There are two new Avios earning Barclaycard Mastercard credit cards on the market. American Express is finally seeing some strong competition, although you can (and should) apply for both. These are .....

There are two new Avios earning Barclaycard Mastercard credit cards on the market. American Express is finally .....

17 Apr 202317 April 2023 by Rob Burgess • 71 comments

Hyatt is offering a 25% discount when you buy 5,000+ World of Hyatt points via this link. The offer runs to 2nd June. This offer is obviously worth a look if you need to top up .....

Hyatt is offering a 25% discount when you buy 5,000+ World of Hyatt points via this .....

16 Apr 202316 April 2023 by Rob Burgess

The on-going battle between Heathrow Airport and the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) over what it can charge airlines – which falls straight through to the price of your ticket, as one of the .....

The on-going battle between Heathrow Airport and the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) over what it can charge .....

9 Mar 20239 March 2023 by Rhys Jones • 56 comments

On Tuesday, we attended one of the regular Aviation Club UK lunches to hear Tom Stoddart speak. (The Aviation Club UK always gets top speakers for its lunches. Recent guests include Qatar Airways CEO .....

On Tuesday, we attended one of the regular Aviation Club UK lunches to hear Tom Stoddart speak. (The Aviation .....

14 Sep 202314 September 2023 by Rhys Jones • 106 comments

My email inbox is a decent guide to what is currently causing issues in the travel loyalty industry, and it’s also a way of teasing out problems which we hadn’t previously considered. Over .....

My email inbox is a decent guide to what is currently causing issues in the travel loyalty industry, and .....

18 Apr 202218 April 2022 by Rob Burgess • 109 comments

Hyatt is offering a 25% bonus when you buy 5,000+ World of Hyatt points via this link. The offer runs to 25th March. This is obviously worth a look if you need to top up your .....

Hyatt is offering a 25% bonus when you buy 5,000+ World of Hyatt points via this link. The .....

12 Feb 202312 February 2023 by Rob Burgess

An interesting route allows you to get free membership of the DragonPass airport lounge programme. This allows you to enter any DragonPass affiliated lounge for just £24, which represents a .....

An interesting route allows you to get free membership of the DragonPass airport lounge programme. This allows .....

30 Oct 202330 October 2023 by Rob Burgess • 42 comments

British Airways never, ever, does status matches from other airlines. (Well, if you are a multinational switching from another alliance to BA they will do it for top staff, but apart from that .....

British Airways never, ever, does status matches from other airlines. (Well, if you are a multinational .....

31 Mar 202231 March 2022 by Rob Burgess • 88 comments

For many years now we’ve been encouraging, via anyone who would listen, BA and American Express to start issuing British Airways Executive Club tier points on credit card spend. We thought that .....

For many years now we’ve been encouraging, via anyone who would listen, BA and American Express to start .....

21 Nov 202321 November 2023 by Rob Burgess • 436 comments

This is part of our occasional series where we remind you of some of the hotel reviews we’ve run in recent years. We started off with all of the great hotels that were reader-reviewed during the .....

This is part of our occasional series where we remind you of some of the hotel reviews we’ve run in .....

3 Mar 20243 March 2024 by Rob Burgess • 51 comments

This may be targetted – the T&C say that it is for ‘select users’ – but I have an offer in my Uber app offering me £20 per passenger of Uber credit if I book a flight. .....

This may be targetted – the T&C say that it is for ‘select users’ – but I have an .....

26 Nov 202326 November 2023 by Rob Burgess • 24 comments

Whilst it disappeared for a year or so during the pandemic, Hilton has an attractive discount code for UK residents who work in the public sector. If you work in a qualifying role then you .....

Whilst it disappeared for a year or so during the pandemic, Hilton has an attractive discount .....

19 Sep 202319 September 2023 by Rob Burgess • 53 comments

During the pandemic, as a way of providing inspiration for readers who were stuck at home, we ran a 64-part series called ‘My Favourite Hotel’. We decided to break our usual rule about not .....

During the pandemic, as a way of providing inspiration for readers who were stuck at home, we ran a 64-part .....

31 Jul 202331 July 2023 by Rob Burgess • 19 comments

Despite running a travel website where we usually cover ways to get away from the UK, we do occasionally get around to reviewing hotels on our doorstep. And let’s face it: in London, we are .....

Despite running a travel website where we usually cover ways to get away from the UK, we do occasionally get .....

7 Oct 20237 October 2023 by Rhys Jones • 22 comments