The new HFP chat thread – Tuesday 19th May

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• Tobes says:

  19 May19 May 09:57

  Oi. Where’s today’s hotel review?

  • Rhys says:

    19 May19 May 10:16

    We don’t have them every day!

  • Peter Kemp says:

    19 May19 May 11:31

    Oi???

• Anna says:

  19 May19 May 10:45

  All this has got me thinking now! I wouldn’t be at all surprised if BA cancels our MAN-AGP flight and offers us a re-route via LHR. This would be a definite no-no as it would mean pretty much a full day’s travel at either end and negotiating 2 airports instead of one. Would we still be eligible for a refund as we’d still be departing from MAN in the first instance? I’d rather take my chance with a LCC direct from MAN.

  • Rhys says:

    19 May19 May 10:47

    If BA cancels the MAN departure then yes, you would be eligible for a refund

    • Anna says:

      19 May19 May 11:16

      Good, thanks. I’m far from certain I’m going to be able to persuade my OH to travel at all this summer, there would be no prospect whatsoever if we weren’t using direct flights!

• Titus Adduxas says:

  19 May19 May 10:50

  I’ve got a ‘Future Travel Voucher’ from BA which I assume is the correct one to include the 241 which would otherwise have expired in August. Can someone please confirm this as I’d have taken the refund option otherwise. It doesn’t appear to be a ‘Book with Confidence’ one.

• Aston100 says:

  19 May19 May 11:57

  Tesco Pet Insurance.
  Took out the policy in January. Didn’t receive the points. CHased Tesco many times to be told different stories such as points will take up to 60 days, or that they will be posted soon, and recently was even told they’ve been posted (they haven’t). Todays chase (4 months after taking out the policy) led to this message from their social media team:
  “Hi xxxxx we’ve been advised that you need to contact the Pet Insurance team directly to discuss this, as it doesn’t look like you qualified for points or had not provided a promo code when taking out the policy. You can contact them directly at:
  @tescobankhelp
  Facebook Thanks – yyyyy ”

  To those who managed to eventually get the points, what wording or tactic did you use?
  For the record, I am not gaming the system and was genuinely in need of the pet insurance. Seems ironic that those with fake cats & dogs seem to have succeeded!

  • Baji Nahid says:

    19 May19 May 20:37

    Like Wise! I would just phone them up and complain! My son never got his points and emailed and was told to wait 70 days! I had one agent telling me to wait 80 days! It is all mixed match!

• Andrew says:

  19 May19 May 12:09

  Uhm “The Goverment”… Just Westminster? What happens with rUK?

  Probably easier to make it 30th November to tie in with the St Andrew’s Day Holiday in Scotland.

  • Baji Nahid says:

    19 May19 May 20:36

    Whesshtt!! Us scots folk need another holiday !

• Rob says:

  19 May19 May 12:15

  Indeed. We’ll be in Dubai for 2 weeks so it is one day less out of my wife’s holiday allowance 🙂

  • Anon says:

    19 May19 May 12:17

    October ok for international holidays?

    We’re planning Seychelles for July…perhaps too optimistic and quarantine on return could scupper the whole thing.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    19 May19 May 13:54

    It’s all one big holiday right now 😉

    • Navara says:

      19 May19 May 21:47

      There’s plenty of fruit to pick..

• AJA says:

  19 May19 May 12:22

  The guardian is reporting EasJet has had a cyber attack where 2,208 customers had credit card details stolen but a further 9 million customers personal information was accessed!

  https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/may/19/easyjet-cyber-attack-customers-details-credit-card

• Artem says:

  19 May19 May 12:29

  Topping up Revolut from Virgin CC – have Virgin Money they changed their stance again?
  A week ago the topup went fine. Now Virgin Money blocking my topups rejecting transactions. On the phone VM say use another card.

  • Stephen says:

    19 May19 May 14:16

    What was the latest MCC?

    • Artem says:

      19 May19 May 14:26

      Merchant category code (MCC): WIRE TRANSFER MONEY ORDERS

      • Michael says:

        19 May19 May 17:42

        That’s why then. Thats not 6012. Honestly, Revolut is really in the bin. I wouldn’t bother.

        • Secret Squirrel says:

          19 May19 May 18:27

          Just use a different MC/Visa, leave Virgin card alone.

        • J says:

          19 May19 May 18:49

          Strange it seems to keep changing.

      • steve fred says:

        19 May19 May 18:34

        Got the same on topping up Revolut using Curve backed on to Lloyds.
        Can see the transaction in Lloyds. No fee or interest yet, but I suppose that will be applied at the time of statement?

        • Alex W says:

          19 May19 May 19:55

          Does that require “curve fronted” enabled and incur the 1.5% fee?

        • FloriGuy says:

          19 May19 May 20:06

          People are saying Revolut is in the bin. How are people topping up Monese – is it still poss to do a PP top up using card?

        • TGLoyalty says:

          19 May19 May 22:09

          There’s 0 reason for using curve rev accepts credit cards and curve passes on the MCC so any fees will be incurred as if it was used directly.

  • Artem says:

    19 May19 May 16:02

    Be careful, my attempt to topup has blocked my card completely and I had to call Virgin Money to unblock it.

    • Alex W says:

      19 May19 May 19:56

      Same here. VM said they would continue to block Revolut transactions as they are “frequently reported as fraudulent”.

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