The new Hilton Garden Inn hotel in Heathrow Terminal 2 and T3 is open

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• Mr(s) Entitled says:

  4 Jul4 July 07:37

  I use Eurotunnel at x3 during the peak summer months. Is that THE best redemption?

  • Shoestring says:

    4 Jul4 July 08:46

    same here a few years ago

    pretty much as good as it gets (output value)

    the other way to look at it is adding input cost: when you got the Clubcard points for zero (or made a profit) – then spend on a genuine 3x – *THAT’S* as good as it gets

• memesweeper says:

  4 Jul4 July 07:44

  OT: @Rob, looks like Blacklane have dropped Avios/BA as an earning partner, but still have many other airline partners. No idea why!

  • Dev says:

    4 Jul4 July 08:15

    BA-Avios haven’t been there for a while, I signed up with Black lane late last year and didn’t see it then.

    • Rob says:

      4 Jul4 July 08:58

      Never has been there

      • Memesweeper says:

        4 Jul4 July 10:21

        Wow — I’m must be misremembering then…. I’m now looking at my first ever KrisFlyer earnings 🙂

• Jovanna says:

  4 Jul4 July 08:14

  I usually stay at the Garden Inn at Hatton Cross. It’s very handy for the Tube. I’ve only ever received an upgrade once, when they made a mess of the booking (i.e. the room I’d booked had gone) but it’s not a benefit if you look at the website, so it’s usually use a couple of bottles of water and a free breakfast / points.

  I think I’ll try the new place next week.

  • Oh! Matron! says:

    4 Jul4 July 08:36

    I love the HGI at HX. It’s normally cheap (especially at weekends), and also handy if you want to do a run (there’s a great 6km run in a circle along bath road from there).

    And, more surprisingly, the restaurant is actually very good indeed. The quality of the food is above average, especially for an airport hotel.

    Lastly: It has a laundry! If you’re lucky, they will normally just give you the tokens needed 🙂

    • TescoTease says:

      4 Jul4 July 13:49

      On the subject of running… don’t stay at the Holiday Inn A55 Chester West. Nowhere to run/ public right of way apart from the dual carriageway!

      • Chrisasaurus says:

        4 Jul4 July 21:19

        There needs to be a FT thread on this

        For all the Run stations in CPs there are a lot without a real route (one you can memorize and not get hit by cars on)

• Boi says:

  4 Jul4 July 08:24

  OT:
  How are people paying the international dollar card?
  (I don’t want to use bank).

  • meta says:

    4 Jul4 July 09:08

    You have to do a bank transfer. No other way from UK. If you hold account in EU countries (for euro account) or US (for dollar account), you can also set up direct debit.

    • Boi says:

      4 Jul4 July 10:46

      I thought someone report success with Caxton or Revolut for dollar card? Now I can’t find the comment on how they did it.

      • Rob says:

        4 Jul4 July 11:31

        I will try Monese next time I get a bill.

  • George says:

    4 Jul4 July 13:20

    I pay with Transferwise – you’ll need to ask Amex for the ACH compatible routing number and accept that you can only send the first 10 digits of the card number in the reference but I emailed to ask about this and they were happy with it. Takes 7-odd days though so you have to be pretty hot on paying once the bill comes through.

• James says:

  4 Jul4 July 08:26

  Vuelling lost my luggage for 3 days and I have 21 days to submit my claim. The website doesn’t allow for baggage claims it says it does and says click here but nothing happens and you can’t call them, anybody any ideas I don’t want to let them off the hook?

  • Lady London says:

    5 Jul5 July 23:37

    Depending on your setup, sometimes when a website says click here it will only load the new page, if you right click instead of left click and select open in new tab. then find it in new tab

• Mark says:

  4 Jul4 July 08:27

  I took an Iberia flight to London via Barcelona. I didn’t sign into my Iberia account but instead gave my BA number. That was 3 weeks ago but I haven’t received any avios of tier points. Did I do something wrong ?

  • Shoestring says:

    4 Jul4 July 08:41

    when you say ‘gave’, do you mean you went to a friendly Oneworld site like Finnair and input your BAEC number under MMB?

  • ChrisBCN says:

    4 Jul4 July 08:45

    Iberia don’t fly London to Barcelona…

  • AJA says:

    4 Jul4 July 10:28

    Go onto BAEC website and do a missing avios claim. You will have to select partner airlines as it’s Iberia. Fill in your flight details (date/flight no) You will have to do separate claims for each leg. You should get an immediate email confirmation of receipt of claim. Ignore the “It takes up to 28 days” message. My avios and tier points posted the following day.

• John says:

  4 Jul4 July 08:45

  Even if it was still available, a far cry from the £800 I paid for ARN-DOH-HKG return in 2016.

  • bsuije says:

    4 Jul4 July 09:15

    Is that more of a reflection on the strength of the pound than anything else, though…?!

  • Aston100 says:

    4 Jul4 July 10:06

    Unfortunately my time machine is broken.

    • Alan says:

      4 Jul4 July 11:03

      Perhaps you coudl borrow John’s?

      • Shoestring says:

        4 Jul4 July 11:09

        nothing wrong with a pat on the back from self for one’s ingenuity/ money-saving skills

  • Marcw says:

    4 Jul4 July 10:38

    But that year was very special…. That Travel Festival was great. I travelled in economy fro 300€ rtrn to Tokyo and <200€ rtrn to Bangkok. Business class prices were very juicy as well.

• Tim Holt says:

  4 Jul4 July 08:49

  Hi all,

  I have business class tickets with Qatar that I bought via BA site. I bought with my Avios and my travel partner with theirs. Does anyone know if there is a fix to get around fact you can’t pick seats until check in? We are travelling together for the first time with Qatar in Qsuites and would really like to sit together.

  • Shoestring says:

    4 Jul4 July 08:53

    you have to call Qatar to choose seats – it should be free

  • Uknoobie says:

    4 Jul4 July 08:54

    Try the QR site

    • Shoestring says:

      4 Jul4 July 08:56

      or Finnair MMB

  • bsuije says:

    4 Jul4 July 09:24

    My recent experience when booking Qsuites was that you need to call Qatar to book them. Should be fine if you have two separate bookings, as that was the situation I was in, as well.

    • bsuije says:

      4 Jul4 July 09:29

      I should add – perhaps in my case it was trouble-free because of status (BA Silver for me, Gold for my OH). It sounds like maybe you don’t have status, in which case Qatar may charge you…?

      • Russ says:

        4 Jul4 July 10:03

        Nope, free on twitter. Just choose seats you like and ask them to reserve them for you. Mischief managed.

    • Rob says:

      4 Jul4 July 10:31

      Qatar needs more control than usual over Qsuites because they need to keep – for example – potential blocks of four free in case a group of four wants to book. I seem to remember being told by Qatar at one point that they control blocks until 30 days out.

  • Tim Holt says:

    4 Jul4 July 11:09

    Thanks everyone for your advice. Having retrieved my booking via Qatar website I can only choose solo traveller seats so I will call them and hopefully get the two of us seating in adjoining seats…

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