This is my review of the Hotel Arts Barcelona. I originally reviewed this hotel back in 2019, and liked it so much that I decided I should bring my family back one day. (I’ve spent over £5,000 .....

This is my review of the Hotel Arts Barcelona. I originally reviewed this hotel back in 2019, and liked it so .....

26 Jul 202426 July 2024 by Rob Burgess • 25 comments

Almost all hotel loyalty programmes let you transfer your points into selected frequent flyer schemes.  What is far rarer is for a frequent flyer scheme to let you transfer your miles INTO a .....

Almost all hotel loyalty programmes let you transfer your points into selected frequent flyer schemes.  .....

4 Mar 20254 March 2025 by Rob Burgess • 7 comments

If you have an American Express card which earns Membership Rewards points, you can get a 50% bonus when you redeem your Membership Rewards points to cover shopping at selected supermarkets. The offer .....

If you have an American Express card which earns Membership Rewards points, you can get a 50% bonus when you .....

5 Apr 20235 April 2023 by Rob Burgess • 10 comments

This is our review of the new Extime lounge in Paris Charles de Gaulle Terminal 2B. Extime is a new hospitality brand created by Aeroports de Paris that extends from lounges to duty free shopping as .....

This is our review of the new Extime lounge in Paris Charles de Gaulle Terminal 2B. Extime is a new .....

8 Feb 20238 February 2023 by Rhys Jones • 73 comments

We often get asked about the differences between The American Express Business Gold Card and The American Express Business Platinum Card. The Business Gold and Business Platinum cards have two .....

We often get asked about the differences between The American Express Business Gold Card and The American .....

1 Apr 20251 April 2025 by Rob Burgess • 17 comments

News in brief: Good Newcastle hotel deal on Groupon It’s been a while since we ran a Groupon hotel package, but reader Daniel flagged up that a Newcastle deal we covered back in June is still .....

News in brief: Good Newcastle hotel deal on Groupon It’s been a while since we ran a Groupon hotel .....

9 Nov 20229 November 2022 by Rob Burgess • 30 comments

This is the first of our updated overview series on the major hotel loyalty programmes. Each scheme will be covered over two articles on consecutive days. One will list the basic facts of the scheme .....

This is the first of our updated overview series on the major hotel loyalty programmes. Each scheme will be .....

18 Jan 202518 January 2025 by Rob Burgess • 32 comments

Last Tuesday, the most recent American Express Business Platinum sign-up offer ended. Whilst I suspect that any HfP reader who was planning to apply will have done so, I wanted to point out that .....

Last Tuesday, the most recent American Express Business Platinum sign-up offer ended. Whilst I suspect that .....

30 Oct 202430 October 2024 by Rob Burgess • 20 comments

A quick update that The Wine Flyer, the new British Airways Avios-earning wine shop, is now live. The website is here. We covered The Wine Flyer in this article last week. In summary, you will earn: A .....

A quick update that The Wine Flyer, the new British Airways Avios-earning wine shop, is now live. The website .....

5 Oct 20225 October 2022 by Rob Burgess

We often get asked about the differences between American Express Preferred Rewards Gold and The Platinum Card from American Express. In truth, virtually the only thing that Amex Gold and Amex .....

We often get asked about the differences between American Express Preferred Rewards Gold and The Platinum Card .....

19 Mar 202519 March 2025 by Rob Burgess • 34 comments

This is our review of the DoubleTree Hotel Amsterdam Centraal. Hilton is currently running its latest sale for hotels in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. You can get up to 20% .....

This is our review of the DoubleTree Hotel Amsterdam Centraal. Hilton is currently running its latest sale for .....

14 Dec 202414 December 2024 by Rhys Jones • 11 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 .....

30 Mar 202530 March 2025 by HfP team • 2 comments

Earlier this month it was reported that Kazakhstan national airline Air Astana may float on the London Stock Exchange in 2024. Listing in London would give Air Astana access to a broader investor base .....

Earlier this month it was reported that Kazakhstan national airline Air Astana may float on the London Stock .....

31 Dec 202331 December 2023 by Rhys Jones • 41 comments

You may not have heard of Graduate Hotels. It is a boutique US chain which specialises in high end hotels in ‘University towns’ – which is basically marketing speak for attractive .....

You may not have heard of Graduate Hotels. It is a boutique US chain which specialises in high end hotels in .....

25 May 202225 May 2022 by Rob Burgess • 79 comments