This is my review of Business Class on a Qatar Airways A380, from London to Doha. I was in Doha two weeks ago as the guest of the airline to discuss various Avios initiatives and take a look at the .....

This is my review of Business Class on a Qatar Airways A380, from London to Doha. I was in Doha two weeks ago .....

27 Feb 202327 February 2023 by Rob Burgess • 86 comments

Something seems to be ‘up’ with the Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse network in the United States. This seems to be linked to Virgin Atlantic’s membership of SkyTeam, which is expected to .....

Something seems to be ‘up’ with the Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse network in the United States. This .....

27 Feb 202327 February 2023 by Rob Burgess • 20 comments

This is the sixth and last of our overview series of the main hotel loyalty schemes.  Each scheme will be covered over two articles.  One will list the basic facts of the scheme – .....

This is the sixth and last of our overview series of the main hotel loyalty schemes.  Each scheme will be .....

27 Feb 202327 February 2023 by Rob Burgess • 12 comments

This is a reminder that Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Red have teamed up to offer a 30% discount on points bookings to select Virgin Atlantic destinations until 31st May. I thought I’d give it .....

This is a reminder that Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Red have teamed up to offer a 30% discount on points .....

27 Feb 202327 February 2023 by Rhys Jones • 2 comments

Welcome to your weekly trade round-up of UK business travel and travel loyalty news as well as our latest reviews and features. You are receiving this as a previous subscriber to Malcolm .....

Welcome to your weekly trade round-up of UK business travel and travel loyalty news as well as our latest .....

27 Feb 202327 February 2023 by Rob Burgess

Virgin Atlantic has never been one to follow the pack, so when it opened its first business class lounge at Gatwick Airport in 1990 it was called the Clubhouse. The name has stuck ever since. Back in .....

Virgin Atlantic has never been one to follow the pack, so when it opened its first business class lounge at .....

26 Feb 202326 February 2023 by Rhys Jones • 41 comments

IHG One Rewards has added tickets for upcoming EPCR Challenge Cup and Heineken Champions Cup rugby games onto its IHG Access platform. All are priced at just 5,000 IHG One Rewards points for two .....

IHG One Rewards has added tickets for upcoming EPCR Challenge Cup and Heineken Champions Cup rugby games onto .....

26 Feb 202326 February 2023 by Rob Burgess

Marriott news in brief: Marriott Bonvoy to end ‘Points Advance’ Marriott Bonvoy is withdrawing its ‘Points Advance’ feature on 28th March “due to varying factors such as .....

Marriott news in brief: Marriott Bonvoy to end ‘Points Advance’ Marriott Bonvoy is withdrawing its .....

26 Feb 202326 February 2023 by Rob Burgess • 8 comments

Hyatt has launched its first promotion for 2023, which is another run-out for Bonus Journeys. Full details, and the registration link, are here. It runs from 20th March to 26th May, and is a very .....

Hyatt has launched its first promotion for 2023, which is another run-out for Bonus Journeys. Full details, .....

26 Feb 202326 February 2023 by Rob Burgess • 18 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 .....

26 Feb 202326 February 2023 by HfP team • 3 comments

This is a review of the art’otel Battersea Power Station hotel in London. Regular readers will know that it is very rare that we accept hotel reviews from readers. We think there is a lot of .....

This is a review of the art’otel Battersea Power Station hotel in London. Regular readers will know that .....

25 Feb 202325 February 2023 by Rob Burgess • 42 comments

Low cost hotel brand citizenM is currently offering a free 3-month trial of their subscription membership, mycitizenM+. However, you'll need to be quick as the free trial ends on Monday 27th February. .....

Low cost hotel brand citizenM is currently offering a free 3-month trial of their subscription membership, .....

25 Feb 202325 February 2023 by Sinead Archer • 13 comments

One particularly frustrating aspect of flying from Luton Airport is the fact that anyone arriving by train must get on a connecting shuttle bus to the terminal building. Even worse, the shuttle bus .....

One particularly frustrating aspect of flying from Luton Airport is the fact that anyone arriving by train .....

25 Feb 202325 February 2023 by Rob Burgess • 95 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 .....

25 Feb 202325 February 2023 by Rhys Jones • 2 comments