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Buy Global Hotel Alliance stay credit at a 15% discount – is it worth it?

Global Hotel Alliance, and its GHA DISCOVERY loyalty programme, has pushed its way onto our radar over the last couple of years. This is down to three things: We ran a separate piece here which .....

Global Hotel Alliance, and its GHA DISCOVERY loyalty programme, has pushed its way onto our radar over the .....

by Rob Burgess9 comments

What you missed on Head for Points last week

Welcome to the Head for Points weekly newsletter, full of the latest Avios, travel loyalty and travel credit card news, hints and tips. If you are not a subscriber, you can sign up to this free .....

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

by Rob Burgess

Get £100 American Express cashback on a Relais & Chateaux hotel stay

American Express has launched a new offer with the Relais & Chateaux hotel group. You will receive £100 cashback on a spend of £500+ by 19th October. Cumulative spend is OK. A lot of top .....

American Express has launched a new offer with the Relais & Chateaux hotel group. You will receive £100 .....

by Rob Burgess2 comments

Review: Kirkwall Hotel, Orkney (and a few tourist tips)

To see how you can spend your Avios on Loganair, which became an Avios ‘earn and burn’ partner on 31st March, I took an Avios redemption flight from Heathrow to Kirkwall in Orkney. Part 1 .....

To see how you can spend your Avios on Loganair, which became an Avios ‘earn and burn’ partner on .....

by Conny Urban21 comments

‘The Travel Brief’, the weekly Head for Points travel trade newsletter

Welcome to The Travel Brief, your weekly trade round-up of UK business travel and travel loyalty news as well as the latest reviews and features from the Head for Points team. If you are not a .....

Welcome to The Travel Brief, your weekly trade round-up of UK business travel and travel loyalty news as well .....

by Rob Burgess1 comment

Important dates for your diary – offers about to close which you shouldn’t miss

The aim of this feature is to summarise flight, hotel and points offers that are ending soon.  Everything listed below has been covered on HfP in recent weeks, but years of experience of running .....

The aim of this feature is to summarise flight, hotel and points offers that are ending soon.  Everything .....

by HfP team

Review: La Valette Club lounge, Malta (used by BA, KM and Priority Pass)

This is our review of the La Valette Club lounge in Malta International Airport. Malta International Airport is not big. In fact, it’s so small that it doesn’t have any jetbridges. It .....

This is our review of the La Valette Club lounge in Malta International Airport. Malta International Airport .....

by Rhys Jones18 comments

How to beat jet lag: my advice after 130+ long haul flights

The number one question I get when I tell people what I do, after they comment that I have their ‘dream job’, is “how do you beat jet lag?” The answer I always give is that I .....

The number one question I get when I tell people what I do, after they comment that I have their ‘dream .....

by Rhys Jones169 comments

What you missed on Head for Points last week

Welcome to the Head for Points weekly newsletter, full of the latest Avios, travel loyalty and travel credit card news, hints and tips. If you are not a subscriber, you can sign up to this free .....

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

by Rob Burgess

IndiGo’s Manchester to Mumbai flights confirmed for July launch

As we wrote in March, Indian low-cost airline IndiGo is getting into the long haul market. Initially, it will damp-lease Norse Atlantic aircraft before taking delivery of its own long-haul fleet from .....

As we wrote in March, Indian low-cost airline IndiGo is getting into the long haul market. Initially, it will .....

by Rhys Jones

easyJet opening its 11th UK base in Newcastle

easyJet’s steady roll out of new UK bases continues. From next March, it will base three aircraft at Newcastle International airport creating 130 jobs for pilots, crew and engineers in the area. .....

easyJet’s steady roll out of new UK bases continues. From next March, it will base three aircraft at .....

by Rhys Jones27 comments

South Western Railway rolls out ‘rail-5G’ high speed wi-fi

As anyone who has ever taken a train will know, wi-fi and mobile reception is notoriously bad across the UK railways. Every time I jump on a train to leave London I spend more time with no connection .....

As anyone who has ever taken a train will know, wi-fi and mobile reception is notoriously bad across the UK .....

by Rhys Jones98 comments

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