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The 31st of September hey?!? That's a new one. ;) I broke down and bought the top tier card as I only needed 30 nights to keep platinum and don't expect to do more than one trip to China over the next year (mainly to burn off the free nights and 50% discount voucher) - although buying two...

Property: Q Station Manly Status: Accor Plus Platinum Room booked: Heritage Suite (Stay Longer and Save $355 p/n) Room upgraded/type: No Free internet: Yes (and needed as the mobile signal suite Free breakfast? Yes Early check in/late out: Not requested Welcome drink: Yes - bottle of De Bortoli...

Flew VA882 from SYD to MEL. Choices were chicken in black bean sauce or cheese tortellini. Went for the chicken. Beverage was Katnook Estate Founder's Block chardonnay. Top notch service from cabin manager David.

Managed to grab ORD-HND in F and HND-SYD in J on NH for ~$3.3k in points and taxes so pretty happy with that. :) (Just have to hope NH operates a 77W with The Suite on the days I'm flying in F now.) I worked out why my earlier bookings were erroring out - in the 'emergency contact' field, I...

I just had a play around with that hotel. It seems that the site shows the 2 person rate but the next screen includes the child too, as the correct price is quoted with 2 people.

Betteridge's law of headlines strikes again...

They don't sell wine, but rather dig up deals. I used them to grab several bottles of Chassagne Montrachet from Dans a few weeks back for $60, rather than the $195 Dan's was charging at my local store.

Wandered by the Melbourne store tonight - it'll be next door to Royal Arcade in the Bourke St Mall on 19 September.

Welcome to AFF!

But will be getting rid of the hoops shortly for international transactions...

Booking on AV's website is a nervewracking experience and not for the faint of heart. However, the lure of NH F overwhelmed my vow of 'never again'. Hoping to subject myself to all this again to book a return flight in a week or so.

Welcome to AFF! Yes, I've been burned with phantom availability too! I checked SQ had the inventory I could see on AV before buying the points to minimise the risk of things going wrong.

Avianca Lifemiles are back on sale with a 155% bonus (so not the greatest, but not bad either). After being burned buying Lifemiles a couple of years ago, I leapt back in today to book a flight from KIX-HND-ORD in August next year in NH F for $2.7k all in. Had to use the multi-city engine set...

That's the Loyalty Bonus, not the gift.

Where does it say that?

Got a response to my email - no to having it applied in my next membership year, and no exceptions. However, I suspect they interpreted my email as asking for platinum status, so I'll still give them a call in November.

Lots of blocked seats for elites up to row 32. Not many others back from there though and it's looking pretty chockers. Try again at T-80 as 23J and K are still free. :)

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I only have about 84c in my account, but I wonder what happens to the promotional amounts? I had a couple of $5 bonuses pending from Amazon and Woolies but these seem to have gone, unlike the transactions themselves. EDIT - ah, all good it seems...

Well... It seems it's time to fire off an email starting 'While I was pleased that Qantas has given me extra status credits, it's most unfortunate that they've come now as while I won't reach platinum this year, I was aspiring to reach platinum in my next membership year which starts on 1...