The HfP chat thread – Saturday 17th July

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• Gruntfuttock says:

  17 Jul17 July 07:13

  I believe mark (little m) is currently at Rijeka searching for his (lost) luggage

  (I’m joking 😁)

• Andrew says:

  17 Jul17 July 07:18

  Anecdote – don’t you mean “data point”? 😂

• Paul says:

  17 Jul17 July 07:27

  Anybody any experience of purchasing a car via Cazoo or Cinch?

  • Richie says:

    17 Jul17 July 09:23

    Read all the details about their guarantee if there’s a problem with the car. The trustpilot reviews are also interesting.

  • SteveJ says:

    17 Jul17 July 14:47

    Yes, purchased from Cinch. Car was as described and happy with it. Didn’t have to use the 14 day returns option so can’t comment

• Barraclough says:

  17 Jul17 July 07:31

  This is by far away the best travel, rewards and points site and I’ve learnt so much from very knowledgeable people who contribute regularly, not to mention the outstanding work over the years by Rob, Rhys, and others.

  Personally I don’t care what people want to ask or discuss because if there is a topic that doesn’t interest me or is repetitive I simply move on! There are a few grumpy’s though who don’t see it that way! Albeit, many give excellent advice and commentary but hate discussion of Beardy, Che and Solihull. Yet despite such references taking up what must be way less that 1% of the total column inches there is always someone complaining, whether it’s about opportunities to make points or the use of code names.

  Let’s live and let live and recognise HfP is not for the exclusive use of regulars who read it ten times a day! There are newbies here too with other commitments dipping in who may not have time to read HfP in detail every day. The irony is also that Beardy, Che, et al is at least on topic – the collection of rewards and points – whereas some regulars seem to love talking about everything but!

  Rob takes a relaxed view of the topic range, and that’s good. So for those who complain I respectfully ask you to recognise the diversity of the readership in terms of knowledge, availability of time, and varied interests.

  • bazza says:

    17 Jul17 July 07:47

    The issue with IHG card etc is that people put in a lot of effort to find these routes and are then not happy when the secret is shared. Rob never mentioned IHG in atleast the last 6 years but he knew the “secret” i bet his surprised with how open people have become

    • VerdantBacon says:

      17 Jul17 July 08:24

      Once Curve become popular on here, it wouldn’t be long before everyone tried whatever card they had. We’ve even see people ask if they could use a card to pay itself off via Curve.

      The problem is not the secret getting shared, the problem is how incredibly easy it is to MS with Curve and Revolut and just how long this route has lasted.

      Usually MS is more cumbersome and doesn’t last as long, or lasts a while but is a secret held by the few that try instead of ask.

      Eventually Curve and Revolut MS will die off, the conversation will disappear and all that will be left is people reminiscing about easier times.

  • Njb says:

    17 Jul17 July 08:06

    Well said

    • Mike says:

      17 Jul17 July 08:19

      Never forget the first rule of fight club

      • Phil W says:

        17 Jul17 July 09:57

        Get a Revolut card 🤷‍♂️

        • bafan says:

          17 Jul17 July 10:35

          😂😂😂.

        • TGLoyalty says:

          17 Jul17 July 11:42

          Get a curve card

  • Jill ( Kinkell) says:

    17 Jul17 July 10:38

    Clearly I’ve got up too late and missed some posts, but seems that’s just as well today. Totally agree @Barraclough. HfP is my ‘go to’ breakfast reading . Skip, gloss over what’s not interesting, laser like scrutiny over what’s relevant and interesting. Love the fact you are all so patient and helpful in your responses to ( repetitive ). queries. Keep it up ,posters

• Chelseafi says:

  17 Jul17 July 07:39

  My return flight only is now via BA CityFlyer economy end of month from Minorca what do I get in the way of F&B never done before, so any advice for flight thank you.

  • MilesOnPoint says:

    17 Jul17 July 07:50

    Presume you mean in Economy on CityFlyer? pre-COVID it was usually a wrap/Sandwich or potentially a cold boxed salad for longer routes to/from LCY (had a nice Mackerel salad on flight to Florence).

    Booze is available for free and includes standard spirits (Gordon’s gin, Smirnoff Red, Johnny Walker red), red & White wine along with beers/soft drinks.

    That being said, I’m not sure what current state of play is and you may just get the standard crisps and water as Heathrow eco now does.

    • Memesweeper says:

      17 Jul17 July 11:13

      My last BA CF a few weeks ago was a biscuit and a drink. On a longer route you may do better. It will be free of charge.

• patrick C says:

  17 Jul17 July 07:40

  The usefulness of travel insurance really depends where you’re from what you take and where you travel.
  A ryanair handluggahe tourist within the EU staying at cheap hotels has less need for it…

• Mikeact says:

  17 Jul17 July 07:43

  You have to accept that an open forum like this, or others, attracts both the good and bad. The exception is probably Flyertalk where comments usually remain on topic.

  • Craig says:

    17 Jul17 July 07:52

    A forum? Where you can have threads and edit and stuff? Now there’s an idea.

    • Mikeact says:

      17 Jul17 July 08:11

      Of course, I use the term very loosely on here but not for the regulars !

  • Harunn says:

    17 Jul17 July 08:22

    The ability to block some of the people who post over and over would be great!

• Andrew says:

  17 Jul17 July 07:53

  With the news of the rules on returning from France, the government has quietly slipped out a fourth traffic light: Amber+ which I would expect to see apply to more countries at short notice as a half way house to red status.

  • Craig says:

    17 Jul17 July 07:55

    Green, green watch, amber, amber plus and red. What’s confusing about that?

    • ChrisBCN says:

      17 Jul17 July 10:32

      Red amber green is no longer fit for purpose – I propose red, scarlet, pink, dark orange, amber, emerald, green as the way forward.

      • Lady London says:

        17 Jul17 July 13:53

        The trouble is, other countries do just that and on those, the UK remains dark red, Netherlands just went orange after 2 weeks of nightclubbing fromba much lower base of infection than the UK, and the rest of Europe is Bright Green. Oh, except Spain and Portugal which have been receiving British holidaymakers for the last month and are now scarlet red.

        • Tony1 says:

          17 Jul17 July 14:47

          Cases in Spain are growing exponentially. Spain will be Amber ++ soon

          ( France and Spain can not go Red as there are not enough hotel rooms in the UK for the return traveller – I guess )

        • meta says:

          17 Jul17 July 16:46

          EU also does regional, so within country you can have green, orange, red, dark red.

  • LessCleverAndrew says:

    17 Jul17 July 08:48

    Yup. Just been caught by that as was due to return from France, via Geneva – on August 1st. Will be cancelling my trip now.

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