Is there any point getting a Diners Club card, the card that time forgot?

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• Hingeless says:

  28 Jun28 June 06:23

  So who would have them and why do they still exist?

  • G Flyer says:

    28 Jun28 June 07:48

    A Diners Club card might be useful to prove a cashier wrong on those occasions when they say “oh Amex? Sorry, that’s the ONLY card we don’t accept”

    • Genghis says:

      28 Jun28 June 13:15

      🙂 I read this comment this morning and then just this lunch time I asked the cashier, ‘Do you take Amex?’ to which the response was ‘it’s the only one we don’t accept’.

    • Mr Dee says:

      2 Jul2 July 18:35

      Yes I am sure its not accepted in a lot of places and a lot of people will probably never have seen one!

  • Mike says:

    28 Jun28 June 08:00

    Yeah, I’ve wondered for a while how they are still in business?

  • harry says:

    28 Jun28 June 08:06

    Better deal for Americans probably explains it, ie they travel here so bigger retail chains need to accept their cards.

  • flibbly says:

    28 Jun28 June 08:51

    I used to have a corporate Diners around the turn of the millennium. I haven’t worked for that company (IBM) for well over 10 years so I’ve no idea whether they still use them.

    • Bob says:

      28 Jun28 June 09:42

      IBM has switched to amex in some countries.

      Not sure about the K.

      • Aeronaut says:

        30 Jun30 June 13:42

        I guess that’s what we are now, just the K without the U…

• Tilly71 says:

  28 Jun28 June 08:06

  OT:
  Recently applied for HH status match using a mid tier level match and proof of stays. Result came back last night of silver status when i know others have received diamond recently. Has anyone on here successfully appealed on their decision and if so, can you tell me your outcome and the process you took.
  I have emailed their rep over on FT already.

  • anon says:

    28 Jun28 June 08:51

    It is a status match, so mid-tier should match to a mid-tier Hilton equivelant.

    • Tilly71 says:

      28 Jun28 June 09:04

      Exactly, so should of been matched to gold atleast.

      • Genghis says:

        28 Jun28 June 13:16

        Have you checked StatusMatcher to see what others got?

        • Tilly71 says:

          28 Jun28 June 15:36

          I just did but no mention of my hotel group, all I know is a friend got Diamond status only a week ago using exactly the same status submission?

• Andy says:

  28 Jun28 June 08:10

  In Sweden it’s still a viable option as it’s free for SAS EBG and pay’s 4 points per 100 SEK compared to 2 points per 100 SEK with MC.

• Jason Hindle says:

  28 Jun28 June 10:29

  Long before I had the Amex Platinum card, I had Diners Club. The lounge access used to be free, but with far fewer lounges than Priority Pass. That said, there were lounge options in many of the airports I used at the time. The Diners Club (yes, a Diners Club) lounge at Brussels was lovely and peaceful – I was often there by myself. There were also some strange rules. Manchester had lounges but they were only (officially) available to transfer passengers. Manchester isn’t exactly a major transfer hub.

• NFH says:

  28 Jun28 June 11:56

  I had a Diners Club card issued in Germany in the late 1990s. It cost me DEM 150 (EUR 76.69) per annum, but I got up to 8 cards on one account, which I gave to family and my then-girlfriend. Lounge access was free and unlimited, but the number of lounges was much lower than Priority Pass. I switched to Amex Platinum when Diners suddenly cut its agreement with a huge number of lounges, leaving LHR-T1 as the only Diners Club lounge at any London airport for example.

  As G Flyer suggests above, it was a fantastic card to produce when a UK merchant said that Amex was the ONLY card they didn’t accept, although I never actually wanted to use it in the UK as it was billed in DEM or EUR.

• Eli says:

  28 Jun28 June 19:02

  Hi,

  Would be interested to see an article how Brexit would affect the travel market particularly in related to the rewards industry (eg if we leave EU will the interchange cap be scrapped and how this may impact credit card rewards etc)

  • Aeronaut says:

    30 Jun30 June 13:44

    It won’t be scrapped.

    Brexit’s primary effect on the travel market is that it will be more expensive to travel abroad.

• Neil says:

  30 Jun30 June 20:48

  I still carry the Diners card in my wallet. Mostly for lounge access but sentimental reasons as well. Many, many years ago there was a card called ‘Forte Gold Card’ which was a charge card that could be used at Forte hotels. When that scheme ended they sent me a Diners Club card – no agree,met to sign, just a DC card arrived in the post. Used it for car hire and hotels for many years. I still use it every now and again. It’s the card that should have trumped Amex.

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