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• Sh83 says:

  9 Mar9 March 09:04

  OT re: Accor. Got email the other day about earning points via their shopping portal. Not seen this before but brilliant way of topping up Accor balance to get the 40€ off voucher. Is this a new facility?

  • Stuart_f says:

    9 Mar9 March 09:17

    It would be very interesting if it reset the expiry date on the points too.

    • Rob says:

      9 Mar9 March 09:27

      Someone said last week that Club Opinions no longer worked in resetting the expiry date. Not sure if there is a wide clampdown. To be fair the rules say you must do a stay even though historically any earning did the trick.

  • RussellH says:

    9 Mar9 March 11:33

    I was not aware of this either – potentially useful as I need just 14 points to reach 2000.

    A quick browse did not show anything of even vague interest though. Maybe I need to look harder?

    • Lady London says:

      9 Mar9 March 11:41

      I deleted it. Now I’m interested. If anyone still has the link could they post it please?

      • Lady London says:

        9 Mar9 March 12:11

        Thank you @SH83

      • Lady London says:

        9 Mar9 March 12:21

        Hum. Just spotted this one available at Gatwick.
        CLOUD SPA nails & beauty
        Airside- North Terminal, International Departure, opposite Harrods

        •04:00-22:00
        •Maximum 2 hours stay. .Exchange a lounge visit for a spa treatment of up to £20.

  • Relaxo says:

    9 Mar9 March 14:24

    As an aside – Accor dont issue vouchers anymore.

• JamesB says:

  9 Mar9 March 09:59

  OT Marriott Travel Package: I am thinking about transferring my Marriott points to a United Airlines travel package. However on travel package page it refers to RewardsPlus. Do I need to be a RewardsPlus member to transfer or just a UA member? I have not used my UA account for ovef 11 years so I have lost track of all the rules and I’m trying to get to grips with the current ones.

  • Lyn says:

    9 Mar9 March 19:29

    JamesB, it looks as if they are using RewardsPlus as a marketing name (Marriott Rewards + MileagePlus?) to encourage United elites to stay with Marriott.

    You certainly don’t need to be a RewardsPlus member to transfer Marriott points to United with the 20% discount (relative to other airlines such as AA) as reflected in the tables of how many points translate into how many miles in the different airline programmes.

    I imagine this would be the same for travel packages, but I don’t actually know.

    • JamesB says:

      9 Mar9 March 22:06

      Thanks Lyn, I tried signing up with RewardsPlus this evening but got an error. I will call VS tomorrow and ask them to do it for me. From a few things I have read today I believe you are correct but will still join if I can.

• NIck_C says:

  9 Mar9 March 11:08

  OT. Just received my first ever Amex PRGC (never bother with churning up until now, but I thought I should do it while it is still possible!). I tried to add it my existing Amex on-line account (BA) but it would not allow this. I had to set up a new on line account with a new user ID. Is this normal for Amex? (Also tried adding the BA card to the new account, but couldn’t do that either).

  • Rob says:

    9 Mar9 March 11:14

    Not normal if you have never had the card before. Can often play up if you have. Pain as you cannot use the app fully now.

    • NIck_C says:

      9 Mar9 March 11:38

      First Charge Card. Only had the BA card before. Its an inconvenience but I can live with it.

      But on a positive note, I’ve received 4000 Avios on my BA account for referring myself! Not sure who posted that tip, but it was a good one! (I’m using the free BA card currently as I have a couple of vouchers banked).

      • Luthar says:

        9 Mar9 March 13:21

        Does this work with all Amex cards? Can I refer myself for a BA card if I have the Gold card?

    • john says:

      10 Mar10 March 15:46

      My wife had this with BA card but it’s in her married name rather than maiden name of her previous cards so assumed this was the reason.

  • sunguy says:

    9 Mar9 March 12:33

    When we changed from corporate AMEX to M/C I got a personal BA (Free) AMEX card.

    The card refused to be added to my online account, despite the fact that the AMEX was now showing as closed….(and had been for > 3 months).

    I was told by Amex that certain types of cards cannot be mixed in the online portal and I needed a new online account…..

    • Cate ⛱️ says:

      9 Mar9 March 13:07

      I was told the same. I said thank you, put the phone down, called back later and the next CS operator added it ????

• Karen says:

  9 Mar9 March 13:17

  OT. Has anyone else had any issues with the bonus points from the Membership Rewards to Hilton posting? I did the transfer on the 31st January and deleted the email and now Amex are saying the offer doesn’t exist.

  • Tracy says:

    9 Mar9 March 16:54

    Mine posted fine, got last lot of bonus points on 15th Feb for a transfer on 31st Jan.

• Ade says:

  9 Mar9 March 15:20

  OT – Marriott Travel packages,
  Just had email from Marriott, that they are offering 10% bonus miles on travel packages, I guess this will stack with the 35% miles bonus that BA are offering, so their usual 120k miles become (120 x 10% x 35% ) 178k

  Seems a very generous offer

  • New Card says:

    9 Mar9 March 16:13

    Nooooo I’ve just redeemed for 2 of these for the 35% bonus (without the 10% uplift)…
    Interesting that they’ve decided to do a promotion on these – am hoping this signals they’re not going away after the SPG merger

    • Roger says:

      9 Mar9 March 16:34

      Saw this too.
      Not too sure, if it not for UA (United Mileage Plus only)?

  • JamesB says:

    9 Mar9 March 16:38

    Did your email say avios? Mine is for United. Hence my earlier question. I heard about it yesterday before receiving email confirmation this afternoon. I thought it was for the RewardsPlus scheme.

    • JamesB says:

      9 Mar9 March 16:43

      I should add that RewardsPlus seems to attract a 10%bonus anyway so it is ubclear if email just refers to that or if it is an additional 10%.

  • New Card says:

    9 Mar9 March 16:51

    Ah, that would perhaps explain it. I think UA RewardsPlus always has a 10% bonus offer from Marriott.

• Tracy says:

  9 Mar9 March 16:56

  O/T I know this is asked just about every day but is there a current gold to platinum upgrade link? Thanks 🙂

  • D says:

    9 Mar9 March 18:27

    https://www.americanexpress.com/uk/content/platinum-charge/upgrade/

    • Tracy says:

      9 Mar9 March 20:46

      Thank you

• Tracy says:

  9 Mar9 March 17:09

  Sorry another O/T, I am trying to transfer MR points to Starwood, what is the work around for inputting your SPG number? I sort of remember something about adding zeros…….?

  • Roger says:

    9 Mar9 March 17:27

    IIRC, it is four leading zeros before actual numbers

    • Tracy says:

      9 Mar9 March 20:45

      Lol, I tried four zeros at the end earlier in the week and the points have been returned to my MR account. Will try zeros at start….

  • JamesB says:

    9 Mar9 March 18:02

    I recommend you call them Tracy. I called yesterday to both register and transfer. I was told it would take up to two weeks but points hit my SPG account today.

    • Tracy says:

      9 Mar9 March 20:46

      Will try a few zeros at start of account number, if no luck I will give them a call, thanks

• Roger says:

  9 Mar9 March 18:07

  Men took two days to transfer, although it was to an already registered account.

  • JamesB says:

    9 Mar9 March 19:27

    Yes, I was very surprised as the amex rep said yesterday that SPG were very slow at the moment.

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