The HfP chat thread – Wednesday 17th November

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• @mkcol says:

  17 Nov17 November 02:21

  Reposted as yesterday’s was very late & possibly overlooked.

  Friend travelling to Paris on Eurostar on Thursday – they’ve been advised to be at St Pancras 2 hours before.
  Is that early really necessary currently?

  • Save East Coast Rewards says:

    17 Nov17 November 04:27

    Sounds like the sort of advice Heathrow give to their passengers, I even remember Virgin Trains East Coast advising ridiculously early arrival times in the ‘helpful’ emails they’d send out. I think an hour beforehand will be fine.

  • John says:

    17 Nov17 November 04:48

    If everyone aims for only an hour before, the train will be delayed.

    • Dominic says:

      17 Nov17 November 07:59

      Best to let the others turn up early, then.

      • John says:

        17 Nov17 November 08:11

        Yep

  • The Streets says:

    17 Nov17 November 07:43

    Last week travelling to Amsterdam the queues were very long and two hours is about right. Yesterday coming back from Brussels 30 mins would’ve been sufficient

  • Red Flyer says:

    17 Nov17 November 09:05

    I went at the Monday of half term recently and turned up 2 hours before and 15 mins later was sat at Pret with my coffee & sandwich at a table.

  • Michael C says:

    17 Nov17 November 09:46

    We also went in half term, and St P was easy (remember you can board your train 20 mins before departure). However, friends went two days before us and found queues.

    GdNord did indeed have queues, of about 1 hour.

    • ChrisBCN says:

      17 Nov17 November 13:51

      Arriving two days before your train is probably a little bit too long…

• Colin says:

  17 Nov17 November 04:27

  Mornin all. If I want to close my Amex gold card is there a way to transfer my MR points to my green card? Thank you

  • Grant says:

    17 Nov17 November 09:55

    Customer service will merge your MR accounts if you have separates ones for your Gold and Green cards. Alternatively someone, perhaps Harrier25, posted either yesterday or the day before about a workaround to do it yourself without having to contact Amex CS.

• Robert says:

  17 Nov17 November 04:59

  Any feedback on bendy plus MBNA horizon going to Seagulls? Since term change does it attract any fees?

• Shaw West says:

  17 Nov17 November 05:08

  NH hotels 40% OFF Black Friday SALE

• Markpeterboro says:

  17 Nov17 November 05:26

  Very niche tip here , but given that there are Hilton points collectors here it might be useful for someone :

  If anyone is thinking of going to the Imagine Dragons gig that has just been announced for June 18th at Stadium MK , there are currently rooms available for 30,000 points at the Hilton Doubletree that is conveniently part of the stadium complex .

  • Claire says:

    17 Nov17 November 07:20

    Good tip, thanks 🙂

    • Claire says:

      17 Nov17 November 12:18

      urgh all sold out already .. can I use my Diamond 48 hour room guarantee on this??

      • TGLoyalty says:

        17 Nov17 November 13:00

        Only on cash bookings and the price always reflects the fact they have to walk someone else £££

• Markpeterboro says:

  17 Nov17 November 06:19

  IHG have extended some free nights , check your accounts . My IHG credit card free night that was, until yesterday, showing as booking dates Mar 2021 to Mar 2022 has just been extended and now shows booking dates Mar 2021 to 31st Dec 2022 .
  The the one that originally had to be used by Mar 2021 and was extended to 31st Dec 2021 has not been extended a second time.

  • Matt says:

    17 Nov17 November 06:40

    Any reports on whether the ones which were extended to 31 Dec are behaving as book by rather than stay by?

  • Anna says:

    17 Nov17 November 07:35

    Interesting – I wonder if that applies to ones which have already been used to make bookings?

    • Benilyn says:

      17 Nov17 November 10:39

      @Anna – I think if already used they might not, risky to check ha!

  • Pid says:

    17 Nov17 November 07:58

    Same extensions in my two accounts. Just a shame they have not extended the nines ending Dec 21 as struggling to use them unless I take a punt on a trip next year and hope it does not get cancelled.

  • Louise K says:

    17 Nov17 November 08:34

    My two free nights are still book by 21/12/21. I earned these last year.

    • Lee says:

      17 Nov17 November 08:41

      Only applies to free night earned this year

• Cheshire Pete says:

  17 Nov17 November 06:46

  Heads up, if you update the Amex APP which appeared this morning, it’s one of those ones where it forgets all your login info including Face ID settings, so make you’ve not forgotten your login details, which is so easy to do now when relying on such modern features!

  Oh got an email I’ve trigged my 10,000 bonus Avios offer also! That reversed my mood after the APP update!

  • John says:

    17 Nov17 November 08:14

    Why have you capitalised APP? Did you know that in China APP is pronounced ay-pee-pee?

    • mark2 says:

      17 Nov17 November 08:46

      only in China? that is how I would pronounce it!

      • John says:

        17 Nov17 November 09:45

        Yeah but it should be “app” (uncapitalised) as it is short for [mobile] application, or these days, another word for computer program(me).

    • Nigel W says:

      17 Nov17 November 09:14

      Randomly, I always found it interesting (from my HK born father) that Amex out in HK is called ‘AE’.

• Gareth says:

  17 Nov17 November 07:39

  Just got a 10% off Samsung on plat, 1 day to use it…..

  • BuildBackBetter says:

    17 Nov17 November 07:47

    Valid until 30th Nov. The days counter is broken.

  • Dominic says:

    17 Nov17 November 08:51

    Shame the Galaxy Tab S8 won’t be released prior to that ending. I’d have utilised that.

  • BP says:

    17 Nov17 November 10:09

    Always some good Samsung student deals that this will stack with if you have access. I think they do similar for BlueLight card etc.

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