Get double Avios with Avis car rentals

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• Chris says:

  14 Jun14 June 05:46

  Appreciate it’s always worth a mention and often a good deal, but would it be less work to mention when Hilton aren’t running a 100% promo? Haha.

  Related… are they meant to credit instantly? I recently bought some and they took 36 hours (leading to missing a reservation I’d had my eye on… no drama as I’ll use elsewhere at that value but mildly annoying).

  • Rob says:

    14 Jun14 June 09:55

    Normally instant unless points.com has some security concerns about your payment.

• Robert says:

  14 Jun14 June 07:21

  Is that the Sardinia Hilton in the photo? Wondering where people have got good 5-4-4 deals, currently tempted by WA on the Palm but thinking there must be better places, Maldives maybe, outside school holidays preferred.

  • Barrel for Scraping says:

    14 Jun14 June 08:05

    It’s the Hilton Gatwick in the photo

  • Andy says:

    14 Jun14 June 09:14

    I’ve redeemed 5-4-4 at WA Palm Jumeirah, WA Beverley Hills, Oceana LXR in Santa Monica and Conrad New York Downtown … only one I wouldn’t do again is the LXR Santa Monica as it’s just too quirky even for me (no real bar, the pool arrangement wasn’t for me, but the room were humungeous and very well appointed and the location was great) but the rest is do again in a minute, they were all brilliant !

    • Robert says:

      14 Jun14 June 12:58

      Thanks for those ideas Andy, good to know it’s worth it. I’m not the destinations biggest fan but happy to tuck myself away in the WA corner of the Palm with a good book or two for the week!

• Tom says:

  14 Jun14 June 08:06

  Looks like Gatwick

• Tom says:

  14 Jun14 June 08:06

  Sorry – what’s the ‘deal’ with BUPA Dental?

  • Richie says:

    14 Jun14 June 08:13

    AmEx carrd acceptance, spend for points etc.

    • Nate1309 says:

      14 Jun14 June 11:13

      Your local non corporate dentist might take amex too.

      I enjoy talking about points with my patients when they ask if we accept amex. Which we do.

  • Andrew J says:

    14 Jun14 June 08:33

    Not really a deal – more an “agreement” rather than deal. And not sure how new this is really as my Bupa dentist has accepted Amex for a couple of years.

  • Froggee says:

    14 Jun14 June 09:47

    A random thought. If you have BUPA health insurance, they now cover some dental treatment as part of the deal. This amounts to one check-up and up to £300 of treatment. When they brought this in I was somewhat annoyed as I have zero desire to change my non BUPA dentist and you know they will be increasing premiums accordingly. Ours certainly went up. So just a cost and no benefit to us.

    We have the bare minimum BUPA cover with a £2,000 deductible. We self-fund but if something big is needed then we won’t have a decision whether to wait for the NHS.

    Obviously as I am 50 my premium is proper money but from memory the boys are less than £50 each.

    So I wonder if there might be a sweet spot for e.g. early 20s to take out BUPA health insurance – cheapest policy and massive deductible. Likely premium £200 a year and, if your teeth aren’t great, then it will pay for itself.

    • David says:

      14 Jun14 June 10:16

      The great thing about this though is that it’s by direct settlement so if you go to a BUPA Dental Care dentist you don’t have to pay up and claim it back.

    • The Savage Squirrel says:

      14 Jun14 June 11:35

      Yes it’s a cross-selling attempt to make you move to a BUPA dentist. As you say, most people have a relationship with an existing dentist they know, which they wish to keep, so it’s just a price increase.

      Since buying out the struggling Oasis dental chain for far too much money (that’s how BUPA dentists came about) they’ve had to close more than 20% of the practices and take a £500 million impairment charge, and are still shrinking despite the sector growing strongly in general, so no wonder they’re trying things to recover lost ground 😀

• Daniel says:

  14 Jun14 June 09:10

  I have a deal from Bupa on my Amex of spend £500+ and get 10% back which may be tied into this. Also it has an offer from Avis for an extra 5 avios per pound spent up to 3000 extra. I’m not sure if Amex will recognise any spend on the Avios app though so you might not be able to double up.

• captaindave says:

  14 Jun14 June 10:08

  A ” specialist ” dentistry practice quoted me nearly £300 just for a consultation recently, told them I would think about it…
  For an issue that my (private) dentist can’t deal with.

  • Dawn says:

    14 Jun14 June 13:29

    I have a fabulous dentist in Turkey where I go every year as I have a second home there. Cost me £750 for three crowns and three white fillings. State of the art surgery, laser crowns not the usual goo in the mouth. And crowns done in just two days.

    • captaindave says:

      14 Jun14 June 16:01

      Bargain ! Guess it helps having a base over there.
      Just paid a little over 200 for a filling, another scheduled which will be slightly cheaper as smaller area to fill.
      Thing is, one of my kids is a very experienced dentist, and has offered to do the specialist work, but (a) is 8 months pregnant, and has enough on her plate (b) couple of hundred miles away..

• Phantomchickenz says:

  14 Jun14 June 10:24

  I’ve never found these Avis ‘deals’ for obtaining Avios particularly good value. I just booked last night direct for Christchurch NZ in December – the points earning option (same car) is £60 more. Not worth it.

• Ruralite says:

  14 Jun14 June 12:10

  Our son has a genetic problem, hypoplastic teeth, (in basic terms a lack of enamel) & growing up he had an excellent hospital dentist who treated him for as long as she could get away with after he reached 18, seeing him every time he was home from Uni. Once he moved away for work he had loads of problems trying to find a NHS dentist (luckily he has actually found a good one now who understand the problem). Despite having all his records from being a small child every single private dentist he tried had no clue, no interest in the records & either told him he needed all/most of his teeth capped, filled or replaced with dentures – I think mostly they just saw £££’s when all he needs is regular maintenance care at the moment (he’s 27)!

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