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LL – am pretty sure the only thing you may be able to do online is cancel; by their nature BAH is not just a change to simple flights but a knock on to hotels, car hire, transfers etc so I think you will need to call
Morning all. I want to book 3 rooms using intercontinental ambassadors free night vouchers (3 different people with a voucher each). Does anyone know if I can book all 3 rooms myself, so long as the other guests arrive at the hotel with their free night vouchers? Or does it need to be separate bookings with the voucher holders as the booker.
@Matlo I’m afraid I can’t help with the specific free night voucher point but I have recently booked 3 rooms at an IC via Emyr, they have each appeared in my IHG App with a separate booking reference and they are all currently in my name. I’m planning to contact the hotel directly later to get them to change the names on 2 of the bookings.As a related point can I only earn points on one room even if I’m paying for 2 of them?
Makes sense, thanks. It’s showing availability for 3 rooms so lets see if that’s still the case when we book one by one.
Wpuld appreciate a quick steer from any BA Holidays experts before diving into t’s and c’s..
Can’t make existing dates of BA Holiday.
Only deposit paid, would have to pay rest in 3 weeks or so.Can I still change the dates to a later date for trip?
Can I add things like an extra hotel stay, or an extra flight?If either of the above is even possible, do I atill have to settle in full by the original date?
Am deciding whether best to leave the deposit and walk away, or if I can try to build a later trip I am sure I will have to do, out of it.
Yes, it’s no problem to change dates (I have just done so, bringing forward a trip by a month) but because your flights are probably inflexible, you may have to pay change fees up to the £120. Any hotel element that was non-refundable has the same restrictions. If you had booked by the 23 July deadline for the Avios promotion, you can preserve that by rebooking the existing plans, as long as travel is still within the dates.
@damboy5 consider a ferry from Split to Hvar or Vis for that nicer than Split vibe.
Hi Richie. Problem is I’d only have 3 nights and not sure whether staying on one of the islands would be doable in this short amount of time. Never having been there makes me a bit anxious and think I’m better to stay on the mainland. Is Hvar a much different experience?
Depends what time you’re planning to leave Split really.
@BBB, it’s swings and roundabouts really, we have contactless payment but high prices and appalling levels of service, other countries still make you go to a specific place and buy a ticket but trains and buses are cheap and efficient!
But the high cost has nothing to do with the contactless!
Um just consider how many card readers they need to install. At least 2 per bus or tram / train and sometimes more depending on number of doors and layout.
Plus multiple readers at stations.
Then there is a whole infrastructure to maintain those readers and the data exchanges between the readers and the central finance system to actually charge cards etc.
And most cities already have some sort of tourist pass available either via mobile app or paper ticket.Um, just consider the advantages – machines they dont need to install or pay for maintenance; cash they dont need to transport and provide for security of transport; plastic they dont need to issue; mobiles losing battery before the journey ends; money stuck on cards lost or unused.
The whole system feels like it was designed to protect unionised jobs
Long have we though about unionism as a lefty pastime. In hindsight there is nothing wrong with unionized labor in the public sector though. We had a fruitless discussion after a work meeting the other day. Colleagues joking about people afraid AI will be coming for their jobs and subsequently giving bad examples of prompting. Those people they were referring to aren’t wrong theoretically, but it won’t come to that massive decline in employment.
We all wanted this. We all wanted the creature comforts. And now technology is becoming too efficient, which according to those “shortsighted” people will lead to mass redundancy in a few decades. No it won’t. Just like every civilization at the pinnacle of it’s existence before us, we will enact protectionist measures to keep everybody employed. We won’t be able to import stuff from China anymore, we won’t be able to hire software engineers from India, tenders will be restricted to countries with the same median income as us etc. It won’t make any fiscal sense, but it will put off our decline for another century.
So I’m more than happy to charge my electronic card at a machine that needs to be emptied of coins daily & serviced weekly. And more than happy that it has a charging limit of 20 rides so I need to go back routinely. And I’m more than happy that the card has a fictitious expiry date so I need to fill out my personal details again to get a new one at a counter. And that the next region over has it’s own electronic system that is obviously not integrated. There are fundamental societal lessons to be learned from the fact the fast lane at Barajas T1 only opens from 06:00. (Making flying with O’Leary and his 0-hour contracts less desirable being one of them.)
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