{"id":12461,"date":"2022-07-31T20:47:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T19:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=12461"},"modified":"2022-07-31T20:47:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T19:47:43","slug":"book-virgin-chauffeur-service-for-17500-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/2022\/07\/31\/book-virgin-chauffeur-service-for-17500-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Virgin Chauffeur service for 17,500 points"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Like many other airlines that wanted to impress their premium passengers onboard and off the plane, Virgin Atlantic used to offer free chauffeur service to Upper Class customers. The service has died down over the years though, and they no longer offer it in-house, but have partnered with a third-party provider and it is not to free to anyone anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/virgin-atlantic-787-9-upper-class-cabin-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/virgin-atlantic-787-9-upper-class-cabin-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12610\" width=\"484\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/virgin-atlantic-787-9-upper-class-cabin-1.jpg 967w, https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/virgin-atlantic-787-9-upper-class-cabin-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/virgin-atlantic-787-9-upper-class-cabin-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>However, it is still possible to book the chauffeur service with Virgin points. It has a very limited audience though: <strong>only Upper Class reward tickets (booking class G) are eligible<\/strong>, although upgrade from paid Premium tickets are booked in the same class so I believe they qualify too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/virgin-chauffeur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">You can read about the benefit here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>It&#8217;s available at UK and US airports<\/li><li>You pay 17,500 points per way<\/li><li>It covers a 75-mile radius from the airport<\/li><li>In the US it&#8217;s possible to pay $3.5 per mile if your travel distance exceeds 75 miles<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I live near Heathrow, so Uber or Bolt costs me only \u00a330 therefore the benefit doesn&#8217;t really apply. However, if you live further away it might start to make sense.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/heathrow-airport-75-miles.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"588\" height=\"457\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/heathrow-airport-75-miles.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13043\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/heathrow-airport-75-miles.jpg 588w, https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/heathrow-airport-75-miles-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>As you can see, the 75-mile radius covers almost the entire Southeast, as well as many other counties around London (I never realised England was so small).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you already have a Virgin ticket, you could make a dummy chauffeur booking online to see what kind of car and service to expect. If I remember correctly their partner is Tristar, which was acquired by Addison Lee in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17,500 points isn&#8217;t cheap, but if you travel from far and especially with many bags, it may be a great redemption choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many other airlines that wanted to impress their premium passengers onboard and off the plane, Virgin Atlantic used to offer free chauffeur service to Upper Class customers. The service has died down over the years though, and they no longer offer it in-house, but have partnered with a third-party provider and it is not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/2022\/07\/31\/book-virgin-chauffeur-service-for-17500-points\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,39,37],"tags":[124],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12461"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13045,"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12461\/revisions\/13045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}