Bits: 50% off mytaxi, 18% off LateRooms, 7200 Avios with a tablet

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• Simon says:

  14 Aug14 August 07:04

  Still waiting for my Hailo base and bonus points from February last year. Any time now…

• Pbdj says:

  14 Aug14 August 07:21

  My reading is that the mytaxi airport promo also applies to cabs /from/ the airports!

  • Rob says:

    14 Aug14 August 08:31

    Agreed, added.

• Roger I* says:

  14 Aug14 August 07:59

  mytaxi looks interesting for us. 🙂 A couple of comments:

  1. Unusually for Rob, there’s no ‘book here’ link, just a link to the T+Cs for this promotion.

  2. What’s the definition of ‘London’ : postal district? London borough? within the M25? I would qualify for 2 of the 3. No info on app AFAICS

  3. How do I get a fare estimate? I downloaded the app but only see ‘book’.

  Thanks.

  • N says:

    14 Aug14 August 08:26

    Fare estimate is buried in the app. Have a click around and you will find it.

    If you qualify for a fixed fare then you will get a pop up

    • Rob says:

      14 Aug14 August 08:29

      There is no ‘book here’ – you need to download the app and make a booking, discount is automatic.

      • Roger I* says:

        14 Aug14 August 09:13

        Thanks, Rob.

        I’m not ready to book, just lining up the possibility for next week. The app thinks I’m next door 😀 and won’t let me change the pick up address. The app is still calculating the fare from next door to LGW South after 10 minutes. 😀

        I think I have found out that their definition of ‘London’ doesn’t include my address. OK, they don’t want me, even though apparently there was a cab 3 minutes away. Not sure whether to keep the app for possible non-London use.

    • Roger I* says:

      14 Aug14 August 08:51

      Found it, thanks.

• the real harry1 says:

  14 Aug14 August 09:14

  O/T this might raise a wry smile from exit seat aficionados – so my wife checked in @ T-24 and found she had been allocated the coveted (on this plane) 14A – nice to see it happens as sometimes I think the algorithm holds exit seats back until last, hoping for £23 from someone willing to pay, it must mean the plane is full, I guess

  anyway, she only goes and immediately moves herself to a window dangerously near the toilet zone! her logic being she likes to have her bag on the floor and the view is not as good over the wing! no point telling her she could have her bag on the floor ten minutes after take-off, that is ‘too much hassle’ – just goes to prove each to their own I suppose but what a squandered gifthorse 🙂

  • Rob says:

    14 Aug14 August 09:19

    My wife also refuses to take exit row seats because it means her bag has to go up ….

    • Susan says:

      14 Aug14 August 15:01

      My husband is same if travelling alone.

  • roberto says:

    14 Aug14 August 10:11

    “Woman is the unfathomable, incalculable mystery, the problem that we men can never hope to solve.”
    P.G. Wodehouse

    • the real harry1 says:

      14 Aug14 August 13:15

      ha ha!

      I do wonder if somehow we have secret ‘status’ – yes I do know what status is, Genghis 🙂 but we’re never going to get it at present, all our flights are Avios redemptions (no tier points) bar a few HBOs.

      But we do fly reasonably frequently.

      Is it by chance my wife got an exit seat this time and at Easter I got the only window ET seat in a 99% full plane with a blocked off middle?

      I do make sure to always input the BAEC numbers in our bookings.

• Thomas says:

  14 Aug14 August 09:17

  One question, I am unsure about. Is this promotion for new customers only? I had an account with mytaxi for quite a while…

  • Rob says:

    14 Aug14 August 09:57

    Appears to be open to everyone. The ‘weekends’ discount is all over their Twitter feed for example.

    • Thomas says:

      14 Aug14 August 10:10

      Thank you for letting me know.

• Simon says:

  14 Aug14 August 09:27

  Hi Rob, sorry if someone else has already flagged this but the Emirates stadium redemptions have appeared on the Emirates website. Most of the season is there but with some of the bigger games not yet listed (or already snapped up). (Odd that Liverpool is available (and for only 20k miles for the box), for example, when Chelsea, the Manchester teams and Spurs are not.) I will see anyone who goes to the Brighton game in the box!

  • Ro says:

    14 Aug14 August 09:38

    Maybe they just aren’t releasing games for actual title contenders only, hence Liverpool is available 😉

  • Rob says:

    14 Aug14 August 09:54

    You’ll be seeing me and my 9-year old daughter then 🙂 Picked up a couple of games this morning due to a reader tip-off. I only take the rubbish opposition because I know there should be a few goals ….

    Remember that Amex points transfer instantly into Emirates as long as the accounts are already linked – it is literally instant. Very handy as it lets me pick up Emirates redemptions without having to hoard any miles there. I assume EK is also happy as they are effectively selling the seats for cash!

    I am guessing that they are not releasing the other games (yet?). Emirates might feel they can get better corporate ‘value’ by inviting key clients. I think only 4 box seats per game go for miles, the rest tend to be EK invitees.

    • Ricardo says:

      14 Aug14 August 10:53

      Could someone kindly clarify how the Skywards website works for these packages? I don’t currently have enough EK miles to book, but will transfer across Amex points if there’s availability for the match I want.

      It currently says “Sorry, you don’t have enough Skywards Miles to redeem these tickets.” and in the column under “Number of tickets” has a dash. Does this mean it’s already sold out, or just hidden to those without the necessary miles?

      I tried calling Emirates but spent 10 mins trying to explain what I wanted to an agent who didn’t have a clue and couldn’t even find the Arsenal redemptions in their system.

      Many thanks in advance!

      • Simon says:

        14 Aug14 August 11:18

        My understanding is that if you see the dash then there are some seats available – but you just can’t see it as you don’t have the miles. If there’s no availability then that ticket type for that match won’t even be listed. But I have never tested this by seeing a dash and then transferring in the points so it’s only a guess. Sorry. I think you need someone with enough miles to do an availability check for you – sorry but I can’t help.

        And Rob, insinuation re rubbish opposition noted! And accepted, to be honest.

        • Rob says:

          14 Aug14 August 12:54

          Kids want to see goals!

      • Geoff says:

        14 Aug14 August 16:04

        Remember – most games listed will likely change date & time due to TV coverage and Europa league.

        • Rob says:

          14 Aug14 August 22:53

          Correct. For clarity, you have zero come back in this situation. It is even worse this season as you need to factor in a potential Friday night kick off as well as Sat, Sun and Mon. The TV schedules are only finalised about 8 weeks in advance.

• Ro says:

  14 Aug14 August 09:42

  OT – I had 500 MR points for £25 spend at Amazon on my platinum card. The week before the offer I had applied for an received a BAPP but for some reason Amex couldn’t merge the card’s account onto my current online Amex account and as a result I couldn’t access “my offers” so was worried I would miss out on the Amazon offer.

  called up today and they immediately merged the account but the Amazon offer was of course not there. I asked the lady at the call centre if it could be added and she said unfortunately not – so instead she just manually added 1000 avios to my account.

  On top of that I missed out on a targeted offer of 30k avios sign up bonus by 2 days. So amex said they would manually add the extra 5k avios once i meet the minimum spend to make it 30k total.

  talk about amazing customer service – what a result. Just shows that with Amex, it’s always worth asking.

• Roger I* says:

  14 Aug14 August 11:53

  Further to my post at 09:13, I got a mytaxi estimate for a journey from home (actually next door) to LGW. It took 2 1/2 hours. 😀 😀 That’s almost twice as long as their estimate of the journey time.

  BUT the estimated fare is £254. Even at 50% off, it’s expensive. Our local cab company will take me for £64 – not a London cab, usually a large Merc – but we know them and use them for LHR and LCY @ £32.

  I won’t be making much use of this app.

  • Tom says:

    15 Aug15 August 06:37

    A similar story. I need to get two of us from Gatwick to Heathrow shortly. The mytaxi price is circa £250, or £125 with the 50% discount applied. Uber fare estimation is £55-£75.

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