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OK thanks – how do I do that please? (I haven’t made the booking yet)

You can’t cancel a booking you have not made.

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My last voucher was burnt before it expired but the flight was 8 months after it expired.

Back from Barbados in PE flying next year. The outbound is on BA in club using a barclaycard voucher. An excellent use of these two vouchers. Would have preferred them the other way around but needs must and all that.

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If they do it will be all the stuff they are long on, mostly short notice , no carribean the usual non sale sale smoke and mirror promotion.

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Says fee free for the first £3000 in any 30 rolling period on mine.

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Coincidentally I found my One Million Avios “cheque” today. I wondered where I had stashed it and it was behind a wardrobe in a spare room – I was not looking for it but when I pulled an inflatable dingy off the top of the wardrobe and got hit on the bridge of my nose with a large water nerf gun I found the cheque scrabbling about picking up the stuff of the floor..

I won them in an Avis competition & spent the Avios years ago of course…

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Back in the day when they were “business lounges” they were worth visiting. Now they are just lounges and over filled with hen parties, kids and the great unwashed.

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Do you have hilton status?
If Gold or Diamond you get breakfast and an hours worth of free drinks plus a small plate of canopies.
Otherwise no you pay for everything.

Add in the seaplane transfer and its very expensive. They will run you card for $5000 holding deposit before you even get there!!!!

In saying that we had a blast this year.

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I would guess yes , as for when and how much – who knows!

Their cruises are getting busier (infact one I have for next May is sold out already) so the enthusiasm from them to need to fill cabins with this promo is diminishing but I can see it returning.

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Curve and Barclaycard are friends with HRMC but as mentioned above the basic card is not sufficient for your needs effectively.

I popped my CoTax through it this week.

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stevenhp1987 wrote:

@Roberto, we got $50 loot each back then.

Ah , yes.. I remember now – $50. Was a great cruise for sure. Looking forward to the 10 night “Starry nights” next may and a 5 nighter Amsterdam & Zebrugger out of Portsmouth mid September.

All the best from Malaga..

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I am on the

Starry Nights in Greece & Croatia
09-19 May, 2024

762932
Coppard

If anyone wants to link bookings

Not sure what it gets you

We on that too…

Also unsure about linking bookings – no idea how to do it or even if we should. Prehaps someone could post a handy “how to and why” post.. I think I might have linked to @steveHP1987 last cruise in 22 – did we get anything Steve (other than covid)???

Have booked a couple of extra days before in Athens on the Starry night. Award seats sorted on BA.

Also going to do one of the trips out of Portsmouth next September.

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Bombay/Mumbai has plenty of availability PE out and upper back on VS if you fancy India.. I was checking for someone else earlier today. Last time we went we stayed at the Oberoi and had a blast.

No idea what the weather is like that time of the year and two weeks might be a bit long unless you move on elsewhere..

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It’s gonna be something to do with oxygen masks I would guess.

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It’s like the newlyweds flying to the Maldives and expecting an upgrade as its their honeymoon. Of course its important to them like it is to the other 30 or 40 honeymooners onboard – but BA can’t upgrade everybody.

You’re gonna be one of prehaps a few with a birthday on that flight , it’s the same every day on every flight – the staff may go the extra mile but don’t expect anything unfortunately .

However, happy birthday in advance from me, I hope you both have an amazing flight and trip to the big apple.

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What’s the flight details and date please?

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I too had a poor experience yesterday on chat. I felt that the person I was speaking with was just replying with preformatted generic replies full of buzz words with little else.

I expressed my disappointment and they left the chat. Never been “clicked out” on chat before. Think I will cancel my BA amex before the new rules come into effect.

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One thing that’s a bit annoying is that if you book using a 241 that you have to do via BA, but all the flights are on Iberia, you can’t see the booking in the BA app or online; it says there needs to be at least one BA flight, so it knows the booking exists but won’t let you see it.

But not always. I have a 125 ticketed BA booking containing 4 Iberia flights all with IB flight numbers that shows perfectly on my BA app.

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Weather conditions and ATC staffing issues will muddy most EU261 claims today unfortunately.

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I would say yes as I have Iberia Express reward seats booked as part of a longer trip. Booked via BA.com and the IB Express bit is Malaga to Madrid, the other flights are Iberia main line.

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Some stuff on the Twitters

All fluff , no substance just more PR BS and spin on what looks like a dead man walking.

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YMMV on this. I have never actually seen “the rules” but what I can say is that my wife still has her gold status many years later despite never actually booking a Hilton ever.

Off the top of my head she last had a UK Platinum card in her own name about 10 years ago.

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South Beach itself is OK durring the day but at night it’s a whole different game. Lots of young barely dress people shaking their moneymaker.

I might be getting old but it’s as far away from elegant and sophisticated as it’s possible to get.

Stayed in the Betsy on Ocean Drive which was an oasis in a sea of “spring break madness”…

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Bearing in mind the weather issues this afternoon I would imagine that Easyjet will try to hide behind all the other cancellations and delays so be aware you will be having a bun fight to get anywhere on this.

As for better off , it depends if you want to go wherever you due to be going. That’s up to you. Is there another flight with any other carrier from any other London airport you could ask to get switched onto?

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Way back in 2016 I dropboxed 30odd TVs (from Tesco) for 5000 avios each selling them on ebay. These were the good old days..

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Ba lounge access only with Ba Business class booking – no access to other lounges at Gatwick unless you’re gold or above and then its the BA First Lounge if you choose.

Have a great trip