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• Kevin says:

  28 Jul28 July 09:08

  We had lunch at the Plaza Premium a couple of weeks back. I thought it was very good. They had World Cup cupcakes back then.

• Jovanna says:

  28 Jul28 July 09:16

  OT: I was making a two-day reservation with Avis last night. The price jumped from £44 to £125 when I signed in. I tried and tried to work out what was different in my profile to cause the change. I played and played with the settings / insurance preferences but I couldn’t get the price back to £44. I even made a booking at £125 to see if it would re-price after I confirmed the reservation. It didn’t, so I cancelled, logged out and made the reservation at £44.

  Any idea how I can get my Avis Preferred number in the reservation? Is it possible? Hertz will never add it and it has to be a new reservation, which is sometimes best left.

  • Cormac says:

    28 Jul28 July 13:14

    I’ve has success by just calling the office I’m picking up from a few days in advance.

  • Sandgrounder says:

    28 Jul28 July 13:46

    You can call or email preferred, they will add the number. I did this via email in May after booking a better rate through Canadian Affair.

• GeoffGeoff says:

  28 Jul28 July 09:17

  Anyone know if champagne is available in the T5 PP lounge?
  TIA

  • Mzungu says:

    30 Jul30 July 14:00

    Probably too late now, but they only serve Prosecco, and charge (I think) £5 a glass. It’s what they serve if you ask for Champagne 😮

• Kilburnflyer says:

  28 Jul28 July 09:27

  Worth pointing out again that you can use Ebookers bonus+ lounge passes (4 nights= Gold, 1 pass — 12 nights = Platinum, 2 passes) at Plaza Premium Terminal 5 lounge. Books through Lounge Buddy via a link that ebookers send you in an email.

  Used these to access T5 Plaza Premium lounge in June as one of us didn’t have access to Club Galleries.

• Greg says:

  28 Jul28 July 09:33

  I quite like the Plaza Premium lounge in T5 which I access using my Barclays Dragonpass. However I am surprised nobody has mentioned the poor selection of drinks which are available. Just Carlsberg or IPA in bottles, poor cheap wines, a few cheap spirits (you had to pay extra for premium gin when I was there last month) and NO liqueurs or like Baileys at all. In addition they will not serve you a bottle of water, they must pour it in a glass.

  • the real harry1 says:

    28 Jul28 July 10:07

    Greg, I feel for you. In a glass, you say?

  • Leo says:

    28 Jul28 July 10:15

    The barman made me a decent Negroni.

    • Matt says:

      28 Jul28 July 11:21

      BA galleries has their priorities just right for the British – great self serve alcohol selection and crap food except for great bacon sandwiches. What more could you want!

  • Ian Gleave says:

    28 Jul28 July 11:15

    I never feel it an essential part of my travel experience to drink liqueurs before boarding a flight. Each to their own.

    • Pangolin says:

      28 Jul28 July 12:23

      I could say almost exactly the same – except I’d remove the word ‘never’.

      • the real harry1 says:

        28 Jul28 July 14:38

        Well, there are girly liqueurs and real man liqueurs, that’s all I’ll say 🙂

        Not quite all: so Baileys/ Carolans are girly (disgustingly sweet but usefuk to have around as a student). What about Jagermeister or Unicum? Manly as hell in my books, herby and give power to your persuasion 🙂

      • ankomonkey says:

        28 Jul28 July 14:47

        @TRH1 – not heard of Unicum and not willing to google it!

      • the real harry1 says:

        28 Jul28 July 14:52

        Honest, nothing bad will come of it (so to speak!)

        It’s a fine manly liqueur 🙂

      • the real harry1 says:

        28 Jul28 July 14:57

        There’s that Scottish one as well, ah here we go Drambuie!

        Nobody would say that it’s inherently girly, it’s a bit unisex in my books 🙂

• Steve says:

  28 Jul28 July 09:41

  OT: does BA award availability open up at anytime of the day or do they get released as a daily batch at a set time each day. Not talking about T-365 days but last min availability over the next 30 days. Looking for F availability one way to California on a specific date and would prefer not to go via a connection in Texas or east coast. Iv seem lots of fluctuating availability near the date, when checking on over the last few days but cant decide whether to hold out or make a slightly inconvenient booking.

  Also holding back to hear if Iberia are planning to open up combine my avios for 90k bonus per Rob’s comment yesterday

  • Mark2 says:

    28 Jul28 July 12:45

    sounds like a job for BA Redemption Finder.

• Dale says:

  28 Jul28 July 09:42

  Not going to be quiet for long if it keeps getting advertised here!

  Agree about, especially soft drink, no fresh orange or sodas etc on tap at all

  Chicken tikka masala is delicious

  • the real harry1 says:

    28 Jul28 July 10:04

    Amex have done a remarkably good job of keeping quiet about UK Plat benefits so I wouldn’t be worried on that score 🙂

• Tilly says:

  28 Jul28 July 09:46

  I do like the Plaza Premium lounge. Good foos selection, even for someone who has allergies there was enough for me to eat for dinner. Nice and quiet too when I went on a Friday leading into the bank holiday, no problem finding somewhere to sit.

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