      Just had the same. I had a transaction declined the other day, I wonder if this is related to it.

      What in the T&Cs of the CC card permits this behaviour?

      The tone of the text is disgusting and they have my email address where they could outline this much better.

  • Qrfan says:

    9 Sep9 September 12:55

    That’s the end of the ihg premium card for me. Perpetually disappointed with ihg offerings and with Amex acceptance so high in the uk the only real use it gets is overseas via curve. No longer worth the fee to me.

    • Rob says:

      9 Sep9 September 13:02

      Seems illogical to me.

      You’re getting 0.8p of IHG points per £1 spent with wipes the floor with virtually all other Visa / MC products. If you spend £10k and get a £200 free night, that’s another 2% return which takes you to a huge 2.8% return.

      Plus Platinum Elite status, plus a decent step up towards Spire Elite.

      As you get 25,000 bonus IHG points for hitting Spire Elite, you can even treat that as a 25,000 point bonus for spending £27,500 even if you do ZERO IHG stays.

      This means £27,500 of expenditure even for someone with no cash stays gets you:
      55,000 base points worth @ 0.4p = £220
      Free night voucher worth £200 if used well
      25,000 bonus points worth £100

      This is £520 return on £27,500 of spend for a £99 fee, so 1.5% net.

      Spend just £10k and you get:
      20,000 base points worth £80
      Free night worth £200
      …. so £181 net gain on £10k spend, so 1.8% net.

  • Pangolin says:

    9 Sep9 September 16:02

    I got the same

• Qrfan says:

  9 Sep9 September 13:53

  I don’t have £10k of non amex spend without curve, and diverting spend that could be earning 1.5 avios per £ and companion vouchers makes no sense. As I say, amex acceptance is very high and without curve there’s no hmrc game either.

  I’m also not convinced many ihg properties that are voucher eligible are actually worth £200 per night. The principal York certainly wasn’t, and living in the south east I have no reason to stay in London overnight.
  Where are these Chase cards you keep hinting at anyway??

• Chrisasaurus says:

  9 Sep9 September 16:19

  Last minute website doesn’t seem to work anyway on either of my phones or my work laptop – the Find button once you’ve selected dates doesn’t do anything (and couldn’t even select dates on one phone)

• Pup says:

  9 Sep9 September 20:58

  Just had an email to let me know that I have won 10,000 Avios from the Competition back in July from converting Nectar points to Avios.

  Thanks HfP team for the heads up!

• Sue says:

  11 Sep11 September 10:53

  Sofitel seems to have disappeared from Top Secret again!

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