The HfP chat thread – Friday 16th October

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• Rob says:

  16 Oct16 October 18:18

  Does anyone know if I can book a Hilton for my son using my points (or do I need to there as well)?

  • Rob says:

    16 Oct16 October 20:03

    Yes, it’s fine. Book for 2 people, add his name as 2nd guest and put in the notes: ‘Reward night gifted to XXXX who will check in’.

    • Mr. AC says:

      16 Oct16 October 23:38

      Is this the same for other hotel chains or it’s just Hilton that’s ok with this? Specifically interested in IHG.

      • Genghis says:

        17 Oct17 October 06:56

        IHG fine. Can do same thing or call call centre who will put booking fully in the persons name (IIRC important for Spain).

      • Rob says:

        17 Oct17 October 11:07

        Always works unless there is a law which insists the registered guest stays. I once had big issues in Spain when I booked a room off my Mum’s points. That said, Anika pretended to be my wife checking into bookings I made on a couple of occasions in Spain with no issue.

• Baji Nahid says:

  16 Oct16 October 19:12

  Im stuck and need some help. How do I pay with Amex for these haha.

  1) Paying £800 card insurance for someone with Amex, all okay
  2) Need to pay £!65 road tax for that someone, but dont take amex on the UK gov website
  3) Buying a machine for £127 on tefal website, but as they state they take amex, the website is not configured to take amex payments and you cant pay with paypal

  Any ideas how i could possibly get around all of these hurdles, appreciate all the help!

  • Baji Nahid says:

    16 Oct16 October 19:12

    £165 for road tax sorry and the tefal website doesn’t have a paypal option.

  • Nick_C says:

    16 Oct16 October 19:18

    You can pay the “road tax” (Vehicle Tax) at a Post Office with an Amex. I don’t know if all POs take Amex, but a lot of Sub POs do.

    • Travel Strong says:

      16 Oct16 October 19:30

      This never works for me, machine rejected it at a couple of sub-PO’s. Take amex for the post transactions, transaction fails with tax.

      • stevenhp1987 says:

        16 Oct16 October 21:05

        I paid my Vehicle Tax back in July at a Post Office with an Amex no problem.

  • Nick_C says:

    16 Oct16 October 19:25

    The only problem I could see on the Tefal website is you need to remove the slash from the expiry date. But of course I didn’t try to confirm my dummy purchase.

    It seems set up for Amex payments, prompting you for a 4 char CVC.

    Maybe try again. Or a find a different retailer for the product (who is likely to be cheaper!)

• Jimbob says:

  16 Oct16 October 19:50

  Creation app down again, that’s two nights on the trot.

  I would complain, except the source of my infinite IHG points.

  • Ryan says:

    16 Oct16 October 22:29

    Here here, +1

    Am tempted to but can only see that talking to the… *wonderful* help centre will not only be tough but also unlikely to get much more than a couple of 1000 points? But in turn raise some eyebrows

• Chris says:

  16 Oct16 October 20:34

  How is $100 USD hotel converted into GBP? Is it current spot rate?

  • Harry T says:

    16 Oct16 October 20:39

    In my experience, the hotel decides a standard conversion that they always use. In mainland Europe, most hotels decide that it’s 85 euros (one gave me 90 euros). I haven’t actually got any experience of this offer in the UK, sorry.

  • Anthony says:

    16 Oct16 October 21:08

    For us, most hotels we’ve stayed at give either £75 or £80

  • Lady London says:

    17 Oct17 October 00:19

    hotels generally convert at a ripoff rate.

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