I want to spend some time today and next week looking again at the new Barclays Premier and Barclays Avios Rewards partnership, so you can see if it is worth signing up. When we first covered this in .....

I want to spend some time today and next week looking again at the new Barclays Premier and Barclays Avios .....

26 Sep 202126 September 2021 by Rob Burgess • 26 comments

This is our review of Club@YOTEL, the membership scheme for YOTEL hotels. Back in 2018, YOTEL launched a free membership scheme called My YOTEL.  It was, frankly, useless.  It gave absolutely no .....

This is our review of Club@YOTEL, the membership scheme for YOTEL hotels. Back in 2018, YOTEL launched a free .....

26 Sep 202126 September 2021 by Rob Burgess • 7 comments

This week we finally saw the US travel ban lifted for UK residents, with plans to resume flying from some point in November. In a separate story, until the 15th October you can get a special sign-up .....

This week we finally saw the US travel ban lifted for UK residents, with plans to resume flying from some .....

25 Sep 202125 September 2021 by Rob Burgess • 24 comments

This is my review of a trip to Barra in the Outer Hebrides, flying with Loganair. We have never repeated a trip review before on HfP – for obvious reasons, they don’t age well. However, .....

This is my review of a trip to Barra in the Outer Hebrides, flying with Loganair. We have never repeated a .....

25 Sep 202125 September 2021 by Rob Burgess • 42 comments

This is our review of Club Eurostar, the Eurostar loyalty scheme. I took a Eurostar trip last week and wrote fresh reviews of the lounges at London St Pancras and Paris Gare du Nord. I thought I would .....

This is our review of Club Eurostar, the Eurostar loyalty scheme. I took a Eurostar trip last week and wrote .....

25 Sep 202125 September 2021 by Rob Burgess • 27 comments

Today, Saturday, is the last day for the latest Marriott Bonvoy ‘buy points’ bonus. It is advertised as a ‘mystery’ bonus but in reality you seem to receive 45% or 50%. I got .....

Today, Saturday, is the last day for the latest Marriott Bonvoy ‘buy points’ bonus. It is .....

25 Sep 202125 September 2021 by Rob Burgess • 2 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 Sep 202125 September 2021 by HfP team

American Express is throwing out travel-based cashback offers from all directions this week. The latest two deals offer £100 back if you can put your spending in the right place. These two promotions .....

American Express is throwing out travel-based cashback offers from all directions this week. The latest two .....

24 Sep 202124 September 2021 by Rob Burgess • 33 comments

Accor Hotels, which owns Novotel / Ibis / Mercure / M Gallery / Sofitel / Pullman / Raffles / Swissotel / Fairmont etc, has brought back its generous promotion to earn 6,000 bonus Accor points. You .....

Accor Hotels, which owns Novotel / Ibis / Mercure / M Gallery / Sofitel / Pullman / Raffles / Swissotel / .....

24 Sep 202124 September 2021 by Rob Burgess • 5 comments

Five days after we exclusively broke the story that BA pilot union BALPA had refused to support the new low cost model proposed for Gatwick airport, British Airways has officially pulled the plug. All .....

Five days after we exclusively broke the story that BA pilot union BALPA had refused to support the new low .....

23 Sep 202123 September 2021 by Rob Burgess • 236 comments

With unfortunate timing – given that we’ve run two articles on Hotels.com and Hotels.com Rewards in the past week – it seems that Hotels.com Rewards is going away. This is, probably, .....

With unfortunate timing – given that we’ve run two articles on Hotels.com and Hotels.com Rewards .....

23 Sep 202123 September 2021 by Rob Burgess • 96 comments

News in brief: IHG’s Six Senses brand takes over a high end Maldives resort This certainly came out of the blue, but it is welcome news regardless. The Kanuhura resort in the Maldives, once .....

News in brief: IHG’s Six Senses brand takes over a high end Maldives resort This certainly came out of .....

23 Sep 202123 September 2021 by Rob Burgess • 15 comments

This morning, American Express increased the sign-up bonus on the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold credit card from 20,000 to 30,000 points. If you meet the bonus criteria, you now receive .....

This morning, American Express increased the sign-up bonus on the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold .....

22 Sep 202122 September 2021 by Rob Burgess • 61 comments

Today I wanted to take a look at a regularly asked question – “Where can you fly using Virgin Points?” This is especially pertinent as you can – until 15th October – get .....

Today I wanted to take a look at a regularly asked question – “Where can you fly using Virgin .....

22 Sep 202122 September 2021 by Rob Burgess • 46 comments