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See Queen’s Club tennis with Emirates Skywards miles

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Emirates Skywards is letting you redeem miles for tickets to the Queen’s Club tennis tournament in London.

Branded as the ‘cinch Championships’ this year, it is the traditional mens event which runs immediately before Wimbledon.

It runs from Monday 19th June to Sunday 25th June.

See Queens Club tennis with Emirates miles

Standard tickets are priced from 14,000 Skywards miles to 25,000 Skywards miles per person. This reflects an unfortunate trend by Emirates of jacking up the cost of its ‘experiences’ events, to the extent that you are no longer getting much of a bargain over paying cash.

VIP hospitality packages have also gone up and now cost 40,000 to 50,000 miles per person. If you value a Skywards mile at 1p then you’re basically ‘paying’ up to £1,000 per couple using miles.

My wife and I went in 2018 on a VIP package. Unless the seats are in a different area – and there aren’t really any bad seats in such a small ground – I’m not sure that the VIP premium justifies the cost. There are just two VIP tickets available per day so (as happened to me in 2018) you may find yourself sharing a lunch table with a big group of travel agents, invited by Emirates for a jolly.

Full details are on the Skywards website here.

We published a complete guide to earning Emirates Skywards miles from UK credit cards which you can find here.


How to earn Emirates Skywards miles from UK credit cards

How to earn Emirates Skywards miles from UK credit cards (March 2024)

Emirates Skywards does not have a UK credit card.  However, you can earn Emirates Skywards miles by converting Membership Rewards points earned from selected UK American Express cards.

Cards earning Membership Rewards points include:

Membership Rewards points convert at 1:1 into Emirates Skywards miles which is an attractive rate.  The cards above all earn 1 Membership Rewards point per £1 spent on your card, which converts to 1 Emirates Skywards mile. The Gold card earns double points (2 per £1) on all flights you charge to it.

Comments (17)

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  • Chris says:

    Am I right in thinking via Qatar at a massive devaluation is the only way to generate Accor points from the usual stockpiles?

    • Rob says:

      BA Avios to Qatar to Accor

      Amex to Flying Blue to Accor

      Amex to Eurostar to Accor

      All very dilutive.

  • Chrisasaurus says:

    Has anyone had an email from Curve around commercial cards having upcoming spending caps? Read it twice and still don’t follow the implications

    • Jonathan says:

      Check on the forum, lots of talk there earlier in the week about it.

    • illuminatus says:

      One of the worst announcement emails I’ve received, even reading it 3 times I couldn’t understand what they were referring to.

    • TGLoyalty says:

      If you use a commercial debit or credit card to fund your personal curve card then you now have a limit or charges apply

      Put simply if you want to use a business card to fund curve get a commercial one.

  • polly says:

    Billhop was certainly useful when hitting a target. Lucky to use it effectively to pay for a house survey, as you need an invoice. Got us a 241 voucher just in time for a great redemption. Will miss it’s facility…
    Shame no takers in U.K. among the Fintech lot….

  • Matt says:

    Is Billhop continuing for business accounts? ie can I continue to pay my company’s corporation tax to hit a platinum sign up bonus each year?

    • Rob says:

      It seems big means big – perhaps six figures per year. Worth asking of course.

      • Matt says:

        I assumed that was the case, but I’ve not had an email from them and don’t see anything when I log in now.

  • RussellH says:

    I used Billhop a few times pre-covid – it was definitely useful for reaching specific targets.
    But about a year ago they did something to their website that made it unusable.
    To give them credit, their CS + IT people worked with me off and on for over a week to try and get it to work, providing me with various different URLs to access the site and so on, while I sent them endless screenshots of a blank screen. Tried 3 or 4 different browsers, including a clean, insecure version of Chromium and both Win 7 and Win 10, but I finally had enough and I suspect that they did too.
    At my end it appeared that I could not log in. At their end, though, everything looked normal, while I could see nothing.
    It does seem highly counter-intuitive that adding security features like blocking adverts and tracking cookies break so many websites where security is important.

  • RussellH says:

    Pity that Accor are at Taste of Paris this year, rather than Taste of London.

  • Lou says:

    What is the Eventim Lounge like?

    • elguiri says:

      Little private room (~35m^2?) with about 3 sofas and 5 or 6 single chairs, private bar, private toilets. Is comfy enough to relax in, and the warm up acts often appear there after they’ve been on stage.

  • Jasbuc says:

    Went on the Saturday (hospitality) last year, it was a jolly for travel agents but good fun and well looked after, best seats in the house as you would expect

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