The HfP chat thread – Monday 11th October

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Oliver says:

11 Oct11 October 10:31

DP: a colleague arrived back from Poland yesterday. His wife is only single-jabbed, and so needs to quarantine. Someone turned up at their house this morning to check she was in – needed to see her and matching photo ID.
- Alex says:
  
  11 Oct11 October 11:58
  
  That’s good.
  - Blenz101 says:
    
    11 Oct11 October 13:02
    
    And is the reason why those on the previous page should give a bit more thought to their casual attitude to the PFL.
    
    Lucky she hadn’t popped out for fuel or decided the testing and isolating wasn’t for her I guess.
    - A says:
      
      11 Oct11 October 14:04
      
      You can still go out for a variety of reasons, ironically one of which is for testing, which is what happened to me back in July – they came round when I had actually gone out for a test!
    - Amy C says:
      
      11 Oct11 October 14:20
      
      Oh do behave! Nothing worse than a self righteous bore.
      - mark says:
        
        11 Oct11 October 14:57
        
        This site is full of them 😂
Peter Taysum says:

11 Oct11 October 10:47

Have had an email saying that I’ve hit £5k spend on AmEx. I can’t find the target for my 2:4:1 voucher anywhere though…
- Paul Pogba says:
  
  11 Oct11 October 10:52
  
  It looks like its disappeared for me too, it’s probably an IT bug that will resolve itself in a few days.
  - Peter Taysum says:
    
    11 Oct11 October 11:51
    
    I had a problem with logon to the app; it was sending a message every time; which is now fixed.
Simon says:

11 Oct11 October 10:55

Does anyone know if in BA book with confidence could you cancel the return leg? Or is it better after you have flown the first leg? Would you receive an eVoucher?
- Sam G says:
  
  11 Oct11 October 11:17
  
  Yes you can, submit after you’ve flown the legs you want to use. It’ll be an offline FTV
  - Simon says:
    
    11 Oct11 October 11:59
    
    Thanks!
James says:

11 Oct11 October 11:00

I’ve maxed out my points purchase with Marriott and want to take advantage of the current offer. My girlfriend’s account isn’t old enough to buy points. Am I allowed to gift points to her then have her transfer them back to me despite the age of her account?
- YC says:
  
  11 Oct11 October 11:41
  
  I think account needs to be 30 days old for you to gift points to her as well. Other readers have pointed out that there might be a black friday sale so that timing might work for you
  - James says:
    
    11 Oct11 October 11:46
    
    Thanks for the heads up! Really need some extra points before mid-December.
    - Babyg says:
      
      12 Oct12 October 00:33
      
      are you bidding on a marriott moment, or a swanky reward?
BP says:

11 Oct11 October 11:01

Singapore to let unvaccinated under 12s use the VTLs from the end of the month. Some more good news!
- BlueHorizonUK says:
  
  11 Oct11 October 11:09
  
  Woop Woop
Simon says:

11 Oct11 October 11:05

IHG Creation Twitter

Would anyone know if there is a way to DM IHG Creation via Twitter? I can’t seem to find any Twitter handle for them on Google.

It’s just that it’s been eight weeks now since my mother spent £200.00 to earn the 10,000 IHG points SUB, but no sign of these points in her IHG.com account.

Unless there is another way of getting in touch with IHG Creation (besides calling, I mean — my mother’s 83 and wouldn’t have any idea what’s going on if she were put on the receiver!).

Many thanks in advance.
- Anna says:
  
  11 Oct11 October 11:10
  
  email customer care @ creation . co . uk
  Don;t know how long they are taking to respond, I think they are quite busy at the moment …
  - Simon says:
    
    11 Oct11 October 12:52
    
    Much obliged, Anna. 😉
- John says:
  
  11 Oct11 October 11:15
  
  They used to have an online messaging system which worked well if you didn’t want an instant answer – sadly that facility has been removed.
  - bill says:
    
    11 Oct11 October 11:19
    
    I just logged in to my Creation account and the online web form “Contact Us” is still there. https://myaccount.creation.co.uk/info/contact.html
    - Simon says:
      
      11 Oct11 October 12:52
      
      Many thanks, Bill (and John). 😉
Crafty says:

11 Oct11 October 11:18

I posted this last night, but was requested to post again today for more attention.

Has anyone successfully received their additional 0.5% reimbursement from the summertime promo on Creation spending (for me, IHG White)? Nothing here yet, but I can’t find where I saved the terms, and would like to know if I can complain yet.
- Sprout says:
  
  11 Oct11 October 11:23
  
  Nothing for me yet.
  Terms were within 60 days from Aug 29th.
  Not sure how this will play out given I received the closure letter…..
  - Harley says:
    
    11 Oct11 October 13:36
    
    Nothing yet. I called them last week to ask as my white card is being cancelled and they said promo should be upheld as was prior to cancellation. I made them note on my account if its not applied by the end of the month ( 60 day term in terms) then they should expect a complaint from me
    - Harley says:
      
      11 Oct11 October 13:41
      
      Although i think we may be in for a long ride having seen the comments on the free night voucher and fee being lost
fivebobbill says:

11 Oct11 October 11:28

Anybody having trouble logging into their account on the Hilton Barclaycard website today?
I keep getting the following message every time:

“Your session was closed to protect your information.”
“Please try logging in again”
- Youllnever says:
  
  11 Oct11 October 11:38
  
  Try clearing your cookies/cache or maybe use a different browser and see if it works?
  - fivebobbill says:
    
    11 Oct11 October 11:40
    
    Yeah tried that, even tried on my phone, no joy…
- Russ says:
  
  11 Oct11 October 11:40
  
  Mine’s fine.
  - fivebobbill says:
    
    11 Oct11 October 11:43
    
    Thank you, appear to be getting access again now via my phone only, strange…
    - fivebobbill says:
      
      11 Oct11 October 11:53
      
      Online issue resolved now, it would appear the system all of a sudden didn’t like my “cut and pasted” username (like I’ve been doing forever), entered manually it worked ok!
- Can says:
  
  11 Oct11 October 12:08
  
  try a different browser or deactivate vpn?