BER September
Apr 16, 2024, 4:35 am
#1
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Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: Malvern
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BER September- worst use of Amex voucher ever?
Now, obviously supply and demand exists, but looking at flights to BER in September (around the weekend of the marathon), it's pushing £1000 return! Anyone know if there's something else on that weekend (27-29 Sep)? Managed to get, at great physical pain, J return for £250+10500 avios+Amex voucher. Is this the worst use of an Amex voucher ever?!
Last edited by stampcollector; Apr 16, 2024 at 4:42 am
Apr 16, 2024, 4:44 am
#3
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Glasgow, UK
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I'd say the worst use of an Amex voucher is to let it expire without using it. Other than that, there is no bad or wrong use of a voucher. If you weren't planning on using it for something else, it's a perfectly sensible thing to do, and seems to have gotten you a 75% discount (excluding the Avios) to somewhere you wanted to travel.
I used one last year to go to Madrid, as it had been extended a couple of times through Covid. Given the time remaining on the voucher, and the fact I had no inclination to go somewhere far-flung in longhaul J or F, it made sense (to me) to use it for a long weekend in Europe.
I used one last year to go to Madrid, as it had been extended a couple of times through Covid. Given the time remaining on the voucher, and the fact I had no inclination to go somewhere far-flung in longhaul J or F, it made sense (to me) to use it for a long weekend in Europe.
Apr 16, 2024, 4:51 am
#4
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I considered this but flying down from NCL would mean trekking across LDN, when are BA going to start NCL-LCY?!
Apr 16, 2024, 4:58 am
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Apr 16, 2024, 6:04 am
#8
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: London
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Now, obviously supply and demand exists, but looking at flights to BER in September (around the weekend of the marathon), it's pushing £1000 return! Anyone know if there's something else on that weekend (27-29 Sep)? Managed to get, at great physical pain, J return for £250+10500 avios+Amex voucher. Is this the worst use of an Amex voucher ever?!
Apr 16, 2024, 6:59 am
#9
Join Date: Aug 2017
Posts: 1,404
Now, obviously supply and demand exists, but looking at flights to BER in September (around the weekend of the marathon), it's pushing £1000 return! Anyone know if there's something else on that weekend (27-29 Sep)? Managed to get, at great physical pain, J return for £250+10500 avios+Amex voucher. Is this the worst use of an Amex voucher ever?!