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Chyna-s

If you wish to continue this, please start your own thread - this is an Airmiles Discussion area - not who has the biggest whatever.

simon_the_poet

Chyna-s wrote: »

If you wish to continue this, please start your own thread - this is an Airmiles Discussion area - not who has the biggest whatever.

Hi

Anyway that would be me that had the biggest whatever, unfortunately i am also skint:beer:

Simon

Gillylou

Hi,
Does anyone know if you can exchange Airmiles for ferries, please? Have looked at the Airmiles website, which lists ferries, but just says to call an expensive telephone number to get a price for a ferry crossing. Have looked in the forums for here to find the answer but can't see it, so sorry if it's already been posted elsewhere.
Thanks in advance.

jackieblack

Gillylou wrote: »

Hi,
Does anyone know if you can exchange Airmiles for ferries, please? Have looked at the Airmiles website, which lists ferries, but just says to call an expensive telephone number to get a price for a ferry crossing. Have looked in the forums for here to find the answer but can't see it, so sorry if it's already been posted elsewhere.
Thanks in advance.

Don't know about ferry prices, but Saynoto0870 gives alternative geographical (ie cheaper!) telephone numbers

AirMiles Travel Company 0870 557 7722/ 0844 493 3399/ 01925 866000 Bookings - Replace 000 with 047 for a booking agent
AirMiles Travel Company 0870 557 7711/ 01925 848619 Switchboard menu;
also for 0870 6074756
AirMiles Travel Company 0870 557 7777/ 0844 493 3366/ 01925 848837 Customer services
also 01925 848619
AirMiles Travel Company 0870 607 4740/ 01925 848760 Switchboard menu - various Customer services options; also for 0870 6074756
Air Miles
Mon-Fri, 8am-8pm;
Sat, 9am-5pm;
Sun, 10am-4pm
Also for 0844 4933349 & 0844 4933399
Air Miles

Any

Gillylou wrote: »

Hi,
Does anyone know if you can exchange Airmiles for ferries, please? Have looked at the Airmiles website, which lists ferries, but just says to call an expensive telephone number to get a price for a ferry crossing. Have looked in the forums for here to find the answer but can't see it, so sorry if it's already been posted elsewhere.
Thanks in advance.

Hi, I just rung them about the same.

Basically they will first request the price from the ferry operator (from comparison the same price as if you buy just in cash) and then you can pay partially or fully with airmiles... I think it works our like 1000 miles = £50 or £60 off the price.

Smart_But_Casual

So far, by just using my Lloyds Airmiles CC (cleared every month in full) and canny shopping in Tescos I've used my airmiles for:

2 x Malaga

2 x Munich

2 x Antigua

5 x Rome

Every purchase my wife and I make goes on either Amex or Mastercard and the miles soon pile up.

Clowance

The airmiles site hasn't updated its dates for 2011 for at least a couple of weeks, and we are desperate to book nexts years flights. Anybody know why they are so erratic?

Smart_But_Casual

Clowance wrote: »

The airmiles site hasn't updated its dates for 2011 for at least a couple of weeks, and we are desperate to book nexts years flights. Anybody know why they are so erratic?

We've booked flights for July/August 2011 already.

Clowance

Smart_But_Casual wrote: »

We've booked flights for July/August 2011 already.

Thats interesting, I tried a different airport (Boston) and managed to get a return flight in early august. NY is showing nothing at all in August for airmiles at either airport, neither is Washington. Will have to investigate further I suppose and see if theres anywhere else 5000 miles will get us on the east coast.

NonGeographicalMan

Any wrote: »

Basically they will first request the price from the ferry operator (from comparison the same price as if you buy just in cash) and then you can pay partially or fully with airmiles... I think it works our like 1000 miles = £50 or £60 off the price.

For anyone collecting Tesco Clubcard points they would be far better advised to redeem £10 of Clubcard vouchers in to £40 of Clubcard rewards tokens as these can then be used directly to book with Eurotunnel, Irish Ferries, P & O, Stena Line and Wightlink. £50 of Tesco Clubcard Vouchers will be needed for 1,000 Air Miles at the new lower exchange rate but those £50 of Clubcard Vouchers could instead be turned directly in to £200 of ferry travel via Clubcard reward tokens.

In other words you can directly exchange Tesco Clubcard vouchers in to ferry tickets at a four times higher exchange rate than is available if they are converted in to Air Miles and then turned in to ferry tickets. The only potential problem is with Clubcard vouchers expring after two years and quite a lot of vouchers being needed for many ferry crossings. By contrast Air Miles never expire so long as you collect one air mile per year..........

See https://www.tesco.com/clubcard/deals/browse.aspx?N=4294967191&bid=HTravel for more information.