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Club Avanti (Avanti West Coast’s little known rewards programme) seems to be offering VIP status to Club Avanti Platinum member.
I personally think this is very innovative from a rail rewards programme! Even if they announce it at 7pm on a random Wednesday 😂
VIP status isn’t exactly low and gives some valuable benefits too, genuinely surprised!
Extract from the email I received…
“ We’ve partnered with Radisson Rewards by Radisson Hotels, and Platinum members like you get to skip straight to enjoying Radisson’s VIP perks at any of their hotels around the world.How to redeem this reward:
• First, you need a Radisson Rewards Account. Create a Radisson Rewards Account here (or if you have an account already, perfect use that).
• Click the below.
• Input your details and add your unique 16 digit Radisson Rewards account number.
• Redeem your reward by 23:59 on 11th June 2025.
Your details will be verified and then your Radisson Rewards VIP status will be applied in the next 15 working days.
Log back in to your Radisson Rewards account to check your tier status after this date”
People have started discussing it here too: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/club-avanti.245554/page-7
Radisson VIP will be partnering with Kellogg next week 🙄
Radisson VIP will be partnering with Kellogg next week 🙄
This Radisson partner initiative is to their loyalty scheme what OnTheBeach was to airport lounges
Let’s be honest, would anyone willingly stay at a Radisson without these perks? Anybody else willing to admit they’re mostly crap?
Let’s be honest, would anyone willingly stay at a Radisson without these perks? Anybody else willing to admit they’re mostly crap?
Agree. They have a captive market at a number of airports where they are the closest hotel or the only hotel connected to the airport (Zurich, Manchester, Dublin)
Your trips sound fun and I agree completely about winters/xmas. Asia doesn’t draw me as much as most but I really need to plan some trips in that direction. Saying that, I’m looking at Egypt for next Jan and funds are a little tight. by the end of this trip I’ll have been out of the country for 92 days in 180… does that make me non-resident 🙂
Unfortunately that time away doesn’t cut it with HMRC to be non-resident! We have been doing our homework and making preparatory plans on that topic as Rachel and Keir are close to making it unaffordable for us to remain in the UK. Lots of more welcoming countries.
And for those of us under 50, the idea of sticking around for state pension eligibility is laughable. What tax base will be there to pay said pensions. What countries are on your shortlist?
Pensions and welfare generally plus of course the interest bill on current debt are a ticking time bomb that no politician is willing to address until the markets force their hand as happened in Greece and Ireland. Other countries like France aren’t far behind. Panama is the easiest to gain and maintain residence but feels uncomfortably shady, Argentina makes it reasonably easy to obtain and maintain temporary residence, otherwise Eastern Europe.
Indeed. Meanwhile I am one of the pips the politicians are waiting to squeak. I’m not sure I can tolerate hanging around being further squeezed till the axe is taken to bloated public spending and a painful adjustment to individual retirement savings. As for escape routes, Panama has the Darien Gap so not somewhere I’d be heading to.
Your trips sound fun and I agree completely about winters/xmas. Asia doesn’t draw me as much as most but I really need to plan some trips in that direction. Saying that, I’m looking at Egypt for next Jan and funds are a little tight. by the end of this trip I’ll have been out of the country for 92 days in 180… does that make me non-resident 🙂
Unfortunately that time away doesn’t cut it with HMRC to be non-resident! We have been doing our homework and making preparatory plans on that topic as Rachel and Keir are close to making it unaffordable for us to remain in the UK. Lots of more welcoming countries.
And for those of us under 50, the idea of sticking around for state pension eligibility is laughable. What tax base will be there to pay said pensions. What countries are on your shortlist?
Pensions and welfare generally plus of course the interest bill on current debt are a ticking time bomb that no politician is willing to address until the markets force their hand as happened in Greece and Ireland. Other countries like France aren’t far behind. Panama is the easiest to gain and maintain residence but feels uncomfortably shady, Argentina makes it reasonably easy to obtain and maintain temporary residence, otherwise Eastern Europe.
Panama was very popular with canoeists a few years back if I recall correctly?
axe is taken to bloated public spending
Now that you’ve taken it so OT, on the
subject of bloated public spending, inflation-proofed defined benefit pensions for people paying in in the private sector disappeared close to 25 years ago as they were unaffordable for employers. And yet so much of the public sector still has promises long into the future, of inflation-proofed pensions paid for by the taxpayer. When the taxpayer himself, paying for them doesn’t get that protection anymore since so long ago.No respect for a government that will keep this millstone around taxpayers’ necks for the government’s own employees given the parts of public services that sorely need more funding such as social care, because the government won’t be fair and tackle this.
axe is taken to bloated public spending
Now that you’ve taken it so OT, on the
subject of bloated public spending, inflation-proofed defined benefit pensions for people paying in in the private sector disappeared close to 25 years ago as they were unaffordable for employers. And yet so much of the public sector still has promises long into the future, of inflation-proofed pensions paid for by the taxpayer. When the taxpayer himself, paying for them doesn’t get that protection anymore since so long ago.No respect for a government that will keep this millstone around taxpayers’ necks for the government’s own employees given the parts of public services that sorely need more funding such as social care, because the government won’t be fair and tackle this.
This is the carrot needed to retain people working in the public sector as pay is poor and bonuses non existent.
I remember when a previous government decreased the amount that could be held tax free within a pension pot. Within a year all but one of our GPs retired!
axe is taken to bloated public spending
Now that you’ve taken it so OT, on the
subject of bloated public spending, inflation-proofed defined benefit pensions for people paying in in the private sector disappeared close to 25 years ago as they were unaffordable for employers. And yet so much of the public sector still has promises long into the future, of inflation-proofed pensions paid for by the taxpayer. When the taxpayer himself, paying for them doesn’t get that protection anymore since so long ago.No respect for a government that will keep this millstone around taxpayers’ necks for the government’s own employees given the parts of public services that sorely need more funding such as social care, because the government won’t be fair and tackle this.
This is the carrot needed to retain people working in the public sector as pay is poor and bonuses non existent.
Many of us would support public sector pay rises/bonuses linked to delivery. HS2 comes to mind….
@Tracey public sector jobs have been more secure and at the same time better paid than equivalent jobs in the private sector, for decades now.
Might have been true in the very old days, that you took a public sector job for the pension and it might perhaps have been worse paid but that hasn’t been true for a very long time now. Public sector workers kept their various protections and their inflation-proofed pensions too many of which are still the extremely expensive defined benefit type for taxpayers to pay, even as public sector salaries went higher and their job security and worker protection still far greater than equivalent private sector as well.
Of course there’ll be some badly paid public service jobs but far worae is the level of pay, benefits, working conditions and job security in the private sector. Especially ironically, in many jobs that are actually subcontracted out to the private sector by the public sector. Those people’s taxes are paying public sector inflation proofed pensions they themselves would never be given because they and private sector employers know it costs too much.
Not too much for the taxpayer, though, apparently.
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