This has crept under our radar, but the Hoxton Hotel chain – now partly owned by Accor, but not in Accor Live Limitless – is gearing up to open its fourth London hotel, in Shepherd’s .....

This has crept under our radar, but the Hoxton Hotel chain – now partly owned by Accor, but not in Accor .....

7 Sep 20227 September 2022 by Rhys Jones

An impressively generous new cashback offer has appeared on American Express cards thanks to United Airlines. It is a re-run of an offer that previously appeared in June. You will get £250 back when .....

An impressively generous new cashback offer has appeared on American Express cards thanks to United Airlines. .....

7 Sep 20227 September 2022 by Rhys Jones

Whilst we don’t normally cover cruise travel on Head for Points, we have been looking at the new Virgin Voyages operation. We visited Scarlet Lady, the first ship, in The Bahamas late last year. .....

Whilst we don’t normally cover cruise travel on Head for Points, we have been looking at the new Virgin .....

7 Sep 20227 September 2022 by Rhys Jones • 69 comments

This is our review of the British Airways lounge in Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport. The Johannesburg lounge was one of the first international lounges to get BA’s new lounge concept, first .....

This is our review of the British Airways lounge in Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport. The Johannesburg lounge was .....

7 Sep 20227 September 2022 by Rhys Jones • 22 comments

Effective immediately, you will be able to drop off and pick-up Zipcar Flex cars from Gatwick Airport. It is a welcome addition to the long-standing drop-off at Heathrow Terminal 5. However, that .....

Effective immediately, you will be able to drop off and pick-up Zipcar Flex cars from Gatwick Airport. It is a .....

6 Sep 20226 September 2022 by Rhys Jones • 62 comments

British Airways launched its latest sale on Thursday. It is the first one in quite some time, after Heathrow forced the airline to cap passenger numbers and cancel reams of flights in order not to .....

British Airways launched its latest sale on Thursday. It is the first one in quite some time, after Heathrow .....

4 Sep 20224 September 2022 by Rhys Jones • 71 comments

This is our review of the Air Mauritius Amedee Maingard lounge in Mauritius Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport. To be honest, I wasn’t expecting to write about any lounges at .....

This is our review of the Air Mauritius Amedee Maingard lounge in Mauritius Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam .....

4 Sep 20224 September 2022 by Rhys Jones • 32 comments

If you’ve got an easyJet flight from Gatwick coming up in the next three months you may want to check what fare you booked. The airline has just announced that it is offering free lounge access .....

If you’ve got an easyJet flight from Gatwick coming up in the next three months you may want to check .....

3 Sep 20223 September 2022 by Rhys Jones • 14 comments

Welcome to our weekly newsletter. Whilst we encourage email readers to sign up to our daily emails so that you don’t miss out on any short-notice deals or offers, we also offer this weekly summary .....

Welcome to our weekly newsletter. Whilst we encourage email readers to sign up to our daily emails so that .....

3 Sep 20223 September 2022 by Rhys Jones • 2 comments

We don’t write about the Sainsbury’s Nectar credit card much but we do cover it occasionally, including a full card review each year. It is, after all, another option for earning Avios .....

We don’t write about the Sainsbury’s Nectar credit card much but we do cover it occasionally, .....

2 Sep 20222 September 2022 by Rhys Jones

Virgin Atlantic’s flights to the Indian subcontinent originally started as a way to mop up traffic during covid, when its bread-and-butter routes to the United States were blocked from carrying .....

Virgin Atlantic’s flights to the Indian subcontinent originally started as a way to mop up traffic .....

2 Sep 20222 September 2022 by Rhys Jones • 37 comments

I was at the Andaz Liverpool Street hotel on Tuesday, where Ryanair’s CEO Michael O’Leary was announcing its biggest winter schedule ever, with flights from 21 UK airports. (By a crazy .....

I was at the Andaz Liverpool Street hotel on Tuesday, where Ryanair’s CEO Michael O’Leary was .....

1 Sep 20221 September 2022 by Rhys Jones • 172 comments

This is our review of the Le Méridien Ile Maurice (that’s Mauritius, for anyone who doesn’t speak French!) resort. This was our final stop, after staying at the Sofitel Mauritius .....

This is our review of the Le Méridien Ile Maurice (that’s Mauritius, for anyone who doesn’t speak .....

31 Aug 202231 August 2022 by Rhys Jones • 41 comments

If you have ever been stuck in the queue at immigration at the US border and wondered if there is a better way, there is. Called Global Entry, it is a Customs and Border Protection program that allows .....

If you have ever been stuck in the queue at immigration at the US border and wondered if there is a better .....

30 Aug 202230 August 2022 by Rhys Jones • 214 comments