Hilton’s new LXR brand to arrive in London as the Millennium Mayfair hotel rebrands

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• David says:

  9 Jan9 January 09:05

  OT: have been offered American AAdvantage Platinum (equivalent to one world Sapphire) for free until 15 May. If I do 12500 EQ Miles and 1500 EQ Dollars on AA,BA,JL,AY I get to keep it until Jan 2020. However, I’m not doing any major travel until probably September. Anyone know if these promotions come round again? If I take it now (and fail) am I less likely to get it again in future?

  • L says:

    9 Jan9 January 11:36

    Don’t take it unless you have a plan to meet it. Some people say these offers are once in a lifetime or once every 5 years or so, and they do tend to recur.

    • David says:

      9 Jan9 January 22:42

      Thanks!

    • Alan says:

      10 Jan10 January 00:25

      This one is a bit different though – seem to be plenty of folk that have had it more than once – they say it’s ‘no strings attached’ and nothing about only having it once per time period (unlike the matches that some of the US programmes let you apply for)

  • Alan says:

    10 Jan10 January 00:26

    They offered me Plat Pro – sadly no internal US flights imminently planned to make use of the unlimited upgrades!

• Rob says:

  9 Jan9 January 09:12

  Habtoor Palace is cheaply built, however. I was talking about this someone yesterday who has stayed there. Hard to have a luxury hotel where many of the rooms DIRECTLY overlook an 8-lane motorway and the whole property is overshadowed by two far taller hotels built on either side.

• Wivus says:

  9 Jan9 January 09:14

  OT. I have an Accelerate target of booking some ”Bonus Points Packages”. I have several trips coming up but cannot seem to find a single offer on the various hotel sites I have tried. Without going through every IHG hotel site in that city is there a way of finding the hotels offering them?
  Cheers

  • Lady London says:

    9 Jan9 January 11:38

    Don’t take it unless you have a plan to meet it. Some people say these offers are once in a lifetime or once every 5 years or so, and they do tend to recur.

    • Lady london says:

      9 Jan9 January 12:29

      *probably more accurate to say any match you get may be once in a lifetime…. Whereas the offers of the matches do definitely come back.

  • RussellH says:

    9 Jan9 January 16:00

    They seem to be listed as an add-on to the ‘best flexible rate’ these days.

    And talking of ‘best flexible rate’, anyone ever been offered a ‘standard flexible rate’ or even a ‘other flexible rate’?
    🙂

• Ant says:

  9 Jan9 January 09:20

  OT:
  IHG Accelerate offer:
  Stay at 2 brands and get 11200 points
  Book 1 stay using points & cash and earn 4500 points
  Stay at 2 Holiday Inn and earn 5600 points
  Earn 6600 points when you book 2 bonus points package

  If I book 2 Holiday Inn using the bonus points package ( this should trigger 3 & 4) and 1 Intercontinental using points and cash (would trigger 2) but would it also trigger the first one? Or for the “2 brand” target to be triggered the bookings need to be cash and not reward points ?

  • Paul says:

    9 Jan9 January 09:53

    Anyone know if Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express are treated as separate brands for the Accelerate promo?

    • Genghis says:

      9 Jan9 January 10:00

      Yes – separate

  • Genghis says:

    9 Jan9 January 10:02

    The Stay at 2 brands and get 11200 points needs to be cash stays and Book 1 stay using points & cash and earn 4500 points needs to be a points and cash stay.

  • Alex W says:

    9 Jan9 January 12:44

    Points and cash stay counts as a redemption and will not count towards any of the other targets apart from “complete X of Y targets”.

• Jamie says:

  9 Jan9 January 10:16

  OT couldn’t see mentioned £20 off £100 spend on my amex platinum for eurowings.

  • bsuije says:

    9 Jan9 January 12:56

    A couple of people mentioned it on one of the articles yesterday. I have this on Gold supp to Plat and also on my SPG.

    • RussellH says:

      9 Jan9 January 16:01

      On my SPG too.

• JC says:

  9 Jan9 January 10:42

  OT- Has anyone redeemed Etihad miles for Air Seychelles domestic flights? Despite them running something like 20 flights a day between Mahe and Praslin there doesn’t seem to be any reward availability for the entire year on expertflyer… just wondering whether its possible or maybe they don’t have any reward seats on domestic flights.

  • Cat says:

    9 Jan9 January 16:13

    The flights are all tiny twin prop planes with about 15 seats. There’s only economy seating and a return usually costs about £90-100, so I’d just pay for the flights!

    Try to bag seat 1B and I recommend filming the landing at Praslin Airport – you’ll practically have your feet in the cockpit, and the view of the island while coming in to land is amazing!

    • JC says:

      9 Jan9 January 18:16

      Great, thanks, looking forward to it!

• BlueHorizonuk says:

  9 Jan9 January 11:19

  I think the number of brands the chains have is simply out of control now. It’s just ridiculous for a chain to have 30 different brands. They need to merge some of these brands and keep a few distinct ones.

• Alan says:

  9 Jan9 January 11:51

  Fair enough. I don’t use BA much but stumbled across it. Must have missed Rob’s article.

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