The Heathrow shopping points scheme is offering bonus points on Apple products purchased at Dixons Travel from 1 Jan-28 Feb 15. The deal breaks down as follows: Double points when you spend £400 – £649.99 Triple points when you spend £650 – £999.99 Quadruple points when you spend £1,000 or more. At 1 point per…
For many years I used to travel to the US West Coast on Christmas Day. Those days have passed and I am at home this year for the extended 4 day break. However, I’d like to publicly say a ‘Thank You’ to all those working this Christmas, checkin agents, flight attendants, baggage handlers, pilots, immigration…
Most of the sales from UK Retailers have started today, as they think they now have to play Santa. Remember when buying in the sales: Always use a points or miles earning credit card Use a site that earns you points as well -for example Gate 365 for British Airways Avios or one of the…
To non UK residents the annual cycle of changes to transport arrangements can be a bit of a mystery. Much better than in previous years, at least one of the two holidays now enjoys reasonable transport. Christmas Day however, remains a bit of a ghost town for public services. In London these are the broad…
Many of us will recall several years ago when Hyatt set the agenda for the hotel industry by announcing a series of initiatives – free internet for elites, free breakfasts for top tier, confirmable suite upgrades all arrived. Over the years that followed they tried some new things – 20% discount for elites for example…
As you know I live and work in London. I am offering the following 4 activities to do on a trip which you might not know about, or find out about easily from the hotel. KENWOOD HOUSE Located to the north of London in the very nice suburb of Hampstead. It is located on the…
On 17 December it appears that United’s flight from London to Newark had a technical problem on take-off. Several hours later after dumping fuel over the English Channel it returned to Heathrow. The 767-400 left at 11am and returned back at 4pm. The Daily Mail has a number of reports from some of the 200…
The 10% discount offered to holders of 200 BA Shares is going away from 1 January but you should be able to book for now. I tried a simple trip from London City to Dublin. Whilst the first page shows the correct, discounted, price as soon as you go through to book the system the…
I did a short one night return visit to the Hilton Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport. It’s important to know that this hotel is not at Terminal 5. (This is unlike the Hilton at Terminal 4 which is connected to the terminal). Instead you have to catch (and pay) for a Hotel Hoppa which takes…
If you are a member of Flyertalk you might like to pop over and express your views about a proposal to introduce Facebook-style ‘Like’ buttons for posts. A small scale trial is underway amongst Moderators and the member-elected TalkBoard. So far the poll is not attracting much attention from their hundreds of thousands of members…
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