Accor recently revitalised its two subscription cards – the ALL PLUS ibis card and the ALL PLUS Voyageur card. Targeted at repeat Accor customers and valid across 21 brands, we wanted to take a .....

Accor recently revitalised its two subscription cards – the ALL PLUS ibis card and the ALL PLUS Voyageur .....

8 Dec 20238 December 2023 by Rhys Jones • 42 comments

News in brief: Virgin Atlantic launches its own line of merch It’s taken almost 40 years, but Virgin Atlantic has finally launched its own brand of merchandise. The collection has been designed .....

News in brief: Virgin Atlantic launches its own line of merch It’s taken almost 40 years, but Virgin .....

7 Dec 20237 December 2023 by Rhys Jones • 37 comments

Which? magazine, which regularly tests and scores consumer goods, has turned its focus to airport lounges. It has released a league table for the best and worst independent airport lounges in the UK. .....

Which? magazine, which regularly tests and scores consumer goods, has turned its focus to airport lounges. It .....

5 Dec 20235 December 2023 by Rhys Jones • 171 comments

Virgin Atlantic has just launched flights to the Maldives, adding to the number of new leisure destinations – including Dubai and Turks & Caicos – which have launched this year. The .....

Virgin Atlantic has just launched flights to the Maldives, adding to the number of new leisure destinations .....

5 Dec 20235 December 2023 by Rhys Jones • 63 comments

Virgin Atlantic has been having a good year. The airline is once again growing its route network, with more destinations added this year than we have seen for some time including Dubai, the Maldives .....

Virgin Atlantic has been having a good year. The airline is once again growing its route network, with more .....

4 Dec 20234 December 2023 by Rhys Jones • 60 comments

Eurostar offers three classes of travel on its services from London to Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and beyond, all the way from Standard to Business Premier. In this article I want to look at the .....

Eurostar offers three classes of travel on its services from London to Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and beyond, .....

3 Dec 20233 December 2023 by Rhys Jones • 38 comments

Many UK airport lounges, particularly in London, are now so busy that it is hard to get in at peak times using a lounge club card such as Priority Pass. To combat this issue, Priority Pass has been .....

Many UK airport lounges, particularly in London, are now so busy that it is hard to get in at peak times using .....

2 Dec 20232 December 2023 by Rhys Jones • 52 comments

Welcome to the Head for Points weekly newsletter, full of the latest Avios, travel loyalty and travel credit card news, hints and tips. Please forward it to any friends or family who you think may be .....

Welcome to the Head for Points weekly newsletter, full of the latest Avios, travel loyalty and travel credit .....

2 Dec 20232 December 2023 by Rhys Jones

I only recently found out that it is possible to pre-book your meal when flying Virgin Atlantic. And no, I don’t mean the usual dietary / special meals that you can order when you log into .....

I only recently found out that it is possible to pre-book your meal when flying Virgin Atlantic. And no, I .....

30 Nov 202330 November 2023 by Rhys Jones • 38 comments

On Tuesday, I was one of an exclusive group of 110 people on board Virgin Atlantic’s ‘Flight100’. If you haven’t been following along, this was a demonstration flight operated .....

On Tuesday, I was one of an exclusive group of 110 people on board Virgin Atlantic’s .....

29 Nov 202329 November 2023 by Rhys Jones • 123 comments

This is our review of Lufthansa’s Senator Lounge opposite Gate 24 in Munich Airport’s Terminal 2. On my way back from Munich to see Beond’s new all-business class plane, now in .....

This is our review of Lufthansa’s Senator Lounge opposite Gate 24 in Munich Airport’s Terminal 2. .....

29 Nov 202329 November 2023 by Rhys Jones • 23 comments

This is our review of Lufthansa’s Business Lounge opposite Gate 24 in Munich Airport’s Terminal 2. Whilst I spent most of my time in the Senator Lounge next door (review here), I did pop .....

This is our review of Lufthansa’s Business Lounge opposite Gate 24 in Munich Airport’s Terminal 2. .....

29 Nov 202329 November 2023 by Rhys Jones • 6 comments

This is our review of The Shanghai EDITION hotel. Although it sits as part of Marriott Bonvoy’s portfolio, the EDITION brand is a bit of an outlier in that Marriott does not have full control. .....

This is our review of The Shanghai EDITION hotel. Although it sits as part of Marriott Bonvoy’s .....

28 Nov 202328 November 2023 by Rhys Jones • 11 comments

Tomorrow morning I will hopefully be well on the way to New York on the world’s first transatlantic flight powered by 100% sustainable aviation fuel. Flight100, as Virgin Atlantic is calling it, .....

Tomorrow morning I will hopefully be well on the way to New York on the world’s first transatlantic .....

27 Nov 202327 November 2023 by Rhys Jones • 55 comments