The HfP chat thread – Monday 21st December

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• John Gallagher says:

  21 Dec21 December 22:12

  I stayed in a Hilton Day room last week, checked out and moved to another Hilton for that night.
  Hilton now tell me I cannot earn elite night credits for both stays due to something called ‘overlock night restriction’. Is this correct? (I can’t find anything in T&Cs)

  • Blenz101 says:

    21 Dec21 December 22:58

    Sounds right. Hilton allows you to earn points on up to 4 booked rooms per day but you can only ever earn one elite night credit per night.

    Can’t really argue with their logic / protection this provides the programme from abuse of people checking into multiple hotels a day in cheaper parts of the world.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    21 Dec21 December 23:53

    Unfortunately it’s correct. You can earn “nights” at more than one hotel in each night.

    So day use today would give you nights for 21st. You can’t then get nights for another stay on the 21st.

    • TGLoyalty says:

      21 Dec21 December 23:54

      Just to add it would work if it was the other way round. Over night followed by a day rate.

• ChasP says:

  21 Dec21 December 22:21

  with my tongue firmly in my cheek
  I’m gong shopping in Waitrose tomorrow taking my LIDL reusable carrier bag to ensure social distancing

  • Josh says:

    21 Dec21 December 22:31

    Pity you don’t have any bags from Netto or Kwik Save! Then again…the hoi polloi have been kept out of Waitrose following their withdrawal of the free coffee offer

    • mr_jetlag says:

      21 Dec21 December 23:41

      the free coffee was really sh*te, even the burnt Starbux blend is better. I do miss having a nice shop at Waitrose otherwise though.

  • Anna says:

    21 Dec21 December 22:31

    You’ll be lucky if they let you through the door 🤣

  • TGLoyalty says:

    21 Dec21 December 22:43

    Using your £100 platinum credit?

  • Nick says:

    21 Dec21 December 22:52

    Waitrose people are going to Lidl (and Aldi) a lot these days… it’s trendy to brag about how ‘real’ it makes them. It’s Tesco they avoid…

    • Nick says:

      21 Dec21 December 22:53

      Well, Asda also. “Too northern”

      • Josh says:

        21 Dec21 December 23:13

        Is Britain the only country where supermarkets are split along class lines?

      • Josh says:

        21 Dec21 December 23:13

        Booths is Northern but posh and sophisticated

      • TGLoyalty says:

        21 Dec21 December 23:55

        ASDA is genuinely awful.

  • Polly says:

    21 Dec21 December 23:18

    I bring my Morrisons bag in there

• Olly says:

  21 Dec21 December 22:54

  Oh to reminisce of not too long ago…. Lego, printer cartridges, HfP stalwarts giving really good advice….. going from Hilton silver to Diamond for £120 of Accor trips and a Best Western stay. Ibis business, Business traveller for GHA Platinum Talking of Accor…. Happy Mondays….. great stays for buttons and perks from being Accor Gold (Ibis business card) Happier days with a smaller, civil good mannered membership. Troll, What is that? Nastiness? Slagging off Rob? You best get your coat and leave my friend before you are ejected! Go to another site for all of that nonsense…. if you please. Sense of community? it is still here but look a bit harder.

  • Blenz101 says:

    21 Dec21 December 23:19

    That is just what 2020 has handed the world. Travel will return and companies will run promotions when it is responsible to do so.

    Meanwhile we have had a fair summary of how different programs are handling extensions, delay and cancellation guidance, fleet changes and regular inspiration of unusual hotels/destinations.

    I think that is a fair exchange for the low levels of promotions / adverting run. What’s the alternative? Furlough and go dark until all this is over and Accor happy Mondays returns in late 2021?

    • Tony says:

      22 Dec22 December 00:38

      I miss Accor Happy Mondays 🙁

  • Polly says:

    21 Dec21 December 23:24

    And the cabbages, such simple,times, all about collecting avios etc…

  • Tom says:

    22 Dec22 December 05:55

    I had to check I hadn’t written this. Ah, the good old days 😁

• Harry T says:

  21 Dec21 December 23:18

  “Virgin Atlantic will require all travellers from London to the United States to present evidence of a negative Covid-19 test before departure under a new pre-departure screening from 24 December, a spokesman said on Monday.”

  This is from the Guardian this evening.

  • Blenz101 says:

    21 Dec21 December 23:37

    Looks like a proactive move from Virgin for US citizens travelling from the U.K.

    NYC was leading the calls for this.

    • Harry T says:

      21 Dec21 December 23:44

      Seems Delta is doing it too, which makes sense given their joint venture with VS.

• Olly says:

  21 Dec21 December 23:43

  As Bobby McFerrin once said……. “In every life we have some trouble
  But when you worry you make it double
  Don’t worry, be happy
  Don’t worry, be happy now”.
  I’m hoping the positivity will help ….. it will also reveal.

• Blenz101 says:

  21 Dec21 December 23:46

  What would be helpful is to perhaps have a weekly page for discussions around the creative use of credit card and FinTech products.

  The clique nature and nudge nudge code names of the same daily rehash should be separated.

  As for the rest, there seems to be pretty much free speech. Rather like an online version of a talk radio station. Rob/Rhys have been clear they will remove and take action against anyone they think crosses a line.

  Seems like a good balance to me.

  • Rob says:

    22 Dec22 December 05:50

    That would work well, given that (as there is no news site for the credit card industry in the UK), all the card execs read us.

• Clive says:

  21 Dec21 December 23:48

  NEW ROUTE

  Virgin Atlantic – London Heathrow to San Juan. Flights start 26 June 2021

  VS183 LHR 0945-1605 SJU (Tue & Sat)

  VS184 SJU 1805-1015+1 LHR (Tue & Sat)

  • Rob says:

    22 Dec22 December 06:11

    Interesting. Was launched as a cargo route last month.

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