The HfP chat thread – Thursday 5th November

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• Pete says:

  5 Nov5 November 08:23

  So all the T5 lounges are now shut… (BA + Plaza Premium + Club Aspire)

  • Lady London says:

    5 Nov5 November 10:52

    Never mind that. Is Pret or Gordon Ramsey’s still open?

    • Pete says:

      5 Nov5 November 11:00

      I shall report later! 🙂

      • Pete says:

        5 Nov5 November 15:16

        So, the only things open at T5 today are WHSmith, Pret a Manger, Boots, Travelex, the Caviar House and Fortnum and Mason (the shop). So a moderate improvement on last time.

        • Lady London says:

          5 Nov5 November 21:05

          Tx.

• martyn ford says:

  5 Nov5 November 08:28

  Amex QR offer. Bought my ticket yesterday, received the £100 today.

  • Andrew says:

    5 Nov5 November 08:32

    Is that with a view to taking the voucher? It does seem tempting.

    • 747_Brat says:

      5 Nov5 November 09:44

      IS QR still offering the generous 5000 mile destination change option? I think I read somewhere that they pulled the plug on it.

      • martyn ford says:

        5 Nov5 November 09:55

        No, that has gone.

        • 747_Brat says:

          5 Nov5 November 10:03

          Thanks mate.
          I will wait for the next Qatar Business Class sale then, or might end up taking the voucher route. Still got some time to decide.

  • Jim Walton says:

    5 Nov5 November 08:42

    That’s a quick turnaround for the Amex offer to hit! I’ve been waiting for about a month now for the selfridges offer to be reimbursed, the first time it’s taking so long – is there a chance the system did not register it properly?

    • martyn ford says:

      5 Nov5 November 09:30

      Amex always very good on the `phone on these matters in my experience.

    • Tocsin says:

      5 Nov5 November 12:38

      Selfridges order arrived 2 Nov, credits (£100 and £30) arrived today.

      (and Harrods order still on the way, credit arrived on 3 Nov…)

      I would definitely ask Amex – anything over a week or two would get me calling, unless there are specific unusual conditions on the offer

• G says:

  5 Nov5 November 08:58

  Has anyone with the Harrods offer brought a gift card online and had the £100 credit?

• mark2 says:

  5 Nov5 November 09:01

  Re Morrison’s 10/7% offer:
  remember can only be used once;
  gift cards can be bought at self-checkout, but they are not heavy enough to register weight; to avoid constantly summoning help and so drawing attention put a chocolate bar from adjacent rack for each card and return to rack at end;
  They should stock Amazon, John Lewis and also One4All which can be used in M&S and most major retailers;
  Morrison’s own gift cards can be used for fuel, other gift cards in the future and even groceries etc!

  • Harry T says:

    5 Nov5 November 09:12

    Cheers

    • Freddy says:

      5 Nov5 November 09:23

      How much in gift cards have people bought. Previously I bought £750 and there was a lot of huffing and puffing from staff, could just be my local though

      • Alan S says:

        5 Nov5 November 15:45

        I’ve bought books of £1000 on a few occasions when it was the paper vouchers. They had to take them from the safe in the cash room, but there wasn’t any fight.

  • Jonathan says:

    5 Nov5 November 09:20

    Just go to a normal till, doing what you suggested looks far more suspicious! I’ve bought £700 before with no issues apart from an intrigued cashier! I just told her it was Xmas bonus for staff. Some stores have limits on Amazon & John Lewis gift cards so need a manager to authorise if you buy more than 1 of each but they just want to check that you’re not the victim of one of the scams where you get an e-mail telling you to pay a tax bill with giftcards.

    • 747_Brat says:

      5 Nov5 November 10:01

      Does the gift card require “activation” at the till, or is it automatically activated upon billing?

      • RussellH says:

        5 Nov5 November 10:46

        Scanning the bar code on the card seems to activate it. You should get an activation receipt as well.

        • 747_Brat says:

          5 Nov5 November 10:54

          Thank you Russell

  • rams1981 says:

    5 Nov5 November 11:15

    10% on my wife’s gold card and my supp but nothing on mine. No surprise as I put £3k+ through cumulatively last time

• mark2 says:

  5 Nov5 November 09:02

  How many Amex cards can a person have these days?

  • InfrastructureDebt says:

    5 Nov5 November 09:12

    For me personally I couldn’t get a third credit card and only ever 2 charge cards at one time, never applied for a third

  • Harry T says:

    5 Nov5 November 09:39

    I’ve got one charge and two credit cards. Think I had three credit cards and one charge before I cancelled my BAPP this year. Amex seem to like me.

  • babyg says:

    5 Nov5 November 09:55

    i have 3, ba prem, marriot and plat ATM, ive had 5 in the past.. 5 has been my max

  • Lee says:

    5 Nov5 November 09:56

    I have 4 credit cards and no charge card ATM

• Stephan says:

  5 Nov5 November 09:15

  Did anyone get some fairly generous offer one onefinestay : Spend £200 or more, get £200 back?

  • Rob says:

    5 Nov5 November 09:21

    It’s not generous. Plat cards have had this for over a year. They have little under £200 per night and 3 to 7 night minimum stays.

    • Stephan says:

      5 Nov5 November 09:33

      Could you pread it over multiple cards?

      • Rob says:

        5 Nov5 November 09:36

        Not online. You could try over the phone but they are not stupid ….

  • Jonathan says:

    5 Nov5 November 09:23

    Yes, it’s not actually that generous due to the cost of their properties & minimum stay lengths. Probably won’t be able to turn that into more than a 20% discount.

    • meta says:

      5 Nov5 November 10:20

      Plus you are able to book most properties on onefinestay cheaper elsewhere so the offer does not make much sense at all.

      I guess they rolled it out to other cards as nobody actually used this benefit on their Plat card. They should have increased it to something like £600 and once per year.

• Denis says:

  5 Nov5 November 10:17

  BA Refunds question: paid for change of dates, Oct half-term flights to Malaga cancelled in July, Avios and full amount refunded apart from the extra £140 paid for date change. BA reply: “I understand that you made a change to your booking and incurred a £35.00 change fee per person to do so. I’ve looked into this and any change fees you incur are non-refundable, therefore, the refund you’ve received is correct.” Are they correct? Many thanks!

  • Harry T says:

    5 Nov5 November 10:21

    BA does not refund change fees, as they view them as fees for the labour conducted at the time. I have tried to get them refunded before, without success. Perhaps it’s something you could fight but I wouldn’t consider it worth the hassle.

    • Denis says:

      5 Nov5 November 10:25

      Thank you Harry. Seems so odd, but won’t fight though.

  • Lady London says:

    5 Nov5 November 10:59

    If the fees covered the change to the flight BA subsequently cancelled then I would expect BA to lose this in court.

    As and when it happens (same if they refuse to refund seat selection fees or luggage fees in the same situation) then a of you don’t forget to include current statutory interest rate of 8%p.a. in your claim right up until the money from BA reaches your account.

• Sunguy says:

  5 Nov5 November 10:39

  So, maybe I have missed something ***BUT*** can someone confirm my thoughts:

  The FCDO website seems to have changed – the “exempt” countries from the “all but essential travel” list seems to have gone and only the travel corridors list seems to remain (its possible Im being daft and cant find it).

  But also, the generic all but essential travel advice seems to also have been removed from the individual countries pages too….

  SO……

  Does this actually mean that if I live not in England, I could at least in theory fly to any country and have my travel insurance cover me ?

  • Sunguy says:

    5 Nov5 November 11:14

    Okay – I was getting a bit too excited – they have moved the advice to the individual country pages under the standard travel restrictions area rather than specific to covid-19.

    e.g. on the USA page:

    The FCDO advises against all but essential travel to:

    the whole of the USA based on the current assessment of COVID-19 risks.

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