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The stay will post after a week or so. This delay occurs at IHGs in many countries including Australia Happened to me several times

I recently stayed at CP Hawkesbury Valley as a Diamond Booked cheapest room at an average nightly rate of $210 + 1.9% card fee Received King One Bed Suite and diamond free breakfast. Also 15% off food at the bar/restaurant, but all IHG members get 10% off. I paid using a non-Australian credit...

I suspect it might have to do with some error in currency conversion of taxes / fees, perhaps if the booking was not immediately ticketed and the exchange rate changed. This shouldn't really happen when you book directly with QF/JQ though. Did you ever make any changes to the booking?

You mentioned the trip will start and end with flights via the USA. When you go through the US using an ESTA and subsequently go to Caribbean islands (as well as Canada and Mexico), for immigration purposes the US considers time spent there to be time spent in the US. This becomes a problem if...

I have yet to come across a business surcharging more than 2% for Visa and Mastercard anywhere in Australia. And the only place I know apart from Hiltons that surcharges exactly 2% (legally or not) is a Chinese restaurant, which only does it to encourage patrons to pay in cash. But on the...

Interesting. While your interpretation and the above email from Hilton makes sense to me, the consensus on flyertalk is the opposite. That is, as per your previous post, the Gold renewing gold would have 5 roll over, but the Diamond dropping to gold would have none. Has your account updated and...

Not a problem at all. Entering Schengen is a different matter

I am in a similar situation (will be moving back to Aus permanently later this year, but a few extended visits first, to look for property etc) I've gone for the HSBC debit card which gives 2% cashback on contactless transactions under $100. They will open the account from overseas and deliver...

I'm QF NB and BA Gold, flying QF2 tomorrow. My BA number is in the booking but I would like to put my QFF number in instead Will the LHR lounge staff be able to change it so that I earn QFF points rather than avios for this flight? Or should I try asking the staff at check-in? Not sure if LHR...

I've been renting from Hertz SYD once a year for many years now, and never had a problem. I do keep my fuel receipts but they never ask to see them and are happy to mark the tank as full from the dashboard indicator... Once I got some scratches and showed the guy but he said not to worry. I was...

OK, so this Daily Rate thing is rather interesting. As far as I can see, it was incorporated into the T&Cs/PDS dated 21 Oct, so not sure why they have suddenly sent out an email about it now. All Mastercards use Mastercard's exchange rate, which is usually the same in both directions, but leave...

I haven't flown QF Y in a while, but will be on QF98 at the end of the month. This is an A333. Last time in QF Y I recall there was an AVOD/IFE box really restricting legroom and preventing me from putting anything under the seat in front. Does anyone know which seats these boxes are under, or...

Can someone point me to a page or calculator which shows how many QF points (not status credits) I might earn on partner airlines after 1 July, should I choose to continue crediting to QFF? The only updated calculator I can find appears to only show devalued earning on QF and JQ.

I've been monitoring the rates over the past months. The USD rate is generally the best one. Other currencies are 5.5%. At this time it will be cheaper to load AUD and pay the 3% fee to convert. The locking in was useful when the AUD was plummeting at the end of 2013, as it enabled me to get...

You can load $1000, spend a bit and then immediately withdraw the rest back to your bank account, or forego interest for a month or so before withdrawing, if you want to wait until the bonus points post. You can withdraw from westpac/ stgeorge ATM for no fee Also be careful if your status will...

Yes they are all 0.75c per point and you'll get points and SCs back, but this just looks so much less appealing than the others.

I'm not sure why people keep comparing QFi to Air NZ or the UK, which mainly happened about 15 pages earlier in the thread. Firstly, both countries are much smaller than Australia. The only country you could really compare to is Canada, as the US population is 13x. And yes, it would be sad if AC...

re: Qantas Cash Card Do you mean with the dollar amounts, or the double points? Qcash appears to round up, and the double points were for December, but the base points are awarded (apparently) on the day of each month that you activated the card AFAICS, it only makes sense to use Qcash...

re: Qantas Cash Card bpay was 1 day faster than poli from both anz and nab.

re: Qantas Cash Card I've received the double points for local spending in December. But not the bonus for loading $250. However, some of the transactions when I spent the $250 did not post until January.