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A regular question I get asked by readers is how The American Express Business Platinum Card differs from (personal) The Platinum Card. We have a similar articles on how The Platinum Card differs from .....
A regular question I get asked by readers is how The American Express Business Platinum Card differs from .....
22 Apr 202522 April 2025 • 40 comments
I am often asked for my thoughts on how to value an Avios point. In our articles we use 1p as a ball-park figure, and it is the value I use myself, but the real world is more complicated. I thought it .....
I am often asked for my thoughts on how to value an Avios point. In our articles we use 1p as a ball-park .....
21 Apr 202521 April 2025 • 56 comments
Despite running a travel website where we usually cover ways to get away from the UK, we do occasionally get around to reviewing hotels on our doorstep. And let’s face it: in London, we are .....
Despite running a travel website where we usually cover ways to get away from the UK, we do occasionally get .....
21 Apr 202521 April 2025 • 13 comments
American Express and Hertz have a long standing partnership that gets American Express Preferred Rewards Gold cardholders (click for our review) extra benefits when renting a car. We cover the car .....
American Express and Hertz have a long standing partnership that gets American Express Preferred Rewards Gold .....
21 Apr 202521 April 2025 • 15 comments
Welcome to The Travel Brief, your weekly trade round-up of UK business travel and travel loyalty news as well as the latest reviews and features from the Head for Points team. If you are not a .....
Welcome to The Travel Brief, your weekly trade round-up of UK business travel and travel loyalty news as well .....
21 Apr 202521 April 2025
Until 27th May, American Express is running a bumper sign-up offer for The Platinum Card. The standard bonus of 50,000 Membership Rewards points, which converts to 50,000 Avios, was already good. .....
Until 27th May, American Express is running a bumper sign-up offer for The Platinum Card. The standard bonus .....
20 Apr 202520 April 2025 • 17 comments
This is our review of the Courtyard Hamburg City hotel, part of Marriott Bonvoy. After two failed attempts (one due to a flight cancellation and the other after being invited to an Airbus factory tour .....
This is our review of the Courtyard Hamburg City hotel, part of Marriott Bonvoy. After two failed attempts .....
20 Apr 202520 April 2025 • 14 comments
We don’t cover Travelodge much on Head for Points, but you never know when you might find that it is convenient to stay in one. The chain is expanding with the acquisition of nine three-star .....
We don’t cover Travelodge much on Head for Points, but you never know when you might find that it is .....
20 Apr 202520 April 2025 • 17 comments
There are two global mega projects in aviation right now. There’s the transformation of Air India, which we covered last week, and then there is Riyadh Air. As its name suggests, Riyadh Air is .....
There are two global mega projects in aviation right now. There’s the transformation of Air India, which .....
19 Apr 202519 April 2025 • 94 comments
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