Get 1,000 Avios points with your first Airbnb stay

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• will says:

  6 Nov6 November 09:55

  On Airbnb: I booked a stay back in May and subsequently signed up to the 3 avios/£1 promotion. I asked Airbnb if the offer applied to retrospective bookings so long as you hadn’t yet completed your stay (or paid in full in my case), but was directed instead to BA as they said they couldn’t help.

  Anyone else used the offer and seen it work?

  I am reluctant to pay BA 6p/min or however much it is to hear them point me back in the direction of Airbnb.

  • Rob says:

    6 Nov6 November 10:03

    You need to book via the BA link so retrospective credits are not possible.

    • SEJ says:

      6 Nov6 November 10:17

      Is there a way to chase up points that haven’t posted when booked using the link?

      • Rob says:

        6 Nov6 November 11:06

        No idea

      • Spaghetti Town says:

        6 Nov6 November 11:36

        When did you stay? It took about 3 months for my avios to post and they posted before I even completed the stay.

• Doogie says:

  6 Nov6 November 10:07

  Not seen it posted, apologies if duplicate!

  MR -> Marriot bonus

  Transfer before 31 December 2019 and you’ll receive 9 Marriott Bonvoy points for every 4 Membership Rewards points, when you transfer 1,000 or more.1 That’s 50% more than the usual rate. You can use Marriott Bonvoy points at more than 7,000 hotels in 130 countries.

  Please note that your points will be transferred to your Marriott Bonvoy account within five working days and your additional Bonus Points can take up to eight weeks to transfer. Terms and Conditions apply.

  • Zara says:

    6 Nov6 November 10:32

    Wondering if this is targeted as I have not received it and would actually be interested in this one! Anyone have a link? Thx

    • Rhys says:

      6 Nov6 November 10:46

      Doesn’t appear to be online….

  • Russ says:

    6 Nov6 November 11:02

    Have the same. Didn’t get the Hilton offer though.

    Interesting. I dropped Marriott and went over to Hilton so I’d have thought I’d been targeted because my Marriott bookings had fallen off. But how would Amex know that?

    • Sloth says:

      6 Nov6 November 14:18

      Same… got this Marriott offer this morning but never get the Hilton offer… funnily enough I normally transfer MR points to Hilton, never Marriott…

  • Grant says:

    6 Nov6 November 11:02

    I have chatted with Susan at Amex who confirmed that the offer is available to all customers who have an existing Marriott membership.

    • Rob says:

      6 Nov6 November 11:05

      Never trust the call centre …

      • Grant says:

        6 Nov6 November 11:06

        I agree, although in this case it was online chat (to which the same warning applies). In her defence she did quote the terms to me though.

        • MinR says:

          6 Nov6 November 15:43

          I got told on chat that it is a ‘targeted offer for Platinum Card which you are carrying right now..’

          I was quoted the t&cs too but I’ve asked for an email confirmation just in case.

        • Rob says:

          6 Nov6 November 16:01

          That’s clearly not true or I’d have it.

        • Grant says:

          6 Nov6 November 15:48

          More fuel to Rob’s fire…

        • Harry T says:

          6 Nov6 November 15:58

          MinR, did you get an email confirmation after you asked for one?

  • Grant says:

    6 Nov6 November 11:13

    On a related point, can you transfer Amex MR points directly to a spouse’s Marriott account or must they go to an account in the same name first, then speak to Marriott to combine points?

    • BJ says:

      6 Nov6 November 11:23

      Transfer them to any other member regardless of address. Just takes a quick call. Used to be instant, more recently it has taken up to an hour for my transfers to complete.

      • BJ says:

        6 Nov6 November 11:24

        Apologies, misread your question.

        • Grant says:

          6 Nov6 November 11:26

          No problem. I think I have found the answer in the small print on the Amex website. Names need to match.

          Will have to call Marriott to transfer once points land.

  • Doug M says:

    6 Nov6 November 11:38

    I have this to. Great timing having shifted 50K MR to Marriott in the last week 🙁

    • Harry T says:

      6 Nov6 November 11:44

      Anyone reckon you can get this deal without being targeted by email? I didn’t get emailed the Hilton offer either so feeling a little neglected.

      • Grant says:

        6 Nov6 November 12:11

        Susan on Amex chat says yes. Take from that what you will, but I am transferring points and expecting the bonus based on the chat, but not having received the email.

      • Doug M says:

        6 Nov6 November 12:13

        Someone else said they asked Amex and were told yes, it’s not targeted. I’d ask on chat, and keep the text of the conversation.

        • Rob says:

          6 Nov6 November 12:26

          Yes. Be very clear about this – the agents make it up. They haven’t got a clue about this sort of thing. I would either record the call, ask them to email you in writing that you will get it or insist they make a note in your record and then call back to ask another agent if it was actually done.

          Don’t rely on their call records as the bonus is not due for weeks as per the rules and the tapes may have been wiped by then.

          Ask yourself this – if it’s not targeted, why is it not on the website?

        • Grant says:

          6 Nov6 November 13:42

          Genuine question – do transfer bonuses normally get advertised on the website?

        • Rob says:

          6 Nov6 November 13:53

          It is about 5 years since Amex did an ‘open to all’ bonus so we don’t know. In the dark depths of the early 21st century, yes they were.

        • Grant says:

          6 Nov6 November 13:55

          Thanks – I’ve had the same info from a second chat agent now so I’m going to gamble.

  • xcalx says:

    6 Nov6 November 14:26

    Great offer, 80k MR to 180k Marriott = 75k in AA or Alaskan etc. any links?

• Nick M says:

  6 Nov6 November 10:08

  Just had an email from Amex – bonus points if transfer MR to Marriott –> 4:9 until 31.12.19

  • Harry T says:

    6 Nov6 November 15:21

    A clever hack would be to transfer MR to Bonvoy and then transfer to Avios to take advantage of the 35% bonus that BA are running! Would make more Avios than a direct transfer from MR. Would obviously rely on the bonus points transferring quickly from Amex.

    • Rob says:

      6 Nov6 November 16:02

      If only I’d thought of that 🙂

      • Harry T says:

        6 Nov6 November 18:47

        Saw your new article a while after I posted this comment! You’ve taught me well.

• Heathrow Flyer says:

  6 Nov6 November 10:18

  LHR Summer schedule changes:

  • LHR-MSY increasing frequency from 5 to 6 per week
  • LHR-NAS-GCM increasing frequency from 4 to 5 per week

  Usual avios seats will be up for grabs.

• Benilyn says:

  6 Nov6 November 11:35

  OT: Amex Platinum supp Gold (first four are complimentary), do they get 2x lounge access too?

  • Harry T says:

    6 Nov6 November 11:45

    No. Only the main Plat and the Plat supp get a priority pass. No lounge passes for the Gold supps.

    • ankomonkey says:

      6 Nov6 November 20:34

      If you pay for a second supplementary Plat, do they get the PP card?

      • Harry T says:

        6 Nov6 November 21:18

        Yes.

        • ankomonkey says:

          7 Nov7 November 09:57

          Thanks. As I thought.

  • Rob says:

    6 Nov6 November 12:10

    No – Amex Gold is NOT the same as Preferred Rewards Gold in the eyes of Amex! No double points on FX or airline spend either.

• Doug M says:

  6 Nov6 November 11:45

  Not great. But you never know whether these stories are around all the time, and just take traction when there’s a bigger safety concern.
  Incidentally, on the version I read it referred to the assembly centre in the South Carolina. My understanding from Flyertalk was Qatar refuse 787s built in there, and insist on Washington ones as they believe the Carolina plant has issues.

• Anna says:

  6 Nov6 November 12:08

  OT – good result (finally) from our cancelled LON-LHR leg in August resulting in a 200 mile taxi dash to (just) catch our connecting flight to the Caribbean. Just received an email from BA saying they are refunding the sector not flown and giving us a total of 30,000 avios for the inconvenience.

  • Anna says:

    6 Nov6 November 12:08

    Sorry, that should have been MAN-LHR, slightly more distance to cover!

  • Doug M says:

    6 Nov6 November 12:10

    I’m assuming they paid for the taxi too, so a nice result.
    I know it’s harder for families, but if you can keep stress levels down, relax about it, and are not too time limited, disruption oftens ends well.

    • Anna says:

      6 Nov6 November 12:24

      Indeed, we have done quite well out of BA this year, also had 2 x 600 euros for a delay on a separate trip. Yes, they paid the £290 taxi fare! I might be imagining it but BA seem to have become a lot more co-operative since OH hit Bronze…

      • Doug M says:

        6 Nov6 November 12:37

        I’m sure that’s not connected. Golds are two a penny to BA, never mind anything less.

  • Lyn says:

    6 Nov6 November 16:05

    Well done for persevering, Anna!

• Lady London says:

  6 Nov6 November 12:20

  Well if the Stansted Express has been able to get away with the outrageous fares they have been charging for the seriously clapped-out trains they’ve been running, then I can’t see why Heathrow Express which has been the other great ripoff, should be concerned if they have to take refurbished carriages that might be closer to thé pour charriages on most other routes. At least Heathrow Express has adjusted their pricing.

  Btw where’s the luggage space in the above photo of the new trains? Whoever commissioned them seems to have forgotten many people go to airports with luggage. Sôme of which can be suite voluminous. It’s a problèmes now, and that photo looks even worse.

  • ADS says:

    6 Nov6 November 12:37

    maybe i’ve been lucky – but i thought the existing Stansted Express trains were pretty decent ?!

    • Lady London says:

      6 Nov6 November 13:22

      You’ve been very, very lucky.
      They were just about décent many years back ( but still asdumed only about 4 people per charriage would have luggage).

      I avoid Stansted like the plague but still had to travel there 7-8 times in past 2-3 years. All at différent times of day or week. Got some shockers of charriages – all older than I thought were still running. Hideously broken seats and filth everywhere, on all of them bar 1 and that 1 was barely acceptable.

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