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As we’ve covered multiple times on HfP this year, there are some excellent VIP experiences bookable with Avios via Privilege Club Collection.

This allows members of Qatar Airways Privilege Club to bid Avios for tickets to key sporting and entertainment events. You can take part by linking your British Airways Executive Club account to a Qatar Airways Privilege Club account and moving Avios across.

This article explains more about how Privilege Club Collection works.

Goodwood Festival with Avios

I know that many HfP readers have been making hay with tickets for The O2 in London.

Unlike Marriott Bonvoy or Virgin Red, who make you suffer by watching a concert from the confines of a mere VIP suite, Qatar Airways tickets get you access to The NinetyThird. This is the new private club at The O2 with multiple bars and fine dining restaurants.

Qatar Airways throws in £400 with your tickets to spend on food and drink during the concert. It may or may not be true that some readers have been redeeming a handful of Avios for niche concerts they have zero interest in, purely to spend 3-4 hours working through £400 in the bars and restaurants of The NinetyThird …..

Get your tuxedo out

Nothing, however, has been as cheap as the package for the Goodwood Festival which is currently being auctioned.

It currently sits at 1,310 Avios (this is not a typo – we’re talking £13 of Avios) and you get the following:

  • Two VIP tickets per day with access to the Qatar Racing & Equestrian Club (QREC) box that offers unrivalled views of the racetrack and includes food and beverage and car parking, from 30th July to 3rd August
  • Experience driving at the Goodwood motor circuit on 31st July
  • Invitation to the Regency ball at Goodwood House hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Richmond on 1st August

So, to make the most of this deal:

  • You need to be free for five days (30th July to 3rd August) and have enough interest in horse racing – or free food and drink – to want to spend those five days in a VIP box at Goodwood
  • You need to fancy the idea of being driven around a motor circuit at crazy speed
  • You and your +1 need to fancy the idea of spending an evening at a ball hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Richmond

If this sounds like you, and you have 1,410 Avios available (which is the next highest acceptable bid at the time of writing), head to the Privilege Club Collection site here.

The auction closes at 23.59 on Tuesday.

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Qatar Airways and Privilege Club

Comments (43)

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  • HampshireHog says:
    13 Jul13 July 09:52

    Who on earth are Lord and Lady Richmond, bra manufacturers possibly?

    • TGLoyalty says:
      13 Jul13 July 09:58

      Just a family of old English noblemen (starts with Charles illegitimate son) and basically just the owners of Goodwood estate … and using it to make £££ ever since.

  • MSHORT says:
    13 Jul13 July 10:28

    Nouveau riche since 1675!
    5days in Qatar box & the Ball got to be worth £2k+, so whatever that is in Avios will be my bid.

  • Ian says:
    13 Jul13 July 11:05

    Qatar throw in £400? Is this cash? Or dining/drinks credit? Can’t be that easy to burn through £400 between 2 people in a few hours without getting absolutely s-faced. Surely?

    • Rob says:
      13 Jul13 July 11:33

      It’s a tab. There is a fine dining restaurant and a high end champagne bar in the club so relatively easy to burn £400.

  • polly says:
    13 Jul13 July 21:05

    Gone too high for us now.. shame really. Had a wonderful corporate day couple years back, The Kennels restaurant really gorgeous experience.. this is such a great 5 day event…

    • Dubious says:
      14 Jul14 July 05:16

      Although they don’t cater to vegetarians very well.
      I imagine they fair better at the races though.

  • JRich says:
    15 Jul15 July 15:50

    Any one know if you can gift this to someone else? My brother is racing mad, and it be a nice bday gift. I, however, have no interest in going with him… Would he be able to take a mate or would I have to be his plus 1 as the winner?

    • Rob says:
      15 Jul15 July 16:14

      I suspect Qatar don’t mind. London office seems to be co-ordinating this so I can introduce you to the right people afterwards.

  • John smith says:
    20 Jul20 July 17:23

    Please stop with the click bait. It’s clear the current min bids aren’t being held and cheapens your posts. Sorry to be the one

    • Rob says:
      20 Jul20 July 17:25

      It’s not clickbait at all, it’s British humour / sarcasm / wit (delete as applicable). Qatar Airways asked me to write about it because they’d gone to a lot of trouble to put this package together (getting tickets to the ball isn’t exactly easy) and it seemed to be going nowhere, so they asked us to give it a push.

      It had been sitting for over a week at 1,000 Avios to 1,300 Avios (it had been bid up from 1,010 to 1,310).

      Clearly it wasn’t going to stay at 1,310 Avios after our article but it had been that price for quite a while. Even by lunchtime on the day the article went out it wasn’t above 30,000.

    • R2 says:
      21 Jul21 July 08:04

      @John Smith.

      The issue/gripe should be with Qatar Airways, not HfP (or any other blog that they ask to promote).

      FACTS: Qatar Airways has on this auction (and others previously) failed to include enough detail (added more when questioned), moved the auction end date with a few days to go (impacts the winner who is forced to pay inflated prices for flights and/or hotels, especially when the event is in a couple of weeks) and has never released any ‘Buy’ it now options as indicated on their website.

      Qatar Airways is of course within their rights to do all of the above to cover their ‘learning aspects’. With any auction, the real bidders bid at the end, so the final price may well have been achieved regardless of the above tactics. They are the only experiences auction website to employ such questionable behaviours.

      • Rob says:
        21 Jul21 July 08:47

        They learn as they go. I have talked to them multiple times about the importance of lower priced BIN deals, or it just becomes a site for a handful of heavy hitters.

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