Last month Rhys flew out to Los Angeles to take a look at the brand new Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse. Situated in the Tom Bradley International Terminal, it is the first entirely new Clubhouse to open .....

Last month Rhys flew out to Los Angeles to take a look at the brand new Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse. Situated in .....

6 May 20256 May 2025 by Rob Burgess • 23 comments

Great Western Railway is trialling a loyalty programme, GWR Rewards, in a new departure for the rail operator. Unlike some rail loyalty schemes (I’m looking at you, LNER, with your 2% cashback .....

Great Western Railway is trialling a loyalty programme, GWR Rewards, in a new departure for the rail operator. .....

23 Apr 202523 April 2025 by Rob Burgess • 85 comments

This is the second part of our overview series looking at the main hotel loyalty schemes.  Each scheme will be covered over two articles on consecutive days. One will list the basic facts of the .....

This is the second part of our overview series looking at the main hotel loyalty schemes.  Each scheme .....

25 Jan 202525 January 2025 by Rob Burgess • 49 comments

IHG has added another new hotel brand – but this time it is an established one. To be fair, with just 20 brands, IHG is being positively restrained compared with Accor (40+) or Marriott’s .....

IHG has added another new hotel brand – but this time it is an established one. To be fair, with just 20 .....

19 Feb 202519 February 2025 by Rob Burgess • 64 comments

Some fairly random news in brief: New American Express cashback deal with Mondrian hotels A new cashback deal with Mondrian hotels has popped up on American Express cards. Mondrian is offering £100 .....

Some fairly random news in brief: New American Express cashback deal with Mondrian hotels A new cashback deal .....

4 Dec 20244 December 2024 by Rob Burgess • 15 comments

Tesco Clubcard has become less and less useful for frequent flyers in recent years. The key blow was Avios defecting to Nectar, of course, but the scheme has also lost many of its other interesting .....

Tesco Clubcard has become less and less useful for frequent flyers in recent years. The key blow was Avios .....

6 Dec 20246 December 2024 by Rob Burgess • 3 comments

IHG has signed a voco hotel on The World Islands Dubai. The website is here. The World Islands project has a chequered history. Virtually abandoned after the financial crisis 15 years ago, the project .....

IHG has signed a voco hotel on The World Islands Dubai. The website is here. The World Islands project has a .....

26 Jan 202426 January 2024 by Rob Burgess

We often get questions on American Express supplementary cards in our forum or emailed to us directly, so I though it was worth taking a proper look at how they work. There are often misconceptions .....

We often get questions on American Express supplementary cards in our forum or emailed to us directly, so I .....

7 Oct 20247 October 2024 by Rob Burgess • 52 comments

Air France and KLM are offering a pre-Christmas flash sale with £60 off bookings made by 22nd December. You can also book any Virgin Atlantic or Delta Airlines flight covered by the transatlantic .....

Air France and KLM are offering a pre-Christmas flash sale with £60 off bookings made by 22nd December. You .....

21 Dec 202321 December 2023 by Rob Burgess • 49 comments

News in brief: Trump Turnberry to leave Marriott The Turnberry resort in Scotland is, unfortunately, leaving Marriott Bonvoy. A reader with an existing reservation received a note to say that the .....

News in brief: Trump Turnberry to leave Marriott The Turnberry resort in Scotland is, unfortunately, leaving .....

1 Dec 20211 December 2021 by Rob Burgess • 52 comments

British Airways Holidays has launched an offer of up to £300 extra savings on bookings made by 16th May 2023. This is part of a wider British Airways Sale that runs from now until 30th May - .....

British Airways Holidays has launched an offer of up to £300 extra savings on bookings made by 16th May .....

12 May 202312 May 2023 by Sinead Archer • 35 comments

If you are in any doubt that air travel is back to normal, take a look at Heathrow’s record-breaking December 2023 performance. With 6.6 million passengers, Heathrow is calling it the biggest .....

If you are in any doubt that air travel is back to normal, take a look at Heathrow’s record-breaking .....

15 Jan 202415 January 2024 by Rhys Jones • 82 comments

This is our review of Club Eurostar, the Eurostar loyalty scheme. We don’t give Club Eurostar much coverage on Head for Points, mainly because it doesn’t run many promotions and we are .....

This is our review of Club Eurostar, the Eurostar loyalty scheme. We don’t give Club Eurostar much .....

23 Jan 202523 January 2025 by Rob Burgess • 26 comments

Welcome to 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 Offers’ page which contains .....

Welcome to our regular round-up of the best hotel promotions currently running. All of the information in .....

4 Sep 20244 September 2024 by Rob Burgess • 5 comments