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Happy Christmas from the Head for Points team

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Happy Christmas to you and your family. I hope you enjoy a well deserved break, wherever in the world you are.

Do please post below if your travels have taken you anywhere exciting this Christmas.  I am in London, Rhys is in Canterbury, Sinead is in New York and Anika is spending Christmas in the US with her 6-week old daughter.

There is still some new content today, as we kick off a series of 12 articles covering the winners of the first Head for Points Travel & Loyalty Awards.  There will be another winner announced on Boxing Day, before full coverage returns as usual on the 27th.

If you want something to read in the meantime, take a look at our ‘Avios Redemption University‘ series and all of our flight, UK lounge and credit card reviews.

Thank you for your support over the past year.

Comments (118)

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  • Bigsi says:

    Merry Christmas to you all from Orlando. Spending the day with Mickey and friends. Booked flights earlier in the year using 2 x AMEX platinum £200 off £600 offer. Hertz gave me a lovely Cadillac XT5 after booking a smaller premium SUV via Hertz Australia and with my presidents status.

  • Waribai says:

    Merry Christmas to one and all. Haven’t contributed much recently to the comments but thanks still for all the tips. We are in snowy Finnish lapland in Yllas. Not on points but still have used some of the DIY tips from Rob’s trip to Swedish lapland!
    Hope everyone is having fun!

  • H says:

    Merry Christmas from Mumbai – flights on 2 for 1 Amex voucher. Hilton in Mumbai and Marriot in Goa all booked on points thanks to the HFP team.

  • AP says:

    I’ll be in Rio for NYE thanks to HfP’s help earning enough Avios to do a CW redemption! Merry Christmas all

  • John Gallagher says:

    Just landed back after spending 2 days in Shanghai. The Virgin Upper Class meal I had on the outbound was the best business class airline meal I’ve ever had.

  • Will in SFO says:

    Merry Christmas from the Bay Area. Back to the UK tomorrow to introduce our nine month old daughter to her extended family. The flight will also tip our 2year old to silver.

    Thanks Rob and gang for continuing to provide excellent content.

  • AppleW says:

    Happy Christmas to all the HfP team…..this year we did our first real tier point run from Jersey to Portland , OR, including an outward leg on BA001 to JFK. Would have never done this without the info and advice from this site. Off to Oz ex EU from Vienna in February using our BA GUF , upgraded from PE to CW and less than £1200 each, booked via Propeller. Again, all thanks to following HfP.

  • Jill (Kinkell) says:

    Happy Christmas to you all from the very un-Christmassy setting ofInverness. Barely a flake of snow on Ben Wyvis. Travels this year to SIN, convoluted USA trip with son , F 241 to IAD/ATL, several London trips, BA compensation following CEDR for pilot strike knock on effect. Hitting BAEC Gold (it’ll never happen again) and planned 241 midnight booking in the bag for South America next year, not forgetting all our hotel points bookings.
    What would we do without HFPs? Grateful thanks to Rob and his team

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