Monthly Archives: January 2017

Expedia Launches Loyalty Scheme in the UK

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We have long recommended Expedia as the best online travel agent and now we recommend you to Register for the Expedia+ Points scheme too.

How many points will I earn?

Hotels, Packages, Activities and some car hire:
Earn 2 points per £1 spent

Airline tickets:
Earn 1 point per £5 spent How many points do I need to obtain discounts?

How many points do I need to obtain discounts?

Receive a voucher for £25 off your next hotel with as few as 3,500 Expedia+ points

This means is that if you spend £1,750 on hotels you will earn £25 against a hotel which equates to approx 1.5% rebate

You’ll need to spend £17,500 on flight-only reservations to earn the same voucher which isn’t such a good deal

Other benefits …

Silver Priority Customer Care 0203 788 4743

Free membership automatically gives you +blue status, followed by +silver status after you spend £5,000 on eligible bookings or staying 7 qualifying hotel room nights,

Silver status earns you 10% more bonus points

and +gold status after spending £10,000 on eligible bookings or staying 15 qualifying hotel room nights.

Gold status earns you 30% extra

For more details and to register visit Expedia here

How to increase your appreciation of airline food

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This topic was discussed on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday morning 28th January, when Jay Rayner, Andi Oliver, Tim Hayward, Henry Dimbleby and Barry Smith were at Woburn Abbey for “The Kitchen Cabinet” programme.

We know that the high altitude etc reduces our appreciation of taste but I wasn’t aware of another problem …the “white noise” levels produced by the aircraft.

A not-very-scientific experiment was conducted live on the programme where members of the panel were invited to taste cheese-cake whilst aircraft noise was played and with noise cancelling headphones and they agreed that the taste was much improved with the headphones!

Also it was stated that tomatoes and tomato juice increase our sense of taste so next time I fly, I will order a Bloody Mary!

British Airways Sale ends Tuesday 31 January 2017

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British Airways is offering some very low fares providing you book by midnight on Tuesday 31st January.

Economy class to Dubai from £299 return, New York from £369 return

Premium Economy fares are exceptional value, costing little more than the normal economy fares. For example, Dubai from £549, Los Angeles from £790 and New York from £612 return

These fares are targeted at leisure trips and may not be suitable for business travel. Fares generally have a minimum stay requirement and a Saturday night-stay requirement

Full details at the British Airways site here.