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Your Black Friday travel deals round-up

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This is our Black Friday flight and hotel deals round-up for 2024, based on offers that have been sent to us.

There will clearly be a lot more out there, although the quality of deals has been getting weaker in recent years. If we’ve missed anything spectacular, we’ll drop it in during today or cover it at the weekend.

We covered two deals earlier in the week – the IHG hotel sale is covered here and the Priority Pass airport lounge card deal (which is usually their best offer of the year) is covered here. We did a separate article today on a big Accor hotel offer which IS attractive.

black friday flight and hotel deals

As always, just because there’s an offer doesn’t mean it’s a genuine bargain. We will leave it up to you to decide whether you find value in these deals.

In alphabetical order:

Accor

Click here to read a separate article on a VERY attractive Accor hotel promotion – quadruple Accor Live Limitless points plus 15% off if you buy Accor gift cards to pay for your stay.

Aer Lingus

Aer Lingus is offering economy sale fares from London to Ireland and the US. You must book by 3rd December 2024 for travel from 7th January to 10th April 2025.

Fares to the US are from £230 each-way from London, or €199 from Dublin. They’re cheaper from Manchester, with direct flights to New York (£368 return), Orlando (£378 return) and Barbados (£379 return).

Click here to find out more.

Cathay Pacific

Cathay Pacific is offering savings on flights to Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia ‘and more’ for travel until 30th June 2025.

Save up to 12% on flights if travelling solo or 15% as a group. You also receive a £30 Uber voucher if you book by 29th November!

The sale runs until 3rd December.

You can find out more here.

citizenm black friday deal

citizenM

citizenM is offering up to 30% off flexible hotel bookings, so you can lock in a trip with no commitment. You must book by 11am on 4th December and you can stay from 15th December until 31st March 2025.

Click here to find out more.

Malaysia Airlines

Get up to 15% off the base fare (but not taxes and fees) with Malaysia Airlines.

All routes are included; you must book by 2nd December for travel from 1st January until 31st October 2025. You can find out more here.

Etihad

Etihad has launched a Black Friday offer with up to 20% off selected routes. It is 20% off the base fare and not taxes and fees, so your total saving will be less than 20% – a lot less for economy tickets where the base fare is a relatively small percentage of the total.

You must book by 3rd December for travel from 15th January to 31st May 2025.

In the UK, only flights from Manchester are included. Fares start at £2,000 for a round-trip business class ticket.

You can find out more here.

Marriott black friday deal

Marriott

Marriott Bonvoy is offering up to 25% off hotel stays between 1st December and 20th January, depending on how you book and whether you’re a Bonvoy member.

The terms are fiddly with variations by region; rates are offered Thursday through Sunday but Thursday night stays require a Friday night stay. You’re best off reading the terms and conditions!

You can find out more here.

Melia

Get up to 50% off hotel stays with Melia for bookings made before 1st December. It includes stays at ‘urban’ hotels until 30th April and at ‘leisure’ hotels until 20th December 2025. It is only valid at participating hotels and you must be signed in to MeliaRewards to see the offer.

You can find out more here.

Norse Atlantic

Low cost long haul airline Norse Atlantic is offering a sale across its network including flights from Gatwick. Fares, one way, start from:

  • London (LGW) to New York (JFK) – from £190
  • London (LGW) to Miami (MIA) – from £190
  • London (LGW) to Orlando (MCO) – from £190
  • London (LGW) to Las Vegas (LAS) – from £239
  • London (LGW) to Cape Town (CPT) – from £285

You can also start your journey from Berlin, Paris, Oslo and Rome, although fares are not significantly cheaper. Fares appear to be available until the end of March.

Use promo code BFRIDAY to unlock an additional 10% discount on classic fares and 15% on Flextra fares.

You can find out more here.

radisson hotels black friday deal

Radisson

Get up to 35% off Radisson, Park Plaza, Park Inn and art’otel hotel stays, with the highest discount (and 3,000 bonus points per stay) available to Radisson Rewards members. You must use the promo code BLCKDEAL.

You must book by 4th December for stays between 12th December 2024 and 31st December 2025. The offer is only available on bed and breakfast rates across all room types and every day of the week.

You can find out more here.

TAP Portugal

TAP Portugal is running a ‘Black FLYday’ sale with flights from the UK to:

  • Porto and Lisbon from £109
  • United States from £329
  • Brazil from £527

You must book by 4th December for travel between 14th January and 15th May 2025, with a blackout period from 7th to 22nd April.

You can find out more here.

Vueling

Vueling, BA’s low-cost Spanish sister airline, is promising ‘up to 25%’ off flights booked on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We don’t know anything else in advance.

You can find out more here.

Virgin Atlantic Black Friday deal

Virgin Atlantic

Use the promo code BLACK to get £30 off economy, £50 of Premium and £150 off Upper Class return flights. The discount is valid for travel on flights until 30th June 2025 but only on ‘selected’ flights.

You must book by 2nd December

You can find out more here.

Virgin Atlantic Holidays

Save £25 per person plus a further £100 off per booking when you spend a minimum of £3,500 per couple or £4,400 for a family of four with Virgin Atlantic Holidays. You must book by 2nd December for travel from 1st December 2024 until 31st December 2025. All destinations are included.

You can find out more here.

Comments (64)

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  • Travel Strong says:

    BLOC Gatwick have discounts today, randomly allocates a discount between 10 and 50% in theory. In practice I couldn’t trigger anything other than 25% – however I saved £35 rebooking an existing booking AND it is still flexible, you are not forced in to a less flexible rate, it is a discount off all rates.

    • stevenhp1987 says:

      I stayed there last month. It’s surprisingly decent when all you need is a 1 night stay pre-holiday.

      M&S is also just around the corner for late night beverages/snacks etc.

      • The real Swiss Tony says:

        Add my +1 to that. Had an early flight to go skiing so used the night before check-in, then it was out the lift & straight into security the next morning. They even throw in free fast track if you book direct.

  • Nico says:

    Do Virgin codes work on reward booking?

  • Inman says:

    Does anyone have any experience with BA prices during Black Friday sale and January Sale?
    I’m planning to combine a holiday with a tier point run in May-June next year on business class. BF sale prices don’t seem to be any lower than what they were recently and was wondering whether to wait for Jan sale? Any thoughts from the experienced?

    • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

      BF sale doesn’t cover everything and has limited dates when the offersapplies

      No guarentee there will be a sale in January and if there is it might cover your dates but not youre route or it covers your route but not your dates or your desired cabin also isn’t included.

    • Metty says:

      All I’d say is that kind folks on here have pointed out some good angles but it’s not necessarily in the right sub forum, so use the search tool well. An example is the BA redemption bug TBS-LHR which prices on the site as 48500 Avios +£205 for two seats; it shows as £205 when pending on c/card but for some reason when processed is £20. That was in daily chat I think, not BA subforum. But regarding BA sale and TP runs, I’ve found that the sales tend to confuse the OnlineTravelAgents pricing via Google Flights which is good news using the BA Price Match (book with BA, then upload timestamped screenshots of OTA fare and BA give you a voucher for double the fare difference). A common BA sale fare Newcastle-LHR is £146rtn in Business but OTA showed £112 so assuming the voucher as being cash that’s effectively £78 for 80TPs which is good.

  • ianM says:

    Is there a current Hilton sale on? I’m seeing some ‘sale’ pricing

    • Rob says:

      Yes, just launched but they want the coverage delayed until after Black Friday.

      • ianM says:

        Can you ask them to extend to end of March because I seem to miss it by a week, seems to finish mid March 🙁

        • Travel Strong says:

          I don’t think you are ‘missing’ anything @IanM, all the standard pricing I locked in at various hilton is identical to (or less than!) the new ‘sale’ rates.

  • Paulw says:

    Shout out to Meliá hotels. Some good prices to be had that stack with 5% in app + 20% if your’re gold via Amex platinum.

    • Mcrpanda says:

      Agreed, I just booked a holiday for next year. The official website offers better prices than any third parties, plus an additional 5% off through the app and a 20% off Gold code. Using 2000 points also makes for a good deal.

  • Niall says:

    And probably missed prior comments. Can you share where had the good deals and if you’d checked pre Black Friday rates?

  • AnotherUser says:

    No points angle, but Axel hotels have 35% off. Some good deals with them – e.g. could get Two hotel in Barcelona for under £60/night on a flexible rate

  • Richie says:

    You could get an economy seat with 28″ pitch, not for the tall HfPer.

    • Bervios says:

      Trip.com has £50 off Aegean bookings from the UK using A350FLIGHTS – it stacks with the £10 off flights app offer. Paid £66 for a July one way to Athens.

      • Dubious says:

        Doh! I booked direct with Aegean yesterday. I could have used this.

        Looking afterwards, I am pleasantly surprised that the Trip app shows the name of the Aegean fare types. I had assumed it would be opaque.

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