An interesting new Hilton property has opened in Abu Dhabi, as part of Hilton’ ‘Curio Collection’. Curio is a group of upmarket independent hotels which want to benefit from the .....

An interesting new Hilton property has opened in Abu Dhabi, as part of Hilton’ ‘Curio .....

13 Nov 202113 November 2021 by Rob Burgess • 11 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 .....

13 Nov 202113 November 2021 by Rhys Jones

Just a quick reminder, although you should have been emailed by British Airways about this, that access to your Avios account will be blocked from around 3pm on Saturday 13th November to some point on .....

Just a quick reminder, although you should have been emailed by British Airways about this, that access to .....

12 Nov 202112 November 2021 by Rob Burgess • 38 comments

On Tuesday we published details of five positive improvements to Virgin Flying Club. In summary: Our article was based on information provided in advance by the Virgin press office. Reader Prateek .....

On Tuesday we published details of five positive improvements to Virgin Flying Club. In summary: Our article .....

12 Nov 202112 November 2021 by Rob Burgess • 31 comments

This is our review of the new Hyatt Place London City East hotel in Whitechapel. Hyatt has historically been fairly weak outside of its US home market. This is slowly changing – its Small Luxury .....

This is our review of the new Hyatt Place London City East hotel in Whitechapel. Hyatt has historically been .....

12 Nov 202112 November 2021 by Rhys Jones • 28 comments

If you run your own business, small or large, time is running out. You have until Sunday night to pick up a huge 60,000 Avios sign-up bonus with the relaunched British Airways Accelerating Business .....

If you run your own business, small or large, time is running out. You have until Sunday night to pick up a .....

12 Nov 202112 November 2021 by Rob Burgess • 20 comments

This is my review of the InterContinental Le Grand hotel in Paris. Back in 2014, I wrote a HfP article where I said that, for reasons that I did not fully understand myself, InterContinental Le Grand .....

This is my review of the InterContinental Le Grand hotel in Paris. Back in 2014, I wrote a HfP article where I .....

11 Nov 202111 November 2021 by Rob Burgess • 40 comments

This is our review of the new club lounge at InterContinental Le Grand in Paris. I have run it separately from our main review of InterContinental Paris Le Grand, partly for reasons of length and .....

This is our review of the new club lounge at InterContinental Le Grand in Paris. I have run it separately from .....

11 Nov 202111 November 2021 by Rob Burgess • 29 comments

News in brief: Introducing …. BA Euroflyer It seems that the legal entity behind the new British Airways low cost operation at London Gatwick will be called BA Euroflyer. Papers incoporating BA .....

News in brief: Introducing …. BA Euroflyer It seems that the legal entity behind the new British Airways .....

11 Nov 202111 November 2021 by Rob Burgess • 28 comments

If you have a ski holiday booked in Austria this Winter, you may have a problem. The Austrian Government has announced sweeping new coronavirus restrictions which will come into force on 5th December. .....

If you have a ski holiday booked in Austria this Winter, you may have a problem. The Austrian Government has .....

10 Nov 202110 November 2021 by Rob Burgess • 151 comments

Both Iberia and Finnair have made new long-haul route announcements in the last 24 hours. All of these flights will be bookable with Avios and should offer low levels of taxes and charges. Whilst you .....

Both Iberia and Finnair have made new long-haul route announcements in the last 24 hours. All of these flights .....

10 Nov 202110 November 2021 by Rob Burgess • 53 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 .....

10 Nov 202110 November 2021 by Rob Burgess • 12 comments

Virgin Atlantic has announced a flurry of improvements to Virgin Flying Club this morning. The good news is that they are all genuine improvements. None of them are revolutionary, and not all of them .....

Virgin Atlantic has announced a flurry of improvements to Virgin Flying Club this morning. The good news is .....

9 Nov 20219 November 2021 by Rob Burgess • 75 comments

Pret A Manger is preparing to launch a UK-wide loyalty scheme called ‘Pret Perks’, we can exclusively reveal. Information is scant so far. It will be based on traditional coffee shop .....

Pret A Manger is preparing to launch a UK-wide loyalty scheme called ‘Pret Perks’, we can .....

9 Nov 20219 November 2021 by Rob Burgess • 79 comments