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Offer’s back on. Valid until 31 May 2023

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NorthernLass wrote:

Why don’t you just rebook at the non-refundable rate?

Thank you for the tip Northern Lass. I cancelled my flex reservations and rebooked as non-refundable. HGI charged my card the following day for both and cashback posted a couple of days later. 🙏

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NorthernLass wrote:

Why don’t you just rebook at the non-refundable rate?

non-ref is dearer than my current fully flex government rate

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I’ve got two one night stays booked at HGI Hatton Cross, the first night is early Dec, the second night is 17 Dec so just outside the cashback deadline. Any experience if the hotel would be happy to take the advance payment for that second night when I stay in early December?

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If you’re HBO and buy one extra bag, unfortunately silver or gold won’t get you another bag on top.

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I’ll give a try but as you said I won’t be calling them if the fee is not reversed. Wouldn’t want a human to see all the blatant MS 🙊

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Barclaycard charged me 2.99% cash fee for a PayPal payment using curve (it was person to person transfer). Any experience if Barclaycard would refund the fee if I went back in time and moved the transaction to a debit card?

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There’s also the option of twilight check-in on the evening before departure which you may wish to consider since you’re staying at an airport hotel. In the morning you’d go straight to security. All passengers travelling must be present for the evening bag drop.

Overnight Bag Drop is available if you are travelling on a flight departing before 13:00, you can check in your bags between 18:00 – 21:00 the day before.

For security reasons, you cannot check in someone else in their absence, everyone in your booking needs to be present. We’ll ask you to provide a contact number, give you your boarding pass and take any baggage you want to check in. Once your baggage has been checked in, we won’t be able to retrieve it so make sure you have everything you need before you check in.

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Anyone tried flashing their new Barclaycard Avios MC to gain access?

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For me 7 months between stay and avios posting.

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In order to get avios for booking.com reservations you need to click through to booking.com from BA estore. Current rate is 8 avios per £. IME it works on both the website and on the iphone app as long as you have allowed in-app tracking. The following morning BA will email you that the transaction has tracked successfully and avios are pending. If you booked a hotel with free cancellation and the price is still the same you can always cancel and rebook using the above route. Naturally, you will also receive avios for settling the hotel bill with your new BA Amex.

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Avis upped me to Presidents Club for having the card. You have to save the new card number in your Avis profile before applying. https://secure-one.avisworld.com/en_GB/Avis-Mastercard/AvisPreferred