Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
Virgin Red has teamed up with SquareMeal, the restaurant booking service, to allow you to earn Virgin Points when you eat out. There are three ways to earn. You can, as you would expect, earn 100 points when you book a restaurant via the SquareMeal website. You can get an extra 25 points by leaving […]
Category: Virgin Atlantic and Flying Club
Review: the Virgin Atlantic Reward Plus Mastercard credit card
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
This is our review of the Virgin Atlantic Reward+ Mastercard credit card. It is part of our series of articles looking at the major UK loyalty credit cards and discussing whether or not they are worth applying for. These articles are linked to the relevant sections of the ‘Credit Card Offers‘ area of the menu […]
Review: the Virgin Atlantic Reward Mastercard credit card
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
This is our review of the Virgin Atlantic Reward Mastercard credit card. It is part of our series of articles looking at the major UK loyalty credit cards and discussing whether or not they are worth applying for. These articles are linked to the relevant sections of the ‘Credit Card Offers‘ area of the menu […]
Bits: 100% bonus buying Hilton points, save 20% at Aerotel Terminal 3, get 2500 Virgin Points with Clubcard auto-convert
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
News in brief: Get a 100% bonus when you buy Hilton Honors points Hilton has brought back its offer of a 100% bonus when you buy points. The Hilton ‘buy points’ page is here. The maximum purchase, at least for me, is 80,000 points which would double up to 160,000 points with the bonus. This […]
Bits: 100% bonus buying Hilton points, save 20% at Aerotel Terminal 3, get 2500 Virgin Points with Clubcard auto-convert
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
News in brief: Get a 100% bonus when you buy Hilton Honors points Hilton has brought back its offer of a 100% bonus when you buy points. The Hilton ‘buy points’ page is here. The maximum purchase, at least for me, is 80,000 points which would double up to 160,000 points with the bonus. This […]
Bits: get 20% off Harvey Nichols drinks, 100% bonus buying IHG Rewards points, win a Virgin Voyages cruise
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
News in brief: Use your £50 Amex Platinum credit for two bottles of Harvey Nichols champagne, delivered If you have an American Express Platinum card (Amex Platinum review here), you have a new benefit – £100 per year to spend at Harvey Nichols. This is split into 2 x £50 credits, one for January to June and one […]
Bits: sub-£1900 Oz fares on Singapore Airlines, get a unique vinyl turntable with Virgin Points
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
News in brief: Good Australia fares with Singapore Airlines As you have no doubt seen in the mainstream media, Australia will reopen for tourism later this month. I wrote this article recently on how to use Avios to get to Australia. However, I also said in that article that cash is often a better way […]
How to earn Avios and get the best deals on Heathrow Airport car parking
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
“How to get a discount on airport car parking” is a difficult and long-winded question, especially at Heathrow. Luckily for me, the good people at moneysavingexpert.com have written a long article on the subject, which you can find here. I can therefore focus on the ‘miles and points’ angles. Earning and burning from official Heathrow […]
Why Barclays Avios Rewards is great for the solo traveller
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
The launch of the Barclays Avios Rewards programme in March was a substantial boost for the solo traveller. I am spending some time over the next fortnight looking again at the new Barclays Premier and Barclays Avios Rewards partnership, so you can see if it is worth signing up. Whilst the rollout was initially slow, […]
Virgin Atlantic launches codeshare with LATAM – what does it mean for you?
Written by Rhys Jones @ Head for Points
This week, Virgin Atlantic announced a new codeshare partnership with LATAM, the largest airline in Latin America. Well – sort of the largest. LATAM is actually made up of several different operational units based in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Paraguay and Peru. It appears that Virgin’s codeshare applies specifically to LATAM Brasil. The partnership covers […]
Caribbean bits: Virgin Atlantic returns to Tobago, Aer Lingus returns to Barbados
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
News in brief: Virgin Atlantic returns to Tobago Virgin Atlantic has announced that it will restart flights to Tobago on 29th January. The reason that the route can return so quickly is that this is not a direct flight. Tobago, pictured below, is being tagged onto selected Barbados flights, with the aircraft stopping in Bridgetown […]
Bits: win a £700 voucher with Virgin Atlantic, new W hotel in Greece, get 25% off No1 Lounges
Written by Rhys Jones @ Head for Points
News in brief: Win a £700 flight voucher with Virgin Atlantic In addition to its winter sale, Virgin Atlantic has been offering a number of ‘daily deals’ (lasting, oddly, for multiple days) with incentives to book your next trip now. In the past fortnight this has included £100 Amazon vouchers and cabin upgrades. Virgin’s latest […]
What is the best Virgin Atlantic credit card for you?
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
In April 2018, Virgin Atlantic launched its two new Virgin Flying Club credit cards, issued by Virgin Money. They have proved hugely successful with, so I understand, over 200,000 applications so far. We rarely look at the two cards from first principles, so I thought it was worth another look today. It is now 18 months […]
Get up to an extra £150 off Upper Class flights to Boston, New York and Orlando in the Virgin Atlantic sale
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
Virgin Atlantic is offering a further £150 off in its sale with the promo code ‘FLYVA’. You need to book by Monday 17th January for travel between now and the end of March or between September and November.
Bits: Virgin confirms Austin, 2000 bonus Avios on BA Amex, Virgin tier points with Singapore
Written by Rhys Jones @ Head for Points
News in brief: Virgin Atlantic confirms Austin launch On Saturday we wrote that rumours were swirling of a new Virgin Atlantic route to Austin, Texas. It turns out the rumours were true and flights are now being loaded into the booking system. Services are currently visible when you search via Google Flights but are NOT […]
Virgin Atlantic: launching Austin?, reopens arrivals lounge, extends rebooking policy, launches sale
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
We’ve been swamped with Virgin Atlantic news in the last 48 hours. Here is a summary. Is Virgin Atlantic about to launch flights to Austin? There are rumours circulating online that Virgin Atlantic is about to announce flights to Austin in Texas. If you track these rumours back to their sources, they are not what […]
We go on board the first Virgin Voyages cruise ship, Scarlet Lady (HfP in The Bahamas series) – Part 1
Written by Jamie Oliver @ Head for Points
Last month Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Voyages and the Bahamas Tourist Board invited us to The Bahamas for a few days. With Rhys literally just back from holiday and Rob and Sinead tied up with family commitments, we were struggling to find someone who wanted an all-expenses-paid 5-star business class trip. Luckily our occasional contributor Jamie […]
We go on board the first Virgin Voyages cruise ship, Scarlet Lady (HfP in The Bahamas series) – Part 2
Written by Jamie Oliver @ Head for Points
This is Part 2 of our tour of Scarlet Lady, the first Virgin Voyages cruise ship. As part of our promotional trip to the Bahamas with Virgin Atlantic and the Bahamas Tourist Board, I was invited to spend an afternoon aboard the first Virgin Voyages cruise ship, Scarlet Lady, which was spending a day moored […]
LAST CALL: Get 5,500+ Avios or Virgin Points with your first Rocketmiles hotel booking
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
Hotel booking site Rocketmiles has been running its EXCELLENT ‘first user’ promotion again recently, but time is running out. This can earn you 5,500+ easy Avios, Virgin Flying Club or other airline miles from just one night. Bookings under this offer need to be made by 31st December, ie Friday, although you can stay later. […]
Bits: Plaza Premium in Edinburgh?, 20% bonus on Small Luxury Hotels gift cards, Virgin Holidays sale
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
News in brief: Is a Plaza Premium or Virgin Atlantic lounge coming to Edinburgh? An interesting job advert popped up in my LinkedIn feed this week: Plaza Premium is looking for an airport lounge manager to be based in Edinburgh. This is not entirely surprising, for two reasons. The first is that Plaza Premium now […]