News in brief: Aspire lounge at Luton Airport to close for refurbishment It doesn’t seem that long ago since it last had a makeover, but the Aspire Lounge at Luton Airport is to close for facelift. If you want to see what it is currently […]
Lounge bits: lengthy Luton and Edinburgh Aspire closures, whilst Plaza Premium opens in Dubai
22 January 2020 By 26 Comments
What happened at the Head for Points Winter Party? (And how much money did you raise?)
22 January 2020 By 64 Comments
Thank you to everyone who came to our Winter Party on Monday evening at the Marriott Grosvenor Square. We had around 500 people there, who had managed to avoid the current flu bug and ‘dry January’! The Westminster Ballroom at the Marriott is by far […]
StatusMatcher – what match can you get from your existing airline and hotel cards?
21 January 2020 By 9 Comments
If you read Head for Points via the website, you may have seen the link to statusmatcher.com in the ‘I Also Recommend ….’ box. I thought it was worth giving this site a bit more publicity as it does offer a useful service to regular travellers. […]
Time is running out (4 days left) to pay your tax bill with your Curve Card
20 January 2020 By 162 Comments
If you have any self-assessment income tax to pay by 31st January, or any VAT to pay in early February, don’t forget that the last day to make HMRC payments for free with a Curve Card is 23rd January. Unless you have Curve Metal, a […]
IT’S BACK: How to buy refundable airport lounge passes for £7.80 each!
18 January 2020 By 152 Comments
(EDIT: This deal now appears to be dead again. We’ll let you know if it returns!) We covered this deal a couple of weeks ago. It went absolutely crazy and was one of our most-read articles ever, at least in terms of Day 1 readership. […]
Here are five new UK airport lounges due to open in 2020
14 January 2020 By 67 Comments
2020 is gearing up to be a good year for UK airport lounge openings. I doubt we can beat 2019, which saw Club Aspire Gatwick South, the replacement No 1 Lounge in Edinburgh (review), the 2nd Aspire lounge in Edinburgh, Clubrooms in Luton, the expanded […]
Important dates for your diary – offers about to close which you shouldn’t miss
12 January 2020 By 11 Comments
Here is the latest edition of our fortnightly feature (although we took a week off over Christmas and New Year!) which summarises offers that are ending soon. It pulls together the different deals mentioned on our Avios Promos, Hotel Promos, Credit Cards and regular article […]
Bits: get your HFP party ticket at 9pm, Tandem card changes, meanwhile in Albania ….
9 January 2020 By 220 Comments
News in brief: Last chance to buy Head for Points Winter Party tickets at 9pm! The first 250 tickets for the Head for Points Winter Party sold out in literally five minutes yesterday. The 2nd and final batch of 250 will be available from 9pm […]
How to buy refundable airport lounge passes for £7.80 each!
6 January 2020 By 290 Comments
It turns out that there is a clever way to buy airport lounge passes, valid globally, for just £7.80 each. (EDIT: the deal appears to have stopped working around 1am on Tuesday. We’ll update this article if it returns to life during the day.) Even […]
What’s the time in Morocco? Perhaps not what you think it is.
2 January 2020 By
With Royal Air Maroc joining oneworld in April, a short break in Casablanca looked interesting. Doing my research, I came across something I didn’t know. In 2018, Morocco decided to stop using GMT as its ‘base’ time. The time in Marrakech and Casablanca is not necessarily […]
(ALL GONE) 65 AwardWallet upgrade codes available below!
2 January 2020 By
EDIT: At 4.40pm I added another 22 codes below, which have been generated from sign-ups today. As I previewed earlier today, here are the 65 AwardWallet upgrade codes that I currently have to give away. You can find out more about AwardWallet, which is free to […]
65 AwardWallet 6-month upgrade vouchers (worth $15 each) to give away at noon today
2 January 2020 By
Last week I ran an article discussing AwardWallet, which is the only miles and points tool that I use every day – and have done for a number of years. AwardWallet allows you to store the log-in and password details for pretty much all of the […]
(SOLD OUT) IT’S BACK: Get £20 for free if you have a Monese account (only 4 minutes needed!)
30 December 2019 By
EDIT: This deal was sold out after 90 minutes It’s back! Monese ran this offer a couple of weeks ago and it has returned. You can buy a £100 gift card – for Amazon or other retailers – for £80. A lot of readers took […]
Reminder: Get exclusive benefits on luxury hotel bookings via Head for Points
29 December 2019 By
I wanted to give our luxury hotel booking service another mention today in case your mind has started drifting towards your next holiday! Since I launched this service two years ago with Emyr Thomas of Bon Vivant, the feedback from Head for Points readers has […]
Get 10% off Aspire and Club Aspire lounges in UK and Ireland
27 December 2019 By
It must be pretty busy over at the Aspire lounges HQ, with three new openings in the last couple of months (Eindhoven, the recently reviewed Club Aspire at Gatwick South and the 2nd Aspire lounge at Edinburgh). To promotes its new sites, Aspire has launched […]
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