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About 6-7 weeks ago, I did the online application from my Velocity to obtain IHG platinum. After waiting the advised 20 business days, I contacted Velocity to chase it up and then waited the further 5 business days they suggested before calling again yesterday. Velocity can see it has been...

Just wondering if Velocity have dropped any of their one point rewards yet? It was a big fail in June and their website still says they will be out at random times "starting in August". Seeing as we are now halfway through August, it does look like their big promo has died a quiet death and...

I'm currently booking a trip for late 2023 early 2024 and have a number of IHG stays planned. Some quick calculations seem to suggest the Ambassador fee USD$200 would be well covered by the benefits we would receive but I am wondering about when to purchase it. I have already booked one of the...

So chatting with Kris, the Krisflyer "live chat" and trying to get assistance with redemption flights on Virgin. Plenty of availability on VA but not showing on Krisflyer (which seems to be a standard problem). The chat helpfully gave this suggestion You may want to explore other option such as...

Have just completed 3 weeks in England and Scotland without using any cash. Between us, we had MrJones with 28 degrees for day to day and Amex for hotel security. I used an UP debit card, and BoM Amplify visa as a back up for just in case. Used apple wallet/watch 99.9% of the time. I...

Arrived yesterday at a Marriott and so far the experience has been underwhelming to say the least. I’ve never felt like I wanted to leave a hotel before but this time I’m really just not looking forward to 3 nights of minimal sleep and mold. Of course, they have full payment on arrival so I...

I’ve had a prepaid amaysim plan for a while now and was a little nervous when they advised they were introducing new roaming plans this month. 365 day expiry and 90 countries covered and reasonable costs for casual, minimal use. I’ve used the Airalo esim in UK but the convenience of roaming...

Looking at options for global roaming now I can activate esim on my phone. Has anyone used this? Feedback? Mainly for UK.

Does anyone have better contact details for emirates customer service? Or is there an Emirates rep on here? We have denied boarding vouchers from a flight SIN-MEL in October 2019. We had originally booked to use them in March 2020, but we all know what happened there. I have contacted...

Jetstar Pacific has been “transitioned” to be part of Vietnam Airlines and all and any vouchers issued by them under their Jetstar brand have been “transitioned” to them as well. Which means that the voucher we got for 3 people for internal Vietnam flights will now barely cover 2 people - if we...

So I’ve been thinking that Australia and New Zealand seem to be doing an excellent job at getting covid19 under control. There are some (best case scenario) suggestions that we could even see it down to near zero in both countries within the next 6 weeks, if we maintain the current...

After superb redemption flights with SQ from Milan, we had planned an 8 hour stop in Singapore. The plan was to check our luggage in for the paid flight home and enjoy the hawkers market for a few hours. But.. Checking in 7 hours early, we were “offered” voluntary denied boarding (an...