Top concert tickets at London’s The O2 available for SPG and Marriott Rewards hotel points

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• Lilian says:

  29 Mar29 March 13:46

  Hi Rob

  This post is totally irrelevant to the headline topics but would be interesting to hear your view.

  We were on the Ex-Sofia to Singapore Qatar Business Class flight and noticed the in flight service and flight standard are polar different to the ex-Pisa to Doha/ Doha-Germany flights. We were on an old configured A320 and there was no in flight entertainment system instead we were given an iPad.

  There were only 4 pax in the Business Class cabin and we (3 of us) were not even asked or offered any of the appetiser and starter menu, so they served us main straight away. Whilst we ordered they apologised they don’t have beef so instead they offered us the beef from the economy menu instead. It seems like pretty much they only carried a serving of each of the main which was pretty ridiculous! That extended to the dessert where there was only 1 portion of ice cream offered and listen that ice cream was a Magnum , handed over to my daughter! This is totally disappointing compared to the ice cream in a sundae cup that we received in any of the other ex-western Europe flights! They tried to offer me the chocolate cake from the economy menu as they had no more ice cream (magnum).

  When they served the other pax the appetiser, they apopolgized that they didn’t carry any smoked salmon as per the menu! Instead they only had the salad to go with it.

  Pretty disappointing with Qatar with the Sofia leg. Do you think this is the standard they offer in general for Sofia. How would you suggest we should voice out to the management? This flight was miles apart from the service we received on the other Ex-western Europe flights …

  • Rob says:

    29 Mar29 March 14:17

    Doesn’t sound great but Sofia is one of those places where Qatar dumps its older equipment. No harm in complaining though.

  • Adrian says:

    29 Mar29 March 16:31

    Oh good, this is our exact journey next week, so I’ll be able to provide some more feedback. I know the planes are the old recliners, but I balanced that with it only being 4 1/2 hours, a day flight and it was cheap. I was also able to route the return leg to FRA at the same price so we will have proper lie flat seats for the return and a shorter journey back to LHR.

• FM says:

  29 Mar29 March 15:45

  On a related note, with the impending changes in Avios spending, have many people rethought their Amex MR transfers with each churn (whilst it lasts)? I have been mindlessly sending them to Avios the past few years (and have got good value out of doing so), but am now wondering whether SPG would be more appropriate, even as an intermediate to convert to other airline miles?

  • Genghis says:

    29 Mar29 March 16:43

    I now convert to SPG to maintain pluripotentiality

  • Steve-B says:

    29 Mar29 March 18:45

    Depends on personal strategy – I still move to Avios because I need to leverage 2x 2-4-1s at the end of this year and I am not generally that Avios rich. Need to balance the loss in routing via a hotel programme against what you perceive as a potential upcoming ‘devaluation’ – Marriott TPs might be a way to counter that loss, but who knows if they will be around at the start of 2019.

• david says:

  29 Mar29 March 15:52

  OT: I wanted to buy some flights leaving from Stockholm so BA pricing in SEK. I would use my Halifax Clarity to save on conversion but means I get no avios?! I have the CURVE card will that get me around this obstacle? Thanks.

  • Genghis says:

    29 Mar29 March 16:45

    What’s your underlying card? Paying by Curve costs 1% so if earning less than 1 avios / £ (at 1p val) you’d be better off using your Clarity card.

• Alan says:

  29 Mar29 March 21:03

  Thanks for this. Interested to know how you discovered this as I had been regularly checking back for more of these offers to no avail – was it an affiliate or press release from SPG/Marriott or is there a mailing list you can sign up to?

  I’d love to gift my sister one of these packages for Harry Styles for her 18th – but I’d rather she goes with one of her friends than myself… does anyone have any experience as to whether they are flexible regarding gifting these for family members? Do they issue physical tickets or is it a names on guest list sort of thing?The T&Cs seem pretty rigid…

  PS Whatever happened to leaving OT comments in “bits”? :p

  • Rob says:

    29 Mar29 March 21:25

    A friend tipped me off! I do usually check every day or so – technically it is ‘work’ for me – but as we’re away I have not been as rigorous.

    They are fine with ‘gifting’, I have done it myself. All the admin is done via the team in Ireland and you deal with a specific person. Tickets are emailed to you on the day, possibly the day before, so the only key thing is that the person going can access a printer – no mobile phone screenshots acceptable. Tickets will only be emailed to you.

• Rda says:

  2 Apr2 April 18:02

  Sam Smith has been reduced from 25k to 15k.

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