News in brief: No tube or Heathrow Express to the airport over Christmas If you are flying over Christmas or New Year, or just heading to Heathrow to pick up a visiting relative, you need to be aware .....

News in brief: No tube or Heathrow Express to the airport over Christmas If you are flying over Christmas or .....

21 Nov 202121 November 2021 by Rob Burgess • 32 comments

This is our review of the Pendry Manhattan West hotel in New York. You probably haven’t heard of Pendry before, but it is a small brand of luxury hotels based in the United States. It also has a .....

This is our review of the Pendry Manhattan West hotel in New York. You probably haven’t heard of Pendry .....

21 Nov 202121 November 2021 by Rhys Jones • 29 comments

The aim of this feature is to summarise flight, hotel and points offers that are ending soon.  Everything listed below has been covered on HfP in recent weeks, but years of experience of running .....

The aim of this feature is to summarise flight, hotel and points offers that are ending soon.  Everything .....

21 Nov 202121 November 2021 by Rob Burgess • 5 comments

Black Friday is still a week away but lots of brands have started early this year. We’ve decided to run an article every couple of days listing deals which are already live. Here is the first .....

Black Friday is still a week away but lots of brands have started early this year. We’ve decided to run .....

20 Nov 202120 November 2021 by Rhys Jones • 41 comments

The futuristic driverless POD monorail at Heathrow was, by far, the easiest way to travel between the long-term car park and Terminal 5. My son has been badgering me for years to let him ride it, even .....

The futuristic driverless POD monorail at Heathrow was, by far, the easiest way to travel between the .....

20 Nov 202120 November 2021 by Rob Burgess

IHG has just opened Hotel Indigo Cagnes-sur-Mer, the brand’s first hotel on the French Riviera. Details are here. This looks, on the face of it, like a very attractive option for someone who wants .....

IHG has just opened Hotel Indigo Cagnes-sur-Mer, the brand’s first hotel on the French Riviera. Details are .....

20 Nov 202120 November 2021 by Rob Burgess • 46 comments

This is our review of the Aspire lounge at Newcastle Airport. It is part of our series of reviews of airport lounges across the UK.  You see all of the reviews here. All this week, in partnership .....

This is our review of the Aspire lounge at Newcastle Airport. It is part of our series of reviews of airport .....

20 Nov 202120 November 2021 by Rhys Jones • 30 comments

Welcome to our weekly newsletter. Whilst we encourage email readers to sign up to our daily emails so that you don’t miss out on any short-notice deals or offers, we also offer this weekly summary .....

Welcome to our weekly newsletter. Whilst we encourage email readers to sign up to our daily emails so that .....

20 Nov 202120 November 2021 by Rhys Jones • 2 comments

UPDATE TUESDAY: It is now possible to log in from the desktop home page. To be fair, quite a bit is now working, but not everything. I cannot see a transaction list in the iOS app. You cannot move .....

UPDATE TUESDAY: It is now possible to log in from the desktop home page. To be fair, quite a bit is now .....

19 Nov 202119 November 2021 by Rob Burgess • 215 comments

Etihad has had a rough time of it in the past few years. A major restructuring took place before covid and the airline decided to shift focus from trying to compete with Emirates in scale to becoming .....

Etihad has had a rough time of it in the past few years. A major restructuring took place before covid and the .....

19 Nov 202119 November 2021 by Rhys Jones • 25 comments

Qatar Airways has launched a slightly OTT competition. Your chances of winning are pretty slim, frankly, but if you did …. Here are the prizes: You will be entered into the draw if: This is not .....

Qatar Airways has launched a slightly OTT competition. Your chances of winning are pretty slim, frankly, but .....

19 Nov 202119 November 2021 by Rob Burgess

Emirates has launched a very generous promotion for its ‘cash and miles’ service – see here. ‘Cash and miles’ is the Emirates offer which allows you to reduce the cost of .....

Emirates has launched a very generous promotion for its ‘cash and miles’ service – see here. .....

19 Nov 202119 November 2021 by Rob Burgess

Flybe has announced that it will soon announce that it is back …. From early 2022 Flybe will relaunch, using Birmingham Airport as its base. We know nothing more than: “We plan to provide .....

Flybe has announced that it will soon announce that it is back …. From early 2022 Flybe will relaunch, .....

19 Nov 202119 November 2021 by Rob Burgess • 20 comments

This is our review of the Northern Lights lounge at Aberdeen Airport. It is part of our series of reviews of airport lounges across the UK.  You see all of the reviews here. All this week, in .....

This is our review of the Northern Lights lounge at Aberdeen Airport. It is part of our series of reviews of .....

19 Nov 202119 November 2021 by Rhys Jones • 15 comments