The HfP chat thread – Monday 3rd May

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• Ben says:

  3 May3 May 18:42

  Hi!
  I’m considering the Ambassador sign up as I have an upcoming IC Park Lane stay anyway. But is there an easy way of finding availability to use the 40k free stay voucher? I know you can prebook the ambassador free weekend rooms so is there similar functionality or is it simply where there is reward availability?
  I think the dynamic pricing is going to ruin me finding anywhere acceptable in London or Brighton this summer….

  • Peter K says:

    3 May3 May 20:49

    Check the details but I’m sure the Ambassador perks after only guaranteed on paid stays, not redemptions. Of course even then they can ignore it and just bung you 10k points instead.

• TGLoyalty says:

  3 May3 May 18:45

  efficiency of spend on marketing? Thinking about the funnel from impression to sale marketing you spend lots of ££ on making impressions which lead to a small % of sales.

  direct marketing targets discounts just for customers who have spent money and therefore could be cheaper.

  Where it may fall down is when you just give all your already loyal customers money off and you bring in no additional revenue or people like us spend it all on giftcards for other retailers.

  I’ve actually switched lots of our shopping to M’s aswell as buying GCs so they’ve atleast got some additional revenue out of me (and working capital I guess)

• Olver says:

  3 May3 May 18:52

  What are you top ways of making the minimum spend of a card? For me, it’s in the following order

  1. Put all bills on the card council tax/ electricity/water/broadband/insurance/phones
  2. Put all daily expenses from all family members on the card, just adding it all to their Google Pay to make it easy
  3. prepay all large purchases we got coming up mainly all holidays
  4. Buy a load of vouchers for Amazon, Waitrose etc.
  5. Prepay gas and electricity for the next 1 year

  Any other ideas please share them 🙂

  • Alex says:

    3 May3 May 22:34

    You seem to have covered all the main big ones, I’d add Car lease payments if applicable.

    After that there are a number of other options which are potentially less or not at all “genuine” spend…

• John Gallagher says:

  3 May3 May 18:57

  Does Marriott Bonvoy work ok with Bendy?

  • Secret Squirrel says:

    3 May3 May 19:00

    Is that the Amex Marriott card? If so, No!

  • Sean says:

    3 May3 May 19:00

    no -bendy doesn’t work with amex

    • John Gallagher says:

      3 May3 May 20:11

      Damn, forgot it was an Amex -(

  • Harry T says:

    3 May3 May 19:00

    Marriott Bonvoy is a hotel conglomerate’s marketing and loyalty scheme. Do you mean the Marriott Bonvoy amex?

    • Luke says:

      3 May3 May 21:07

      Keep up. He means does it work with Curve card.

• Zoe says:

  3 May3 May 19:14

  Hi all
  I am hoping to fly to Don Rep on 3 June from Gatwick in CW. Do you think it will still be from North Terminal and if so what lounge will I be able to go to?
  Many thanks
  Zoe

  • chabuddy geezy says:

    3 May3 May 22:14

    It seems unlikely that the South Terminal will be open by then, mostly likely you will be sent to Aspire in North.

• Richie says:

  3 May3 May 19:32

  I’m sure this has been asked before, but i can’t find the answer so wondered if anyone new. BA has cancelled my (avios) flight to LAX, but when I choose the option to “book new flight dates”, it says “no seats available” (on pretty much any day / any week i choose). I’m guessing the search engine is looking for [avios] seats as that’s what I booked, because there are lots of seats available on most flights.
  Doesn’t BA have to get me to the destination if *they cancel* (under EU 261), irrespective if there are “avios seats” or not?
  I’m not trying to be ridiculous, i know the airlines have suffered, but i just want to get on a flight after they cancelled my flight!
  thanks!

  • Alex says:

    3 May3 May 19:36

    Yes that’s correct – because BA cancelled on you – you can choose any day/time provided they have space(ie still selling cash tickets). You need to book within 365 days of your original booking date. Call BA to do it as website can be glitchy with it.

    • meta says:

      3 May3 May 19:52

      You don’t need to book within 365 days of original booking. BA is trying to wriggle out from its legal obligations here. However, to enforce it requires some form of legal action (CEDR or MCOL). MCOL is quicker at the moment.

      Another way to approach it would be to engage with BA and get a final no from them, then dispute it with your credit card company for replacement ticket.

      Finally, if the cancellation was recent wait a few days or even a week then try again in Manage My Booking.

      • Richie says:

        3 May3 May 20:55

        Thanks, both! Really appreciate the advice. Thanks

  • Andyh500 says:

    3 May3 May 19:39

    Call BA with the flights you would like. I did it last week and it took 5 minutes and got all the flights requested.

• AY says:

  3 May3 May 20:56

  Have just seen 10,000 bonus avios show up on my membership rewards activity. Have a platinum card, any reason why? I wasn’t aware of any promotion.

  • Harry T says:

    3 May3 May 21:53

    Did you make a large purchase recently?

    • AY says:

      3 May3 May 22:33

      Nothing out of the ordinary, very strange given it’s a platinum card not an Avios collecting card.

  • Rob says:

    3 May3 May 22:15

    Friend of mine got it on a 9k spend last week on his BAPP.

    • AY says:

      3 May3 May 22:34

      I only have the platinum card no BAPP or any other Amex. Oh well not going to complain.

      • Andrew says:

        3 May3 May 23:52

        So how did you earn Avios? Or do you mean you got 10k Membership Reward points?

        • AY says:

          4 May4 May 05:18

          It says 10,000 bonus avios in the description but yes it is 10,000 membership rewards points.

• Newbie says:

  4 May4 May 00:05

  Does anyone have any experience with BMW finance? I currently pay for my HP with DD but happily switch to credit card but not sure if its possible.

  • Sina says:

    4 May4 May 01:49

    It’s possible, you just have to call and switch DD to card payment and then pay with your card using an automated payment line.

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