Qatar Airways launched its Qsuite business class seat at the ITB Berlin travel show in February 2017. We were there for that, and it was genuinely a revolution in business class seating. Designed to .....

Qatar Airways launched its Qsuite business class seat at the ITB Berlin travel show in February 2017. We were .....

22 Jul 202422 July 2024 by Rob Burgess • 88 comments

If you are considering travelling to Japan the obvious options – especially if you want to earn Avios and British Airways tier points, or spend Avios – are British Airways and Japan .....

If you are considering travelling to Japan the obvious options – especially if you want to earn Avios .....

22 Jul 202422 July 2024 by Rob Burgess • 18 comments

Back in 2020, Nectar launched its own hotel booking site, which you can find at hotels.nectar.com. You may recognise it as a white label version of Rocketmiles, which is itself part of Agoda, which is .....

Back in 2020, Nectar launched its own hotel booking site, which you can find at hotels.nectar.com. You may .....

22 Jul 202422 July 2024 by Rob Burgess • 22 comments

Welcome to The Travel Brief, your weekly trade round-up of UK business travel and travel loyalty news as well as our latest reviews and features. If you are not a subscriber, you can sign up here to .....

Welcome to The Travel Brief, your weekly trade round-up of UK business travel and travel loyalty news as well .....

22 Jul 202422 July 2024 by Rob Burgess

A couple of months ago, Virgin Red signed a deal on a box at The O2 arena in London, with tickets available for members of Virgin Red and Virgin Flying Club. Marriott Bonvoy, of course, has been doing .....

A couple of months ago, Virgin Red signed a deal on a box at The O2 arena in London, with tickets available .....

21 Jul 202421 July 2024 by Rob Burgess • 30 comments

Back in May I had a hard-hat tour (literally) of the new Park Hyatt London River Thames hotel. This was, and may still be, the only article available which was written by someone who had been inside .....

Back in May I had a hard-hat tour (literally) of the new Park Hyatt London River Thames hotel. This was, and .....

21 Jul 202421 July 2024 by Rob Burgess • 35 comments

I thought I’d give this deal another push today, given that it is three months since we originally covered it and these are genuinely free Avios. It’s not very often that you can pick up .....

I thought I’d give this deal another push today, given that it is three months since we originally .....

21 Jul 202421 July 2024 by Rob Burgess • 43 comments

You may not be familiar with how American Express treats refunds when you have a spend target to hit. The answer is simple:  all American Express spend targets are based on NET spend, not GROSS .....

You may not be familiar with how American Express treats refunds when you have a spend target to hit. The .....

20 Jul 202420 July 2024 by Rob Burgess • 52 comments

This is our review of the Hilton London Tower Bridge hotel. Hilton is currently running its latest sale for hotels and resorts in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. You can get up to 20% .....

This is our review of the Hilton London Tower Bridge hotel. Hilton is currently running its latest sale for .....

20 Jul 202420 July 2024 by Conny Urban • 38 comments

Budapest has a surprisingly good high-end hotel scene with most of the big chains represented. We recently reviewed the brand new Dorothea Hotel which is part of Marriott’s Autograph Collection. .....

Budapest has a surprisingly good high-end hotel scene with most of the big chains represented. We recently .....

20 Jul 202420 July 2024 by Rob Burgess

American Express has launched a new offer with the Relais & Chateaux hotel group. You will receive £100 cashback on a spend of £500+ by 12th October. Cumulative spend is OK. A lot of top .....

American Express has launched a new offer with the Relais & Chateaux hotel group. You will receive £100 .....

20 Jul 202420 July 2024 by Rob Burgess • 21 comments

Welcome to the Head for Points weekly newsletter, full of the latest Avios, travel loyalty and travel credit card news, hints and tips. Please forward it to any friends or family who you think may be .....

Welcome to the Head for Points weekly newsletter, full of the latest Avios, travel loyalty and travel credit .....

20 Jul 202420 July 2024 by Rhys Jones

News in brief: Virgin Atlantic launches a new American Express cashback deal Back in April we saw what I think was the first ever Virgin Atlantic American Express cashback deal – at least, it .....

News in brief: Virgin Atlantic launches a new American Express cashback deal Back in April we saw what I think .....

19 Jul 202419 July 2024 by Rob Burgess • 45 comments

According to a report on Bloomberg yesterday, Hyatt is close to a deal to buy boutique hotel operator Standard International. Negotiations are “in advanced stages” according to sources .....

According to a report on Bloomberg yesterday, Hyatt is close to a deal to buy boutique hotel operator Standard .....

19 Jul 202419 July 2024 by Rob Burgess • 11 comments