Virgin Hotels Edinburgh extends its Virgin Points offer

Virgin Red has extended the opportunity to redeem Virgin Points at the new Virgin Hotels Edinburgh property. It is in the India Buildings on Victoria Street.

The new rules are:

• you must book via the Virgin Red app or website
• you must book by 30th April 2023 (was 28th February)
• you must stay by 30th April 2023 or between 1st October and 28th December 2023
• you are redeeming into a ‘room only’ Chambers King for two people
• you must book at least three days in advance

The cost is 35,000 Virgin Points per night.

The T&C say that you can upgrade your room at the time of booking if you wish. It isn’t clear if this is at a fixed rate or based on the difference in cash cost between a Chambers King and whatever room type you want.

This is a good value redemption in some cases. Cash rates vary from £189 to £404 between now and the end of April. However, promo code BOOK-DIRECT knocks off 10% so the range is really £170 to £360.

This means that your ‘pence per point’ rate varies between 0.5p (no better than other Virgin Red redemptions) to 1p (very good).

The website is currently offering free breakfast on direct bookings until the end of April. I would suspect that this would also apply to redemptions but I can’t be sure.

If you want to earn more Virgin Points, our review of the Virgin Atlantic Reward+ Mastercard credit card is here (15,000 bonus points) and our review of the free Virgin Atlantic Reward Mastercard credit card is here.

We are hoping to take a look at Virgin Hotels Edinburgh (EDIT: our review of Virgin Hotels Edinburgh is here) and the ‘opening soon’ Virgin Hotels Glasgow at some point this Spring.

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How to earn Virgin Points from UK credit cards (September 2024)

As a reminder, there are various ways of earning Virgin Points from UK credit cards.  Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses.

You can choose from two official Virgin Atlantic credit cards (apply here, the Reward+ card has a bonus of 18,000 Virgin Points and the free card has a bonus of 3,000 Virgin Points):

You can also earn Virgin Points from various American Express cards – and these have sign-up bonuses too.

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold is FREE for a year and comes with 20,000 Membership Rewards points, which convert into 20,000 Virgin Points.

The Platinum Card from American Express comes with 40,000 Membership Rewards points, which convert into 40,000 Virgin Points.

Small business owners should consider the two American Express Business cards. Points convert at 1:1 into Virgin Points.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 22nd October 2024, the bonus on American Express Business Platinum is increased to up to 80,000 Membership Rewards points, worth 80,000 Virgin Points. You will receive 8 points per £1 spent for the first three months, on up to £10,000 of spending. Click here to read our full card review. Click here to apply.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 22nd October 2024, the bonus on American Express Business Gold is increased to up to 40,000 Membership Rewards points, worth 40,000 Virgin Points. You will receive 4 points per £1 spent for the first three months, on up to £10,000 of spending. The card is FREE for your first year. Click here to read our full card review. Click here to apply.

Click here to read our detailed summary of all UK credit cards which earn Virgin Points. 

(Want to earn more Virgin Points?  Click here to see our recent articles on Virgin Atlantic and Flying Club and click here for our home page with the latest news on earning and spending other airline and hotel points.)