Interesting Avios deals if you need a hotel in Scandinavia or Finland

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• Oviplokos1 says:

  9 May9 May 05:18

  Finnair is not on the partners list in my Amex gold card account – do you know why?

  • Rob says:

    9 May9 May 06:48

    Has it disappeared? I never rechecked ….

    • Guernsey Globetrotter says:

      9 May9 May 08:47

      Yup – not on the list for my Bus Plat either…

      • ERMJ says:

        20 May20 May 05:55

        Finnair transfer available for me with my UK AMEX card. Not seeing it on US AMEX.

• MattB says:

  9 May9 May 06:51

  I had this email from BAEC about a week ago:

  We wanted to let you know that from today, the way you collect Avios at Bicester Village will become even easier than before.

  From today, you may collect Avios as normal at Bicester Village when you shop with a registered credit or debit card linked to your British Airways Executive Club account. Avios will be awarded automatically for your purchases at eligible boutiques.

  The collection service via the in-village Guest Concierge’s and the e-Redemption service will no longer be operational.

  • LittleNick says:

    9 May9 May 08:37

    Does that mean you can double dip? Collect avios via the tracked card spend then go collect Virgin point?

    • Rob says:

      9 May9 May 08:49

      We’re not sure but I suspect yes. You can double dip on Avios of course via Qatar.

    • Andrew. says:

      9 May9 May 14:10

      Triple Dip surely?

      Register a Virgin Atlantic card on the BAEC Account, collect Virgin points as normal, Avios via instore, then collect Virgin points via the concierge.

  • Roosit says:

    9 May9 May 14:06

    I saw this too. FYI it seems this is not the case for the other, international Villages in the same group: at least collecting Avios at Wertheim Village in Germany still worked via their Concierge Service last week.

• BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

  9 May9 May 06:59

  At the time of writing the IHG sale isn’t active.

  Checking the T&Cs these would be fully prepaid non refundable rates. So I think excluded from being able to use a Confirmable Suite upgrade.

  Also covers including NZ, Australia and Japan.

• Hilda M says:

  9 May9 May 07:42

  IHG sale live (with a bit of a loop) My usual IC TS is 207 ++ (non refundable) rather than 268++ (cancel 2 days before)

  • Hilda M says:

    9 May9 May 07:43

    That’s in EUR

• TGLoyalty says:

  9 May9 May 08:35

  Surely you can double dip now BA is linked to card?

  • zapato1060 says:

    9 May9 May 14:30

    Read above.

• executiveclubber says:

  9 May9 May 08:52

  Cannot find this IHG deal anywhere. Help pls!

  • LD27 says:

    9 May9 May 10:38

    Prices are definitely available. Been checking a NYC, Vegas and California. If you go into app, they appear when you select view all prices. Prices have definitely gone down on hotels I’ve been following. Sadly no IHG in Lone Pine. Son was lucky to get a returned pass for hiking John Muir trail. But at short notice all hotels and flights expensive so going via Vegas!

• Ben says:

  9 May9 May 14:01

  I’m owed about 10000 Avios by guest services which never credited, no reply from emails, totally useless, so this is an improvement imo

• BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

  9 May9 May 14:29

  Just repriced a couple of existing bookings within the offer period.

  Won’t be switching. Even though the railcard rate is $15-20 more per night I value the ability to cancel and rebook as appropriate and ability to use CSU. As thee rates are prepaid it precludes using CSU.

  YMMV

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