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niksal
Jan 28, 09, 1:56 am
This is on the Finnish Diners page.

http://www.dinersclub.fi/DOF/Content.aspx?id=246

This is very bad, since this has been in my opinion the best value for points. Some restaurants will remain, but these are some of the best in Helsinki. I hope they can find some replacement.


sdsearch
Jan 28, 09, 7:58 am
This is on the Finnish Diners page.

http://www.dinersclub.fi/DOF/Content.aspx?id=246

And, unlike every other page on that site that I looked at, that page doesn't display in English even when you have English selected as your language. So as someone who doesn't speak Suomeksi (I presume that's the language the page is stuck in), I can't tell if this is the list of restaurants leaving or whether the list is of the only restaurants that will remain, or whether it's something else like a value change.

ahrz
Jan 28, 09, 6:36 pm
And, unlike every other page on that site that I looked at, that page doesn't display in English even when you have English selected as your language. So as someone who doesn't speak Suomeksi (I presume that's the language the page is stuck in), I can't tell if this is the list of restaurants leaving or whether the list is of the only restaurants that will remain, or whether it's something else like a value change.

It's only a small bug. If you select English, the menu on the left displays in english. By clicking on "front page" you see the main menu and other pages in english ;)


sdsearch
Jan 29, 09, 9:49 am
It's only a small bug. If you select English, the menu on the left displays in english. By clicking on "front page" you see the main menu and other pages in english ;)
I realize that it's only that page. My point was simply that I still don't understand what the OP was posting about in this thread, since I can't read page, and the OP didn't explain what's changing with Finnish DC other than referencing that link. All I have figured out is that it's some sort of devaluation or loss of restaurants, but I have no clue beyond that.

niksal
Jan 30, 09, 9:31 am
OK, sorry. I made the wrong assumption that Finnish Diners Club members would know Finnish. Yes, we could get vouchers with points + cash for nice restaurants. Quite many infact. Now one chain governing these restaurants is discontinuing the co-operation. That is really sad, since I have not found many other worth while benefits of Membership Rewards in Finland. I wish they would have international hotel chains, car rental (outside Finland) etc as partners.

sdsearch
Jan 31, 09, 10:12 am
OK, sorry. I made the wrong assumption that Finnish Diners Club members would know Finnish. Yes, we could get vouchers with points + cash for nice restaurants. Quite many infact. Now one chain governing these restaurants is discontinuing the co-operation. That is really sad, since I have not found many other worth while benefits of Membership Rewards in Finland. I wish they would have international hotel chains, car rental (outside Finland) etc as partners.
I don't know whether your assumption about Finnish DC members was incorrect or not. The assumption you seem to have made was that DC members in other countries wouldn't be interested in what's going with Finnish DC. :)

Yes, once I looked around the Finnish DC site, I wa appalled. In the US, Diners touts itself as having more airline and hotel partners (as points transfers) than any other card (they view AMEX Membership Rewards as their competition, and try to outdo them in airline and hotel reward possibilities), but in Finland they only have one airline (SAS) and only one hotel family (Hilton HHonors)???

But they do have that one international hotel family (especially international as Hilton HHonors lost most of its presence in Scandinavian/Baltic countries when Scandic left HHonors). Although I don't know how the conversion rate looks to you, and HHonors doesn't always have very good redemption rates (compared to some other hotel programs)...

ahrz
Feb 1, 09, 3:02 pm
OK, sorry. I made the wrong assumption that Finnish Diners Club members would know Finnish. ( ...)

After only 8 years of membership , I just realized that Flyertalk is a forum for Finnish people who know Finnish :D



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