£100 off Longhaul Y for 5,000 Avios - this weekend only
Oct 24, 2018, 4:58 pm
#106
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: London
Programs: BAEC Gold, Accor Live Limitless Gold, Hilton Honours Gold, Avis Preferred Plus
Posts: 1,806
Managed to make use of this twice! I'm taking my gran, who has never been to America, to NYC as her Christmas present, and my partner to NYC for celebrating graduation (I hope)! As a student, these types of deals are really useful to me, so thanks for highlighting it!
Thanks again for those who highlighted it!
Jun 10, 2019, 2:08 am
#107
Join Date: Dec 2016
Programs: BAEC GGL/CR; Hilton Diamond; Mucci des Puccis
Posts: 5,581
Quick report back on the trips that came from this -- my wife and toddler booked a week in Kuching via KL to visit the grandparents, and although I couldn't take the time for that I did a weekend in New York.
The calculation for NY worked like this - Base fare was £274.22 with 5000 avios taking that down to £174.22. I got a £50 best price guaranteed voucher, and 8650 avios returned, leaving net 3650 avios. Valuing those at 1p, that all nets out too £87.42.
Similar calculations on the KL fare for the family brought it in to about £525 total for both of them, plus the cost of getting to and from Kuching, which wasn't part of that.
I also used a Hhonors redemption for two nights in the Conrad downtown, so for me it was a very cheap weekend until I booked to see the brilliant revival of Oklahoma which was more than the flights and hotels combined.
It was interesting flying in Y, which I haven't done for a while, but obviously a couple of hours in the CCR at one end (where @teledude was in his habitual spot), and a similar amount of time in the JFK CCR on the return were enough to reverse any positive margin that may have been lurking in the deal for BA. I had a great seat on the way out: 29G on a 777 with infinite legroom and a clear row of three, and had a very good sleep. Zero recognition on-board though. On the way back I massively misjudged the seat selection and ended up crammed into a window seat in a normal row which was full - 40K on a 747 - it appeared on the seatmap to be a window bulkhead. But to be honest there aren't any really good seats on a 747-400 at the back, if I were doing this again I'd take a 777 in both directions.
I did get a cursory read of my name off a printout in passing this time, which I guess is progress. And then the bloke in the aisle seat of the block got a profuse welcome by another staff member and was sent a bottle of water on his request, having been pressed to take more. I have to say, this annoyed me, I'd have liked to have a larger bottle of water for the flight. He did have an expensive looking bag with some sort of Concorde tab, but hadn't had any sort of gold greeting from the printout.
The rest of the family had very nice experience on their trip too, with a nice greeting on the return last night and some postcards and notes from the Captain for the toddler to mark his 50,000 logged miles and silver status. The food was apparently pretty good too.
Hopefully they'll repeat this offer again soon.
But anyway, slept very well - the fold down headrests are ace - and would certainly do this again.
The calculation for NY worked like this - Base fare was £274.22 with 5000 avios taking that down to £174.22. I got a £50 best price guaranteed voucher, and 8650 avios returned, leaving net 3650 avios. Valuing those at 1p, that all nets out too £87.42.
Similar calculations on the KL fare for the family brought it in to about £525 total for both of them, plus the cost of getting to and from Kuching, which wasn't part of that.
I also used a Hhonors redemption for two nights in the Conrad downtown, so for me it was a very cheap weekend until I booked to see the brilliant revival of Oklahoma which was more than the flights and hotels combined.
It was interesting flying in Y, which I haven't done for a while, but obviously a couple of hours in the CCR at one end (where @teledude was in his habitual spot), and a similar amount of time in the JFK CCR on the return were enough to reverse any positive margin that may have been lurking in the deal for BA. I had a great seat on the way out: 29G on a 777 with infinite legroom and a clear row of three, and had a very good sleep. Zero recognition on-board though. On the way back I massively misjudged the seat selection and ended up crammed into a window seat in a normal row which was full - 40K on a 747 - it appeared on the seatmap to be a window bulkhead. But to be honest there aren't any really good seats on a 747-400 at the back, if I were doing this again I'd take a 777 in both directions.
I did get a cursory read of my name off a printout in passing this time, which I guess is progress. And then the bloke in the aisle seat of the block got a profuse welcome by another staff member and was sent a bottle of water on his request, having been pressed to take more. I have to say, this annoyed me, I'd have liked to have a larger bottle of water for the flight. He did have an expensive looking bag with some sort of Concorde tab, but hadn't had any sort of gold greeting from the printout.
The rest of the family had very nice experience on their trip too, with a nice greeting on the return last night and some postcards and notes from the Captain for the toddler to mark his 50,000 logged miles and silver status. The food was apparently pretty good too.
Hopefully they'll repeat this offer again soon.
But anyway, slept very well - the fold down headrests are ace - and would certainly do this again.
Jun 10, 2019, 2:29 pm
#108
Join Date: Sep 2016
Programs: BAEC
Posts: 87
Quick report back on the trips that came from this -- my wife and toddler booked a week in Kuching via KL to visit the grandparents, and although I couldn't take the time for that I did a weekend in New York.
The calculation for NY worked like this - Base fare was £274.22 with 5000 avios taking that down to £174.22. I got a £50 best price guaranteed voucher, and 8650 avios returned, leaving net 3650 avios. Valuing those at 1p, that all nets out too £87.42.
Similar calculations on the KL fare for the family brought it in to about £525 total for both of them, plus the cost of getting to and from Kuching, which wasn't part of that.
I also used a Hhonors redemption for two nights in the Conrad downtown, so for me it was a very cheap weekend until I booked to see the brilliant revival of Oklahoma which was more than the flights and hotels combined.
It was interesting flying in Y, which I haven't done for a while, but obviously a couple of hours in the CCR at one end (where @teledude was in his habitual spot), and a similar amount of time in the JFK CCR on the return were enough to reverse any positive margin that may have been lurking in the deal for BA. I had a great seat on the way out: 29G on a 777 with infinite legroom and a clear row of three, and had a very good sleep. Zero recognition on-board though. On the way back I massively misjudged the seat selection and ended up crammed into a window seat in a normal row which was full - 40K on a 747 - it appeared on the seatmap to be a window bulkhead. But to be honest there aren't any really good seats on a 747-400 at the back, if I were doing this again I'd take a 777 in both directions.
I did get a cursory read of my name off a printout in passing this time, which I guess is progress. And then the bloke in the aisle seat of the block got a profuse welcome by another staff member and was sent a bottle of water on his request, having been pressed to take more. I have to say, this annoyed me, I'd have liked to have a larger bottle of water for the flight. He did have an expensive looking bag with some sort of Concorde tab, but hadn't had any sort of gold greeting from the printout.
The rest of the family had very nice experience on their trip too, with a nice greeting on the return last night and some postcards and notes from the Captain for the toddler to mark his 50,000 logged miles and silver status. The food was apparently pretty good too.
Hopefully they'll repeat this offer again soon.
But anyway, slept very well - the fold down headrests are ace - and would certainly do this again.
The calculation for NY worked like this - Base fare was £274.22 with 5000 avios taking that down to £174.22. I got a £50 best price guaranteed voucher, and 8650 avios returned, leaving net 3650 avios. Valuing those at 1p, that all nets out too £87.42.
Similar calculations on the KL fare for the family brought it in to about £525 total for both of them, plus the cost of getting to and from Kuching, which wasn't part of that.
I also used a Hhonors redemption for two nights in the Conrad downtown, so for me it was a very cheap weekend until I booked to see the brilliant revival of Oklahoma which was more than the flights and hotels combined.
It was interesting flying in Y, which I haven't done for a while, but obviously a couple of hours in the CCR at one end (where @teledude was in his habitual spot), and a similar amount of time in the JFK CCR on the return were enough to reverse any positive margin that may have been lurking in the deal for BA. I had a great seat on the way out: 29G on a 777 with infinite legroom and a clear row of three, and had a very good sleep. Zero recognition on-board though. On the way back I massively misjudged the seat selection and ended up crammed into a window seat in a normal row which was full - 40K on a 747 - it appeared on the seatmap to be a window bulkhead. But to be honest there aren't any really good seats on a 747-400 at the back, if I were doing this again I'd take a 777 in both directions.
I did get a cursory read of my name off a printout in passing this time, which I guess is progress. And then the bloke in the aisle seat of the block got a profuse welcome by another staff member and was sent a bottle of water on his request, having been pressed to take more. I have to say, this annoyed me, I'd have liked to have a larger bottle of water for the flight. He did have an expensive looking bag with some sort of Concorde tab, but hadn't had any sort of gold greeting from the printout.
The rest of the family had very nice experience on their trip too, with a nice greeting on the return last night and some postcards and notes from the Captain for the toddler to mark his 50,000 logged miles and silver status. The food was apparently pretty good too.
Hopefully they'll repeat this offer again soon.
But anyway, slept very well - the fold down headrests are ace - and would certainly do this again.
Jun 10, 2019, 2:45 pm
#109
Join Date: May 2016
Location: GLA
Programs: BAEC Bronze
Posts: 143
Jun 11, 2019, 1:00 am
#110
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 610
I used to stay there ALL the time.. i found a better hostel that is for the same price (and sometimes even less). Its very basic but you are in NYC and dont want to be spending all your time in a room anyway.
Jun 11, 2019, 1:36 am
#111
Join Date: Sep 2016
Programs: BAEC
Posts: 87