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• Alex W says:

  23 Oct23 October 10:32

  OT – IHG “double points plus more” promotion. Can anyone confirm whether you need to earn ALL 15,000 double points for it to count towards “complete 4 of 4 offers”? Thanks.

  • RogerC says:

    23 Oct23 October 11:42

    After three stays the counter on my double points target is showing 12% complete and is therefore not counting towards my completion bonus. While that seems ludicrous – I’d need a stupid number of stays to achieve it ~ I’m not hopeful of persuading IHG of this.

    • Alex W says:

      23 Oct23 October 11:46

      Thanks for the feedback. Very annoying as it means needing 15,000 base points – around £1300 before tax.

• Jon says:

  23 Oct23 October 10:41

  OT: Given it seemed everyone had got better a better amex deal than me on Starbucks spend, I checked my BA blue card and saw I had the 20% off offer on there! While I doubt I’ll be using that, I’ll definitely be using the “Spend £5 or more and get 500 avios”. Terrific deal.

  • Crafty says:

    23 Oct23 October 11:01

    Such giveaways seem worryingly commonplace at the moment. The devaluation must be imminent.

• Adam says:

  23 Oct23 October 10:42

  OT as bits: If I use Creation IHG Platinum card to pay for an ihg property abroad in a foreign currency – do I get 4 points per pound because it is a foreign currency or do I get 8 points per pound becuase it is a foreign currency and an IHG hotel? Latter is probably to good to be true 🙂

  • Alex W says:

    23 Oct23 October 10:43

    4 points max.

    • Alex W says:

      23 Oct23 October 10:44

      Minus a 3% FX fee. You’re better off paying via Curve and accepting you’ll only get 2 pts/£.

      • Adam says:

        23 Oct23 October 11:06

        Thanks Alex!

• Andy says:

  23 Oct23 October 10:42

  Looks like today is my lucky day, I won 10k points in the Marriott game!

  • Adam says:

    23 Oct23 October 11:07

    Congrats! Fingers crossed you will see them at some point! 🙂

• Craig says:

  23 Oct23 October 12:03

  OT – Marriott Rewards Question – We are planning to stay at the St Regis NY next year. Our timetable only allows us to be in NY for a maximum of 4 nights. We will be using reward points for the booking, so the cost of booking 4 nights will be the same as 5. Is there anything we could do to avoid wasting a night?

  If we booked up for 5 nights, is there any way we could we cancel the 5th night and receive any points back?

  • Mark says:

    23 Oct23 October 12:29

    don’t think so, but might be worth having the extra night depending on the time you plan to leave. If you have a late flight connection you will have the room all day.

  • Rob says:

    23 Oct23 October 15:29

    No. What you can do is book 5 nights and so guarantee yourself a late check-out – book yourself the 10pm BA flight to Gatwick back and stay in the hotel until 6-7pm!

    You will pay another $50 resort fee though.

• A270 says:

  23 Oct23 October 12:37

  OT: I signed up to Amex Platinum and have had it for 8 months. I have done maximum referrals. If i downgrade to Gold, will i need to pay the £140 annual fee? Also, will I be able to do more referrals. I know I will only get 9k as opposed to 18k.

  • Anna says:

    23 Oct23 October 12:45

    Have you paid any fee for the Platinum yet?

    • A270 says:

      23 Oct23 October 13:16

      Yes, was charged the full fees after a few months. I’ve had t since February.

      • Lee says:

        23 Oct23 October 13:19

        I thought gold charge card not exist any more. Not sure if you could downgrade from a charge card to credit card.

      • Anna says:

        23 Oct23 October 14:42

        I thought you just meant change over to Gold. If you cancel Platinum you will get your fee refunded pro-rata, then presumably you will get your first year free on the Gold credit card but no sign up bonus as you won’t have had the 6 month break.

  • Rob says:

    23 Oct23 October 15:27

    Yes, fee kicks in immediately. No more referrals until 1st January as they go by MR account.

    • A270 says:

      23 Oct23 October 20:23

      Thanks. I opened the card in Feb or March so if I keep the Platinum, I can start new referrals from 1st Jan? Right now I have maxed out the 5 referrals.

      • Rob says:

        23 Oct23 October 20:26

        Yes, limit resets 1 January.

• BlueHorizonuk says:

  23 Oct23 October 13:06

  OT: Does anyone know if Hyatt charge the cash portion of C+P upfront or at checkout?

  Thanks

  • Lyn says:

    23 Oct23 October 15:14

    Sorry, I don’t know the answer. Just in case you aren’t aware of it, there is a rumour that the number of points Hyatt charge for C+P could be changing for bookings made from November 1st to something more in line with actual cash prices.

    • Rob says:

      23 Oct23 October 15:20

      Seems to be confirmed now. Moving to 50% of the cash rate so no extra saving over using 100% points.

• Stefan G says:

  23 Oct23 October 13:17

  Do we know if Lufthansa will still post 1 Mile for mile retention until June 2019, as they had originally said? I know there is a M&M credit card out but I am not very keen in paying the annual fee to have it.

  • Rob says:

    23 Oct23 October 15:27

    I think you’re safe, whether or not they post 1 mile. The position is very clear.

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