This is our review of Le Meridien hotel in Chiang Mai, Thailand. It is the third hotel review from my family holiday in Thailand. You can read our review of the St Regis Bangkok here and our review of .....

This is our review of Le Meridien hotel in Chiang Mai, Thailand. It is the third hotel review from my family .....

4 Apr 20224 April 2022 by Rhys Jones • 43 comments

Trying to buy some trainers for my son from the Decathlon website on Friday, I was reminded of an interesting trick which you can use at retailers which do not take American Express. This assumes that .....

Trying to buy some trainers for my son from the Decathlon website on Friday, I was reminded of an interesting .....

4 Apr 20224 April 2022 by Rob Burgess • 60 comments

This is our review of the Courtyard London Gatwick Airport hotel, part of Marriott Bonvoy. It is probably the last stop in our tour of Courtyard hotels at UK airports. We started this trip just before .....

This is our review of the Courtyard London Gatwick Airport hotel, part of Marriott Bonvoy. It is probably the .....

3 Apr 20223 April 2022 by Rob Burgess • 35 comments

Dutch reader Roberto dropped me a note to highlight the opening of the first airport lounge at Rotterdam The Hague Airport in the Netherlands. Operated by PrimaVista, the lounge covers 150 square .....

Dutch reader Roberto dropped me a note to highlight the opening of the first airport lounge at Rotterdam The .....

3 Apr 20223 April 2022 by Rob Burgess

I was at a Vueling event on Thursday to promote the launch of their six new London Gatwick routes. These flights use slots borrowed from British Airways – I did ask Vueling’s UK head how .....

I was at a Vueling event on Thursday to promote the launch of their six new London Gatwick routes. These .....

3 Apr 20223 April 2022 by Rob Burgess

MGallery is one of the smaller hotel brands within Accor Live Limitless. It is designed for boutique, often historic, hotels which don’t fit easily into one of the other brands. I always assumed .....

MGallery is one of the smaller hotel brands within Accor Live Limitless. It is designed for boutique, often .....

3 Apr 20223 April 2022 by Rob Burgess • 26 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 .....

3 Apr 20223 April 2022 by Rob Burgess

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 .....

2 Apr 20222 April 2022 by Rhys Jones • 29 comments

Marriott news in brief: W Algarve opening date confirmed for May One of our ‘top 10 Marriott openings for 2022‘ was W Algarve. The hotel has now set 2nd May as its official opening date, .....

Marriott news in brief: W Algarve opening date confirmed for May One of our ‘top 10 Marriott openings .....

2 Apr 20222 April 2022 by Rob Burgess • 5 comments

As travel begins to restart, we have brought back our regular round-up of the best hotel promotions currently running. All of the information in this article can also be found on our ‘Hotel .....

As travel begins to restart, we have brought back our regular round-up of the best hotel promotions .....

2 Apr 20222 April 2022 by Rob Burgess • 22 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 .....

2 Apr 20222 April 2022 by Rhys Jones

Barclaycard has just launched two new Avios earning Barclaycard Avios Mastercard credit cards. These are very, very good products with everything you could ask for, and are easily (in my view) .....

Barclaycard has just launched two new Avios earning Barclaycard Avios Mastercard credit cards. These are very, .....

1 Apr 20221 April 2022 by Rob Burgess • 85 comments

Emirates has released FA Cup semi final tickets for Emirates Skywards members who have miles to redeem.  You can also use American Express Membership Rewards points via a transfer. We .....

Emirates has released FA Cup semi final tickets for Emirates Skywards members who have miles to .....

1 Apr 20221 April 2022 by Rob Burgess

Certain Mastercard World Elite credit cards in the UK offer airport lounge access via the LoungeKey network. The two you are most likely to come across are Curve Metal – which charges £20 for .....

Certain Mastercard World Elite credit cards in the UK offer airport lounge access via the LoungeKey network. .....

1 Apr 20221 April 2022 by Rob Burgess • 33 comments