Happy Christmas from the Head for Points team

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• O says:

  25 Dec25 December 13:36

  Happy Christmas guys and thank you for all the great updates throughout the year! Your emails are the first thing I read every morning. Looking forward to an exciting 2025 ahead

• Yorkshire rich says:

  25 Dec25 December 13:51

  Morning all, as many have already said, this is a morning ritual/addiction that I do every morning.

  Merry Xmas everybody. P.s I was sending that at 05:00am this morning but realised I didn’t actually send it

• RK says:

  25 Dec25 December 15:37

  Merry Christmas to the whole HfP team – Congratulations from going from strength to strength in readership and views. Thank you for all you do, it is appreciated, look forward to my 3 daily emails.

• Doommonger says:

  25 Dec25 December 17:00

  Thanks HFP for advice/hacks etc. I particularly enjoyed the Marriott Gourmet crawl on November 16th , not least the 1.5 bottles of Veuve Clique that I managed to polish off in the W before we had even started. Which turned out to be a blessing as I got lumbered in one of the establishments sitting next to a woman with appalling teeth, and so I pretended to be a bit drunk. Low points were my stay in Preston ( what an truly depressing place) and also in the Kimpton Russell square, which started off well in the company of two delightful ladies of eastern European extraction, unfortunately I passed out and woke up several hours later minus my wallet.

  • Gordon says:

    25 Dec25 December 18:46

    @Doommonger – You do make me chuckle!

• Throwawayname says:

  25 Dec25 December 17:15

  Happy Christmas everyone, thanks Rob, team and readers for their contributions!

  I’m really surprised that I check this site daily considering that I never fly BA and only very occasionally have any dealings with the avíos ecosystem as a whole (and that’s why I haven’t registered yet).

  I’m safely back from the S. American holiday that I stuck on the back end of my SAS challenge, after my first ever experience of the LH First Class Terminal- great space, some fantastic alcoholic drinks, relief for the Porsche transfer that avoided having to spend a quarter of an hour in a crowded bus…but not quite a first class experience due to the unacceptable 45-minute wait for a shower (being Christmas eve, the lounge wasn’t even 20% full), really poor coffee (viz. solid Lavazza in the business/SEN lounges) and clueless bar staff (no point in standing in front of 50 expensive bottles of whisky if you don’t even understand what a ‘port finish’ is).

  [For anyone interested, onboard food was also pretty unremarkable and, in my view at least, clearly inferior to what the likes of Saudia, TK, or even Aeroméxico, serve in long-haul business class. As with my previous time in LH F, I didn’t mind using my miles for it, but I do find it astonishing that they can find people prepared to pay five-figure sums for that sort of thing.]

  Florianopolis in particular was quite interesting, but the beaches are quite far apart and moving around without a car isn’t easy. Ubers are available but I was a little hesitant to leave town without having a definite way back.

  No firm plans for 2025 yet, but I definitely want to go back to Africa, probably Angola this time, the SK miles cannot come soon enough!

• Mirp says:

  25 Dec25 December 17:59

  Merry Christmas everyone!

• Lev441 says:

  25 Dec25 December 18:36

  Merry Christmas from a very hot and sunny Cancun!

  Booked CW flights in October (thank you seat spy!) and a Bonvoy all inclusive hotel so having a great time – currently sipping on a Pina colada whilst the baby takes his afternoon nap!

• Iamsmurphslaw says:

  25 Dec25 December 19:37

  A very Happy Christmas Rob, Rhys, Sinead, Katie and Conny and thanks for all the most informative travel articles!

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