Over Black Friday, I wrote about the good deal available by buying MeliaRewards gift cards on Amazon. It usually costs €330 for 55,000 Melia Rewards points.  On Black Friday, it was just €165.  .....

Over Black Friday, I wrote about the good deal available by buying MeliaRewards gift cards on Amazon. It .....

29 Dec 201829 December 2018 by Rob Burgess • 51 comments

Every so often you come across something in the miles and points field which you think that you should have known, but for some reason had never come across.  This is one such quirk. Regular readers .....

Every so often you come across something in the miles and points field which you think that you should have .....

29 Dec 201829 December 2018 by Rob Burgess • 38 comments

Qatar Airways has launched the best flight deal we’ve seen from them for a while.  Since we haven’t covered a decent Qatar Airways offer for a few months, I thought I’d run through .....

Qatar Airways has launched the best flight deal we’ve seen from them for a while.  Since we .....

28 Dec 201828 December 2018 by Rob Burgess • 75 comments

This isn’t our usual style of article, but I ran a version of it between Christmas and New Year last year and it went down well.  I thought I’d give it another outing whilst the news .....

This isn’t our usual style of article, but I ran a version of it between Christmas and New Year last .....

28 Dec 201828 December 2018 by Rob Burgess • 131 comments

British Airways has announced that its lounge in San Francisco will close on 2nd January ahead of some construction work. It isn’t entirely clear what is happening or when the lounge will .....

British Airways has announced that its lounge in San Francisco will close on 2nd January ahead of some .....

28 Dec 201828 December 2018 by Rob Burgess • 60 comments

Reports in some Israeli newspapers in recent days, eg here, have suggested that Virgin Atlantic is planning to launch flights to Tel Aviv in September. The only logic quoted is that Shai Weiss, the .....

Reports in some Israeli newspapers in recent days, eg here, have suggested that Virgin Atlantic is planning to .....

28 Dec 201828 December 2018 by Rob Burgess

Whilst we have reduced the number of new articles over Christmas and New Year due to low news flow, I am running a few reminders of decent deals which are still running. Back in October we ran a very .....

Whilst we have reduced the number of new articles over Christmas and New Year due to low news flow, I am .....

28 Dec 201828 December 2018 by Rob Burgess • 37 comments

As we gently ease back into things after Christmas, I wanted to do my annual look back at the past year.   What impressed me on my travels during 2018?  And what didn’t? There are some very .....

As we gently ease back into things after Christmas, I wanted to do my annual look back at the past year.  .....

27 Dec 201827 December 2018 by Rob Burgess • 129 comments

I wanted to give our luxury hotel booking service another mention today in case you have started to make your holiday plans for 2019.  Since I launched this service 22 months ago with Emyr .....

I wanted to give our luxury hotel booking service another mention today in case you have started to make your .....

27 Dec 201827 December 2018 by Rob Burgess • 9 comments