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• Crafty says:

  25 Apr25 April 12:55

  OT: Having recently got a Revolut card, I topped it up by £10 successfully as a test. I am now looking to top it up properly – first tried £940, now tried £500. Both times “declined by card issuer”, which is Creation.

  Unsure what I’m doing wrong. Has anyone else had this happen?

  • Tracy says:

    25 Apr25 April 13:03

    Maximum I can do is £250

    • TescoTease says:

      25 Apr25 April 14:11

      Depending on which creation card it is (IHG?) they’ll flag the top up as cash transaction, limit it to the daily cash withdrawal fee and charge you fees and interest.

      • Grant says:

        25 Apr25 April 14:29

        Not if you top-up via Curve they won’t, at least not in my experience.

      • Mark2 says:

        25 Apr25 April 14:33

        They will limit amounts and total but will not charge fees.

  • Grant says:

    25 Apr25 April 13:07

    Creation do allow these transactions but, in the same way as you do when using it with Curve, you need to tread carefully. Smaller transcations of £250 max and a weekly limit of £700 seems to be as much as I can push it.

    Revolut also have a daily card top up limit when you are a new user which relaxes over time.

    • idrive says:

      25 Apr25 April 13:51

      you have to build your “story” with Revolut. Limits will increase over time.

  • Mark says:

    25 Apr25 April 16:16

    My Curve Card plus IHG/Creation allowed me up to the full Curve limits last year, with no obvious restrictions from IHG. It still seems to work but there seems to be a lower IHG limit imposed.
    And now my wife has a supp. card, she is limited to £300/day.
    I asume they now treat “Financial Services” the same as Cash Withdrawals? I just hope I can use it to the full extent htis year, and they don’t clamp down further, or my free night voucher has gone…

    • BJ says:

      25 Apr25 April 16:36

      Just curious, can the supp on an IHG premium card also claim platinum status?

      • Mark says:

        25 Apr25 April 18:13

        All her spending as a supp goes to MY IHG rewards account. But she does have her own IHG Rewards account too, and AIUI there’s nothing as far as I know to prevent her getting her own C/card and boosting her points towards free night and platinum, once (if) we hit my targets.
        I surprised myself by getting Spire last year from Curve IHG spending.

      • Alex W says:

        25 Apr25 April 18:17

        Supp does not get platinum status. But nothing to stop him/her getting another card, and therefore their own status, sign-up bonus, free night voucher etc especially with the help of curve.

      • BJ says:

        25 Apr25 April 19:10

        Thanks Mark/Alex, was just wondering if I might have missed a loophole or something but seems not.

    • Alex W says:

      25 Apr25 April 18:19

      I am having the same problem with Creation via Curve. Can only get £300 per day through for cash transactions. So much for my plan to get Spire status via credit card spend.

  • Alan says:

    26 Apr26 April 19:17

    Far too much, try 250!

• Anna says:

  25 Apr25 April 13:15

  Rob – did you write something recently about BA hiking the charges on redemptions from the USA? (I recall the Virgin articles but can’t find anything about BA when I search). Looking at a return leg in CW for Easter 2020, BA.com is quoting around £500 in taxes/fees for 2 people from the Caribbean but £900 from Miami!

  • Rob says:

    25 Apr25 April 13:57

    Sounds about right.

  • marcw says:

    25 Apr25 April 15:19

    BA has always charged more on redemptions originating in the US.

    • Anna says:

      25 Apr25 April 16:11

      This for is a one way flight from Miami, I have never paid anything like that before. Return from BOS last year in CW cost around £350 for two people, given that we had already paid the higher rate of charges for the outbound leg.

      • Anna says:

        25 Apr25 April 16:17

        What I’m saying is, I’ve paid over £1300 in taxes and charges for our 3 outbound F flights, but if I want to book the inbound flights separately they want another £450 EACH for these. So a total of £2700 in taxes and charges for 3 return award flights – this can’t be right?

        • Rob says:

          25 Apr25 April 17:31

          It gets recalculated and you will pay whatever a standard open jaw would have cost.

      • Grant says:

        25 Apr25 April 16:43

        Are you conflating previous charges for return flights (outbound / inbound as one booking) with charges being quoted for one way flights (outbound and inbound as separate bookings)?

  • AndyW says:

    25 Apr25 April 17:22

    I am seeing this too, but given won’t BA just reprice it when you add it to your outbound?

    • Anna says:

      25 Apr25 April 20:02

      I’ve read on here that if you book it at midnight/1 am then call to apply the 2 4 1, BA will refund half the avios but not the taxes. In that case, it’s a very poor option to book it online. The choices would seem to be pay excessive charges or wait to call BA to add the return leg and risk the seats being snapped up by someone else!

      • Rob says:

        25 Apr25 April 21:05

        No, that’s not the case. The taxes are adjusted so you just pay what you should have paid, had you booked UK-US-UK in one go.

      • Julie says:

        26 Apr26 April 10:48

        Anna, A few months ago I booked the return leg of a US open jaw online when they came out at midnight. When I rang BA the next morning to add the 2-for-1 they were happy to refund the relevant avios but said to reprice the taxes/fees (2 singles were hugely more expensive than a return) they would have to cancel and rebook the return. So there was a chance that it could be snapped up by someone else before they could book it again for me. The man from the call centre suggested he provisionally book a return flight the previous day as a fall back plan in case we lost our intended flight. Said he’d had someone crying on the phone when they’d lost a Sydney flight that way! Luckily it all went through fine and I had the flights with the correct return taxes/fees. This was for an CW open jaw return though, may be different for a return to and from the same airport.

• Metopes says:

  25 Apr25 April 13:24

  O/T: Just got an email that our seats have been changed on a flight to NYC next week due to an equipment change, had some nice seats up stairs on a 747 but now there are no seats showing together on the new 777. Have been given a refund on the seat reservation seat, but wondered if anyone has any tips, obviously keen to sit next to my partner.

  • Michael says:

    25 Apr25 April 13:50

    When you check in online see if any open up.

    Failing that ask at the airport.

    Failing that ask the cabin crew who will try and sort you out when boarding is complete. you could also ask someone to swap with you.

  • Lady London says:

    26 Apr26 April 00:23

    Why not phone them and ask nicely to be transferred to another flight where you can be seated together? not sure if equipment change counts as something to support a change of flight request.

  • Alan says:

    26 Apr26 April 19:22

    Sadly hit the same problem, lost 3x 64K segments due to swaps to 777! Not much choice in 777, I’d just go for window/aisle combo on either side.

• Dominic says:

  25 Apr25 April 13:53

  Heads up that next Hilton promotion (starting May 6th) is now showing in my “Eliglble Promotions” tab. Not actually letting me register yet…

  Double points on all stays, plus some # of stay bonuses. Between 6th May and 8th September.

  • Luthar says:

    25 Apr25 April 14:56

    Thanks for this! I posted yesterday about having to spend 60 nights in hotels this year. This has helped me make my mind up!

    • BJ says:

      25 Apr25 April 16:29

      There were a few extra responses to your post yesterday, don’t know if you saw them.

  • PaulC says:

    25 Apr25 April 16:59

    Will this work with bookings already made that are coming up within the dates?
    I was about to make a booking for in July too, will hold off till the 6th May now to book depending on the answers to my above question.

    • Rob says:

      25 Apr25 April 17:30

      Historically existing bookings have always counted with Hilton.

    • meta says:

      25 Apr25 April 17:31

      Previously booked stays should count. However, the promo is double points from the 2nd stay! Obviously they’ve gone down the Marriott route…

      • PaulC says:

        25 Apr25 April 17:40

        Thank you, I’ll carry on and make my second booking. Can you claim points on a second and third room as my in-laws and brother-in-law may stay in the same hotel, if I can convince them, haha. Heading down to Reading for a family birthday who lives down there.

    • Alan says:

      26 Apr26 April 19:32

      Yes, Hilton promos always fine in that regard. Accor almost never, IHG varies by Accelerate ‘task’

• Tony says:

  25 Apr25 April 14:52

  O/T Just got off the phone call to VS, was hoping to boost my previous Air China flights. Was told miles booster only work for VS flights only – not even Delta. Is this correct? Should I just try a different agent?

  • Kai says:

    25 Apr25 April 15:03

    You can definitely boost partner flights online, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a bug.

    • Chas says:

      25 Apr25 April 17:33

      But you can only boost VS flights you’ve already flown by calling customer services….

  • Alan says:

    26 Apr26 April 19:26

    I’ve boosted my ANA redemption flights for later this year via the website without an issue.

• Tracy says:

  25 Apr25 April 17:03

  O/T just an update to my post yesterday. I re-qualified for IHG spire yesterday but the 25k bonus points or gift platinum offer was not showing in my account. It appeared today so I chose 25k points obviously 🙂

• DaveL says:

  25 Apr25 April 18:05

  OT – any way to accurately price up taxes, fees etc on an open jaw redemption? I used 2 x 1 eat costs from Ba redemption finder before booking my last 2 for 1 and was surprised to find charges jump by £200. Considering an adjustment to book (class change) and would like to price up impact on taxes. Thanks in advance

  • Nick_C says:

    25 Apr25 April 22:33

    As an estimate, maybe take an average of the return price for each route.

    I’m just planning a Far East trip, and was shocked to find two one ways are so much cheaper than a return to Tokyo (I knew this would be the case for HK)

• Annabelle says:

  25 Apr25 April 18:13

  Re: help adding return journey for 2-4-1 redemption calling US at 1am BST which number to call? See on HFP 00-1-800-247-9297 but on BA number for US BA is 00-1-800-452-1201. Any difference? Perhaps one quicker to pick up than the other?
  Thanks so much.

  • Michael C says:

    26 Apr26 April 08:16

    Annabelle, sorry if this was last night / this morning you were asking about, but just to say I booked o/w LHR-Osaka no problem online at 0100h + ten seconds!

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