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New Durham Tees Valley / Teesside International airport lounge now open

Durham Tees Valley Airport has opened the Premium Lounge.  It replaces the previous Swissport lounge. The cash price of £21.95 seems a little toppy, but let’s see.  It makes the £25 – .....

Durham Tees Valley Airport has opened the Premium Lounge.  It replaces the previous Swissport lounge. The .....

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Millennium Hotels offering 20% off rooms and a food and beverage credit

Millennium Hotels, which includes the Copthorne chain, is running a new discount promotion. These rates do NOT show up on the website when doing a search unless you input the code SPRINGBREAK2018. You .....

Millennium Hotels, which includes the Copthorne chain, is running a new discount promotion. These rates do NOT .....

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Virgin Atlantic launches afternoon tea – on the ground and onboard

One thing about running HfP is that you meet a far broader range of people than you ever do working in the City, as I did.  Eric Lanlard is one of these people – I never really expected that I .....

One thing about running HfP is that you meet a far broader range of people than you ever do working in the .....

by Rob Burgess132 comments

What I learned at the Marriott press briefing yesterday

Loyalty press conferences in the UK are a funny old thing, because there aren’t actually that many people to invite.  Thus it was that four usual suspects – plus a mysterious woman who I .....

Loyalty press conferences in the UK are a funny old thing, because there aren’t actually that many .....

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Zipcar Flex opens at Heathrow Terminal 5 – drive yourself home for £17

Most readers, at least London-based ones, will know Zipcar as a ‘pound per hour’ car hire group.  They have a few hundred cars scattered across Central London and you can book them by the .....

Most readers, at least London-based ones, will know Zipcar as a ‘pound per hour’ car hire group.  .....

by Rob Burgess101 comments