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

Hilton Honors has now launched the latest of the new features that were promised during the scheme relaunch in February – points pooling. See here at hilton.com for details. This is, very .....

Hilton Honors has now launched the latest of the new features that were promised during the scheme relaunch in .....

27 Apr 201727 April 2017 by Rob Burgess • 60 comments

Qatar Airways has kicked off another round of business class deals. These are NOT as exciting as we saw back in January.  There is also a very tight travel window – you must fly before 21st .....

Qatar Airways has kicked off another round of business class deals. These are NOT as exciting as we saw back .....

27 Apr 201727 April 2017 by Rob Burgess • 50 comments

There are two ‘buy points’ offers available at the moment which are worth a look and which, because they have been running for a while, you may well have forgotten about. IHG Rewards Club .....

There are two ‘buy points’ offers available at the moment which are worth a look and which, .....

27 Apr 201727 April 2017 by Rob Burgess • 22 comments

News in brief: Get a £50 ebookers discount Ebookers is running a new promotion worth £50 off a ‘flight and hotel’ package costing more than £600. The ebookers discount code to enter at .....

News in brief: Get a £50 ebookers discount Ebookers is running a new promotion worth £50 off a ‘flight .....

26 Apr 201726 April 2017 by Rob Burgess • 116 comments

News in brief: Get 10% off Qatar Airways flights from the UK The new Qatar Airways services from Cardiff are not yet bookable, but until 13th May you can get 10% off any other Qatar Airways flight .....

News in brief: Get 10% off Qatar Airways flights from the UK The new Qatar Airways services from Cardiff are .....

26 Apr 201726 April 2017 by Rob Burgess • 67 comments