Bits: Hilton status match has a website, forget Uber – take an Avis car from the airport for £20

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News in brief:

Hilton now has a website for its status match

Hilton HHonors is currently matching top tier members of pretty much every hotel loyalty programme to its own top tier, Diamond. Your match will run until March 2017.

Full details of the Hilton status match are in this article so I won’t repeat myself.

The match runs until 11th January. You can no longer email Hilton. Instead, there is a special status match website here.

Fill in the form, email a screenshot of your current status and you are good to go. You would be crazy not to do this if you have hotel status elsewhere.

Avis offering one-way UK car rentals over Christmas

If you are travelling to or from a UK airport over the festive season, this could work for you.

Avis is offering one-way car rentals between 29th December and 3rd January for £20. You can book here.

This is valid from Gatwick, Heathrow Terminals 2-4, Heathrow Terminal 5 (separate pick-up area), Luton and Stansted. It is not valid for trips to the airport.

This could be your cheapest route home after your flight. It isn’t clear if you would earn Avios or other miles as well but there is no harm adding your number to your booking.

I did a dummy booking from Heathrow T5 to Avis Battersea for 3rd January and it priced at £20 for Ford Fiesta (Group B) and £25 for a Group C to E. You can’t argue at that price.

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Avis and Avis Preferred, Hilton Honors

This article is closed to new posts. Discussion continues in the HfP Forums.

Lee says:

24 Dec24 December 13:27

Got my Diamond status at Hilton, via my Amex Platinum upgrade to Accor Platinum. I too got the email asking how many points I’d got on my account, which is 51,000 – thanks to HfP highlighting the @Play offers, then jumping on their 20% bonus at the time. I’m now waiting for an event I fancy – or I’ll use the points for a stay.

I completely understand the frustration of readers who are 100% loyal to a brand in order to attain an Elite Status only to find some clown like me gets it for absolutely nothing. It must really rankle, and whilst I’m very happy to take the perks I genuinely do feel guilty :O/

Anyway – a huge thank you to Rob for a genuinely interesting read every day and very rewarding year for myself and my family – and Merry Christmas everyone!
Sue says:

24 Dec24 December 13:53

Apologies if I’m being thick.
Trying to fill in the form on the Hilton website for the status match on my ipad but it doesn’t seem to be accepting it when I choose existing photo of my membership card.
I’m away at the moment and only have iPad.
Can anyone explain what I am doing wrong please?
Oxcheetah says:

24 Dec24 December 14:43

The status match also allows non top tier members to match.

My father in law is only Platinum IHG (1 tier down from the top) and yet he has been granted Diamond Honours based on that!!
- Guesswho2000 says:
  
  24 Dec24 December 14:56
  
  I can confirm I got this result too – I was Gold before, with requalification one (booked) stay away, sent them a copy of my IHG Plat card and was upgraded to Diamond within 24 hours, just in time for the aforementioned booked stay!
Guesswho2000 says:

24 Dec24 December 14:55

OT, but check your emails for one from Heathrow Rewards – share your story – submit your story (about an experience at LHR) and get 100 free HR points (=100 Avios, if exchanged in multiples of 250). Takes a couple of minutes, max.
- Andrew H says:
  
  24 Dec24 December 20:57
  
  I know that was mentioned on Inside Flyer UK but they’ve removed the article and I can’t find a single mention of it anywhere else!
  
  Any chance of cutting and pasting the email text?
  - Andrew H says:
    
    24 Dec24 December 21:53
    
    Ah, I see, found the link. http://eu.sensemaker-suite.com/collector/collector.gsp?projectID=HeathrowPassengers&language=en#Collector
Andrew (@andrewseftel) says:

24 Dec24 December 15:12

Just had an email from Avis advertising one-way rentals from £2!

It does indeed price up at £2 for a Ford Fiesta from Heathrow Airport on 29/12/2015 to Bracknell 30/12/2015. Quite the price, considering you can get 750 avios for your trouble.
harry says:

24 Dec24 December 15:24

I was waiting for a Bits

So the Barclays Airport Angel replacement – Dragonpass – doesn’t work the same way, ie work for 12 months.

You cancel it after 1 month, the Dragonpass dies as well. When you arrive @ Lounge, your Dragonpass card will show as unactivated.

So time your start up & £13.50 payment.

Or do as I did, which is get Dragonpass to email you your 6 Lounge passes, which luckily No1 T3 were happy to take.
- Waribai says:
  
  24 Dec24 December 15:57
  
  I’ve got this linked to my Barclays account. How do I cancel it?
  - Johnnycl says:
    
    24 Dec24 December 16:17
    
    You have to ring them up to cancel. It was a bit of a hassle when I did it last month; half an hour on hold then transfered between departments. Easy when I finally got to speak to an advisor, just asked why I wanted to cancel and did it immediately.
    - Waribai says:
      
      24 Dec24 December 16:40
      
      Thanks, I look forward to that!
Mike says:

24 Dec24 December 16:26

I couldn’t find anything I wanted at LHR last month.
I’m back on the 30th and thinking of buying £100 sim free phones from Dixons travel and then putting them on eBay brand new boxed since there’s nothing else I really want.
Matt says:

24 Dec24 December 17:02

Quick message to say thank you to Rob for all his help and advice this year, and merry Christmas to all the other HfP addicts. Two days cold turkey now with only real turkey and pudding for comfort.
- Andrew H says:
  
  24 Dec24 December 20:47
  
  On the contrary, you can still earn daily, instant Avios with Rewards for Thoughts. I have earnt 9000 Avios from them this year. Couple of 50 Avios surveys a day – sorted. I’ve no doubt there’ll be some available tomorrow.
  
  And the free Marriott points for tweeting once a day are still available. That’s instantaneous too.
  
  So I’ll still be earning points tomorrow!