Bits: Avios launches targetted Super Boost promo, Lloyds brings back refer-a-friend

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• Robert samuel says:

  11 Jan11 January 14:12

  Offered 4000
  If I collect 13000
  don’t think so

• CDB says:

  11 Jan11 January 14:15

  Offered 4k bonus on 13k or 8k bonus on 17k. Do we think Amex MR or SPG transfers will count? If so easy 8k for me:) However nothing on wife’s account.

  • Genghis says:

    11 Jan11 January 14:28

    avios.com are not Amex or SPG transfer partners

    • CDB says:

      11 Jan11 January 14:39

      Oops forgot only BA partners….

    • Rob says:

      11 Jan11 January 16:49

      Are Aer Lingus? Surely now they are on the Avios.com platform an Aer Lingus earning will count towards them.

• the real harry1 says:

  11 Jan11 January 14:19

  O/T can anyone please remind me of that tip/ link on the cheapest way to buy cruise holidays? It was on here a year or so ago. ISTR it was in the States & the prices were typically discounted by over 50% vs UK prices. (Got an elderly neighbour planning a cruise.)

  • pointsarb says:

    11 Jan11 January 14:35

    Might be this one?

    http://www.vacationstogo.com

    • the real harry1 says:

      11 Jan11 January 15:41

      thanks, I think you’re right https://headforpoints.com/2014/10/30/earning-avios-points-booking-package-holiday/

  • mark2 says:

    11 Jan11 January 16:04

    American Express Travel do not charge a card fee and give treble points on gold. They sometimes can give a discount.

  • AH says:

    11 Jan11 January 19:52

    priceline also do cruises

• HV says:

  11 Jan11 January 15:32

  O/T Hope someone can help. Virgin flying club only allows return bookings on ANA. If I wanted to use my virgin miles for HIJ-OKA and didn’t turn up for the return leg since I want to go OKA-HND because I don’t have enough virgin miles but have loads of avios and I book this part of the journey on JAL. is there anything I need to worry about not taking the return leg? Thanks

  • Jeff says:

    12 Jan12 January 03:05

    1. Love the itinerary, Hiroshima still haunts me (everyone should be obliged to visit!) Miyajima worth visit while in vicinity.

    2 Back on topic, but am slightly confused by your dilemma? For domestics I suggest you use avios on JAL if possible as so cheap and no taxes plus they unsurprisingly have best network/ flight frequency.

    However…..this is Japan and

    3. Trains are fantastic (stations are gourmet hideaways) – but pricey unless u use consolidator ‘tours’ e.g. Japanican

    Enjoy!!!!!!

    Rob – I hear you’re going back! Lucky lucky you. Have done Kyoto Nara (earthquake architect specialists a must visit!!) Osaka Hiroshima Miyajima Fukuoka Tokyo etc during last years Cherry Blossom – happy to offer any advice ‘if’ you wish.

    • Genghis says:

      12 Jan12 January 04:47

      I lived in Fukuoka for two years. Great place. Sounds like you enjoyed.

      My tips – get a JR rail pass if travelling around on mainland. If you’re after beaches / sun, Ishigaki is beautiful.

      • HV says:

        12 Jan12 January 12:05

        Thanks for the info Jeff/Genghis. We booked returned flights from LHR to NRT using the BA 2-4-1 voucher with Avios in CW. We then spend 4 nights Tokyo, 1 night Hakone, 4 nights Kyoto, 2 nights Hiroshima, 3 nights Okinawa and 1 night Tokyo before our flight back to London from NRT. I booked Okinawa to HND on JAL using Avios as well and intend to use Japan Railways for all the other parts of the trip. The only direct flight from Hiroshima to Okinawa is on ANA and they only allow return Virgin air mile redemptions. So I booked HIJ to OKA return but do not intend on using the return leg since it quicker for me to get back to Tokyo from Okinawa on JAL . Any risk in not showing up for the return leg e.g. OKA to HIJ? This has all been possible with the help of HFP and information gleamed from the comments sections. Thanks to all.

        • Genghis says:

          13 Jan13 January 10:38

          Nice itinerary. A few more tips:
          – Good free view from Tokyo Metropolitan Gov building in Shinjuku
          – Try onsen tamago (egg cooked in hot spring water) in Hakone
          – Go to Arashiyama in Kyoto (you can take a boat back to the town which is a nice trip)
          – Kokedera moss garden in Kyoto – book in advance
          – Nara is impressive for the Todai-ji, not far from Kyoto
          – If your itinerary is not yet set in stone, I’d recommend a night at Koya-san, just south of Osaka, staying in a temple overnight.
          – Stop off in Himeji to visit the castle when travelling to Hiroshima – best castle in Japan IMO

          Re flights, you should be OK.

      • Jeff says:

        12 Jan12 January 21:16

        Hi Genghis – absolutely, I now love Japan full-stop having spent considerable time during 2014/15/16. It’s a funny one, some people don’t like it (or quite possibly just don’t get it) and thats fine, but for some reason I really ‘get’ their culture and embrace/respect it.

        A viewing of Bill Murray’s Lost in Translation is worth it before anyone’s first visit.

        (theres a travel blog out there for some extremely wealthy – dare I say privileged – young chap who it seems does nothing but travel 5* around the world full-time, lucky lucky him; however he slated his experience of Japan – eg he didn’t fathom the concept of Ryokan – but all it told me was, I’m glad I don’t have to meet/socialise/work/be friends with him – plus the Japanese will be delighted he has long departed the country promising never to return – his words not mine – lol)

        May I ask, what you worked at in FUK ? (apologies if this is too personal a Q, in which case please just ignore it!)

        • Genghis says:

          13 Jan13 January 10:42

          Hi Jeff. I love ryokan – being brought vast quantities of quality grub for dinner and breakfast, things you would never order on a menu. Even better if there’s a private hot spring just outside your room. I recommend Kurokawa onsen in Kumamoto prefecture as the best get away (much better than Hakone but much more difficult to get to. The horse meat sashimi is fantastic! Anyway, I digress. I went to Japan on a scholarship post university and spent a year studying there. I liked it and got a job for another year in an international school before coming back to the UK to get a ‘proper job’.

• TripleB says:

  11 Jan11 January 16:11

  My offer was:

  500 = +200 boost
  2000 = +400 boost

  better than a kick in the teeth

• Sohan says:

  11 Jan11 January 16:26

  OT anyone get their miles and more 7x earnings at Best Western? I didn’t.

  • Rob says:

    11 Jan11 January 17:04

    They have started to drop in I think. Look at the Miles & More forum on Flyertalk.

    • Sohan says:

      11 Jan11 January 17:59

      Thanks! Fingers crossed…

• ankomonkey says:

  11 Jan11 January 16:29

  I got the same 🙁

• Boi says:

  11 Jan11 January 16:33

  OT:
  Message for Genghis- thanks for info re nationwide.
  Unfortunately my twitter account has been purely for collecting points and I have no idea how to contact people. I don’t know how twitter works

  Any chance you can send me the link?my twitter is @babymangoali.

  Thanks in advance

  • Genghis says:

    11 Jan11 January 16:37

    Hi Boi. I’ve followed you on Twitter. If you follow me I can then send you a message on there. Thanks.

    • Boi says:

      11 Jan11 January 21:19

      Followed. Thanks

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