Frankfurt Airport gains a Marriott hotel but loses part of a Sheraton

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• Kev says:

  6 Feb6 February 10:36

  OT:

  Are Reward Flight Saver’s compatible with use of 2 for 1 vouchers? Was looking to go to Lisbon. It’s showing 40,000 + £1 each as a Reward Flight, but 48,000 + £180 with the 2 for 1. Does that sound right?

  • Rob says:

    6 Feb6 February 10:54

    241 should go through at the old rate of 15k? + £35 in Eco.

    • Kev says:

      6 Feb6 February 11:06

      Thank Rob,

      If you are flying from a region does your flight into London cost Avios / Taxes and Charges or are they free?

      • Peter K says:

        6 Feb6 February 11:36

        Flying to London from the regions costs avios and money. A major devaluation made a few years ago.

      • TGLoyalty says:

        6 Feb6 February 11:36

        Aren’t they Avios free but charge you taxes/fees

        • xcalx says:

          6 Feb6 February 11:38

          That’s for long haul.

        • xcalx says:

          6 Feb6 February 11:40

          * Long haul conections to and from the regions.

      • Rob says:

        6 Feb6 February 13:16

        On short haul you pay extra for the connection.

• Jackie says:

  6 Feb6 February 10:52

  O/T
  Anyone heard if there is a bonus this quarter for Tesco conversion to Virgin?
  Thanks

  • Peter K says:

    6 Feb6 February 11:37

    Just had an email offering 1000 Virgin miles plus entry into a comp to win 40k miles if you put on autoconvert from Tesco.

• russ says:

  6 Feb6 February 11:09

  If you have Platinum Elite status or higher in Marriott Bonvoy, you may prefer to pay the extra for the Marriott in order to get lounge access.

  dont have pe i think

• KSB says:

  6 Feb6 February 11:17

  Great prize

  Would help offset our family travel to AKL each year to see relatives, having to only pay for 2 tickets rather than 4. Went twice last year (once on old seats and once on Qsuites) the change to Qsuites on QR920/921 is a significant improvement.

  Managed to have a meal, a good (long) sleep, and then another meal ….was then feeling fine to pick up a hire car at 5am and drive for a couple of hours.

  • Polly says:

    7 Feb7 February 04:48

    Agree, AKL on our list, worth going just for 2 weeks if you won that prize…

• fivebobbill says:

  6 Feb6 February 11:25

  “Sorry, you are not eligible for this promotion.” 🙁

• Alex says:

  6 Feb6 February 11:46

  One of the best prizes of the year i’m sure… Surely you’ve got to pick Auz just to get the most bang for your buck!

  • yorkieflyer says:

    6 Feb6 February 12:07

    only if it was a fire sale

    • Aston100 says:

      6 Feb6 February 21:34

      Too soon

  • Lumma says:

    6 Feb6 February 15:18

    Surely the best use for a prize from a competition is to go to somewhere you’ve always wanted to go?

    • Alex says:

      6 Feb6 February 17:20

      not if you’ve always wanted to go to Paris…

      • Peter K says:

        6 Feb6 February 19:05

        Paris via Doha 😂

• Anon says:

  6 Feb6 February 12:05

  “Both brands – which were under separate ownership until two years ago, remember – are stereotypically known for their relatively dull four-star business hotels, appealing to equally dull middle management types.”

  Shots fired. I’ve stayed at loads of Sheratons and Marriotts (when no HH property available but they’re all kind of the same thing).

  • mr_jetlag says:

    6 Feb6 February 13:21

    “…equally dull middle management types”

    Hey, I resemble that remark.

    • Sandgrounder says:

      6 Feb6 February 13:36

      Always watch the dull ones. Men in grey suits who choose a nondiscript purpose-built business hotel with nice thick concrete internal walls.

• Stu says:

  6 Feb6 February 14:37

  O/T, Revolut charges, I had my few charges refunded by VM, I used my VM card direct with Revolut. However a colleague at work was using the Curve card to Revolut and onto VM and is not so lucky, He’s OK with taking the hit, but is it being handled differently depending on the “route”

  • TGLoyalty says:

    6 Feb6 February 15:45

    You colleague didn’t need to use Curve – credit cards were always accepted.

    Virgin aren’t seeing this as a Revolut transaction they are seeing it as a Curve one so will say it doesn’t fall under the same category/goodwill. BTW curve doesn’t “hide” the nature of any transactions as the MCC is now passed on to the underlying card so won’t help in any situations like these.

    • ashish says:

      6 Feb6 February 22:52

      HI TG,

      Kindly share how we can use the Hilton card to get free points?

      I want to learn how to do this now Revoult has gone.

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