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The Hotel Woolstore 1888 is apparently now ALL participating as part of the Handwritten Collection, not surprised as it is one big group of Accor Hotels in that part of Darling Harbour. Booked it on QF Hotels and the room wasn't bad. It is quite small though. Didn't see them having a buffet...

QQ, It looks that the Ibis Budget Status points rate is 5 points /1 EUR excluding taxes, which is less than Ibis itself. I guess the goal is to get elite nights on the cheap when staying in an Ibis Budget and getting elite status that way, not through Status Points.

Found a really good Ibis Sydney Darling Harbour red hot room rate, all for $90 a night. Accor Plus doing its thing. Definitely an off peak season + with the construction works over there.

Booking Jetstar on the Qantas website still has the max fare available but it would be more expensive most of the time. Flight Centre seems to still sell the Starter Max fare but again seems a bit more expensive (especially with no Club Jetstar). Not sure how long will this last though.

A decent win with this, looks like all you need is the app and go to the very bottom to select Premier. 2-3x more expensive than UberX though with the current 40% off promos.

Decent Amex Offer from Marriott: Spend $350 get $140 USD back. Only problem is its NA based. Ah well.

Ibis Budget Enfield staycation for the last 10 nights 😅😅 Quick roadtrip somewhere would work as well.

Yes, only for Hilton Surfers Paradise and then you have to email their reservations team to link the gift card to the existing reservation.

Coming back to this one now, bought an accommodation gift card ($250) and transaction came through the same way. Zero catches. Credit came 3-4 days later. Noting the 2% surcharge also applies to gift card purchases (same as the hotel). Resort Credit all used for the first half of the year.

Also there is a line at the end of the promo page: Existing Gold members will receive 10 status nights with five nights stay. So at least something for Gold members + with the 20 nights from Accor Plus that means another year of Gold. Platinum is still the sweet spot though and that is...

Aspire Resort Credit DP for Hilton Surfers Paradise if you aren't making a resort booking in the 1st half of the year: May 8: Purchased a Ms Margots dining gift card on this website: Gift Vouchers Coded as the actual Hilton hotel initially. May 11: Received the Hilton Resort Credit cashback...

A win for Hilton, there are a lot of Accor hotels around the area and the Luxury Collection Tasman can get a bit pricey. A new Doubletree would do I guess.

Decided to hop on Marriott during the promo period. Now the promotion is finished (double night promo, what a great one btw), here are the two notable stays. Gold status throughout this time. Midnight Hotel, Autograph Collection (April) Booked: Junior Suite - only one that could fit 3 people...

1000 VFF points to link account plus 1 VFF / $ on all rides. Not bad if you combine it with the frequent vouchers they give out.

I think I have seen advance purchase rates for Europe and APAC hotels count towards the credit, it's only the NA based non-refundable rates which are processed by Hilton centrally which don't count. However occasionally I have seen special saver rates for US resorts which require some deposit...

Wow didn't know they were that extensive now. Never got that when they just started up.

Felt like it is between Didi and Uber, fair play to Didi keeping themselves in it with all those discounts and now they have stickers on some cars. When the Travel rate is there during low demand it is cheaper going to the airport. Didn't remember Ola at all. Dont mind walking 10 minutes from...

Exchange rate shoots right back to just over 0.66 USD all of a sudden :0

Even in foreign currencies you still get the 3x on the settled USD amount

Would definitely be a game changer especially if we go to the regional parts of Australia with Airbnb like properties. Only one way to find out…