The HfP chat thread – Monday 6th December

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• Nicky says:

  6 Dec6 December 13:40

  Getting really confused here: Can I organise a pre departure test from the States in the UK and take it with me (seeing as the company I bought tests from will not allow me to use theirs)

  • Pete M says:

    6 Dec6 December 13:49

    Yes – Prenetics, Qured, Chronomics and many others…

  • Blenz101 says:

    6 Dec6 December 13:49

    Yes. You just need to ensure they will issue you a certificate validating the results and showing the information on .gov.uk

    NHS tests won’t do this but private providers will.

• Roberto says:

  6 Dec6 December 13:44

  Executive club seems to be down again!!!

• VickyTM says:

  6 Dec6 December 14:01

  Any suggestions please as to where I can get a fit to fly test for getting back to the UK from the USA in the LA / San Diego area? I think I can do a rapid antigen test, but I seem to only be able to find PCR tests that cost hundreds of Dollars… The rules changed on my flight out or else I’d have brought one with me….

  • ianM says:

    6 Dec6 December 14:11

    LFT tests don’t seem to be any cheaper over in USA. I think PCR is more commonly used

    • Paul says:

      6 Dec6 December 15:26

      i have a friend in New York who has just been to one of the many pop-up tented testing stations in Manhattan, and been tested and received email confirmation, containing all the information required on the gov.uk site. Total price, $0.00. What a rip off!

      • tonyb says:

        6 Dec6 December 16:14

        Is your friend a US citizen ? I am hopefully going next week with my wife and kids so trying to work out my best testing options.

        • Paul says:

          6 Dec6 December 17:40

          No, UK passport, just doing 4 days in NY… Plenty of pharmacies jumping on band waggon, people out on street touting for business, “only acceptable test”. Only $249 too!

  • Lyn says:

    6 Dec6 December 16:23

    Vicky, a search for “free covid testing in San Diego” brought up this page. It is part of the official San Diego County web-site, so should be legitimate. I don’t know if it will be useful to you as a visitor, but perhaps it is worth trying. There are other pages about testing on their web-site also, but I didn’t want to include more than one link in this comment

    https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/hhsa/programs/phs/community_epidemiology/dc/2019-nCoV/testing/additional-sites.html

• BuildBackBetter says:

  6 Dec6 December 14:13

  UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid will give an “urgent update” on #Omicron this afternoon.

  • Anna says:

    6 Dec6 December 14:42

    🙄
    What are the chances he’ll announce they’ve decided it’s of no more concern than any other variant and all restrictions will be dropped forthwith?

    • meta says:

      6 Dec6 December 15:08

      Yep, EU considering easing travel curbs…

    • Geoff 1977 says:

      6 Dec6 December 15:34

      Zero

    • Lady London says:

      6 Dec6 December 21:47

      No they’ll want the Big Reveal to be Just Before Christmas so the Tories can look like heroes.

• Anthony says:

  6 Dec6 December 14:21

  A heads up for those who might be using prepaid rates for FHR hotels now, the terms and conditions on Amex travel (the booking site not your specific reservation) that are linked to from the booking page include a term that states if you cancel less than 7 days before arrival you can be charged a cancellation fee of 100% of the booking rate or more than 7 days out you could be charged a £20 cancellation fee. We cancelled a prepaid FHR booking a week or so ago for a future stay and got hit with a cancellation fee

• Alex says:

  6 Dec6 December 14:22

  Thinking of cancelling my Virgin Money / Virgin Atlantic card before my annual fee hits this month. How does VM treat future card signups? Do they allow another signup bonus after 6-12 months w/o the card, or is it once-per-lifetime bonus?

  • James says:

    6 Dec6 December 19:04

    You can get a bonus every 6 months from the card been closed. Done it 3 times so far. Jan will be the fourth. Just leave it 6 months minimum between closing it and re-applying.

• Bob says:

  6 Dec6 December 14:39

  No more VS / ANA @rob?

  • meta says:

    6 Dec6 December 15:10

    What’s this about. I booked another pair of ticket last weekend.

    • Bob says:

      6 Dec6 December 15:13

      false alarm, looked to have disappeared from the website but its there

• Rob says:

  6 Dec6 December 14:43

  Can you upgrade a BA avios booked Economy to Club Europe using cash?

  • Sam G says:

    6 Dec6 December 15:47

    likely only at the airport if they are running a promo upgrade “AUP” You wouldn’t earn any Avios or TP.

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