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Hotel booking site PointsHound is similar to Kaligo and Rocketmiles.  In return for booking your hotel through their site, you are rewarded with a chunk of airline miles.

British Airways Executive Club is not a PointsHound partner.  However, Virgin Atlantic Flying Club is.

For a limited time, you can earn 100 Virgin miles simply for registering with PointsHound.   Click on this link and you will be taken to a special Virgin sign-up page.

PointsHound

The process is a little fiddly.  After inputting your name and email address, you will suddenly jump to the main PointsHound home page.  You need to click on ‘Level 1’ in the top right corner and select ‘My Account’.

You will see 100 Virgin Atlantic miles pending.  However, before you can receive them, you need to add your Virgin Flying Club account details on this page.

You don’t need to do anything else to receive your 100 miles.  If you do book a hotel with PointsHound, however, you will receive 1,000 bonus Virgin Flying Club miles on your first booking.

And an American Airlines option ….

There is an identical version of this promotion for American Airlines which can be found here.

One reason to consider this instead of Virgin, if you have an AA account, is that the 100 miles will reset the expiry clock on your AA account.

The ‘first booking’ bonus with American is more generous at 2,000 miles.


How to earn Virgin Points from UK credit cards

How to earn Virgin Points from UK credit cards (December 2021)

As a reminder, there are various ways of earning Virgin Points from UK credit cards.  Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses.

You can choose from two official Virgin Atlantic credit cards (apply here, one has a bonus of 15,000 points):

Virgin Rewards credit card

Virgin Atlantic Reward Mastercard

The UK’s most generous free Visa or Mastercard at 0.75 points / £1 Read our full review

Virgin Rewards Plus credit card

Virgin Atlantic Reward+ Mastercard

15,000 points bonus and the most generous non-Amex for day to day spending Read our full review

You can also earn Virgin Points from various American Express cards – and these have sign-up bonuses too.

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold is FREE for a year and comes with 20,000 Membership Rewards points, which convert into 20,000 Virgin Points:

Nectar American Express

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold

Your best beginner’s card – 20,000 points, FREE for a year & two airport lounge passes Read our full review

The Platinum Card from American Express comes with 30,000 Membership Rewards points, which convert into 30,000 Virgin Points:

American Express Platinum card Amex

The Platinum Card from American Express

30,000 points and an unbeatable set of travel benefits – for a fee Read our full review

Click here to read our detailed summary of all UK credit cards which earn Virgin Points

(Want to earn more Virgin Points?  Click here to see our recent articles on Virgin Atlantic and Flying Club and click here for our home page with the latest news on earning and spending other airline and hotel points.)

Comments (34)

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  • Nick says:

    Done, thanks Rob.

  • AviosNewbie says:

    Does it not reset the Virgin expiry clock?

  • James67 says:

    Thanks Rob, I’m a month awat from AA expiring so this should do the trick 🙂

    • Danksy says:

      Me too! Good spot, thanks 😀

      • Jason says:

        How long do AA miles last?

        • James67 says:

          Also, keep your eye on the ball eith AA expiration. It tends to creep up on you and I believe only one close inemail notification from AA that can easily slip under the radar.

  • harry b says:

    Cannot seem to see where you will get the AA points “just for registering” ?Anyone else successfully done this

    • momomo says:

      After registering, go to My Account. There is a Loyalty Programs section in which you can add your AA / Virgin account details.

      Below this section is your Bonus History. My 100 points Signup Bonus is “Pending”

  • Think Square says:

    Doesn’t seem to give you the 100 points if you log in with an existing Pointshound account

    • Rob says:

      Worth noting, if you have Virgin status and have already registered, that you could probably open another PointsHound account and use a different Virgin number (given that your number changes every time your status level changes). My Virgin account has 3 numbers attached to it – my current Gold one, my old Silver one and my old base level one.

      • James67 says:

        Hi Rob, are you happy to share with us how you achieced Virgin gold? You rarely mention flying with them and your emphasis seems to be on BA, Air Berlin and Gulf carriers here. Just curious if you do a lot of travel that never reaches realm of HfPs, and whether you find Cirgin gold gets better recognition than your BA status? I’m still toying with idea of diversifying into FC but I’m afraid they will scrap HKG which is only route I would likely use.

        • pazza2000 says:

          Little Red > BA status match offer, I suspect 🙂

          How do I find out my old VS number?

          • Rob says:

            Don’t think you can, I happened to have mine written down

          • pazza2000 says:

            Ah it’s only 100. However if this same trick could be applied to say the S&S Isa free 5k then I’d much keener to find out my old VS#.

        • Alan says:

          IIRC status match from BA Gold? That’s how I got mine 😀

        • Rob says:

          As pazza2000 says, it was a status match via a Little Red flight.

          Best £40 I ever spent, just about! Had a pleasant morning with a friend drinking in the BA Galleries First lounge in T5, we took a BA Reward Flight Saver to Manchester and then Little Red straight back.

          10,000 VS miles come as part of the match plus I got another 2,000 on my birthday. I can also now do Little Red redemptions for just 2,500 miles return (Gold benefit). I also have another Gold card I can use for any other status matches that come along where a BA Gold would not be accepted.

          • pazza2000 says:

            Flew my first 2.5k Little Red reward Rtn this weekend, definetly the best £45 I’ve spent…

          • Paul says:

            Raffles — interested in what status match opportunities you’ve found for matching to VS gold…?

          • Rob says:

            None so far!

          • James67 says:

            Thanks for filling us in. Great deal. Unfortunately I’m currently without status on any airline but the plus side of that is I’m burning as opposed to spending.

      • ankomonkey says:

        Like your thinking!

      • JQ says:

        Hmm, in that case you can also get 500 virgin miles for signing up to e-rewards each time your status changes

  • whiskerxx says:

    Thanks Rob. A great way to reset my clocks!

  • Iainlondon says:

    How long does it take for the 100 miles to credit your account? This could actually save me £30…. Thanks!

  • linda says:

    Miles have posted in less than 24hours and reset both mine and hubby accounts as did one for him as well, with a different computer, as it recognised the desktop.

    Thanks again Rob.

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