Bits: Tesco scrapping Avios on gift cards, Flying Blue Shop&Earn, 1000 instant IHG points

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News in brief:

Tesco stopping its offer of 150 Clubcard points (360 Avios) on gift cards

According to an announcement on the Tesco website, you will soon no longer be able to earn 150 Clubcard points (360 Avios) when you spend £50 on gift cards at Tesco.

Full details are in this Shopper Points article here. I was never a major buyer of these because my local Tesco had a poor selection but I know some people were spending many thousands of pounds this way.

Flying Blue’s UK shopping portal

I cover Flying Blue, the Air France / KLM scheme, less than I should. This is probably why I didn’t realise until last week that Flying Blue has a miles-earning UK shopping portal.

Shop&Earn is the equivalent of BA’s Gate 365 or Virgin Atlantic Shops Away. You earn miles by clicking through from Shop&Earn when you shop online.

Mr Porter, for example, gets you 5 Flying Blue miles for every £1 you spend. Reiss is 3 miles per £1. John Lewis is 3 miles per £1.

The Shop&Earn home page is here.

IHG Rewards Club

Earn 1,000 IHG Rewards Club points with Opinion Check-In

You may have received an email from IHG Rewards Club in late August inviting you to register with their new online survey partner Opinion Check-In.

You will receive 1,000 IHG Rewards Club points for completing your first survey.

I decided to give it a try. To be honest, it was a lot of trouble and took me 20 minutes to register, complete my details and complete one survey (on hotels).

The process was fairly painful. Despite saying I was an ‘Entrepreneur / Small Business Owner’ I was forced to answer numerous irrelevant questions over my job title, whether or not I employ 100,000+ people on the same site and what purchasing responsibilities I have (answer = everything).

After filling all this in, I was thrown out of my first survey after four questions when they found out I lived in London, which they already knew. This was probably good as the completion time was estimated at 23 minutes. I was given 5 points for my trouble which I would value at 2.5p!

A 2nd survey, on hotels, had a 12 minutes estimated completion time. I was able to answer this all the way through and received my 1,000 points.

Impressively, these posted instantly. However they did NOT count towards elite status.

If you have 15-20 minutes to pass, it is arguably worth doing in order to pick up £5-worth of IHG Rewards Club points. Two reasons to bother are:

they post instantly and

you can immediately resign from Opinion Check-In via their dashboard – you won’t be plagued with unwanted email for the rest of time

IHG Rewards update – December 2021:

Get bonus points: You can earn up to triple IHG Rewards base points with IHG’s new Autumn promotion. It runs from 1st October to 31st December. You can register here and our full article on the offer is here.

New to IHG Rewards? Read our overview of IHG Rewards here and our article on points expiry rules here. Our article on ‘What are IHG Rewards points worth?’ is here.

Buy points: If you need additional IHG Rewards points, you can buy them here.

You will get a 100% bonus when you buy IHG Rewards points by 4th January 2022. Click here to buy or learn more.

Want to earn more hotel points? Click here to see our complete list of promotions from IHG and the other major hotel chains or use the ‘Hotel Offers’ link in the menu bar at the top of the page.

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Air France KLM and Flying Blue, IHG Rewards, Tesco Clubcard

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harry says:

13 Sep13 September 17:24

O/T and my tenuous link is that you can see immediately what tax you need to pay! and therefore earn Avios when you pay it!

The gov.uk Personal Tax Account beta is now up and running. I tried it in July but it was hopeless. Now it looks pretty good https://www.gov.uk/personal-tax-account

You can get details of all sorts of things including income tax due or repayable/ overpaid, pension forecast, NI contributions record.

Hours of fun.
harry says:

13 Sep13 September 17:52

O/T Cathay Pacific 7 day sale http://www.cathaypacific.com/cx/en_GB/offers-from-london-to-all-destinations.html
Eco – Hong Kong £399 rtn
Sydney £659 rtn
Auckland £729 rtn etc

good airline
- Roger says:
  
  13 Sep13 September 18:11
  
  Not as good as £317pp to AKL (from LHR) on TG I got last month (courtesy Secretfying.com)
  - harry says:
    
    13 Sep13 September 18:21
    
    Phuket £429 rtn would make going there for 10 days at half term quite affordable 🙂
    
    You’d save so much on food & accommodation vs Europe it would pay for itself!
Matthew says:

13 Sep13 September 18:29

OT – Just heard I’ve won a 15 Heathrow meet & greet parking package via the Heathrow Rewards ‘stories’ competition. Has anyone else won anything or the biggie prize to OZ?
harry says:

13 Sep13 September 19:07

O/T T-355 summer hols 2017

Most state schools will be re-starting week commencing Monday 4th September 2017.

For return flights to UK, Saturday 2nd September is already available to buy – Sunday 3rd September pops up midnight/ 1am tonight

My kids don’t go back to school until Wednesday 6th September 2017 but I guess I’ll just get Sunday flights – ??? are you sure, harry? – no I’m not – might as well get the extra day/s?

Anyway, Avios redemptions all available on every flight back – near as damn it – if you book now or soon
Roger says:

13 Sep13 September 19:46

wish I had that many avios to redeem.
Stephen says:

13 Sep13 September 19:50

Just to add another O/T post. We’re flying into AUH on Thursday but staying in Dubai. We do have the EY transfer bus available but would prefer to head straight to the hotel because we’re arriving in the evening. I know there are often posts about getting a taxi between the two but what’s the cheapest way to do it? We’re staying in Zabeel Saray on the palm. Just get a taxi on arrival or book in advance? How much would we expect to pay each way? Thanks in advance!
- Rob says:
  
  13 Sep13 September 20:28
  
  This is what I wrote in March:
  
  “PS. If you are travelling to Dubai, as we were, it is well worth considering flying to Abu Dhabi. A Mercedes from the airport (not pre-booked) to Dubai was only £40 and took just under an hour. You can easily take 30 minutes in heavy traffic from Dubai International to many of the resorts. More importantly, the Abu Dhabi flight leaves before the first BA Dubai flight so you get there earlier – we were in our hotel by 11pm local time. You also get to experience the new 787.”
  
  Absolutely no need to pre-book …. you’ll see what I mean when you arrive!
  - Stephen says:
    
    13 Sep13 September 20:45
    
    Brilliant, thanks. We’ve flown in a couple of times but when staying in Abu Dhabi and with included transfers. My wife was looking at pre-booking and the cost was coming out considerably higher than I’d remembered reading here so that’s good to know.
Roger says:

13 Sep13 September 19:54

Looks quite interesting flying BA+AB

https://www.kayak.co.uk/flights/LON-JFK/2017-01-19/2017-01-23
- Roger says:
  
  13 Sep13 September 19:56
  
  Not sure if AB will survive until then though 🙂 based on Rob’s article couple of days ago about LH taking over routes.
Roger says:

13 Sep13 September 20:32

Thanks for good reply.
I will certainly look into this.