The HfP chat thread – Thursday 6th May

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• Tracy says:

  6 May6 May 16:06

  I’m quite liking IHGs new dynamic pricing today. 10-13 September in Manchester for park life, 3 nights on points at the Kimpton for 22k points per night. Cash price £240 per night 🙂

• Chris L says:

  6 May6 May 16:12

  A data point – The first Amex offer on my new BAPP appeared today, 3 1/2 weeks after activating the card. Hopefully that will start more coming through.

  • bafan says:

    6 May6 May 16:24

    Yeah I was approved for the PRG 2+ weeks ago and one offer is on it (the Hyatt). I even get the Deliveroo offer pop ups on the landing page but then it’s not in my Offers. Maybe I should use it more but I do have better cards so.

• Andrew says:

  6 May6 May 17:02

  IC O2 seems to have pushed back its opening date to 24 June – for anyone interested.

  • DJ says:

    6 May6 May 18:06

    Where did you see that? I’m still seeing 17th May on the app.

    • DJ says:

      6 May6 May 18:13

      Just checked the IHG website, I can still see:

      “
      We are delighted to be reopening to the public on 17th May 2021 and are accepting bookings.
      “

      • Andrew says:

        6 May6 May 22:10

        Based on no rooms available until the end of June. Guess they just haven’t updated the home page yet, despite the booking engine being updated to reflect the later opening date.

        • DJ says:

          6 May6 May 22:44

          Thanks ..

          I really hope it’s not the case .. since I got a booking for the 21st May weekend 🙁

• The cyclist says:

  6 May6 May 17:14

  I have 120 points offer for answering a few questions on the nectar App as well as;

  40points Broccoli
  50 Unsmoked Bacon
  200 Sausage meat
  90 Easy peelers Taste the difference Satsumas
  60 Wild Rocket
  10 Cucumber
  40 4 Pints Milk
  30 Pitta Bread
  20 Bananas
  30 White Baps (ooooerr missus!)
  40 Ginger Beer
  20 Tin of Tomatoes
  120 Points Strawberries
  30 Carrots

  • Genghis says:

    6 May6 May 17:23

    Has this turned into the Accelerate comments? 🙂

    • Stu N says:

      6 May6 May 17:42

      One benefit of the pandemic is lack of lists of accelerate targets….

      My Nectar offers:
      10 points on oranges
      20 points on who cares
      30 points on why am I even typing this
      40 points on if you’re still reading this, why?
      50 points on kill me now

      • Patrick Cold says:

        6 May6 May 17:57

        Lovely!

  • Aston100 says:

    6 May6 May 18:30

    Careful with those TTD easy peelers.
    The label says 600g.
    I went into a store recently and weighed approx 15 packs of these.
    They were all under 500g each.
    That’s probably 2 Mandarins short.

    • Super Secret Stuff says:

      6 May6 May 19:18

      Probably dodgy scales, there are laws regulating what weight they can say something is. Nothing for scales, including at the airport if you ever have a problem…

      • Super Secret Stuff says:

        6 May6 May 19:19

        Actually airport scales have to be accurate within 10% but you get the point

        • ChrisC says:

          6 May6 May 22:55

          Trading Standards Officers have the power uner various Weights & Measures Acts to check any equipment that weighs or measures items sold to the public

          That includes scales for weighing fruit and veg in shops and optics and glasses in pubs and petrol pumps. And airport scales are included in that as well

          If you think a stores scales are inaccurate then complain to Trading Standards. Ditto if you think there is a weight issue with pre packaged items as well

  • Harrier25 says:

    6 May6 May 19:51

    God, I don’t give a toss about your 20 bonus nectar points for bananas.

    • The cyclist says:

      6 May6 May 21:21

      Alan’s big plate ring any bells?

• Reader M says:

  6 May6 May 17:27

  Can anyone enlighten me on what Ernie is in the context of Bendy 😀 Thank you!

  • Aston100 says:

    6 May6 May 21:36

    Ernie is a revolutionary.
    Bendy is quite Curvy.

    • Aston100 says:

      6 May6 May 21:37

      WTF is wrong with me.
      Ignore that.

      Che is a revolutionary.
      Bendy is quite Curvy.
      Ernie isn’t quite 007, but is a fairly premium Bond.

      • Wollhouse says:

        7 May7 May 01:57

        Aston100, as I’m sitting in Bangkok, still stuck in quarantine, reading yesterday’s comments over my coffee, that made me actually guffaw, so thanks!

• nige says:

  6 May6 May 17:43

  Dragonpass – i took advantage of the redbydufry cheap Dragonpass visits when it was available last year, and when lockdown came of course i couldn’t use purchased visits. By e mail they said they’d extend my membership from Jan 21 till Jan 22, so i didn’t request a refund, but they have expired my membership in March 21 ! I’ve e mailed a couple of times but no response yet…just as i want to go somewhere next month ! anyone else had this ?

  • Jonathan says:

    6 May6 May 17:56

    Yep, quite a lot of people have reported similar although others have kept the extended expiry date & even some reports of membership expiry extended but lounge passes expired. Rob was supposed to be meeting them last week & was going to raise it but I believe they postponed.

    • avstar says:

      6 May6 May 22:09

      Thank you for your email.

      Please kindly note that your case is still being reviewed as we need to have discussions with Red by Dufry. We will get back to you as soon as we have an update regarding your enquiry.

      ​We apologise for the inconvenience caused.

• YC says:

  6 May6 May 18:22

  Assuming traffic lights get announced tomorrow, do we know/best guess when the next review will be and the effective dates of the next set?

  • TGLoyalty says:

    6 May6 May 19:21

    Every 3 weeks according to Paul Charles but nothing official til it’s announced

• Aston100 says:

  6 May6 May 18:27

  Hello, are the referral bonuses separate on the PRG and the Plat? i.e. 90k MR from each? or is it (as I’ve always thought) 90k MR combined?

  I ask because Player 2 seems to have a separate MR balance against their PRG and also their Plat. Both of which were used for making referrals.

  I assumed all the MR would have pooled into a joint MR balance for both the PRG and the Plat.

  What happens if Player 2 cancels just one of those cards without moving the MR into an airline/hotel scheme?

  • Travel Strong says:

    6 May6 May 18:33

    They only pool if linked properly. Half the time they link with no intervention, half the time they require amex to sort it out. If you are cancelling a card and keeping a card, they always check before cancelling that the linkage is okay – part of their standard checklist when you call to cancel.

    However – your post raises a good point that an unlinked account may have its own earning potential for referrals, if it went unnoticed!

    • TGLoyalty says:

      6 May6 May 19:22

      If it’s not linked then it will have its own referral limit.

      • Aston100 says:

        6 May6 May 21:41

        I might be in luck then!
        That said, I’ve run out of people to refer.
        Players 1 & 2 have 4 main cards each.
        No other players want to play our game, preferring c@shb@ck cards or debit cards 🙁

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