You don’t earn points on taxes etc, if you had a $95 stay after a 2k points payment a lot of that would be taxes, maybe 40 euro for earn so it’s still under what I would expect
The list is not up to date, many many restaurants are shown as accepting explorer that in fact are not participating, some examples are the Sebel in Dockland and the Mercure Tokyu Stay in Osaka.
Both hotels lounges are a downgrade on the prior offerings. The rooftop SYD lounge was awesome, and often got access on reward stays as a regular when I should not have, back in the days of no benefits when using points.
Some 250 hotels of which 50 or so are Accor branded including the Pullman Berlin are facing an uncertain future
https://revo-hospitality-group.com/portfolio/hotels/?parent_brand=Accor...
SQ has an interline agreement with MH, on checking show the agent your separate booking, you might have to pickup your boarding pass at the transfer desk at Changi.
I would lay the breach at the hands of booking.com, the scammers are using the source if their data as the reference for the scam.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-27/booking-com-scam/105923014...
Just confirms to me they are not VA staff. Regional Airports contractors will do check in from the time the flight opens, at T-1 or thereabouts a number of them will close their check in and assume gate duties for the incoming flight .
“Large regional airport” would suggest their not VA staff, still pretty poor but contractors often exhibit a care factor of zero, you get what you pay for.
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