Here are the easiest 240 Avios (or 250 Virgin Flying Club miles) you will earn today. Tesco Bank is increasingly keen to pester you about taking out its car, home and pet insurance.  To help them do .....

Here are the easiest 240 Avios (or 250 Virgin Flying Club miles) you will earn today. Tesco Bank is .....

1 Mar 20131 March 2013 by Rob Burgess • 5 comments

Just a quick reminder that 5th March is the last day to convert your Tesco Clubcard vouchers to Virgin Atlantic Flying Club to benefit from the current ‘50% bonus miles’ promotion. (There .....

Just a quick reminder that 5th March is the last day to convert your Tesco Clubcard vouchers to Virgin .....

1 Mar 20131 March 2013 by Rob Burgess • 10 comments

Key link:  American Express Platinum card home page This is a ‘final boarding call’ for anyone thinking of applying for the American Express Platinum charge card. The Amex website has .....

Key link:  American Express Platinum card home page This is a ‘final boarding call’ for anyone .....

28 Feb 201328 February 2013 by Rob Burgess • 44 comments

Tesco Direct has been very active over the last few months at offering very large piles of Clubcard points (so very large piles of Avios or Virgin Flying Club miles!) when you pre-order CD’s, .....

Tesco Direct has been very active over the last few months at offering very large piles of Clubcard points (so .....

28 Feb 201328 February 2013 by Rob Burgess • 31 comments

Welcome, hopefully, to the new look Head for Points. I write this, of course, a day or two in advance, not knowing if the move to our new server will work properly or not.  Perhaps no-one is .....

Welcome, hopefully, to the new look Head for Points. I write this, of course, a day or two in advance, not .....

27 Feb 201327 February 2013 by Rob Burgess • 31 comments

Back in 2009, when the hotel business first started dipping down, Priority Club launched a special deal for stays at Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Crowne Plaza, Indigo, InterContinental, .....

Back in 2009, when the hotel business first started dipping down, Priority Club launched a special deal for .....

27 Feb 201327 February 2013 by Rob Burgess

With Head for Points having been out of action for the last two days, this has been my first chance to give you a final warning not to miss out on the current batch of Amex and Foursquare offers. My .....

With Head for Points having been out of action for the last two days, this has been my first chance to give .....

27 Feb 201327 February 2013 by Rob Burgess • 14 comments

OK, it is decorating time. As I outlined last Sunday, there will be no new articles on Monday or Tuesday whilst the site is migrated to its new home and is given its new look. If you try to access the .....

OK, it is decorating time. As I outlined last Sunday, there will be no new articles on Monday or Tuesday .....

24 Feb 201324 February 2013 by Rob Burgess • 1 comment

Back in May, we did an ‘out of season’ holiday at Sandy Lane in Barbados. I wrote a review of it here. Now, Sandy Lane is not cheap, even out of season. But at Christmas and New Year, it .....

Back in May, we did an ‘out of season’ holiday at Sandy Lane in Barbados. I wrote a review of it .....

24 Feb 201324 February 2013 by Rob Burgess • 1 comment

Scott emailed me to ask what is a very fair question: I didn’t see anything on your website about the Avios and Tesco Clubcard email offer I received the other day. Apparently if you exchange a .....

Scott emailed me to ask what is a very fair question: I didn’t see anything on your website about the .....

23 Feb 201323 February 2013 by Rob Burgess • 6 comments

A couple of months ago, Amex was offering a very generous 40,000 Avios if you signed up for their Business Gold card. Sadly that offer has now ended, and there is currently no sign-up bonus at all. .....

A couple of months ago, Amex was offering a very generous 40,000 Avios if you signed up for their Business .....

23 Feb 201323 February 2013 by Rob Burgess • 2 comments

Emirates has added a new elite tier to its Skywards programme – Platinum. Timed to match the launch of its new partnership with Qantas, the new tier will begin on April 1st. The benefits, to be .....

Emirates has added a new elite tier to its Skywards programme – Platinum. Timed to match the launch of .....

23 Feb 201323 February 2013 by Rob Burgess • 1 comment

This article is my review of the new Conrad New York hotel.  It is Part 5 of a series of airline and hotel reviews covering my trip to New York. To recap – I have just arrived, via Lufthansa .....

This article is my review of the new Conrad New York hotel.  It is Part 5 of a series of airline and hotel .....

22 Feb 201322 February 2013 by Rob Burgess • 3 comments

A couple of people have emailed me to ask when I will be writing about the massive Hilton HHonors devaluation. The answer, unfortunately, is not until the end of next week.  I am pretty much without .....

A couple of people have emailed me to ask when I will be writing about the massive Hilton HHonors devaluation. .....

22 Feb 201322 February 2013 by Rob Burgess • 2 comments