News in brief: Get a £15 Amazon gift certificate with Azimo I mentioned this offer over Christmas, but I wanted to flag it again because it is still running until the end of the month. Online money .....

News in brief: Get a £15 Amazon gift certificate with Azimo I mentioned this offer over Christmas, but I .....

28 Jan 201628 January 2016 by Rob Burgess • 46 comments

News in brief: Did you win our IHG Rewards Club competition? Thank you to everyone who entered our IHG Rewards Club competition last week.  There was a fantastic response and IHG was very impressed .....

News in brief: Did you win our IHG Rewards Club competition? Thank you to everyone who entered our IHG Rewards .....

27 Jan 201627 January 2016 by Rob Burgess • 27 comments

If you are working towards your IHG Accelerate target – and this is probably the most generous hotel promotion you will see this quarter – there are three little tricks and kinks which can .....

If you are working towards your IHG Accelerate target – and this is probably the most generous hotel .....

26 Jan 201626 January 2016 by Rob Burgess • 100 comments

The latest batch of IHG Rewards Club (the Holiday Inn, HI Express, Crowne Plaza, InterContinental etc group) PointBreaks redemptions will be open for booking this afternoon.  It is usually about .....

The latest batch of IHG Rewards Club (the Holiday Inn, HI Express, Crowne Plaza, InterContinental etc group) .....

25 Jan 201625 January 2016 by Rob Burgess • 53 comments

There was much grating of teeth among Head for Points readers before Christmas when Barclaycard made some draconian changes to its credit card policy. It decided that you could not have two .....

There was much grating of teeth among Head for Points readers before Christmas when Barclaycard made some .....

23 Jan 201623 January 2016 by Rob Burgess • 48 comments

News in brief: New IHG Spire Elite benefit launched A few people have emailed me recently to ask if I know anything about the promised new benefits for IHG’s new Spire Elite top tier. The answer .....

News in brief: New IHG Spire Elite benefit launched A few people have emailed me recently to ask if I know .....

23 Jan 201623 January 2016 by Rob Burgess • 28 comments

British Airways has unveiled a range of Avios hotel promotions for people who prefer to earn Avios rather than hotel points when they stay. Full details of all of these offers can be found on the .....

British Airways has unveiled a range of Avios hotel promotions for people who prefer to earn Avios rather than .....

22 Jan 201622 January 2016 by Rob Burgess • 3 comments

All this week, we have been running a competition to give away 50,000 IHG Rewards Club points to one lucky Head for Points reader. 50,000 IHG Rewards Club points will get you: ten PointBreaks .....

All this week, we have been running a competition to give away 50,000 IHG Rewards Club points to one lucky .....

22 Jan 201622 January 2016 by Rob Burgess

Having just booked a number of British Airways Reward Flight Saver redemptions to Germany for various family trips this year, I thought it worth a reminder of something many people forget – it .....

Having just booked a number of British Airways Reward Flight Saver redemptions to Germany for various family .....

20 Jan 201620 January 2016 by Rob Burgess • 33 comments

I’m delighted to launch another exclusive Head for Points competition today.  One lucky reader is going to walk away with 50,000 IHG Rewards Club points! 50,000 IHG Rewards Club points will .....

I’m delighted to launch another exclusive Head for Points competition today.  One lucky reader is going .....

18 Jan 201618 January 2016 by Rob Burgess • 48 comments

It’s time for our first competition of 2016. I’ve teamed up with IHG Rewards Club, the loyalty scheme for InterContinental, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Crowne Plaza, Hotel Indigo and .....

It’s time for our first competition of 2016. I’ve teamed up with IHG Rewards Club, the loyalty .....

16 Jan 201616 January 2016 by Rob Burgess • 7 comments

Typically there are three different types of travel loyalty credit cards you can apply for: Cards you get just for the sign-up bonus Cards you get primarily for the strong on-going earnings rate Cards .....

Typically there are three different types of travel loyalty credit cards you can apply for: Cards you get just .....

13 Jan 201613 January 2016 by Rob Burgess • 100 comments

PointsHound is a hotel booking service which works in a similar way to Kaligo.com and Rocketmiles.  You earn a chunk of frequent flyer miles for booking with them but your stays will not earn you .....

PointsHound is a hotel booking service which works in a similar way to Kaligo.com and Rocketmiles.  You earn .....

13 Jan 201613 January 2016 by Rob Burgess • 52 comments

I wrote a long article on the second, Spring 2016, version of the Accelerate promotion from IHG Rewards Club just before Christmas. If you got lucky with the offer they targetted you for, it is .....

I wrote a long article on the second, Spring 2016, version of the Accelerate promotion from IHG Rewards Club .....

11 Jan 201611 January 2016 by Rob Burgess • 5 comments