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This is today’s chat thread.
If you have specific questions about Avios, hotels or credit cards, please ask them in the appropriate forum and not here. This thread is a good place to post interesting deals you have spotted or your general thoughts on travel and all things miles and points. Thank you for contributing.
Greetings from the Concorde Room at LHR! Starting gently with a coffee. Music seems a bit loud where I chose to sit however who doesn’t like a bit of Phil Collins at 7am 🙂
Just to add, the wifi appears to be provided by Virgin haha
Not my bag, but John Legend tickets available now for Marriott Bonvoy box at the O2… 5 pairs left.
Has anyone recently redeemed the Hilton Amex offer using cumulative spend? I know it used to be the case but haven’t used it for some time.
Was looking to make an advance booking where they take the payment immediately, then spend the remainder in the hotel on a meal the night before we fly out.
It should work if you can charge the food to your room and pay on check out. It was still working cumulatively when the last offer was on.
I flew Aer Lingus last weekend and thought I’d share a data point given the new BA CLub earning rate is unclear on partners.
Fare Details:
£118 return
Of which Taxes, carrier imposed charges = £39
Booking Class ZSingle trip awarded 75 Avios and 12 Tier Points
Has anyone recently redeemed the Hilton Amex offer using cumulative spend? I know it used to be the case but haven’t used it for some time.
Was looking to make an advance booking where they take the payment immediately, then spend the remainder in the hotel on a meal the night before we fly out.
Not identical but the Marriott offer did that last month so the Hilton one should too. If you’re spending in non-GBP be aware the 2.99% forex charge doesn’t count against the spend total but my hotel billed car parking charges did.
Slightly related, I checked out of the ICPL on Monday and split the bill over our BAPP and supp – the staff member taking the payment knew about the offer as he’d had a couple using 4 cards to pay last week! This morning the 2 x £75 credits have posted.
Grrrr at Jet2.
We’ve decided to go away last minute for May half term and the flight back is pretty full. As check-in has opened we have been left with the real dregs seat wise.
So I grudgingly paid €70 for the last window and middle together and two aisle seats elsewhere with a row in between them.
Crazy nuts bonkers.
Kermit doesn’t like the idea of sitting with strangers. Me neither.
Sad face.
So I grudgingly paid €70 for the last window and middle together and two aisle seats elsewhere with a row in between them.
Yikes was that for all 4 seats so £70 per seat or £70 in total (maybe my comment means I am stuck in the 1990’s)? I seem to be allergic to paying for seats.
Sometimes strangers are not too scary, it’s only the ones that actually want to talk to you for 3 or 4 hours that are a bit of a pain, but I do have some sympathy for Kermit’s viewpoint, I’m sure he would rather be with you or Mrs Froggee.
So I grudgingly paid €70 for the last window and middle together and two aisle seats elsewhere with a row in between them.
I assume you and Kermit are sitting together in the window and aisle seats? If you are in the aisle seats elsewhere you will still be sitting next to strangers.
You could’ve caused chaos on board asking other passengers to move so that all 4 if you could sit together.
@Froggee, I am holidaying with my nephew and his young family in Spain later this month, however it should be a relatively civilised affair as they have a 2 week half term so we are departing towards the end of the first week. Also they are flying on Jet2 while I am on BA via the F lounge. They told me they had checked in as soon as it became available so I am assuming they have done ok!
I still shudder at the memory of being trapped between 2 man-spreaders on my last FR flight where I refused to pay for a seat because my return ticket only cost £32 and I was making a point 😂
Greetings from the Concorde Room at LHR! Starting gently with a coffee. Music seems a bit loud where I chose to sit however who doesn’t like a bit of Phil Collins at 7am 🙂
Mrs Collins?
Greetings from the Concorde Room at LHR! Starting gently with a coffee. Music seems a bit loud where I chose to sit however who doesn’t like a bit of Phil Collins at 7am 🙂
Mrs Collins?
Brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
I nominate this for the comment of the week.Yesterday, I mentioned that the IC Bali Jimbaran charges (through the regular IHG site) an additional £200 pn for rooms with club access versus regular rooms.
I was struggling to understand how most people could get value from that kind of fee.
I contacted them for clarification and they’ve now offered an upgrade to a larger room (from the photos it looks like a junior suite) with full club benefits (separate pool, separate lounge, breakfast and the usual afternoon tea and happy hour etc) for an additional £75 per night.
Now that’s more like it.But this got me thinking, how do these kind of locally arranged deals sit with a hotels obligations to its parent international chain?
I actually have no idea. Are hotels allowed to do deals that undercut the official prices on the website?
Is this why best price guarantee policies exist (not that I seem to have luck with them) in order to get the public to report any shenanigans?Genuinely curious about the amount of autonomy allowed.
Well done @Ashton100 – that’s a very good deal. The room you are being upgraded to sounds like the room type we were upgraded to. It’s probably a Premium room in the Club wing – the 6000s. They are larger and decor is more up to date.
@Misty four seats for a total of €70.
@AJA – Mrs Froggee and Freddo together (window and middle)Kermit and me:
XXO XXX
XXX XXX
XXO XXXBoth of us surrounded by strangers. But that is the best we could get.
If there is a single passenger in one of the middles happy to swap then great. But you figure, most will be couples or families who have paid for their seats so not fair to try and guilt them into swapsies.
Flew UC on VS138 from JFK to LHR yesterday on an A350-1000
I have to say that it was the best night’s sleep I’ve every had on a plane. The quilt, seat and pillow were just perfect, and the lack of noise was astonishing.
My only (and I mean ONLY) gripe is the distinct lack of storage, as others have mentioned.
Slightly related, I checked out of the ICPL on Monday and split the bill over our BAPP and supp – the staff member taking the payment knew about the offer as he’d had a couple using 4 cards to pay last week! This morning the 2 x £75 credits have posted.
You must have overlapped with me in the ICPL, @NorthernLass; I was also there for the weekend taking advantage of Emyr’s offer. My Ambassador status gave me a double upgrade so I had the pleasure of a one-bedroom suite with views over the Wellington Arch.
Your comment made unwelcome reading, though. I had completely forgotten that I had that £75 offer on one of my cards, and I now realise I paid with the wrong one. My consolation prize was a full refund of my first class rail fare home. Thanks to Delay Repay, I hardly ever pay for journeys to London these days – which means I always book first class.
Trivia time. Despite all the publicity and presumably large amounts of time, effort and money spent rebranding BAEC and launching BAC, complaint emails are still being responded to by ‘British Airways Executive Club’.
@Aston100 Similar for me, £80 + Vat to upgrade to a 84m2 duplex suite with full lounge benefits. Not bad considering my average is 24.5k points a night.
Cannot decide so will let you guys. LHR-LAX, same plane (777-300) .. BA or AA? (on the way back it has to be BA anyhow as I would lose my UK261 otherwise)
(Only reason to go for the AA flight is that it is a day flight during which you need to stay awake so with AA I get T3 CX lounge and better snacks while I let time pass watching movies – very good headphones too! -)
Cannot decide so will let you guys. LHR-LAX, same plane (777-300) .. BA or AA? (on the way back it has to be BA anyhow as I would lose my UK261 otherwise)
(Only reason to go for the AA flight is that it is a day flight during which you need to stay awake so with AA I get T3 CX lounge and better snacks while I let time pass watching movies – very good headphones too! -)
What class?
Cannot decide so will let you guys. LHR-LAX, same plane (777-300) .. BA or AA? (on the way back it has to be BA anyhow as I would lose my UK261 otherwise)
(Only reason to go for the AA flight is that it is a day flight during which you need to stay awake so with AA I get T3 CX lounge and better snacks while I let time pass watching movies – very good headphones too! -)
It doesn’t have to be BA.
Select based on which has the best seat and schedule etc. Very few flights actually generate UK261 payouts whether compensation or right to care so it should really be a small consideration.
The only time I was significaltly delated on a US-UK flight I was on BA and the delay was caused by weather and even then it was less then the threshold for compo anyway.
Personaly I’d pick AA over BA on both legs.
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