Talking about BP points, I didnt go for a while, and then they just sent me a voucher through for 800 points saying "we miss you" so i filled up with £5, to get 800 points 😂
The Avios for Thoughts is now 40 points for a 20 minute survey. Big BUT. You can be dismissed from a survey after 5 to 10 mins if you are not the type of person they want. In which case you only get 2 points.
There are two methods, the first is to link your credit cards on the BA Shopping Portal, but I don't trust this. I'm sure that if I went through my spend there would be missing points, so instead I start at the BA Shopping Portal, log in, and then follow the link to Boots from there. Without closing the web browser I make my purchases. If I'm buying things from somewhere else I close all the browser windows and then go back to the shopping portal and log in again and follow the link to the next store.
There's the long correct answer and the short answer (feel free to skip to the short answer). Long: They're actually worth nothing because they're not a currency and they belong to BA 😀, but more than that they are worth the value you assign them. If you use them to buy wine or convert them to Nectar then they're worth 0.5p each or £312.90. If you use all of them to book a flight in business that would have cost you £3000 (for example) then they just saved you £3,000 Short Answer: However, I assign a value of 1p because I can (and sometimes do) buy them at about 1p each, I always aim to get more than 1p in value out of them, and the maths is easy to do if they're each one penny. The Answer: 😊 So you're 62581 points are worth 62581 pennies or £628.81 And I've laid it out like this because you've said you struggle with maths but in text it sounds a bit like I'm being a knob, but I'm not meaning to. All the best, Phil
My best avios deal from this last 12 months was avios with uber. They offered 10% back in uber credits and then 500 bonus avios per booking if you booked uber premium or a train booking, this was up to 6,000 points. The cost of obtaining those points was £40, using normal travel I would anyhow. I did need to buy an imaginary ticket though to gain the last 500 points and booked a £2.34 fair from stoke to stone to get those points.
What a deal, is that still running? Book a £2.34 ticket that they can't possibly check if you used and get 500 bonus avios? Well done mate, that is stunning.
Good video Phil. In some instances there is a markup on the shopping portal from, for instance, an app. IHG is an example where the rooms are cheaper on the app than on the BA site.... you need to weigh up if you want the avios etc...
Great tip @rickreid8572, I didn't know that, thank you and @abusasha478 thank you for confirming, always good to have that. I'm going to do some research I think. Thank you both, Phil
Travel Insurance is one thing I've noticed that may have a mark-up of £20-£30 over booking direct. Suppose if you were paying the extra £20 for 4k Avios bonus, and could use that effectively for say a £200 flight from LHR-BER, then it's worth it. 3 Avios per £, yielding around 300 Avios, probably not. I do tend to check the website of the company, BAEC, Virgin, TCB etc. before diving in. Hotels do vary. Looking at the Crowne Plaza Times Square, Manhattan, Fri 26th July. Non-refundable king room. IHG direct: £277 (ignoring any status benefits, earnings etc.) BA Avios hotels: £261.16 with 3925 Avios. Same night, Grand Hyatt, San Francisco airport. A chain I have zero status with. Pretty much the same price direct or via the BA app at £288 (bonus Avios until tomorrow to make things perhaps a bit sweeter)
@@mygreygapyear Not to diss the scheme- you are right you can get some good points from it- but you need to be careful- Trainline for instance mark up on their train tickets- but you do get avios- but you have to pay for it...then again, if you don't go through BA then its the same price...but without the Avios.....
Be aware that there can be some bargains in the airport in the liquor section as some are not available on the high street and also be aware of the size of the bottle as there tends to be a lot of litre bottles as opposed to 70cl
You make an excellent point re: duty free, there is often an outlier price hiding in plain sight, Stoly vodka at £15 per litre in Istanbul is probably my best bargain (didn't video it though). Thanks for your comment, Phil
Re: trains. Recommend UBER over Trainline as they have been offering a 10% discount via account cregits. The downside is no split ticketing for now. Great video btw.
Thanks for this Phil, though as a single traveller how did you manage to get 2 litres through LHR? 😉 It was useful to know about the haggling as I often dont bother for the reason you mention. I also had two BA Holidays to the Iberostar Palmeraie last year with the missus and would of had a go in the duty free had I known. As for the 500 survey points, if it is anything like the e-rewards I used to do 5 or six years ago I won't bother, as the vsurveys took for ever to complete and e-Rewards were very slow to pay up, sometimes not paying at all.
Thank for your question Olly, the limit for duty free spirits coming into the UK is 4 litres per person, so no issue there, www.gov.uk/bringing-goods-into-uk-personal-use/arriving-in-Great-Britain Thanks for the heads up on survey points, I was tempted to try it for research purposes, but I suspected it would be a long survey.
Talking about BP points, I didnt go for a while, and then they just sent me a voucher through for 800 points saying "we miss you" so i filled up with £5, to get 800 points 😂
Interesting, a targeted promotion, thank you for letting me know.
The Avios for Thoughts is now 40 points for a 20 minute survey. Big BUT. You can be dismissed from a survey after 5 to 10 mins if you are not the type of person they want. In which case you only get 2 points.
Thanks for your comment and support, the Avios for Thoughts idea just seems to get worse and worse. Thanks for letting me know.
Looks like the ebay nectar link up has gone sadly.
Sadly I believe you're right, Nectar really is becoming a sad rewards currency.
EBay nectar now gone since sept 1st 😢
I know, it's very sad 😔
Hiii...Thia ia probably a stupid question but how do u make sure that if u go to Boots for example, that u get the avios? How do u link stuff?
There are two methods, the first is to link your credit cards on the BA Shopping Portal, but I don't trust this. I'm sure that if I went through my spend there would be missing points, so instead I start at the BA Shopping Portal, log in, and then follow the link to Boots from there. Without closing the web browser I make my purchases.
If I'm buying things from somewhere else I close all the browser windows and then go back to the shopping portal and log in again and follow the link to the next store.
@@mygreygapyear thank uuu
Loving the Pathe News accent Phil!! Some of these a good ideas, but quite a few are more faff than they are worth, including Avios for THoughts, alas.
Thank you for your kind comments, it is a faff, I agree but may be useful one day
I HAVE 62,581 POINTS...WHATS THAT WORTH?
There's the long correct answer and the short answer (feel free to skip to the short answer).
Long: They're actually worth nothing because they're not a currency and they belong to BA 😀, but more than that they are worth the value you assign them. If you use them to buy wine or convert them to Nectar then they're worth 0.5p each or £312.90. If you use all of them to book a flight in business that would have cost you £3000 (for example) then they just saved you £3,000
Short Answer:
However, I assign a value of 1p because I can (and sometimes do) buy them at about 1p each, I always aim to get more than 1p in value out of them, and the maths is easy to do if they're each one penny.
The Answer: 😊
So you're 62581 points are worth 62581 pennies or £628.81
And I've laid it out like this because you've said you struggle with maths but in text it sounds a bit like I'm being a knob, but I'm not meaning to.
All the best,
Phil
@@mygreygapyear awww...Phil... you are not a knob at all....I'm soooo impressed with the way u have worked all this stuff out! Well done 👍
Yay new video drop, best way to start the weekend 🥰
Thank you as always for your wonderful support 😊
You lucky b.......ard😮
I'm starting to see a pattern, and yes I am 😂😂😂
@@mygreygapyear i love your channel❤❤ oh you lucky lucky b
Apart from BA holidays I doubt I'll bother with any of those 😢 but I didnt half enjoy the video 😊
Thanks for your comment, I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
My best avios deal from this last 12 months was avios with uber. They offered 10% back in uber credits and then 500 bonus avios per booking if you booked uber premium or a train booking, this was up to 6,000 points. The cost of obtaining those points was £40, using normal travel I would anyhow.
I did need to buy an imaginary ticket though to gain the last 500 points and booked a £2.34 fair from stoke to stone to get those points.
What a deal, is that still running? Book a £2.34 ticket that they can't possibly check if you used and get 500 bonus avios? Well done mate, that is stunning.
@mygreygapyear sadly not, it was when they introduced uber for trains to get people to use uber more
@@adamingleton8529 drat!!!!
I also got the BA premium amex when it was 70,000 avios sign up, and then have just got 5,000 retention offer for renewing the card
Good video Phil. In some instances there is a markup on the shopping portal from, for instance, an app. IHG is an example where the rooms are cheaper on the app than on the BA site.... you need to weigh up if you want the avios etc...
I’ve noticed that too! Sometimes it feels like a scam 😅
Great tip @rickreid8572, I didn't know that, thank you and @abusasha478 thank you for confirming, always good to have that. I'm going to do some research I think.
Thank you both,
Phil
Travel Insurance is one thing I've noticed that may have a mark-up of £20-£30 over booking direct. Suppose if you were paying the extra £20 for 4k Avios bonus, and could use that effectively for say a £200 flight from LHR-BER, then it's worth it. 3 Avios per £, yielding around 300 Avios, probably not.
I do tend to check the website of the company, BAEC, Virgin, TCB etc. before diving in.
Hotels do vary.
Looking at the Crowne Plaza Times Square, Manhattan, Fri 26th July. Non-refundable king room.
IHG direct: £277 (ignoring any status benefits, earnings etc.)
BA Avios hotels: £261.16 with 3925 Avios.
Same night, Grand Hyatt, San Francisco airport. A chain I have zero status with.
Pretty much the same price direct or via the BA app at £288 (bonus Avios until tomorrow to make things perhaps a bit sweeter)
@@mygreygapyear Not to diss the scheme- you are right you can get some good points from it- but you need to be careful- Trainline for instance mark up on their train tickets- but you do get avios- but you have to pay for it...then again, if you don't go through BA then its the same price...but without the Avios.....
That was fairly mind boggling, but well presented, thanks for clarifying it.
My absolute pleasure, thank you for your comment.
Interesting vid Phil didn't know about the survey so will get on to that, something for nowt is worth doing.
Thanks for your comment, the survey is a good one.
Be aware that there can be some bargains in the airport in the liquor section as some are not available on the high street and also be aware of the size of the bottle as there tends to be a lot of litre bottles as opposed to 70cl
You make an excellent point re: duty free, there is often an outlier price hiding in plain sight, Stoly vodka at £15 per litre in Istanbul is probably my best bargain (didn't video it though).
Thanks for your comment,
Phil
Re: trains. Recommend UBER over Trainline as they have been offering a 10% discount via account cregits. The downside is no split ticketing for now.
Great video btw.
Thanks for your comment and support, I'll have to look into that, if I can effectively get about 10% off tickets, can't be bad.
Great video as usual Phil, love the new "voice"
Thanks for your kind comment, glad you enjoyed it, 😊
Good video, quite a thorough analysis.
Thank you Sam, much appreciated.
Great video! Thanks Phil 👍
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you.
Thanks for this Phil, though as a single traveller how did you manage to get 2 litres through LHR? 😉 It was useful to know about the haggling as I often dont bother for the reason you mention. I also had two BA Holidays to the Iberostar Palmeraie last year with the missus and would of had a go in the duty free had I known. As for the 500 survey points, if it is anything like the e-rewards I used to do 5 or six years ago I won't bother, as the vsurveys took for ever to complete and e-Rewards were very slow to pay up, sometimes not paying at all.
Thank for your question Olly, the limit for duty free spirits coming into the UK is 4 litres per person, so no issue there, www.gov.uk/bringing-goods-into-uk-personal-use/arriving-in-Great-Britain
Thanks for the heads up on survey points, I was tempted to try it for research purposes, but I suspected it would be a long survey.
@@mygreygapyear of course it is, how silly of me to forget that. So...... Why didn't you buy 4 bottles???? 🤣
@@olly7673 I have no idea 😂😂😂
@@mygreygapyear 🤣🤣🤣
Thank You ✈️
You're very welcome, Charlie. Thank you for your continued support.
Another good video. Thanks!
Thank you for your comment and support, glad you enjoyed it.