News in brief: Has Accor scrapped Happy Mondays? Accor’s low key Happy Mondays was actually the best hotel promotion in the UK. Every Monday and Tuesday, Accor would dump its unsold UK rooms for .....

News in brief: Has Accor scrapped Happy Mondays? Accor’s low key Happy Mondays was actually the best .....

2 May 20172 May 2017 by Rob Burgess • 64 comments

News in brief: Earn cashback on Heathrow Express and Airbnb A new cashback deal has appeared on many American Express accounts offering £10 back on £50 Heathrow Express spend. It isn’t clear .....

News in brief: Earn cashback on Heathrow Express and Airbnb A new cashback deal has appeared on many American .....

1 May 20171 May 2017 by Rob Burgess • 81 comments

If your travels take you to London City Airport or the Excel exhibition centre, you will be interested in a new rash of hotels which has sprung up in the area.  I popped down earlier in the week to .....

If your travels take you to London City Airport or the Excel exhibition centre, you will be interested in a .....

1 May 20171 May 2017 by Rob Burgess • 27 comments

This is my review of The Ritz-Carlton Kyoto hotel. As with my other Asia reviews this month, it is less comprehensive than usual.  We were not on a review trip, we did not get a hotel tour, we did .....

This is my review of The Ritz-Carlton Kyoto hotel. As with my other Asia reviews this month, it is less .....

1 May 20171 May 2017 by Rob Burgess • 14 comments

Here is a full list of the articles we published in April 2017.  Click through to read them in full: Why are some Lloyds Avios cardholders not receiving any points? Bits: Iberia competition winner, .....

Here is a full list of the articles we published in April 2017.  Click through to read them in full: Why are .....

30 Apr 201730 April 2017 by HfP team

Regular readers will know that I hold the Lloyds Bank credit card operation in contempt.  It regularly manages to achieve levels of incompetence which other banks simply couldn’t match if they .....

Regular readers will know that I hold the Lloyds Bank credit card operation in contempt.  It regularly .....

30 Apr 201730 April 2017 by Rob Burgess • 168 comments

News in brief: HfP reader wins Iberia’s Facebook competition A couple of weeks ago I mentioned a competition that Iberia was running on Facebook to win 120,000 Avios points. There were only 188 .....

News in brief: HfP reader wins Iberia’s Facebook competition A couple of weeks ago I mentioned a .....

30 Apr 201730 April 2017 by Rob Burgess • 41 comments

This is my review of the Conrad Tokyo hotel. As with my other Asia reviews this weekend, it is less comprehensive than usual.  We were not on a review trip, we did not get a hotel tour, we did not .....

This is my review of the Conrad Tokyo hotel. As with my other Asia reviews this weekend, it is less .....

30 Apr 201730 April 2017 by Rob Burgess • 91 comments

Yesterday I wrote about two good new hotel promotions – double points from Hilton and a new round of Accelerate from IHG Rewards Club. Here is a third possibility as you plan your stays for the .....

Yesterday I wrote about two good new hotel promotions – double points from Hilton and a new round of .....

29 Apr 201729 April 2017 by Rob Burgess • 35 comments

IHG, the parent of Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, InterContinental etc, publishes traveller reviews on its website for each of its hotels. For some time there have been rumblings on Flyertalk about bad .....

IHG, the parent of Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, InterContinental etc, publishes traveller reviews on its website .....

29 Apr 201729 April 2017 by Rob Burgess • 81 comments

This is my review of the InterContinental Hong Kong hotel. I am going to run a few hotel reviews from our recent Asia trip, although they will be shorter and less detailed than usual.  As these were .....

This is my review of the InterContinental Hong Kong hotel. I am going to run a few hotel reviews from our .....

29 Apr 201729 April 2017 by Rob Burgess • 57 comments

IHG Rewards Club, the Holiday Inn, HI Express, Crowne Plaza, InterContinental etc loyalty scheme, has launched a website for its Summer 2017 promotion – IHG Accelerate.  Yes, it is repeating .....

IHG Rewards Club, the Holiday Inn, HI Express, Crowne Plaza, InterContinental etc loyalty scheme, has launched .....

28 Apr 201728 April 2017 by Rob Burgess • 139 comments

I wrote a piece yesterday about the new ‘points pooling’ feature with Hilton Honors.  Today I want to focus on the new Hilton Summer promotion – which offers double or triple base .....

I wrote a piece yesterday about the new ‘points pooling’ feature with Hilton Honors.  Today I .....

28 Apr 201728 April 2017 by Rob Burgess • 122 comments

I dropped this in as an extra article because I didn’t anyone booking the Copenhagen to Auckland fare (£2,300) that I wrote about in our main Qatar Airways sale feature today without seeing .....

I dropped this in as an extra article because I didn’t anyone booking the Copenhagen to Auckland fare .....

27 Apr 201727 April 2017 by Rob Burgess • 52 comments