Welcome to The Travel Brief, your weekly trade round-up of UK business travel and travel loyalty news as well as the latest reviews and features from the Head for Points team. If you are not a .....

Welcome to The Travel Brief, your weekly trade round-up of UK business travel and travel loyalty news as well .....

28 Jul 202528 July 2025 by Rob Burgess

IHG One Rewards has announced a new global promotion following a fallow few weeks. You need to register here. A bit of thinking is involved because you need to choose between TWO different options. .....

IHG One Rewards has announced a new global promotion following a fallow few weeks. You need to register here. .....

7 May 20257 May 2025 by Rob Burgess • 30 comments

Two new opportunities have opened up to use your hotel points for London concert tickets: See the Rolling Stones with Accor Live Limitless points Accor has added VIP tickets to see the Rolling Stones .....

Two new opportunities have opened up to use your hotel points for London concert tickets: See the Rolling .....

20 Mar 202220 March 2022 by Rob Burgess • 26 comments

EDIT: We managed to sell out all of the tickets within 30 minutes! Apologies to those who missed out. If you got tickets, I hope you have a great day. I just received an email from IHG telling me that .....

EDIT: We managed to sell out all of the tickets within 30 minutes! Apologies to those who missed out. If you .....

10 Jun 202210 June 2022 by Rob Burgess • 14 comments

Today I want to answer the question over whether you can pay for British Airways buy on board food and drink using Avios points? In 2017 British Airways chose to scrap complimentary food and drinks on .....

Today I want to answer the question over whether you can pay for British Airways buy on board food and drink .....

1 Feb 20241 February 2024 by Rob Burgess

Three bits of IHG One Rewards news in brief: Get a 100% bonus buying IHG points – one week only For the next seven days, IHG One Rewards is offering a 100% bonus for buying points. This offer .....

Three bits of IHG One Rewards news in brief: Get a 100% bonus buying IHG points – one week only For the .....

22 Jun 202422 June 2024 by Rob Burgess • 14 comments

Welcome to the Head for Points weekly newsletter, full of the latest Avios, travel loyalty and travel credit card news, hints and tips. Please forward it to any friends or family who you think may be .....

Welcome to the Head for Points weekly newsletter, full of the latest Avios, travel loyalty and travel credit .....

25 May 202425 May 2024 by Rhys Jones • 2 comments

This article is our attempt to decide what IHG One Rewards points are worth. How should you value them? Valuing miles and points is a thankless job. We have always published articles on what Avios .....

This article is our attempt to decide what IHG One Rewards points are worth. How should you value them? .....

16 Aug 202516 August 2025 by Rob Burgess • 28 comments

A few years ago it was possible to use Avios to purchase vouchers to visit independent airport lounges, but British Airways pulled the offer. I realised the other day that you CAN still redeem Avios .....

A few years ago it was possible to use Avios to purchase vouchers to visit independent airport lounges, but .....

9 Jan 20249 January 2024 by Rob Burgess • 12 comments

Marriott relaunched its Marriott Moments ‘experiences’ platform a couple of weeks ago, although there were no UK events at that point. They have now started to filter through, albeit .....

Marriott relaunched its Marriott Moments ‘experiences’ platform a couple of weeks ago, although .....

19 Aug 202119 August 2021 by Rob Burgess • 15 comments

American Express has quietly rolled out an improvement to Membership Rewards transfers to The British Airways Club. Transfers are now instantaneous. As long as your Membership Rewards and British .....

American Express has quietly rolled out an improvement to Membership Rewards transfers to The British Airways .....

17 May 202517 May 2025 by Rob Burgess • 18 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 .....

2 Apr 20242 April 2024 by Rob Burgess • 14 comments

This is our review of The Hoxton Southwark hotel in London. One of the trendiest hotel brands to emerge in London over the past two decades, The Hoxton is going global with new openings almost every .....

This is our review of The Hoxton Southwark hotel in London. One of the trendiest hotel brands to emerge in .....

17 Aug 202417 August 2024 by Rhys Jones • 35 comments

Thank you to everyone who came to our summer party last Thursday evening. Everyone had a lot of fun, despite the weather. We definitely set a new heat record for the event with the Met Office saying .....

Thank you to everyone who came to our summer party last Thursday evening. Everyone had a lot of fun, despite .....

23 Jun 202523 June 2025 by Rhys Jones • 133 comments