One of the sites I recommend is statusmatcher.com.  This is a modest website which is very useful.  It lets people post their experiences of using a particular hotel or airline status card to .....

One of the sites I recommend is statusmatcher.com.  This is a modest website which is very useful.  It lets .....

30 Mar 201630 March 2016 by Rob Burgess • 12 comments

News in brief: Get double Flying Club miles on East Coast trains Virgin Flying Club is offering double miles – 4 per £1 spent – when you book train tickets on Virgin East Coast via the .....

News in brief: Get double Flying Club miles on East Coast trains Virgin Flying Club is offering double miles .....

10 Mar 201610 March 2016 by Rob Burgess • 46 comments

Best Western is popular with Head for Points readers.  When I did my hotel survey a year ago, roughly 1 in 6 HFP readers said they had stayed in one during 2014. You may have wondered why I .....

Best Western is popular with Head for Points readers.  When I did my hotel survey a year ago, roughly 1 in 6 .....

19 Jan 201619 January 2016 by Rob Burgess • 25 comments

Best Western is popular with Head for Points readers.  When I did my hotel survey in February, roughly 1 in 6 HfP readers said they had stayed in one during 2014. You may have wondered why I .....

Best Western is popular with Head for Points readers.  When I did my hotel survey in February, roughly 1 in 6 .....

24 Oct 201524 October 2015 by Rob Burgess • 11 comments

Most frequent flyer schemes allow you to pay to transfer miles to a friend.  It is usually a terrible deal.  The price is often only modestly cheaper than buying miles outright but .....

Most frequent flyer schemes allow you to pay to transfer miles to a friend.  It is usually a terrible .....

11 Mar 201511 March 2015 by Rob Burgess • 16 comments

When I ran my recent reader survey on which hotel chains you used, Best Western performed surprisingly strongly.  I thought it was worth doing an introductory article on Best Western Rewards, .....

When I ran my recent reader survey on which hotel chains you used, Best Western performed surprisingly .....

9 Mar 20159 March 2015 by Rob Burgess • 20 comments

News in brief: We’ve done coffee for points …. now try coffee for free Last Saturday I ran a piece about how to use Nectar points for drinks at Caffe Nero, how to use American Express .....

News in brief: We’ve done coffee for points …. now try coffee for free Last Saturday I ran a piece .....

1 Mar 20151 March 2015 by Rob Burgess • 31 comments

Cashback site Quidco is offering an exclusive deal on Best Western hotels in the UK this week. For bookings made by 26th October – for stays at any future date – you will receive a flat .....

Cashback site Quidco is offering an exclusive deal on Best Western hotels in the UK this week. For bookings .....

21 Oct 201421 October 2014 by Rob Burgess • 1 comment

Head for Points reader Jon dropped me a line last week to say that Best Western had matched his Club Carlson Gold card to Best Western Diamond Elite. What was especially sweet about this deal was that .....

Head for Points reader Jon dropped me a line last week to say that Best Western had matched his Club Carlson .....

23 Jun 201423 June 2014 by Rob Burgess • 11 comments

Thanks to Charles, who sent over details of this Best Western competition. I don’t generally run competition details on the HfP but this one has a lot of prizes, is limited to UK residents and .....

Thanks to Charles, who sent over details of this Best Western competition. I don’t generally run .....

1 Feb 20131 February 2013 by Rob Burgess • 3 comments