How to buy 2,000 Avios points for under £17 via Groupon Spain

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• Oli says:

  29 Dec29 December 06:21

  Sofitel T5 charges £20 for kids beds. Does it mean kids stay for free if they use the cot we are travelling with or would they charge £20 regardless? Also, is it possible to check in luggage the evening before flying with BA at T5?

  • Anna says:

    29 Dec29 December 07:40

    The charge should only be if they actually provide a bed, unless they specify otherwise. We always check luggage in the night before when flying down from MAN.

  • ChrisC says:

    29 Dec29 December 12:03

    You cant drop bags off to BA the night before at LHR.

• Mud Island Mlungu says:

  29 Dec29 December 06:48

  Hi Rob

  I’ve had my Iberia Plus account for nearly a year but can’t seem to get it to accept transfers from IP to BAEC. I’ve read your article from January but no luck. It only ever shows BAEC to IP.

  Any thoughts?

  • Victor says:

    29 Dec29 December 07:34

    I have the same problem. I tried an Aer Club account but it failed on set up despite all my details being exactly correct.

    I’m an experienced points collector but am stumped by this one – and surprised by the lack of coverage and comments on this situation.

    • Shoestring says:

      29 Dec29 December 07:45

      Not sure what you mean by ‘failed on set up’ – try pulling points *from* IB, ie you are logged into your AerClub a/c doing the points movement.

      If all else fails, you can phone BAEC to get your IB points moved across.

      • Victor says:

        29 Dec29 December 09:29

        The set up failed on trying to open an Aer Club account

      • Shoestring says:

        29 Dec29 December 09:35

        Try to open AerClub again. Or open a Flybe avios.com a/c – same principle. IB—>avios.com—>BAEC

    • Harpo says:

      29 Dec29 December 14:44

      I’m having a similar problem. Have had an IB account for years and usually have “pulled” the points from avios.com and then “pushed” into BAEC.
      I’m not a regular earner with IB and haven’t transferred in about 4/12, but this last week I can’t login to IB on the Combine my Avios page of either BA or AerClub. I can however login to BA and Avios partners on the IB website but annoyingly have only the radio button for BA into IB, not vice versa!

      • Delbert says:

        29 Dec29 December 15:03

        Did you try to log into avios.com with your AerClub username and password, Harpo? It works for me.

      • Rob says:

        29 Dec29 December 15:45

        I moved Avios to IB yesterday via an AerClub log-in, and back again. Article tomorrow will show why.

  • Shoestring says:

    29 Dec29 December 07:46

    Set up AerClub a/c and move points IB—>AerClub—>BAEC

• DaveP says:

  29 Dec29 December 07:12

  My Iberia Plus a/c is showing -9,000 Avios following the transfer of Avios gained from the cheap flight promotion earlier in the year to my BARC a/c. Any Avios bought through the Groupon promotion would be swallowed up by the negative balance position until I reach zero with IP. Any suggestions to avoid this most welcome.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    29 Dec29 December 07:19

    Close your account. Wait and open another one.

    Or be happy with the cheap 9k and no longer use iberia

    • dgsupersonic says:

      29 Dec29 December 08:14

      Closing and waiting option: has this been proven to work?

      Also. How long is the waiting?

      • Shoestring says:

        29 Dec29 December 09:36

        You’d be better off with a new passport number, new address.

        Close old IB a/c using the GDPR link to erase all data & close a/c.

      • Matt says:

        29 Dec29 December 13:44

        Hi shoestring what’s the GDPR link? Could you kindly share?

      • Shoestring says:

        29 Dec29 December 13:56

        log in then https://www.iberia.com/us/management-of-personal-data/

        —>Cancellation/ Erasure

      • Delbert says:

        29 Dec29 December 15:13

        Thanks for the reminder, Harry. Finally killed off both our IB accounts today to say bye bye to an aggregate of -180k Avios. I’ll give it a year and join again and will have a new passport by then and moved house. My wife can change to her ID card from her home country, too.

        Can’t see it being a problem but time will tell.

    • Erico1875 says:

      29 Dec29 December 19:39

      Moving house over -180K Avios is a bit drastic lol

      • Russ says:

        29 Dec29 December 20:21

        Does seem an interesting work around but seems people have thought it through 🙂

      • Shoestring says:

        29 Dec29 December 20:33

        Could always use mum’s address?

• Howard says:

  29 Dec29 December 07:36

  Sorry to be off topic.

  Yesterday I booked a very good deal with BA (flight and hotel) for a 5 star all inclusive Corfu hotel.

  My flights are economy. Can I upgrade to Business with points? There is availability.

  Thanks.

  • Spurs Debs says:

    29 Dec29 December 08:18

    Yes but you have to phone call centre if it’s a BA holiday.
    And sometimes they will only let you upgrade if you have paid in full, but others have said they
    Might let you upgrade if you have only paid some. As normal with call centre staff it’s hit and miss.
    Only way to find out is to make the call.

    • Dimitri says:

      29 Dec29 December 19:29

      Also, I don’t think it’s a good deal to upgrade for Europe as the taxes are very high and not capped as they would for a flight booked solely with avios. Someone correct me if I am wrong.

• Genghis says:

  29 Dec29 December 07:56

  OT FT article (not that interesting) “Rich People’s Problems: How to fly first class for free” behind paywall but made me laugh as James Max mentions his Centurion Card as much as Nigel. It must be a thing 🙂
  https://www.ft.com/content/5535426a-037b-11e9-bf0f-53b8511afd73

  • Shoestring says:

    29 Dec29 December 08:06

    haha – not savvy enough to know much about cards, though!

  • Mark2 says:

    29 Dec29 December 08:15

    Did he really get paid for that?

    • Alan says:

      29 Dec29 December 17:23

      Guess you can afford to stay at night hotels if getting paid to write that sort of dross! 🙂

      • Alan says:

        29 Dec29 December 17:24

        *nice

  • Peter K says:

    29 Dec29 December 09:15

    Wow. What a load of self promoting waffle. There is so little detail in the article that it is basically useless. Thank goodness for HfP!

    • Worzel says:

      29 Dec29 December 09:43

      In fairness to James-he is a Property Expert…….. 🙂 .

  • Rob says:

    29 Dec29 December 15:57

    Max used to live on my road, used to see him walking sadly around with his dog. I believe our old landlord bought his house when he sold.

• Shoestring says:

  29 Dec29 December 08:10

  Here’s a handy table showing why you should go through IB’s Plustore to buy those Groupon points:

  Un total de 2.057 avios por 19€ 2000 bono + 57 IberiaPlustore
  Un total de 4.177 avios por 59€ 4000 bono + 177 IberiaPlustore
  Un total de 8.297 avios por 99€ 8000 bono + 297 IberiaPlustore
  Un total de 15.567 avios por 189€ 15000 bono + 567 IberiaPlustore
  Un total de 20.747 avios por 249€ 20000 bono + 747 IberiaPlustore
  Un total de 35.317 avios por 439€ 34000 bono + 1.317 IberiaPlustore

  • MD says:

    29 Dec29 December 10:40

    Harry/all,

    How are you getting the IB+ store Groupon link to work? Just will not link for me.

    If I go to the normal IB+ store I can log in, but then if I try and find Groupon (under “leisure”?) it takes me to hotels or something strange, no mention of Groupon anywhere on the site.

    If I just Google IB+ Groupon I can find the right link, but on the page it takes me to I’m not logged in, even if already logged in under another tab! If I then click log in it says “sorry, page not available”. If I just click on the Groupon link it says “please log in to go to Groupon”. Same issue every damn time this offer is up.

    Are you using a VPN to make it think you’re Spanish or something?

    I know it’s only a handful of extra euros but this is really annoying me lol. Any advice appreciated.

    • Will says:

      29 Dec29 December 10:57

      Have you tried changing your location on the Iberia website to Espana? It’s right the top of the page.

      • Shoestring says:

        29 Dec29 December 13:38

        yep must be Spain

      • Shoestring says:

        29 Dec29 December 17:12

        no VPN needed – just change settings on IB website, Spain/ Spanish

      • MD says:

        30 Dec30 December 00:32

        Ah OK, thanks both will, give it a try. Cheers.

  • Paul says:

    10 Jan10 January 13:59

    Hi, bought some avios from the Spanish groupon offer. I went through the link to add groupon code and Iberia number to the voucher. However the voucher is still sitting in my accound and detail says “Ready to redeem”. Is this what happens or has something gone wrong?

• Anna says:

  29 Dec29 December 08:17

  Did anyone else find Curve payments for this being rejected?

  • Graham Walsh says:

    29 Dec29 December 09:18

    I just did PayPal linked to my Lloyd Amex.

    • Anna says:

      29 Dec29 December 11:47

      I tried that, got a message from Spanish Groupon saying they couldn’t process the payment and it never appeared on my Lloyds card.

      • Graham Walsh says:

        29 Dec29 December 17:11

        We all know how good their IT is so it was probably hit and miss on what works.

• Anna says:

  29 Dec29 December 08:19

  OT but bits – how is the Curve/Amex trial going? Have there been any hints about when the rest of us can join in?! (Platinum referral year re-starts next week…)

  • The Real John says:

    29 Dec29 December 08:23

    It’s working… I topped up £1000 per month and no problems with Curve getting rejected

  • Graham Walsh says:

    29 Dec29 December 09:19

    Gone very well. No issues at all.

    • Dan says:

      29 Dec29 December 09:34

      Going well for me too – although payments to Brighton based finance company seem to be blocked (as are cash withdrawals, although that’s clearly set out in the terms anyway).

      • Alan says:

        29 Dec29 December 17:26

        Noticed the BBFC ones blocked for non-Amex pot too (ie normal cards)

      • ChrisT says:

        29 Dec29 December 23:55

        Why not say AMEX?

  • Alan says:

    29 Dec29 December 17:25

    Top-up has worked fine. Were some major issues with the app last weekend (kept crashing everytime you opened it!) but thankfully an update was released that sorted it. 0.65% fee for top-up above £1k which limits utility although price plans coming that will offer higher limits – although likely packaged with insurance, etc. so probably not of too much interest for those with Amex Plat, etc.

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