Get free Wyndham Rewards Gold hotel status from Bicester Village

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• Vincent Teo says:

  4 Feb4 February 06:21

  I’ve just looked at booking a room using points for 2 adults and 2 children 1st aug to 4th Aug 2022 The cash cost is showing as £3981

  I’m getting this message:-

  Unfortunately, this hotel is not accepting World of Hyatt points or award during those dates. Explore our other rates or modify your search.

  • AndyW says:

    4 Feb4 February 06:25

    ‘Points rooms are not loaded yet’

  • Andrew J says:

    4 Feb4 February 06:48

    You must have missed the line in the article above “ Points rooms are not loaded yet”

  • JoelH says:

    4 Feb4 February 09:51

    I don’t think family rooms are guaranteed to be offered on points. If I search the Ibiza hotel for a 2 person room on points, they are available, but for a 4 person room they aren’t.

    • Rob says:

      4 Feb4 February 09:59

      Correct. Only standard rooms are guaranteed to be offered. It is very likely that suites will be offered for a points upgrade (see my recent Paris article for how that works) but that bit is not guaranteed.

• AndyW says:

  4 Feb4 February 06:27

  Are there any good family Hyatts (kids 2 and 5) in Europe? Not a group I am familiar with given how hard to earn points (unless of course you actually stay there)

  • Rob says:

    4 Feb4 February 09:03

    7Pines Ibiza is your best bet. Nice and Cannes are good hotels and beachfront, but in cities. Biarritz is astounding but similar issue.

• Dubious says:

  4 Feb4 February 06:38

  Good news item.

  Glad to see the Air India executive didn’t mention IT infrastructure as being a problem.

  Might want to to be clear though that Vistara is a full service carrier, not a budget carrier, and is a JV with others much like AirAsia was for a while.

  Air Asia India was shut down

  • Dubious says:

    4 Feb4 February 06:40

    PS.
    ‘Air Asia India was shut down’ – please ignore this. Meant to delete it before I pressed submit…to late to edit.

    • BuildBackBetter says:

      4 Feb4 February 09:26

      Maybe you do have a crystal ball. Who knows they might shut down Air Asia and make AI the low cost carrier.

  • Max says:

    4 Feb4 February 09:53

    Tata will most likely task their own IT subsidiary/consultancy with overhauling the Air India IT.

• David Reshef says:

  4 Feb4 February 06:46

  There is a days inn in hyde park corner.
  Not exactly a service station😀

  • Bagoly says:

    4 Feb4 February 20:15

    They are not quite so overselling – they use “Hyde Park” but that means “Sussex Gardens” where there are many truly dreadful hotels. It does look as though this may be the least bad one.
    Despite living next to the district for years, I had never heard it called Tyburnia before, but that’s what Google puts in the address.

    • BlueThroughCrimp says:

      5 Feb5 February 23:13

      Google used a description for the area I live in that’s never been seen anywhere.
      Suspect it’s a Trap Street thing.

• Doc says:

  4 Feb4 February 06:55

  Poor Air India. Senor Cruz will be enhancing them to dust.

  • Mikeact says:

    4 Feb4 February 09:07

    I met him once and actually found him to be a decent guy .

    • Rhys says:

      4 Feb4 February 09:29

      He’s nice enough, although I think the general consensus was that he was more of a bureaucrat than a leader at BA

    • Rob says:

      4 Feb4 February 10:01

      I like Alex. Also worth remembering that he actually founded a low cost airline in Spain (Clickair, bought by Vueling which is how he came into IAG). Sean Doyle, by contrast, is a career accountant.

      Of course, having an accountant as your CEO is a good thing at the moment.

  • Abdul says:

    4 Feb4 February 15:03

    In a place like India, being a foreigner, he will have carte blanche to really do as he pleases and clean house.

  • Ian says:

    4 Feb4 February 17:32

    I thought we read some time ago that he was being lined up to head SAS. If so that clearly fell through so he’s perhaps had to tout himself out to Air India? Good luck to them, our loss is their gain!

• Tony says:

  4 Feb4 February 07:06

  Always had fantastic experiences with Vistara on internal India flights, can’t say the same for Air India. Feels a bit of a concern that Tata now control Air India in terms of pricing. They were always cheaper than AI flights whenever I’ve looked. Hope that doesn’t end now.

  • BuildBackBetter says:

    4 Feb4 February 09:27

    Vistara service has gone downhill recently.

• chrism20 says:

  4 Feb4 February 07:16

  Rob, I think the number you have for Wyndham properties is incorrect.

  Putting London into the app throws up nine properties, six of them Ramada.

  • Rob says:

    4 Feb4 February 09:01

    Odd. I put ‘UK’ into the website and it only pulled up 9.

    • Michael says:

      4 Feb4 February 09:19

      There’s a Ramada in Belfast also, still in the UK despite the protocol fiasco….

    • TGLoyalty says:

      4 Feb4 February 09:22

      Something is deffo wrong I know Of more. Ramadas than your list in the midlands.

      • TGLoyalty says:

        4 Feb4 February 09:26

        Coventry, Solihull, leamington, Leicester, Oldbury Birmingham, Loughborough, Milton Keynes, Cheltenham to name but a few that come up in a near me search.

        It’s possibly because some have closed temporarily due to low occupancy, use as red list hotels and for use to house refugees.

    • Mark J says:

      4 Feb4 February 23:03

      There’s a Ramada in Hounslow, just by Hounslow Central tube. Handy for Heathrow. Stayed there a couple weeks back.

  • memesweeper says:

    4 Feb4 February 09:17

    There’s a couple of service station Ramadas too. However, Rob’s point stands, it’s a weak chain the the UK.

    • RussellH says:

      4 Feb4 February 10:16

      The three that I have used this year are Wakefield, Leeds and Chorley. All actually owned and run by Welcome Break.
      So I have Gold anyway, FWIW.
      While Bicester Village is now just down the road. No plans to Visit though…

    • chrism20 says:

      4 Feb4 February 16:29

      There are very few worth visiting these days. We were fans of the Ramada Southport but sadly they left last year. I had points expiring last year and ended up having two days at East Kilbride for the sake of it.

• MD says:

  4 Feb4 February 08:41

  Google reviews of 7Pines Sardinia are…not kind. Sounds very dated, mouldy rooms etc. Might want to wait until Hyatt have brought it up to scratch. Hope they’re planning a major refurb.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    4 Feb4 February 09:27

    For £1400 a night they best be!

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