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

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• Mike says:

  24 Dec24 December 18:50

  Just to say if you really can be bothered with the arbitrage (and I haven’t read the small print about multiple bookings in one day)

  And you’re outer west London based

  And you have any form of travelcard / bus card on your oystercard

  You could book

  Avis T1234 (Bath Road, Near Harlington Corner) to Avis Yeading (tesco extra) – 5 miles – 10 minutes

  And get the 140 bus back many times, and shift their whole fleet from the Bath road to Yeading.

  • harry says:

    26 Dec26 December 17:50

    Points to be had lol

• James says:

  25 Dec25 December 08:03

  Thanks for flagging Avis promotion. Managed to book a car from Heathrow on 1st January, returning to a central London location 2 days later for only £4.

• Paul says:

  26 Dec26 December 14:42

  OT:
  I have been holding off signing up for the IHG Premium card, thinking if I sign up right at the end of the month (when the bonus points offer ends) there is a chance I might get status for two years.
  However, I was looking over the terms of the offer and have spotted this:
  “Bonus points will be credited if a spend is made on the card within 90 days of the account being opened. Application and first spend must take place before 31st December 2015 .”

  This suggests I have missed the boat on that offer now – there is not much chance of me receiving the card before the end of the month.

  Does anyone remember from previous offers if they got the full bonus when spending on the card after the offer ended?

  • Rob says:

    26 Dec26 December 18:02

    Someone else mentioned this to me during the week. It is, I agree, a crazy clause – if you’ve got 90 days to make the spend, why have this exclusion?

    As I’ve never seen a rule like this before (and IHG has only done an extra bonus once since the card relaunched) we have no track record to go on. Based on the wording it seems too risky to try now.

    • Paul says:

      26 Dec26 December 23:25

      Oh well, nevermind!

      Thanks for having a look Rob.

• Jtz says:

  29 Dec29 December 13:49

  Hi, I managed to get the 3000 points from Heathrow rewards by scanning receipts. Is it better to double up with avios or ba?
  Thanks in advance

  • Rob says:

    29 Dec29 December 16:38

    Makes no difference as you can move points from Avios.com to BA (and back again) for free, unlimited times, using the ‘Combine My Avios’ function on either of their sites.

• Chris says:

  29 Dec29 December 21:41

  Thanks Rob. Submitted my status match to SPG Gold. Received an email today from HHonors congratulating me on being matched to HH Gold – expires March 31, 2017.

  I’ve been HH Gold on and off over the years ( generally earned through an X stays fast track and do genuinely value its benefits.

  Thanks once again for the tip! Great site as always 🙂

• Oz says:

  29 Dec29 December 22:59

  Thanks, my Club Carlson Concierge successfully matched to Diamond. That’s perfect timing for me as my Hilton Gold was due to expire at the end of Feb!

• Marc says:

  30 Dec30 December 16:48

  Submitted Hilton status match requests on the website two days ago both of which have been successful.

  I had a punt as an existing Gold for a match to Diamond from Best Western Diamond (itself a status match from IHG Plat some time ago) fully expecting it to be declined but my account has just been upgraded,

  OH has matched a new account from Accor Plat (from Amex Plat) and has also been upgraded to Diamond – Hilton Visa also on the way

• ElectroDuende says:

  5 Jan5 January 12:49

  I submitted my Meliá Rewards Gold status about two weeks ago… and no news for the moment.
  Don’t know if Meliá is known enoguh in USA to be had in account…

  Also, my Hilton account doesn’t show any activity in the last year… would this also have something to do?

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