A few weeks ago, Emirates Skywards was offering tickets for the BMW PGA Golf Championship at Virginia Water from 15th to 17th September. The cost was 60,000 Emirates Skywards miles PER TICKET, which .....

A few weeks ago, Emirates Skywards was offering tickets for the BMW PGA Golf Championship at Virginia Water .....

28 Jul 202328 July 2023 by Rob Burgess • 6 comments

By this point of the year, you should have a view of whether you will be able to do enough elite nights with your preferred hotel loyalty programme to earn or retain status for 2024. If you have .....

By this point of the year, you should have a view of whether you will be able to do enough elite nights with .....

27 Jul 202327 July 2023 by Rob Burgess • 17 comments

Regular HfP readers will know that there is a Hilton Garden Inn hotel inside the Emirates Old Trafford cricket ground in Manchester. It allows Hilton to run various promotions for Hilton Honors .....

Regular HfP readers will know that there is a Hilton Garden Inn hotel inside the Emirates Old Trafford cricket .....

22 Jul 202322 July 2023 by Rob Burgess

This article looks at the different ways you can get elite status with hotel chains via UK credit cards. If you are just getting started with miles and points, you have probably realised by now that .....

This article looks at the different ways you can get elite status with hotel chains via UK credit cards. If .....

18 Jul 202318 July 2023 by Rob Burgess • 30 comments

Lifetime status is a popular perk among the hotel chains. In general, lifetime status usually requires such a high threshold that you would wonder why such a person would ever want to set foot in .....

Lifetime status is a popular perk among the hotel chains. In general, lifetime status usually requires such a .....

16 Jul 202316 July 2023 by Rob Burgess • 34 comments

Hilton has launched a special deal on suites at 50 of its leading luxury hotels. This offer is ONLY available if you book via a luxury travel agent who is signed up to Hilton’s Impresario .....

Hilton has launched a special deal on suites at 50 of its leading luxury hotels. This offer is ONLY available .....

16 Jul 202316 July 2023 by Rob Burgess • 18 comments

American Express has started to notify people about the changes to the T&C on their cards which are coming in from 2nd October. Whilst lengthy, there is nothing to concern most people apart from .....

American Express has started to notify people about the changes to the T&C on their cards which are coming .....

13 Jul 202313 July 2023 by Rob Burgess • 53 comments

Today (Sunday) is the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. For Practice Day on Friday 7th July, Hilton threw a rooftop party at the hotel. We wrote about it back in May – you could redeem 110,000 .....

Today (Sunday) is the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. For Practice Day on Friday 7th July, Hilton threw a .....

9 Jul 20239 July 2023 by Rob Burgess • 13 comments

Almost all hotel loyalty programmes let you transfer you points into selected frequent flyer schemes.  What is far rarer is for a frequent flyer scheme to let you transfer your miles INTO a hotel .....

Almost all hotel loyalty programmes let you transfer you points into selected frequent flyer schemes.  .....

5 Jul 20235 July 2023 by Rob Burgess • 30 comments

Welcome to our regular round-up of the best hotel promotions currently running. All of the information in this article can also be found on our ‘Hotel Offers’ page which contains .....

Welcome to our regular round-up of the best hotel promotions currently running. All of the information in .....

3 Jul 20233 July 2023 by Rob Burgess • 3 comments

Is it possible to transfer hotel loyalty points to a friend or partner?  Can you transfer the points for free?  In most cases, the answer is ‘Yes’. Airline schemes are not like .....

Is it possible to transfer hotel loyalty points to a friend or partner?  Can you transfer the points for .....

28 Jun 202328 June 2023 by Rob Burgess • 9 comments

Hilton has quietly been rolling out its ‘rooms for day use’ service over the last few years. This allows you to book a hotel room for the working day – the idea is to compete .....

Hilton has quietly been rolling out its ‘rooms for day use’ service over the last few years. This .....

24 Jun 202324 June 2023 by Rob Burgess • 15 comments

This is our review of The Gantry hotel in Stratford, London. It seems that Hilton has an almost inexhaustible number of Curio Collection hotels in London. Last year I took a look at The Westminster .....

This is our review of The Gantry hotel in Stratford, London. It seems that Hilton has an almost inexhaustible .....

11 Jun 202311 June 2023 by Rhys Jones • 51 comments

This is our review of the Hilton Belfast hotel, which has recently been refurbished. The last stop on my mini tour of Liverpool and Belfast was the Hilton Belfast hotel. The Hilton was one of the .....

This is our review of the Hilton Belfast hotel, which has recently been refurbished. The last stop on my mini .....

8 Jun 20238 June 2023 by Rhys Jones • 53 comments