Author Archives for "Tom Sumner".
While I appreciate some of you may have a slight feeling of “competition fatigue” at the moment, Amex have launched a straightforward Wimbledon draw, which offers various prizes for people… Continue Reading
For several weeks now, Heathrow Rewards, the loyalty scheme of Heathrow Airport, has been “temporarily unavailable”. Understandably, this has led to a fair bit of speculation, with some even… Continue Reading
Leaders Club, the loyalty scheme of the “Leading Hotels of the World” (LHW), has just delivered some “exciting news”. “Exciting news” typically means something bad… Continue Reading
There are a number of useful tools for any committed travel hacker, and a functioning VPN is most certainly one of them. In short, it allows you to technically “transfer” your computer to… Continue Reading
As you hopefully all know by now, earning Nectar points means you’re earning Avios (and vice versa), with one Nectar point worth 0.625 Avios, and one Avios worth 1.6 Nectar points. As a result,… Continue Reading
In the rush to collect Avios via Sainsbury, it’s easy to forget that the Virgin Atlantic loyalty scheme (now part of the consolidated Virgin Red programme) does still allow you to collect airline… Continue Reading
It’s been some time since I wrote about Ryanair, a topic which always polarises opinion wonderfully. Anyway, love them, hate them, feel indifferent towards them… the fact is that they’re… Continue Reading
We’re hopefully all about to start travelling again, at least tentatively. That brings back into play the joys of car hire. There are some excellent, decent, fair operators out there. There are… Continue Reading
Every now and then, an aspirational travel opportunity comes around that’s really worth thinking about. This is one such example… We ordinarily value Hilton Honors points at around 0.3 pence… Continue Reading
Sometimes it takes a bit or misfortune to discover the extent to which, on occasion, American Express really has got your back. On this occasion, it rather wonderfully pops up with car hire excess insurance… Continue Reading
