What are the best Tesco Clubcard travel deals now Hilton is withdrawing?

Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points

As we covered the other day, Hilton is withdrawing from the Tesco Clubcard scheme at the end of 2021. If you had started redeeming for Hilton vouchers after the end of the Avios / Tesco partnership, you need another option. What can you do with your Clubcard points going forward? The good news is that, […]

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What are the best hotel promos for October 2021?

Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points

As travel begins to restart, we have brought back our regular round-up of the best hotel promotions currently running. All of the information in this article can also be found on our ‘Hotel Offers’ page which contains details of all of the current offers, together with links to our major articles on each hotel scheme.  However, […]

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Good Accor deal – earn 6,000 Avios or Accor points (or €120) for 3 x 2-night stays

Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points

Accor Hotels, which owns Novotel / Ibis / Mercure / M Gallery / Sofitel / Pullman / Raffles / Swissotel / Fairmont etc, has brought back its generous promotion to earn 6,000 bonus Accor points. You will earn 6,000 Accor Live Limitless points (worth 6,000 Avios or a variable pile of other airline miles, or […]

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Bits: BA adds San Diego, Accor relaxes its points expiry rules, 30% bonus buying Hyatt points

Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points

News in brief: British Airways resumes flights to San Diego British Airways has announced a date for restarting flights to San Diego. A thrice-weekly service (Wednesday, Friday, Sunday) will begin on 13th October, increasing to daily from December. It is, apparently, the first European service to resume flying to the city. From an Avios point […]

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Bits: BA launches The Azores, last call for The Vamps with Accor, Domes of Corfu joins Bonvoy

Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points

News in brief: British Airways launches flights to The Azores British Airways has announced a handful – and it is only a handful – of flights to The Azores for Summer 2022. The airline will be flying to the islands of São Miguel and Terceira. Flights will operate once per week, with São Miguel launching […]

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Which airlines let you transfer air miles INTO hotel loyalty programmes?

Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points

Almost all hotel loyalty programmes let you transfer you points into certain frequent flyer schemes.  What is far rarer is for a frequent flyer scheme to let you transfer your miles INTO a hotel points programme. This didn’t used to be the case.  If you go back 15 years, Hilton Honors had quite a few […]

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Bits: new BA Salzburg routes, Sofitel T5 IS on lastminute ‘secret hotels’, a United / Amex / Marriott transfer deal

Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points

New in brief: BA launches new flights from London City and Southampton to Salzburg British Airways announced two new BA CityFlyer routes to Salzburg yesterday. These will operate from London City and Southampton. We dropped in an extra article during the day yesterday with all the details which you can read here. The peak ski […]

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Bits: Sofitel Terminal 5 reopens, Emirates T3 lounge reopens, Hilton to open a 37-room hotel in Santorini

Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points

News in brief: Sofitel hotel at Heathrow Terminal 5 reopens to the public After a number of months operating as a Red List quarantine hotel, the Sofitel hotel at Heathrow Terminal 5 opened to the public again on Monday night. As a reminder, this is the only hotel that is directly connected to Terminal 5. […]

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Bits: Nectar / Avios transfer bonus, Accor launches a new luxury brand, 100% bonus buying IHG Rewards points

Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points

News in brief: Avios launches a new ‘first time’ transfer bonus from Nectar I assume, by now, that almost all Head for Points readers in the UK will have linked their Nectar account to Avios and made a transfer. Some of you prefer to move Avios to Nectar, getting 0.8p per Avios, and slowly cashing […]

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Get Chelsea Flower Show tickets and a hotel stay with an impressive Accor Live Limitless redemption

Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points

As we have mentioned a couple of times recently, Accor – owner of the Ibis, Novotel, Pullman, Fairmont, Mercure, Sofitel etc etc brands – is making a big push to enhance its ‘experiences’ redemptions in the UK. This will offer a real alternative for people who don’t get excited about redeeming their Accor points for […]

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Get a 20%-40% bonus transferring points into Etihad Guest – two days only

Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points

Etihad Guest is currently running another of its occasional transfer bonus weekends. Weekend, this time around, relates to the Middle East weekend so you need to move your points by Saturday evening – 9pm UK time to be precise. Etihad tends to change the partners who participate in this deal each time it runs. This […]

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Bits: see The Vamps with Accor, good £99 Sloane Square Hotel deal, last day to win a Priority Pass

Written by Rhys Jones @ Head for Points

News in brief: Accor launches its (Hammersmith) Eventim Apollo partnership As we have covered a couple of times recently, Accor Live Limitless (the loyalty scheme for Novotel, Ibis, Mercure, Pullman etc) is stepping up its UK events programme. This will offer a real alternative for people who don’t get excited about redeeming their Accor points […]

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Bits: see The Vamps with Accor, good £99 Sloane Square Hotel deal, last day to win a Priority Pass

Written by Rhys Jones @ Head for Points

News in brief: Accor launches its (Hammersmith) Eventim Apollo partnership As we have covered a couple of times recently, Accor Live Limitless (the loyalty scheme for Novotel, Ibis, Mercure, Pullman etc) is stepping up its UK events programme. This will offer a real alternative for people who don’t get excited about redeeming their Accor points […]

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Bits: Norwegian plans 142 weekly UK flights, 25x Nectar points with Europcar, Sofitel T5 suite deal

Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points

News in brief: Norwegian selling 142 weekly flights from the UK and Ireland for next Summer Norwegian is still alive and kicking, albeit now as a short haul airline focused on Scandinavia. The airline has just put its Summer 2022 schedule on sale. It is planning to operate 142 flights per week from the UK […]

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What are the best hotel promos for August 2021?

Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points

As travel begins to restart, we have brought back our regular round-up of the best hotel promotions currently running. All of the information in this article can also be found on our ‘Hotel Offers’ page which contains details of all of the current offers, together with links to our major articles on each hotel scheme.  However, […]

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Bits: good value Accor and Virgin Red ‘experiences’ redemptions, IHG extends its Summer sale

Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points

News in brief: Get a good value Accor ‘experience’ including a Sofitel St James stay Accor Live Limitless, the loyalty programme for Novotel, Sofitel, Ibis, Mercure, Fairmont etc, is ramping up its ‘Limitless Experiences’ programme in the UK. This is good news, as the ‘Limitless Experiences’ programme is one way of getting better value for […]

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HfP in the Balearics: what are your best points options for a Green List holiday?

Written by Rhys Jones @ Head for Points

Two weeks ago I headed down to Spain as the guest of Marriott Bonvoy to take a look at some of their properties across the islands. It was a tough job but someone had to do it. In this introductory article, I wanted to briefly look at the points options across ALL of the major […]

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Bits: Virgin Atlantic heads back to Terminal 3, new Accor / Amex cashback deal, 50% off selected KrisFlyer redemptions

Written by Rhys Jones @ Head for Points

News in brief: Virgin Atlantic and Delta return to Heathrow Terminal 3 Virgin Atlantic and its partner Delta Air Lines have announced they will be returning to Heathrow Terminal 3 next week for the first time in almost 18 months. The move will happen on the 15th July, ie. next Thursday. Terminal 3 has been […]

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