Recent content by Lizzi

You never know - you might be stuck with a long distance train cancellation like I was in Europe last year. I hopped on LM and found a nice cheap points flight for the next morning on Brussels Air. That would put them to good use!

I certainly wasn't planning on it -- I'd been looking to use up the last of my points still hanging around from cancelled 2020 flights, but made the "fatal" error of picking up more points when I saw what looked like the perfect flights home for hubby and me, which at the time were also showing...

I've been getting the dreaded ghost availability on Lifemiles recently - was looking for some flights to get home from Europe and although IST-BKK-PER was looking like it had heaps of availability in J, of course as soon as I bought some more points and went to book, it errored out all over the...

I just came back from Vietnam too and we needed cash for everything. As KPC says, 3% surcharge on card was usual, if you can find someone who will accept it.

Was in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur last week, so a couple more data points: Singapore the only places I needed cash was in the hawker centres and a French cafe. Everywhere else was card (tapped phone). Kuala Lumpur most places accepted card but a foot massage place in a mall was cash only and...

Just went through France last week and didn't need cash (used ING debit visa). Hit Italy and I needed cash for the metro - the ticket machines in Milan keep declining my ing card.

In Helsinki last week I didn't need cash once, even at the market stalls. Germany this week, I wasn't able to buy a drink at a concert without cash, or use the laundromat. I also had to buy a min 10E to use my card in a convenience kiosk. I'm in Belgium now haven't yet used cash. (I went to an...

I loved the Speyer/Sinsheim Technik Museums in Germany. The Concorde, Tupolev, Antonov and space shuttle were amazing!

Oh that's good. When I cancelled mine they didn't tell me there would be a 5-month wait and I thought the taxes had somehow been eaten up in random other charges. I was just happy to get my points back without the cancellation fee that I didn't pursue it.

Applied for this one today - let's see how it goes! :)

Thanks Happy Trails :)

Thanks RB :) I'll gird my loins and give them a call.

Hi all, Are Lifemiles doing cancellation via email at the moment, or do we still need to get hold of the call centre?

After many more emails, they've stated outright that there is no actual reason for the random extra cost of the points for my flights. They tell me that the points plus pay cost is "sometimes different from the website" for no apparent reason that they can tell me, and keep going back to the...

Thanks for the response from others. They finally got back to me on email and said "you agreed to the number so we won't change it". No reason for why it was different to the stated amount on the website, so I'm continuing to investigate. Sigh!