Get £10 American Express cashback on Heathrow Express train tickets

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• Roger says:

  4 Mar4 March 09:52

  Are we expecting any Hilton Promotion like last year?
  Hopefully Amex will also come up with some offers

• Janet says:

  4 Mar4 March 10:20

  I am still chasing my Economist bonus avios from the December BA Exec club promotion.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    4 Mar4 March 13:13

    Dont these things take at least 2 months?

• grex9101 says:

  4 Mar4 March 10:35

  Because their core demographic are mouthbreathers, right?

  • James says:

    4 Mar4 March 11:12

    In English?

• Cate ⛱️ says:

  4 Mar4 March 10:50

  Looking forward to the Tandem review. With travel cards taking a hit this week cash back cards may be worth a closer look for buying points when on special offer. Free FX makes it even more attractive.

  • Lady London says:

    4 Mar4 March 12:30

    I’ll be looking forward to that too. How an FX charge of 3%,on top of a pretty much risk-free transaction like a transaction debiting a bank account or a card for a purchase, can be justified is beyond me, when the governing interest rate is 3% or less. I’m looking to swop out from two of my providers due to this.

• Nori says:

  4 Mar4 March 11:26

  Good point. Thanks Genghis.

• Peter K says:

  4 Mar4 March 14:08

  OT
  Looks like the creep/devaluation of Honor points has started. The most for one night used to be 95000 but I was looking at the Hilton Sa Torre Mallorca and the points required for a stay in June this year is 100,000 points per night.

  • TripRep says:

    4 Mar4 March 15:09

    Are you sure that is a standard redemption?

    Despite the place looking pretty full, I just found a premium redemption for 96,000 Double with Garden View.

    Not that I’d spend that, rather use them back in the Maldives or on a cheap UK stay.

    • Peter K says:

      4 Mar4 March 16:06

      That is a standard room you’re describing, not a premium redemption, but with the new dynamic pricing system. E.g. in October it is down to 81k points for the same room.

      My original thought stands though, that though there is dynamic pricing which can get you a cheaper room off peak, the upper ceiling for points is creeping up. Without the pricing brackets for each level any more to compare against this seems a sign of things to come.

      • John says:

        4 Mar4 March 19:02

        You’re not exactly right. The 96K price is a premium redemption, but you’ve uncovered something sneaky.

        Under the old system, this hotel was priced at 40000-70000 points. Standard redemptions are available at this hotel for 30K-45K points, however there is no standard availability from 25 March until 1 October.

        (To take Hilton’s promise at its face value, in the off-peak the redemption price has actually gone down.)

        The standard redemption at this hotel is the “Double” or “Twin” room. But the hotel is simply not selling any Double or Twin rooms between 25 March and 1 October, and so there is no standard redemption availability.

        They are only selling the “Double Room with Garden View”, which is clearly just the same room but named differently so they can charge a higher points price.

    • Peter K says:

      4 Mar4 March 16:20

      I was thinking of trying the Hilton Dalaman in Turkey. Looks lovely, great reviews and is all inclusive with the choice of specialist restaurants you can pay extra to visit.

      • ankomonkey says:

        4 Mar4 March 20:46

        Highly recommended, especially if you have kids under about 10. We’ve been 4 times, had an upgrade each time and once had a 4pm late checkout, allowing us to carry on swimming after lunch and then take a quick shower before heading to the airport. Just watch out if booking on points that they don’t honour the 5nightsfor4 for elites.

      • Tom says:

        4 Mar4 March 22:10

        The points prices look expensive..any tips for getting good deals?!

    • Peter K says:

      4 Mar4 March 20:51

      Thanks for the clarification. I tried to look off peak in October but it came up with the same options but in early March I see the standard redemption now.
      It is sneaky you are right. The app claims there is more space in the garden view room but funnily enough dues not tell you the space in the standard room.
      Puts me off going there as when they are being underhanded in one way, you wonder what else they are doing.

• Matt B says:

  4 Mar4 March 14:10

  OT – has anyone heard when the Aerotel at Heathrow Terminal 3 will be open? Need to book a hotel the night before our honeymoon in the summer, and was wondering whether to wait and see what prices will be like for this as we are flying out of T3. Or i play it safe and book the Premier Inn at T4 for under £50 and just use the free shuttle.

  • John says:

    4 Mar4 March 17:02

    It’s your honeymoon….and you’re wondering whether to book a sub £50 Premier Inn?

    • Rob says:

      4 Mar4 March 19:02

      It is definitely under construction because I passed the site the other week but PP has not given me any opening date (and they have never met any opening date targets they have given me in the past for Heathrow projects!).

      That will be a quality trip for Anika, an overnight in a converted office block above T3 🙂

• S879 says:

  4 Mar4 March 14:48

  OT: I applied for another Amex Platinum after only 2 months of cancelled. The 30,000 points when you spend £2000 is showing on my account when I know technically you don’t get them. However, if it’s showing does that mean I will get them?

  • MarkH says:

    4 Mar4 March 16:32

    Probably not.

    I mis-timed reapplying for my OH’s BAPP so it was less than than 6 months gap. The counter is stuck at zero whereas the 10k counter for the voucher is updating fine

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