£10 off Morrisons on Amazon Grocery promotion
If you haven’t placed a Morrisons order on Amazon Grocery before, it looks like their promotion has been extended.
You could view the offer here. Place your first Morrisons order of £60 or more and apply promo code NEWSAVE10 at checkout for a £10 discount. This offer ends 14th May and should be available as long as you haven’t used this service before.
3x Avios or 9x Emirates Miles on Your Bicester Village Shopping
Thing are looking brighter in the UK and all shops are re-opening sooner than later. If you fancy a trip to Bicester Village for some luxury shopping, you may also want to bag some extra miles along the way as both British Airways and Emirates have ludicrous offers at the moment.
BA’s offer is here. You are entitled to triple Avios during the promotion period, which is 15 Avios per £4 spent.
Emirates’ offer is here, which is more generous. You earn a 8-time Skywards miles bonus, and that’s a whopping 9 miles per GBP spent! However it’s only valid once on the highest spend during the offer period, so be careful if you plan to make multiple visits.
Both offers run until 31 May. You need to bring your receipts to the customer service desk at the end of your visit, and remember to keep them in case the miles don’t post.
Amazon Music Unlimited 4-Month Trial via HSBC
A good deal is just out for HSBC Visa cardholders to enjoy some free music streaming. You can see the details on HSBC’s page here.
To be eligible, you need to:
- Have an HSBC Visa card
- Haven’t used Amazon Music Unlimited service before (trial or paid)
Just head to this page on Amazon Music, change your payment method to the Visa card and then sign up. You’ll receive a 30-day free trial first, and then promotional credit equal to the following three months’ fee will be applied to your subscription. Remember to cancel your subscription in time if you don’t want to pay.
First Direct and M&S bank are HSBC subsidiaries, so their Visa cards have a decent chance of being eligible too. If it’s been a while since you last used Amazon Music Unlimited, you may also find yourself lucky.
If you do not have any of these Visa cards, you can still enjoy a free trial of three months by signing up here. Note that it is also for new customers only.
Full List of Radisson UK Hotel Category Changes
I was too early to post about the Radisson program restructuring yesterday – it appears that the change is actually global rather than just for the Americas, and they were just a bit late in posting the update on the main site.
You can see the announcement here. As a reminder:
- There will be five hotel categories in the new program, staircasing by 15,000 points
- The minimum points required for a free night increases from 9,000 points to 15,000 points
- The maximum points required for a free night increases from 70,000 points to 75,000 points
- Family Room and Premium Room redemption are kept
- A new scheme called RewardSaver will be introduced where a 1/3 discount is applied when redeeming certain hotels at off-peak season, similar to Marriott’s PointSaver
You can see the new category and point requirement for all hotels (excluding Americas) in the pdf here. It’s a bit tricky as there’s no filter for country / city and you don’t see the current award category in the file.
To save your time, here are the 49 hotels in the UK, with the old and new award night pricing.
29 hotels are moving up and 22 are moving down. It may not be a devaluation as you’d think though, because:
- London is the worst hit city on the list; however there’s no London hotel worth spending your points on already from my point of view, so it really doesn’t matter if they hike up the price further
- There will be two hotels at 15,000 points, which is an improvement
- Radisson Blu Cardiff and Park Inn York are both reducing the point requirement, which is great news as both cities can be very expensive during peak seasons
- The same is true for the two hotels in Edinburgh, including the Radisson Collection Royal Mile, although my stay there was very underwhelming
And here are some hotels worldwide that I find may be worth checking out:
It’s a very short list as it was very difficult going through their lengthy list. The biggest winner appears to be Bangkok, as all three 28,000-point hotels are joining the 15,000-point league which is almost 50%-off reduction. Although I didn’t dig too much, I believe it’s bad news for India travellers as the majority of the 9000-point hotels are in that country.
If the hotels you intend to redeem will go up in price, remember to lock in your award nights now. I’m expecting another 100%-bonus point sale anytime between now and June, so watch this space!
Sheraton London Park Lane Grand Suite for £280
Sheraton Grand London Park London is having a “secret sale”, should you be interested in staying in a big suite in central London!
To book, simply visit the hotel’s website and search for any date. The rate should pop up if the suite hasn’t been booked out yet, and it’s available on many dates including next year.
You’ll need to look under the Prepay & save tab. The best room available in the hotel, Grand Suite, is only selling at under £300 which is the same as a standard room. People have reported seeing as low as £217, and the original rate is ~£2000.
You can expect a 1000-sqft one-bedroom suite, overlooking Green Park with executive lounge access.
By “secret sale”, I was referring to an error fare of course as the hotel definitely didn’t put out such a low fare on purpose. The rate is non-refundable if cancelled more than 1 day after your booking, although changeable until 2 days prior to arrival.
To be honest, the hotel is unlikely to honour the reservation and may just reach out to cancel it soon, however you could try your luck and see what happens if you are truly interested.
Are There Any Good Deals at Hotel Week London?
In a bid to encourage (domestic) travellers to visit and stay in London, the capital city is hosting a Hotel Week London event which intends to offer some attractive hotel deals.
You could find more information here. The event is from May 28 to June 6, although most hotels will run the promotion for stays up until the end of June.
There are around 30 participating hotels at the moment, most of which belonging to major hotel groups such as Hilton and Marriott, together with a handful of independently operated ones.
Before you get too excited, I’d recommend to read through the terms as many of the so-called deals are laughable. Novotel Canary Wharf wants £189 for a standard room – without breakfast even, and the hotel was typically priced at under £100 for a weekend night pre-Covid. Pullman St Pancras, which is also an Accor hotel, has an asking price starting from £190, and it usually sells for circa £120 during sales.
That said, there are still a few highlights that may be interesting.
100 Queen’s Gate, a Hilton Curio Collection Hotel
- Book a two-bed Family Room, and enjoy a complimentary second night
- Upgrade to Duplex Suite Family Room subject to availability
- Free breakfast for up to 4 pp
- £50 hotel credit per stay
- Guaranteed late check-out
You can book on Hilton’s website directly for the first night, and then contact the hotel to add the second. The price I was quoted was £462, which isn’t bad for the package.
London Marriott Hotel Park Lane (Rate Code 12092)
St Pancras Renaissance Hotel (Rate Code 12092)
- 25% off if you book two rooms
- Includes breakfast, early check-in and late check-out
- Complimentary upgrade to Executive Room for the first room
Hyatt Regency London – The Churchill
- 20% off Best Flexible Rate
- Breakfast and £25 hotel credit included
- 10am check-in and 6pm check-out
The Tower Hotel (promo code LDNHOTELWEEK)
- Special price of £99 per night for a standard room
- Reduced price of £79 for May 28th, 29th and 30th
Amazon Assistant £5 Voucher Offer
Amazon is giving away free vouchers to promote its Assistant plugin, and you can access the offer page here.
Unlike previous promotions, it doesn’t seem to tell you whether you are eligible or not, so the best way to check is to install the Amazon Assistant browser plugin. Open the plugin and if lucky, you should see the following promotional message:
Click Start Shopping to activate the offer. It works as a £5 saving against an Amazon purchase of £25 or more (fulfilled and sold by Amazon only), and you have until May 10 to use the voucher.
In theory only those who haven’t installed the plugin before get targeted, but I think I already took advantage when there was a similar offer last time. Don’t forget that there’s a separate £5 voucher offer for Subscribe & Save as well, and very surprisingly I’m eligible for both!
£5 Voucher for Amazon Subscribe & Save
Finally another Amazon gift voucher promotion, and this time I’m even eligible?!
You could try you luck here. At the top of the page it should tell you whether you are eligible for the offer.
If you are eligible, there’s no sign-up needed. Simply place a Subscribe & Save order, minimum purchase value £20, by 13 June and a £5 Amazon gift voucher will be emailed to you within two weeks. The voucher has a £20 minimum spend requirement when redeeming.
Subscribe & Save is an Amazon purchase option, where they automatically resend you the same product every few months. You can always cancel the subscription free of charge anytime though, so there’s no liability.