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This may be a stupid question in which case my apologies in advance. I’ve booked a flight with BA as an Exec Club member and am now seeking to add accommodation after the booking has been confirmed (also via the BA website. Will this qualify for the double points offer? Or did I need to book the accommodation at thwe same time as the flight?
This may be a stupid question in which case my apologies in advance. I’ve booked a flight with BA as an Exec Club member and am now seeking to add accommodation after the booking has been confirmed (also via the BA website. Will this qualify for the double points offer? Or did I need to book the accommodation at thwe same time as the flight?
It needs to be a flight/hotel or flight/car booking made as a holiday in the first place. I don’t believe adding accommodation to a flight only booking qualifies.
This may be a stupid question in which case my apologies in advance. I’ve booked a flight with BA as an Exec Club member and am now seeking to add accommodation after the booking has been confirmed (also via the BA website. Will this qualify for the double points offer? Or did I need to book the accommodation at thwe same time as the flight?
The terms clearly state they must be booked together.
Tried for a couple of hours now to book flight and car rental, the site throws up an error message once I get all the way to go ahead confirm and pay!!!!!
If I book a hotel with BA Holidays, will I also earn points and status nights under the hotel’s loyalty scheme and will the hotel honour my status (e.g. for free breakfast amenity)? Am asking as I am a Marriott Bonvoy Platinum member and wonder if the 5 required nights for the BA double tier point offer would also count towards my Bonvoy status nights…
It’s unlikely you’d get points / stay credit.
But they MAY offer the other benefits you would qualify for if you had made a direct booking. But it’s down to the hotel and isn’t contractual
Just double checking before booking. Going to book via BA.com. LHR to Ho Chi Minh City. All 4 flights (2 on BA metal and 2 on Qatar connecting via Doha) have a BA flight number.
Then booking 3 nights in Ho Chi Minh and 3 nights in Hanoi all during the trip (all on the same booking and booked at the same time as the flights).
This should earn 560 tier points and then doubled to 1120?
Am I correct in my thinking/planning?Yes @DorsetFlyer sounds ok. I don’t think the hotel nights have to be consecutive.
Did you look at any other oneworld routes to Vietnam avoiding Doha?
You can check tier points using the calculator
https://www.britishairways.com/travel/flight-calculator/public/en_gb
Thanks @Richie for checking my logic!
Can you use a Barclays upgrade voucher and still get double points?
Can you use a Barclays upgrade voucher and still get double points?
No. Since you can only use it on avios flights and BA Hols are cash only.
The the T&C specifies ‘origin’ in UK – does that imply I can still get ‘double tier points’ for a trip that ends somewhere that is non-UK say LHR-BOM-DEL-DUB
Can you use a Barclays upgrade voucher and still get double points?
No. Since you can only use it on avios flights and BA Hols are cash only.
Can I pay partly with avios? thank you.
also, if it is a 45 day trip can the 5 days be split across hotels and cars in different times/locations. Thanks in advance 🙂
Bit of a multi-question for my first-ever BAH, sorry!
-if I want to do a “create your own” and want different classes on
certain different flights, that can only be done by phone, right?-and if I put in, say, “Premium Economy” for the whole trip, but
some legs don’t offer it, I’d just get Economy TP for those legs?-finally, will it say “you’ll earn xxx TP for this booking” when booking,
or do I just work it out leg by leg with the calculator?Thanks in advance!
Bit of a multi-question for my first-ever BAH, sorry!
-if I want to do a “create your own” and want different classes on
certain different flights, that can only be done by phone, right?-and if I put in, say, “Premium Economy” for the whole trip, but
some legs don’t offer it, I’d just get Economy TP for those legs?-finally, will it say “you’ll earn xxx TP for this booking” when booking,
or do I just work it out leg by leg with the calculator?Thanks in advance!
Never booked a holiday where I’ve mixed cabins on different sectors but yes you need to call unless the flight options online automatically give you different classes. Some online long haul itineraries can hook business for one sector and PE for the second.
If you do have different classes on different sectors the actual booked and flown class will determine the TP and Avios earned so you would earn less for Economy than PE
BAH bookings don’t automatically show the avios and TP so definitely use the calculator and key in each sector to tot it all up.
In addition the person who books the BAH will earn bonus Avios equal to the overall spend for the holiday. This is credited at least 30 days after you return from the trip. So if you spend £4000 you will earn an extra 4000 Avios.
Bit of a multi-question for my first-ever BAH, sorry!
-if I want to do a “create your own” and want different classes on
certain different flights, that can only be done by phone, right?-and if I put in, say, “Premium Economy” for the whole trip, but
some legs don’t offer it, I’d just get Economy TP for those legs?-finally, will it say “you’ll earn xxx TP for this booking” when booking,
or do I just work it out leg by leg with the calculator?Thanks in advance!
Never booked a holiday where I’ve mixed cabins on different sectors but yes you need to call unless the flight options online automatically give you different classes. Some online long haul itineraries can hook business for one sector and PE for the second.
If you do have different classes on different sectors the actual booked and flown class will determine the TP and Avios earned so you would earn less for Economy than PE
BAH bookings don’t automatically show the avios and TP so definitely use the calculator and key in each sector to tot it all up.
In addition the person who books the BAH will earn bonus Avios equal to the overall spend for the holiday. This is credited at least 30 days after you return from the trip. So if you spend £4000 you will earn an extra 4000 Avios.
Thanks a million!
I have been trying to book a BA Holiday (Flight plus Car) for the last day or so, booking it as a Holiday in order to get Double Tier Points. Whilst I always definitely start from the BA Holidays page, somehow between the start and end of the process it looks to be deviously converting it to a standard Flight plus Car booking which doesnt earn double Tier Points. No where in the process is it mentioning the number of Tier Points that I will earn and the payment page will only take the total cost as a payment, i.e. no ability to pay just a deposit. What am I doing wrong and have others had this problem ?
Hey everyone. Did a quick scan through and didn’t spot this crazy question being asked…
Any idea if I can make up the “5 nights” between car + hotel booking?
For example, 4 nights of car rental and 1 night hotel?
Additionally…and this is perhaps not exclusive to the BA stuff, but it’s related – any idea if “picking up the keys to the car, but leaving it in the airport car park” counts?
Can you have two hotels which make up the 5 nights eg, a two city break ?
Can you have two hotels which make up the 5 nights eg, a two city break ?
Yes, as long as they are in between your first and last flight of the booking
Hey everyone. Did a quick scan through and didn’t spot this crazy question being asked…
Any idea if I can make up the “5 nights” between car + hotel booking?
For example, 4 nights of car rental and 1 night hotel?
Additionally…and this is perhaps not exclusive to the BA stuff, but it’s related – any idea if “picking up the keys to the car, but leaving it in the airport car park” counts?
No to 4 nights car and 1 night hotel.
It has to be either 5 nights hotel or 5 full days car hire. You can’t mix and match unless you do 5 nights hotel and car hire for only 1 day.
2nd question is open to debate but realistically unless you can park the car for free why bother doing that.
Additionally…and this is perhaps not exclusive to the BA stuff, but it’s related – any idea if “picking up the keys to the car, but leaving it in the airport car park” counts?
2nd question is open to debate but realistically unless you can park the car for free why bother doing that.
Why would it be open to debate?
It’s 100% within the terms. You pick up the car, it’s up to you what you do with it. There’s no rule along the lines of “you must drive the car outside the airport otherwise we won’t give you the tier points”…!
Is there a soft landing from silver to bronze, or I plunge headlong into blue?
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