The new HFP chat thread – Friday 15th May

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• Matt says:

  15 May15 May 08:35

  Marriott points booking question – I have a number of 5-night stays booked at hotels in spain using points when they were a category 1 redemption – these hotels have all now changed to be category 2 from March. Hotels are closed at this time due to Corona, and I need to move the dates.
  Marriott CS say they can’t help and that I have to request this of each hotel individually – the first of the hotels is asking me lots of questions but not really responding..

  Has anyone managed to get Marriott hotels to move points bookings to a new date whilst honouring the same (original) points price?

  • MJ says:

    15 May15 May 08:58

    People have managed to do so, for example at The Langley. I believe somebody mentioned they were told they could move their booking to any date this year.

    • Crafty says:

      15 May15 May 09:46

      Yes, I was one such. But I think it’s a hotel by hotel policy.

• JohnT says:

  15 May15 May 09:00

  Talking of lounges any idea if Dragon pass will ever extend the vouchers we bought for $10?
  Hardly seems worth cancelling although I seem to remember it wasn’t too bad a process.

  • Stephen says:

    15 May15 May 10:30

    Good Morning. Thank you for your message. I’m happy to confirm that your membership will automatically renew in January 2021 and your unused passes will roll over for another 12 months. I hope this is okay for you. Thanks, Caitlin.

• Heathrow Flyer says:

  15 May15 May 09:10

  Redeemed 37.5k Virgin miles for Virgin Wines almost two weeks ago, yet I still haven’t received any vouchers via email.

  Does anyone have any data points as to how long it should take to receive these?

  Our vino stock is dwindling, you see.

  • Brighton Belle says:

    15 May15 May 09:40

    You have serious supply chain issues. The chief buyer needs reprimanding

  • Grant says:

    15 May15 May 11:09

    As a small aside, but wine related, I was recently made aware of wine-searcher.com which has been a relevation by pointing me towards suppliers outside of the UK. As an example, I went looking for the Porta 6 which Majestic knock out for £8 a bottle if you buy six, whereas Portugal Vineyards will sell it to you £3.50 a bottle if you buy six. Shipping is via TNT and is £9 for up to 12 bottles.

    Worth running your regulars through wine-searcher.

    • Crafty says:

      15 May15 May 22:57

      Duty paid?

• LB says:

  15 May15 May 09:13

  I don’t wish to poke a sleeping bear but…I haven’t seen Harry for a while.

  • Aston100 says:

    15 May15 May 11:09

    It’s great not having to read his insensitive trolling remarks isn’t it?

    • mark2 says:

      15 May15 May 11:11

      You don’t have to read them! unless you want to be annoyed.

      • John says:

        15 May15 May 11:22

        You have to at least glance at them to know that they are from him

  • the_real_a says:

    15 May15 May 15:36

    Harry’s comments probably saved/earned me over £400 in the last 12 months…

    • Crafty says:

      15 May15 May 22:58

      Correct, there are others here who post a lot but contribute nothing, I’d much rather mute them!

• Harry T says:

  15 May15 May 09:46

  Is it possible to add a domestic connection on to the inbound of a 241 booking? If so, do I pay a difference in Avios or taxes and charges?

  I will be in London for the outbound portion of my journey anyway but would need to return to Newcastle on the inbound. Just wondering if it’s better to ask BA to add the domestic connection or just pay for a separate one way connecting flight.

  • BrightonReader says:

    15 May15 May 10:59

    Yes you can call BA to price it up and yes you’d pay any additional be fees. Should be no extra proper government taxes.

    But if you have a separate ticket you are NOT connecting. BA won’t check bags through on separate tickets so you’d have to collect your bags and recheck them so you’d need to allow a significant amount of time to do that and of your inbound was late your you mised your NCL flight BA aren’t obligated to just rebook you.

    • Anna says:

      15 May15 May 11:30

      Yes, get it all on one PNR if you are checking bags in, it’s infinitely less hassle, especially as you will have to clear immigration AND security at LHR which can take some time. If you’re in J or F you can then pop into the lounge (if open by then) for drinks and snacks instead of waiting at the luggage carousel! As per the 2 4 1 rules, you will need to pay the RFS fee for the domestic leg, but no extra avios.

      • Fred says:

        15 May15 May 11:49

        It’s not an additional ‘RFS’ fee

  • David S says:

    15 May15 May 15:45

    There should be no extra avios for a 241 booking however the taxes calculated is slightly different, so will be nominally more. Much less of a hassle doing it this way since as mentioned if you are on two different PNRs, once will land at LHR, you will have to go through passport /immigration, pick up luggage, then recheck and then go through security again and if your long haul is delayed, you are at the mercy of BA honouring your domestic connection if booked separately.

• BuyEMLocalBonds says:

  15 May15 May 09:46

  Morning all,

  I just upgraded my gold charge to platinum which is reflected online now but card hasn’t arrived yet but I don’t see the counter for 20k bonus for 4k spend? I believe in the past there was a counter…should I call up and ask?

  I downgraded this card from Platinum already last year to Gold…

  • Rum says:

    15 May15 May 10:21

    I did the same as you in terms of downgrading/upgrading. I’d wait a day or so and the counter should appear. Mine took 48hrs to show and is since counting quite efficiently. I am getting the double points already. Also added a supplementary card holder and got the points credited immediately. It’s been almost a week for me and still no card. The post is horrendously slow in my area and has actually got notably worse recently.

    • Voldemort says:

      15 May15 May 10:39

      When I upgraded there was no counter/status but when I rang the agent said it was being counted in the background and I did get the bonus.

      • Alex M says:

        15 May15 May 11:12

        Are you saying I can downgrade my Plat to Gold now and then upgrade back and get 20 000 MRs?

    • BuyEMLocalBonds says:

      15 May15 May 11:38

      Any info on the adding supp and getting points (is it 5k) ? Can’t see anything now website

      • Rum says:

        15 May15 May 11:48

        Rob posted a link on Amex’s site this week… somewhere!

• Connor says:

  15 May15 May 09:47

  Tesco Pet CC points came through this morning. Rather wish they hadn’t as I wouldn’t of minded complaining and getting some sweet sweet compo.

  • Baji Nahid says:

    15 May15 May 18:34

    Hiya how much did you get?

    Thanks.

• Don says:

  15 May15 May 10:07

  Still not a hint of BA extending status by a year? 6 months of my membership year are basically a right off and like many, I tended to collect in the period between reset and card expiry to maximise status.

  As far as old bags go, only LH can rival them for their tightness!

  • Rhys says:

    15 May15 May 10:10

    You say that, but KLM has only in the last few days started actually refunding people for cancelled flights!

    • Don says:

      15 May15 May 10:18

      That’s a separate issue but a valid point. Plenty of carriers which extended status are suffering from amnesia when it comes to the law and of that bunch, a proportion of them have always done that when it comes to EC261!

    • marcw says:

      15 May15 May 10:58

      That´s Mark Rutte´s fault. He ordered Dutch airlines KLM and Transavia to not provide refunds, since the NL were very active in trying to temporarily change the EC261 regulation.
      Obvioulsy, on Wednesday the CE VP said: “It´s a right. Full stop.”

  • Andrew says:

    15 May15 May 10:18

    I agree, it’s a real shame BA aren’t being more generous here (though expected, we know what they are like!). I don’t see myself flying for the whole of this year, so not only will I not earn status for next year, I won’t get any use out of the status I earned last year, so that was a waste of time doing those Helsinki runs! Lesson learnt, don’t chase status – and I think we’ll be flying so infrequently in the future that when we do we can just pay for First or Business and get the benefits you have with status anyway. Time to find a new hobby I think…..

    • BrightonReader says:

      15 May15 May 11:07

      My year ends on 8th November. Am currently silver so would drop to bronze.

      2 of the 3 sets of flights I had booked ths year have been cancelled. The 3rd is looking doubtful..

      With all 3 (plus a couple of short hauls) I’d have got gold. If the 3rd operates I’d just make silver.

      I did posit when all this started that BA might use this as an opportunity to cull the herd a little of silvers by not offering a mass extension. There would be a few people screaming about a temporary loss of status but if you are that needy for it you’d soon book a few flights to get it back.

    • Paul74 says:

      15 May15 May 16:19

      +1

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