Hilton news: why it has the best hotel promo for January, Hampton Exeter Airport shuts

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• JK says:

  6 Jan6 January 05:25

  If I book the Flight + Car package, but don’t go to collect the car – will BA know, and cancel my return / not honour double TPs etc?

  • JDB says:

    6 Jan6 January 09:07

    Nobody can give you a definitive answer to this as it may depend on the car location and how they treat your ‘no show’ / cancellation of the element that turned a flight into a package. If they were good enough to refund BA, that might complicate things further. As ever, if you stick to the terms you will be fine, otherwise you will have to wait until afterwards to find out.

    • JK says:

      6 Jan6 January 09:14

      Thanks JDB, as expected. Sounds very much a case of YMMV

• Paul says:

  6 Jan6 January 07:03

  IHG are running a promotion (for me anyway!). Stay 2 nights, earn 3000 pts, and so on.

  • Rob says:

    6 Jan6 January 08:54

    Targetted!

    • WaynedP says:

      6 Jan6 January 09:49

      I’ve got an “earn 3k bonus pts for every 2nt stay, up to max 9k for 6nts, book & stay by 8 Feb 23” offer from IHG.

      Must also be targetted, which I hadn’t realised.

• SammyJ says:

  6 Jan6 January 07:47

  Do you know whether a BA flight booking with a car or hotel added before checkout (initiated from the flight only page) counts as a ‘holiday’ for the TP promo? The checkout page refers to it as a BA Package holiday, but there’s no deposit option as you’d get if you initiated the search from the regular BA Holidays pages. The question was asked on the TLFL Facebook page a few days ago, and there was some debate about it, with nobody actually being sure of the answer. BA haven’t answered either.

  • AJA says:

    6 Jan6 January 08:06

    The T&Cs say that the car /hotel must be booked at the same time as the flight, i.e., you can’t subsequently add a car or hotel to turn it into a holiday to count for the double TP.

    So, as long as you do so and pay for everything together, I’d say it should count.

    Also, do you get an ATOL certificate covering your booking when you book that way? If you do, I’d say that it should count, but BA IT being what it is, I would err on the side of caution and expect it not to count.

    Does it make a difference to the price of the booking if you do it that way rather than starting from the usual holidays pages?

  • JDB says:

    6 Jan6 January 08:39

    I think that if you read the terms carefully, it is very clear that you must book the flights via BA Holidays not just on BA, then adding hotel/car even in the same transaction.

    When you simply add a hotel or car etc. to a flight, it technically changes the legal nature of the product to a ‘linked travel arrangement’ but that does not make it a BA Holidays package eligible for the double TP promotion.

    • ayearinmx says:

      6 Jan6 January 10:35

      I have booked trips, using the flights, and then tacking the hotels/rental car on top when given the option after selecting flights and been given the double TP and Avios.

      i do this because my expiry date always seems to fall in the middle of a trip, so I book one leg business, one leg economy… which seems impossible on the BAH system

  • JosephH says:

    14 Jan14 January 21:35

    It looks to me like it will work; I had to start from a flight only search as I wanted to fly different classes outbound (and I find that path better for picking the exact flights I want anyway), and added a hotel after I’d picked flights – on the ‘passengers’ part of the checkout process I got a clear red message saying:

    ‘Executive club members earn Double Tier Points’

    (I didn’t get the option to pay only a deposit, but given I’m flying in just over 2 weeks time that wasn’t expected anyway. And to confirm I booked both together, making a single payment for flights+hotel, and received an ATOL certificate.)

• AirMax says:

  6 Jan6 January 09:52

  Considering they’ve hiked even the humble Hampton Croydon to 25,000 points, 1,000 is nothing.

  (Compare this to IHG Accelerate where you would consider changing your plans to tick off the different brands)

• Angelamc11 says:

  6 Jan6 January 09:57

  Anybody know when the points for the Marriott promo, for staying at different brands in December is likely to post?

• Chrisdf says:

  6 Jan6 January 10:02

  Does anyone have any experience of using Emirates/Marriott world rewards?

  I’ve got no status with Emirates but Plat Marriot, so I should get priority check-in and priority boarding. I’ve linked the accounts but have nothing to show (no indication on app etc) at the airport I have such benefits (other than my linked skywards added to my flight).

  Can a family group (2A+2C) use the priority check in on same booking?

• Venturelog says:

  6 Jan6 January 10:31

  Has anyone had recent experience of using eVouchers for BA holidays? Can they only be used by calling them?

  • Niall says:

    6 Jan6 January 11:16

    The forum is your friend here where there are already threads on this. You can email BA holidays to apply up to 4 evouchers for a booking.

• Richard says:

  6 Jan6 January 10:40

  Can you use Avios to lower the price of a BA holiday and still qualify for the double tier points?

  • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

    6 Jan6 January 11:23

    No

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