Best Western Rewards drops Avios, effective immediately

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• Cranzle says:

  6 May6 May 05:05

  Can someone clarify the Marriott rules for points please? If I purchase 100,000 points, does that mean I cannot receive any further ‘gifted’ points that year?

  • Blair Waldorf Salad says:

    6 May6 May 08:11

    You can be gifted another 100K

    • Chaz says:

      6 May6 May 21:22

      You can be gifted 500k per year.

      • Blair Waldorf Salad says:

        7 May7 May 00:48

        At a rate of 100K per gifter

• Peter says:

  6 May6 May 05:17

  My bonus is 30%. I won’t be buying at such poor value.

  • Blair Waldorf Salad says:

    6 May6 May 08:11

    Me too. These targeted %s are so silly; merely serve to agitate

• Tom says:

  6 May6 May 07:39

  OK people… What are your best strategies for finding good value London hotel rooms? Need to stay with the family on 15 July and the rates are just eyewatering. Looked on points with hilton, hyatt, marriott, ihg but no deals to be found….. help!

  • Andrew. says:

    6 May6 May 07:55

    Just the one night? Have you checked the Premier Inn site?

    Canning Town – £140
    Greenwich – £117
    Kensington – £198

    • Tom says:

      6 May6 May 10:25

      Good suggestions, thanks! Greenwich an interesting choice and good value. Travelodges over £200 blow my mind!

      Also thinking about making it feel better value by using an Ambassador weekend night cert at the IC O2!

  • Nick G says:

    6 May6 May 08:01

    We’ve been staying out of London last couple of times, for example the Hilton reading is v reasonable versus central London prices, and it has a great breakfast. Train in takes about 20 mins to Paddington. Yes you’re not staying in London but still easily as accessible.

    • TGLoyalty says:

      6 May6 May 10:01

      Yup Moxy Milton Keynes regularly £60-80 a night and only £25 return via a 30 min train to Euston runs every 30 mins and slower trains run to about 2am

      • Julia says:

        6 May6 May 16:03

        HIX Madrid €68 including breakfast, 50p reward flight saver to/from Madrid with avios then train into London. Oh and it isn’t raining either!

        • TGLoyalty says:

          6 May6 May 21:35

          3 Hr flight … Heathrow to central 1 hour … probably not gonna work

    • Chrisasaurus says:

      6 May6 May 20:00

      Hilton reading is more than 20 mins from Reading station though – CP is at least walkable.

    • Bagoly says:

      6 May6 May 20:20

      Hampton by Hilton Luton airport (is next to Luton Parkway station) is £93 for that night.

  • Froggee says:

    6 May6 May 08:15

    In such a dire situation, I would put my dates into Tripadvisor, make sure I sort by traveller ranked and put my max price in the filter section. This shows that Andrew has the right idea as at £250 I was scraping the barrel based upon the results.

    I’d then conclude that buying Hilton points at 0.5c each (offer available until 9 May) and then booking the Hilton London Bankside at 70,000 points i.e. US$350 = £280 would be the best plan for me.

    Your price point may well be different.

  • Nick says:

    6 May6 May 08:44

    Some good deals down towards Canary Wharf. Currently staying in Doubletree Excel for £134 this weekend and only booked it 3 days ago

  • pauldb says:

    6 May6 May 10:37

    You can buy the points required for either of the Stratford Hyatts for £170/night. The House includes free breakfast but the Regency has classier rooms. I think they are great hotels for their typical cash prices.
    If you just want cheap Premier Inns are hard to beat, especially in newer hotels (odd locations but well connected) like Westferry. Their Premium rooms are better I think than the likes of the £300 Hyatt Place mentioned above.

    • Rob says:

      6 May6 May 11:37

      What’s Hyatt Place London East?

      That said, tube links to Stratford are so good it is probably quicker into centre from there.

    • Tom says:

      6 May6 May 11:45

      Great ideas..sadly we’re a 4 so we’d need 2x rooms. On that basis the Premier Inn Greenwich is a bargain!

  • Erico1875 says:

    6 May6 May 11:54

    Melia Whitehouse is £208 5% off via app then Gold 20% using 2000 points or £228 cash

    • Rob says:

      6 May6 May 12:55

      That’s a decent deal given the Melia has just finished a refurb. Amex Plats get Melia Gold and the upgrade / 20% off voucher too.

      • TGLoyalty says:

        6 May6 May 21:36

        How’s the refurb ?

        • TGLoyalty says:

          6 May6 May 21:36

          Extensives *

        • Rob says:

          6 May6 May 22:42

          Not seen the rooms but if you google you should find the press release they put out.

  • NorthernLass says:

    6 May6 May 18:50

    That’s Wimbledon final weekend, when I have a 40k pn redemption at the IC PL – so far!

• ianM says:

  6 May6 May 07:44

  Somewhere as far away from Wimbledon as possible presumably!

• Jo says:

  6 May6 May 07:47

  Anyone getting 50% bonus? I’m getting max 40% poor value

  • WaynedP says:

    6 May6 May 09:10

    Yes, I’ve been offered 50%, but am not tempted.

    Platinum member if that has anything to do with it.

• Alan Todd says:

  6 May6 May 07:51

  I’m sure it’s been mentioned elsewhere, but Alan Boswell seems to have dropped awarding Avios (certainly on renewal) recently as well.

  • Rob says:

    6 May6 May 08:41

    They are losing Avios at month end. Not their decision.

    • Chrisasaurus says:

      6 May6 May 20:18

      Curious – new financial products partner?

      • Rob says:

        6 May6 May 21:22

        Honestly don’t know.

        • Mart says:

          6 May6 May 22:32

          Recently got a horrendous home insurance quote from them as a data point – 3x some very comprehensive competitors

      • Alan Todd says:

        6 May6 May 22:36

        They mentioned it was due to the phasing out of aviosvouchers.com, which may have interesting repercussions for other entities that use this route – RBS, for example.

• brian says:

  6 May6 May 09:07

  @Rob I’m seeing the follow offer within the app but as you say, opt in isn’t required

  [blockquote]Free Bonus Points

  Join us in celebrating our new hotel openings and earn up to an additional 5,000 Hilton Honors Points.

  Earn 1,000 Hilton Honors Points per night at select properties
  Earn 5,000 Hilton Honors Points per stay at select properties for three or more nights[/blockquote]
  Staying at a Hilton tomorrow so that should be an extra 3,000 points as a result of the two current offers.

• Mike Hunt says:

  6 May6 May 10:02

  Rob – nothing celebrating the Coronation today ?

  • Rob says:

    6 May6 May 10:11

    Er, no.

  • GeoffreyB says:

    6 May6 May 10:27

    What’s the relevance to loyalty points?

    • Dubious says:

      6 May6 May 10:48

      I think the thought was about special promos – discounts or bonus points.

      • GeoffreyB says:

        6 May6 May 11:27

        If there were any then presumably they would have been in the article?

    • Rob says:

      6 May6 May 11:38

      I’m at my sons basketball class! Not much interest in it in London to be honest. Everyone you see on TV is a tourist.

      • GeoffreyB says:

        6 May6 May 15:20

        Not much of a contribution to levelling up from Charles. He should have insisted today’s event was held outside of London. Somewhere like Hull could have done with the influx of American tourists

        • kitten says:

          6 May6 May 15:35

          You cannot be serious.

        • GeoffreyB says:

          6 May6 May 15:36

          Why not? They’re not the London Royal Family

        • NorthernLass says:

          6 May6 May 18:52

          Or Lancashire, which he owns most of!

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