Bits: IHG Advent game, Priority Pass deal extended, new IHG luxury booking scheme

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• rams1981 says:

  30 Nov30 November 09:44

  OT not received my priority pass for getting Amex gold. Usually quite quick isn’t it? Amex gold arrived last week.

  • Genghis says:

    30 Nov30 November 10:00

    Not had Amex Gold for a while but IIRC Lounge Club cards seem to take a bit longer than Priority Pass (with Plat) to arrive.

  • Rob says:

    30 Nov30 November 11:16

    Yes, when my wife got her last Gold the Lounge Club card arrived first.

    • Jay says:

      30 Nov30 November 11:44

      My wife is still waiting for her Lounge Club card after getting Amex Gold 10 days ago…don’t recall it taking as long when I got mine earlier in the year so might be a delay currently.

      • the real harry1 says:

        30 Nov30 November 12:29

        mine was late arriving so I went on Chat a few days ago – official answer is that it can take up to 28 days so you’ll have to wait

        it arrived yesterday so that was just under 3 weeks from Amex card issued

  • Peter K says:

    30 Nov30 November 16:31

    Earlier this year this happened to us when we wanted it for a soon to be taken flight. We rang lounge club and got the card number and expiry date. Make sure they give you ALL the card digits however, as we were initially only given the account number, not the first 5 common digits so had to ring a second time at the airport.
    Once we got all the details however we got in the lounge without needing the physical card.

    • ankomonkey says:

      30 Nov30 November 17:47

      We did the same last month. I gave the lounge receptionist a bit of paper with the Lounge Club details hand-written on it. I was prepared to convince them I should be allowed in, but no problems at all.

• imbruce says:

  30 Nov30 November 12:33

  Does Priority Pass and hotel benefits come with the Amex Platinum Supplementary card?

  • the real harry1 says:

    30 Nov30 November 12:51

    yes

    • imbruce says:

      30 Nov30 November 13:04

      thanks @the real harry1

  • Rob says:

    30 Nov30 November 13:37

    Yes

• Stevie G says:

  30 Nov30 November 13:30

  OT. Remember recently there was a spate of refusals for Amex cards. I was one of those who got turned down for an SPG card despite having a 999 rating. It turns out there was a glitch in the acceptance system for a ‘number of days’. They are working through a backlog and they reprocessed my application and sure enough was accepted first time.

  • Cate says:

    30 Nov30 November 14:37

    That IS good news. Thanks Stevie G.

  • johnny_c-l says:

    30 Nov30 November 16:34

    I think they’re still having some system issues. I upgraded to Plat last week and found three cards & priority passes delivered to my home yesterday, two in the name of old canceled supplementary cardholders.

  • ankomonkey says:

    30 Nov30 November 17:50

    Did you need to ask them to reprocess/reconsider, or did they just do it? My wife was rejected for first time ever and I’d quite like her to have the Platinum card right now.

    • johnny_c-l says:

      30 Nov30 November 20:35

      Can’t speak on behalf of others, but I rang and the agent escalated to a manager for review. Card arrived a few days later with large(ish) credit limit.

      • ankomonkey says:

        1 Dec1 December 17:33

        Thanks!

    • Stevie G says:

      30 Nov30 November 22:04

      I wrote a letter to Amex about the non acceptance as my credit report showed zero issue. As I had not had a response I called the Platinum number and this is what they told me. They were going through a backlog of acceptance issues. Whilst we talked and without requesting it they run my application through the (fixed) system and said I was now accepted. Card would be with me in 5 days max.

      • ankomonkey says:

        1 Dec1 December 17:32

        Thanks!

• Rob says:

  30 Nov30 November 13:38

  Yes, covered it

• Ammar says:

  30 Nov30 November 15:37

  Have i missed a recent Virgin 20% Bonus Conversion with Clubcard vouchers?

  • the real harry1 says:

    30 Nov30 November 15:42

    last day today I think

• Andrew_A says:

  30 Nov30 November 15:51

  IHG related.
  I have 2 nights (Thurs / Fri ) booked in the IC Hong Kong next June using points. Can anyone who has stayed here advise on the type of room, views etc that I can expect? My AMB status will have expired by then and I am not sure if i am going to renew it before I go so no upgrade. Also, as the breakfast appears to be around £30-£35 per head, I am thinking I may be better trying to re-book through Bon Vivant if free breakfast, late check out is available.

  • Rob says:

    30 Nov30 November 16:16

    They do not change your view, so your street side view will remain street side. If you want harbour view then you need to pay for it.

    Given the crazy construction around the hotel on both sides – not sure what state that will be in by June – and the fact that the hotel is about to close for 18 months and is presumably running down with minimal day to day capex, I would keep a close eye on reviews and be prepared to move if necessary.

    • Andrew_A says:

      30 Nov30 November 16:23

      Thanks for the heads up, I will look at my options.

• the real harry1 says:

  30 Nov30 November 16:03

  Missing Vinoseleccion orders: I gave them a ring as my wife got her order last week but nothing so far for me

  they looked it up and in their system they had the order but had not sent the order nor was it waiting to be sent (even though they have some stock there now)!

  so Anna will get it to me by Monday/ Tuesday with the 240 Avios – but they weren’t going to action anything without my prompt

  I can only think that when they ran out of stock, they put the orders on hold – but when the stock came back in, some orders fell through the gaps

  if you haven’t received your order yet, you might want to give them a ring

  • mark2 says:

    30 Nov30 November 18:30

    Mine suddenly turned up yesterday with just a text from the courier.
    Not too impressed with the wine, but no pretensions of expertise.

• the real harry1 says:

  30 Nov30 November 20:39

  $1.39 by Xmas, $1.45 not too long after that

  or I’m a Dutchman

  should go up vs EUR as well, so there might be an opp where they priced one of the various buy Avios promotions in old currency – then we get a 5% blip and you can get them more cheaply

  • mark2 says:

    30 Nov30 November 20:49

    We are going to Boston in Oct 18 so it will go down before then.
    All we need is a big Corbyn lead in the polls and it will be down to £1=$1 or less

    • the real harry1 says:

      30 Nov30 November 21:02

      you can always fix/ buy currency now if you believe that 🙂

  • mark2 says:

    30 Nov30 November 20:51

    Aren’t you legally required to put ‘Despite Brexit’ in front of all good news?

    • AndyGWP says:

      1 Dec1 December 08:52

      Wasn’t it over $1.6 before brexit??

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