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The good news for anyone travelling between London and Amsterdam or Rotterdam is that DIRECT Eurostar return trains are about to start running.

Eurostar has been running from London TO Amsterdam and Rotterdam for a while now.

However, due to on-going work constructing immigration facilities, you could not travel TO London directly.

Passengers from Amsterdam needed to get off the train in Brussels, clear passport control and get back onto a different train to complete their trip.  Passengers from Rotterdam had to take a Thalys train to Brussels and change.

This nonsense is about to end.

From 30th April, trains will run directly from Amsterdam to St Pancras.  From 18th May, you will also be able to travel directly from Rotterdam to St Pancras.

If you book a ticket THIS WEEK (the final date to book is 25th February) for travel to Amsterdam between 30th April and 30th June, or Rotterdam between 18th May and 30th June, you will receive double Club Eurostar points.

I value a Club Eurostar point at 10p-12.5p as this article explains.   With this offer, you will be earning 2 points per £1 spent which means a rebate of 20p-25p per £1.

You can also transfer Eurostar points to the Accor Live Limitless hotel loyalty scheme at 1:3 (minimum transfer of 500 Eurostar points).  As Accor points transfer 1:1 to Avios in Iberia Plus, you could earn 6 Avios per £1 spent on Eurostar via this offer.  We explained how the Accor / Eurostar partnership works in this article.

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How to get Club Eurostar points and lounge access from UK credit cards

How to get Club Eurostar points and lounge access from UK credit cards (April 2025)

Club Eurostar does not have a UK credit card.  However, you can earn Club Eurostar points by converting Membership Rewards points earned from selected UK American Express cards. 

Cards earning Membership Rewards points include:

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 27th May 2025, the sign-up bonus on the ‘free for a year’ American Express Preferred Rewards Gold card is increased from 20,000 Membership Rewards points to 30,000 points. Points convert 1:1 into Avios (30,000 Avios!) and many other programmes. Some people may see even higher personalised offers. Click here to apply.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 27th May 2025, the sign-up bonus on American Express Platinum is increased from 50,000 Membership Rewards points to a huge 80,000 points. Points convert 1:1 into Avios (80,000 Avios!) and many other programmes. Some people may see even higher personalised offers. Click here to apply.

Membership Rewards points convert at 15:1 into Club Eurostar points.  The cards above all earn 1 Membership Rewards point per £1 spent on your card, so you will get the equivalent of 1 Club Eurostar point for every £15 you spend.

American Express Platinum comes with a great Eurostar benefit – Eurostar lounge access!  

You can enter any Eurostar lounge, irrespective of your ticket type, by showing The Platinum Card at the desk.  No guests are allowed but you can get entry for your partner by issuing them with a free supplementary Amex Platinum card on your account.

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Comments (155)

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  • Paul Stevens says:
    17 Feb17 February 13:31

    I have a companion voucher assisted F flight to Tokyo coming up at the start of March – returning four weeks later. Does anyone know what the latest time I can cancel it is and get a full refund of avios, voucher and taxes (minus the £35/person)?
    Also, I’m not too bothered about the virus but I would be bothered about being put into quarantine on my return to the UK. What are the odds of the government doing that for people returning from Japan?

  • LewisB says:
    17 Feb17 February 13:53

    OT: 40% boost with Virgin mile booster. Up to 3x available.

    • LewisB says:
      17 Feb17 February 13:54

      “Miles Booster purchases between 17th February to 8th March 2020 inclusive will be eligible to receive up to 40% Bonus miles. 1x Boost will receive 20% Bonus miles. 2x Boost will receive 30% Bonus miles. x3 Boost will receive 40% miles.”

      • Mikee says:
        17 Feb17 February 15:15

        Just boosted a flight from 5 months ago (max is 6 months in the past)….worked out at 0.71p/per mile using 3 x boot (18,557 miles for £132.69). Need to call Virgin Flying Club to do this.

  • Peter says:
    17 Feb17 February 14:03

    So what new flight does BA have to land at 10.05 in order not to lose this slot vacated by the rescheduled Athens flight? Or they do not care so much about this one?

  • Tom says:
    17 Feb17 February 14:33

    OT – does lloyds still have an Avios card?

    I didn’t thin they did.

  • Roy says:
    17 Feb17 February 15:15

    Just to add: the hotel confirms that there have *not* been any Coronavirus cases at the Hotel.

  • Bob says:
    17 Feb17 February 16:10

    OT

    40% Miles Booster VS promo now active till 8th March

  • Andrew says:
    17 Feb17 February 16:15

    Oh that’s “Ariel”, for some reason I thought it was the big one by the spur road junction.

    • Roy says:
      17 Feb17 February 16:51

      Yup, it’s the circular building – the former Ariel Hotel, built in the 60’s and now a Holiday Inn. It’s on Bath Road, but it’s distinct from the new Holiday Inn London Heathrow Bath Road, or indeed from the former Holiday Inn London Heathrow Bath Road Sipson Way (which is now the Leonardo Hotel London Heathrow Airport).

      • Lady London says:
        17 Feb17 February 18:07

        Bit surprised by this as structurally that hotel has over the years had various problems as it’s old build and renaming it etc hasn;t apparently improved it. If you got coronavirus into the air ducts or wherever it must be so much harder to know you’ve got it clean afterwards than in a modern, theoretically more cleanable, building.

        • TGLoyalty says:
          17 Feb17 February 18:13

          Is it transmitted like that? Is that a problem for any cold / flu then?

        • Shoestring says:
          17 Feb17 February 18:13

          it doesn’t look as if it gets spread in a way similar to Legionnaire’s Disease

        • Roy says:
          17 Feb17 February 19:44

          I don’t think typical hotel air conditioning systems have air ducts, at least in this part of the world. Usually a boiler and a chiller plant provide hot and chilled water pipes that feed fan coils within the in-room units. The air within the room is just recirculated, having been either heated or cooled by the water in the fan coils as appropriate. This setup allows you to have centralised heating and cooling plant, but still allows the temperature within each room to be individually controlled.

          (Cheaper installations, seen in some budget hotels, only have a single water circuit, chilled in the winter and heated in the summer. Such systems are incapable of cooling the room when in winter “heating mode” and similarly, can’t heat the room in summer “cooling mode”.)

          I don’t think the kind of systems you see in films, with large grilles, and ducts behind them large enough to crawl through, are that commonplace in real life, although they probably were in the US in the 60’s.

        • Roy says:
          17 Feb17 February 19:55

          Also, viruses can’t survive that long outside of a living host.

          If the hotel does end up getting used to house Coronavirus patients I imagine that as well as giving it a deep clean they may well also choose to wait a couple of weeks after that before reopening it, just as a precaution.

  • Robert says:
    17 Feb17 February 16:41

    OT: any news on Emirates flights sale? Prices in December are extortionate!

    • BJ says:
      17 Feb17 February 16:47

      Do they have them? I honestly don’t recall seeing any advertised.

      • Robert says:
        17 Feb17 February 18:43

        Thanks BJ, was hoping admin or readers here would be aware if they did, often see comparisons to other airlines sales per year and hoped Emirates might be the same, guess not

        • BJ says:
          17 Feb17 February 21:32

          Ages since I looked at their website but ISTR they almost always had a few special offers listed that changed regularly. If that’s still the case it migbt be best to keep an eye on those. I have also noticed that Emirates fares are featured/promoted on Skyscanner. These are generally incompetitive with other carriers IME but whether they are cheaper than going via Emirates own website, or that is where they are for, I don’t know. I have noticed too that skyscanner finds some very attractive fares at times but the agents selling them are usually very obscure companies I have never heard of so I’ve avoided them to date. An exception has even Opodo but when I look I cannot find the fare rukes so that puts me off them too.

          • Robert says:
            18 Feb18 February 02:29

            Thanks I’ll give those a try online. Will also call in Kuoni and see what they can do, as I require a few nights hotel stop over in Dubai on the return leg.

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