Disaster! Jumeirah exits BAEC
Aug 22, 2008, 2:39 am
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Disaster! Jumeirah exits BAEC
"Jumeirah to exit Executive Club partner programme
There will be a small change to the way in which you can earn BA Miles when staying at our British Airways Executive Club hotel partners.
From 16 September 2008 you will no longer be able to earn BA Miles when staying at Jumeirah hotels. Jumeirah is located in Dubai, London and New York, and the good news is that there are numerous other Executive Club hotel partner options in these cities where you can still earn BA Miles.
For more information and a full list of all our Executive Club partners, please visit the hotel partner pages."
Jumeirah was, quite frankly, a bonanza for miles earning, paying out 3 miles per US$. They are easily the most upmarket hotel company paying out a sensible level of miles (lets forget Mandarin Orientals 250 per night!).
A couple of years ago we went to the, frankly, outstanding Madinat Jumeirah resort in Dubai for 5 nights. The total bill was around £2,500, and I got around 12,000 BA Miles! Very disappointing to see this disappear as an option - I imagine they want to encourage more people to take points in their Sirius loyalty programme instead.
There will be a small change to the way in which you can earn BA Miles when staying at our British Airways Executive Club hotel partners.
From 16 September 2008 you will no longer be able to earn BA Miles when staying at Jumeirah hotels. Jumeirah is located in Dubai, London and New York, and the good news is that there are numerous other Executive Club hotel partner options in these cities where you can still earn BA Miles.
For more information and a full list of all our Executive Club partners, please visit the hotel partner pages."
Jumeirah was, quite frankly, a bonanza for miles earning, paying out 3 miles per US$. They are easily the most upmarket hotel company paying out a sensible level of miles (lets forget Mandarin Orientals 250 per night!).
A couple of years ago we went to the, frankly, outstanding Madinat Jumeirah resort in Dubai for 5 nights. The total bill was around £2,500, and I got around 12,000 BA Miles! Very disappointing to see this disappear as an option - I imagine they want to encourage more people to take points in their Sirius loyalty programme instead.
Aug 22, 2008, 8:58 am
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Aug 22, 2008, 1:27 pm
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Aug 22, 2008, 3:11 pm
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Aug 22, 2008, 4:48 pm
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MO points have posted fine for me.
Not really sad to see Jumeirah go as they were of little use to me. Happy to never set foot in DXB again, there are more fun places to stay in NYC and I live in London.
Not really sad to see Jumeirah go as they were of little use to me. Happy to never set foot in DXB again, there are more fun places to stay in NYC and I live in London.
Aug 23, 2008, 5:51 am
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By the way, if you live in London then if you spend enough Sirius points can have a use for free meals at the Carlton Tower and Lowndes hotels. However, you'd need to be sure you'd have enough before you risked crediting them to Sirius as they are relatively useless otherwise - although you can get Harvey Nichols and Hamleys vouchers as well.
Aug 23, 2008, 7:32 am
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Congratulations - roll on 22,222!
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Congratulations - roll on 22,222!
Aug 23, 2008, 8:57 am
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It seems to me that you are able to transfer points out of Sirius into your EC account at a rate of 1:3. That's from Jumeirah, so I'm not sure that BAEC dropping earnings matters. Am I mistaken?
Aug 23, 2008, 12:30 pm
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I imagine that both the direct earning AND the conversion will be withdrawn, or the BAEC announcement wouldn't have been worded as it was (ie 'stay elsewhere'). But lets see.
Aug 24, 2008, 10:47 am
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Through BAEC - although they may post OK. Be careful if you have a Sirius a/c as they may hit that instead.
By the way, if you live in London then if you spend enough Sirius points can have a use for free meals at the Carlton Tower and Lowndes hotels. However, you'd need to be sure you'd have enough before you risked crediting them to Sirius as they are relatively useless otherwise - although you can get Harvey Nichols and Hamleys vouchers as well.
By the way, if you live in London then if you spend enough Sirius points can have a use for free meals at the Carlton Tower and Lowndes hotels. However, you'd need to be sure you'd have enough before you risked crediting them to Sirius as they are relatively useless otherwise - although you can get Harvey Nichols and Hamleys vouchers as well.
Looks like I might be alright. Without prompting my butler asked if I wanted the Sirius points or the miles (I'd added my BAEC number to the booking in the 'other instructions' area.