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There is nothing more frustrating than finding that your miles have expired when you finally come to use or add to them. This is most likely to happen with secondary programmes where you once dropped .....
There is nothing more frustrating than finding that your miles have expired when you finally come to use or .....
19 Aug 202519 August 2025 • 46 comments
This is our review of the two Amex Cashback credit cards, specifically the Amex Cashback Credit Card and the Amex Cashback Everyday Credit Card. Head for Points is primarily about earning airline .....
This is our review of the two Amex Cashback credit cards, specifically the Amex Cashback Credit Card and the .....
19 Aug 202519 August 2025 • 16 comments
Accor, the company behind Novotel, Mercure, Ibis, Raffles, Pullman, Fairmont and many other hotel brands, shook up its two subscription cards in 2023. I thought it was worth a look at whether they are .....
Accor, the company behind Novotel, Mercure, Ibis, Raffles, Pullman, Fairmont and many other hotel brands, .....
19 Aug 202519 August 2025 • 23 comments
In January 2025, American Express moved from AXA to Europ Assistance to provide travel insurance benefits for holders of The Platinum Card. It’s fair to say that this has not gone as well as it .....
In January 2025, American Express moved from AXA to Europ Assistance to provide travel insurance benefits for .....
18 Aug 202518 August 2025 • 184 comments
A long running trend in the travel loyalty industry has been the move away from fixed price reward charts and towards some level of revenue-based redeeming. Virgin Atlantic and Lufthansa are the .....
A long running trend in the travel loyalty industry has been the move away from fixed price reward charts and .....
18 Aug 202518 August 2025 • 38 comments
Global Hotel Alliance, and its GHA DISCOVERY loyalty programme, has pushed its way onto our radar over the last few years. This is down to three things: We ran a separate piece here which provides a .....
Global Hotel Alliance, and its GHA DISCOVERY loyalty programme, has pushed its way onto our radar over the .....
18 Aug 202518 August 2025 • 17 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 .....
18 Aug 202518 August 2025 • Leave a comment
This is our review of The Ritz-Carlton hotel in Berlin, part of Marriott Bonvoy. Berlin is one of my favourite European cities thanks to the combination of world-leading museums, creative scene, .....
This is our review of The Ritz-Carlton hotel in Berlin, part of Marriott Bonvoy. Berlin is one of my favourite .....
17 Aug 202517 August 2025 • 14 comments
News in brief: Get a 100% bonus buying IHG One Rewards hotel points IHG One Rewards is offering (another) new 100% bonus for buying points. This offer runs to 28th August. Purchase limits have been .....
News in brief: Get a 100% bonus buying IHG One Rewards hotel points IHG One Rewards is offering (another) new .....
17 Aug 202517 August 2025 • 9 comments
This article is our attempt to decide what Marriott Bonvoy points are worth. How should you value them? Valuing miles and points is a thankless job. We have always published articles on what Avios .....
This article is our attempt to decide what Marriott Bonvoy points are worth. How should you value them? .....
17 Aug 202517 August 2025 • 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 .....
17 Aug 202517 August 2025 • Leave a comment
Say what you will about British Airways, but you won’t find many people with a bad word to say about the First Wing in Heathrow Terminal 5. If you are arriving at Terminal 5 in a car and are .....
Say what you will about British Airways, but you won’t find many people with a bad word to say about the .....
16 Aug 202516 August 2025 • 105 comments
This is our review of the Hilton Madrid Airport hotel. Hilton is currently running its latest weekends sale for hotels and resorts across the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa. You can get up to 20% .....
This is our review of the Hilton Madrid Airport hotel. Hilton is currently running its latest weekends sale .....
16 Aug 202516 August 2025 • 36 comments
This article is our attempt to decide what IHG One Rewards points are worth. How should you value them? Valuing miles and points is a thankless job. We have always published articles on what Avios .....
This article is our attempt to decide what IHG One Rewards points are worth. How should you value them? .....
16 Aug 202516 August 2025 • 28 comments
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