The HfP chat thread – Thursday 25th November

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• Tw33ty says:

  25 Nov25 November 10:55

  New to Marriott, but just had the points for a stay post, and something seems not quite right.

  Room was £120 £30 spent in bar

  I received 272 points plus 27 as silver then 1500 as the bonus Marriott promo atm

  272 points for £150 seems really wrong to me.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    25 Nov25 November 10:57

    Happens not and again. Can either ask hotel to correct or wait 10 days and ask Marriott.

  • berneslai says:

    25 Nov25 November 10:58

    What Marriott brand? This is quite a frequent occurence, around a third of my stays don’t have the correct points posted.

    • Tw33ty says:

      25 Nov25 November 12:06

      It was a Marriott branded hotel, Marriott dyce Aberdeen

      • berneslai says:

        25 Nov25 November 13:14

        Get in touch with the hotel. I thought you may have been at a Residence Inn or other brand where points are reduced.

• soloflyer1977 says:

  25 Nov25 November 10:59

  I keep getting “Sorry, Something went wrong” on BA.com when trying to check avios availability (one way LHR-DUB). Is the functionality still down?

• berneslai says:

  25 Nov25 November 11:00

  Minor Marriott datapoint. I have quite a few award reservations for next summer in the US. Most have dropped 5k-10k points in price over the past 24 hours. It might be worth rechecking some of your advance bookings.

• AngryOctopus says:

  25 Nov25 November 11:09

  Going India at the end of Jan, I’ve submitted my passport renewal a week a go (didn’t go through fast track annoyingly and now its a bit late as I already send my old passport off which was delivered this Tuesday, though no update on application yet)

  Thoughts on the timeline of getting passport in time to get a visa for India in person? as e-visa is not an option now, any experience with turnaround times?

• Stephan says:

  25 Nov25 November 11:19

  Is shop small only on one card this year? Or have others got it on other cards?

  • Soo says:

    25 Nov25 November 11:27

    Added to all via chat

• Gary says:

  25 Nov25 November 11:20

  Getting Thai Airways LHR-BKK 4 semi-flex biz tickets, so can MCOL BA (who refused to re-route beyond 1 year ticket validity). Prefer to use Amex Plat (would work nicely for SUB) but recently read plane tickets best with credit card (eg ironically BAPP). What are the risks if a charge card rather than credit card used with TG tickets? Aren’t these Thai flights cover by UK261?

  • Polly says:

    25 Nov25 November 11:36

    Amex have their own equivalent of charge back and are pretty good as getting money back for you.

    • meta says:

      25 Nov25 November 12:25

      In terms of EU/UK261 coverage only outbound LHR-BKK is covered.

      • Aston100 says:

        25 Nov25 November 12:52

        I thought I read something a while back that the return leg is also covered if it is all on one ticket?
        Is that not the case?

        • John says:

          25 Nov25 November 13:08

          No, but a connecting ticket is e.g. LHR-BKK-SYD provided that you are not actually going to BKK (gray area if you are stopping for a 2 hour meeting in the lounge etc)

        • Rob says:

          25 Nov25 November 13:20

          No, return only covered if it is an EU airline.

• C says:

  25 Nov25 November 11:23

  Good morning. Trying to do an avios booking for 2 adults and an infant. Tried to add infant to HHA but it seems to require an email address / executive club number for each member of the HHA and won’t let me book online for anyone not in the HHA or family/friends list. Any tips? Create an email address for baby and sign them up? Or should I just book for 2 adults and call to add the infant?

  • berneslai says:

    25 Nov25 November 11:36

    I gave my two kids e-mail addresses and added them to the household account.

• Mr. AC says:

  25 Nov25 November 11:27

  Is there any way to set a free alert to monitor for seats (regular cash, not avios) becoming available on a fully sold-out flight? Google Flights seems to only allow for monitoring of the price if the flight has any tickets available in the first place.

  • Tocsin says:

    25 Nov25 November 11:42

    ExpertFlyer would be my suggestion – the free version allows seat alerts, I believe.

    • Jonathan says:

      25 Nov25 November 15:10

      This is the correct answer. 7 day free trial will give you availability alerts in any fare bucket you would like.

    • Mr. AC says:

      25 Nov25 November 21:46

      Thanks, sounds like what I’m looking for!

  • BuildBackBetter says:

    25 Nov25 November 11:59

    Seatspy

    • BuildBackBetter says:

      25 Nov25 November 12:00

      Ah cash. Ignore me.

      • roberto says:

        25 Nov25 November 12:09

        google flights?

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