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WOW Air Travel Guide Competition – enter before May 14th 2018

26 Thursday Apr 2018

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WOW Air is an Icelandic low-cost carrier. The airline is headquartered in Reykjavík and based at Keflavík International Airport. They fly to over 30 destinations in Europe, the USA, Canada and Israel.

WOW are currently running a competition to be a travel guide. Those chosen will need to move to Iceland, with a friend of their choice, for 10 weeks during the summer of 2018 and then visit numerous WOW air destinations. All expenses are paid, including accommodation in Iceland – they also mention that you are paid, but that doesn’t appear in the terms and conditions:

What will WOW Travel Guides get?

Weeks of travel with flights, hotels, activities and travel allowance all paid for by WOW air. Travel Guides will also gain social media exposure and hopefully some priceless memories. 

Accommodation in Iceland: Travel Guides will stay at a furnished apartment in downtown Reykjavík, while in Iceland.

Hotels: WOW air will be taking care of choosing, booking and paying for Travel Guide hotels or other overnight accommodations when they are travelling on behalf of WOW air in connection with the Travel Guide project.

Flights: Flights will be provided by WOW air from and to WOW air’s destinations of the summer of 2018. If the Travel Guide’s domicile isn’t in one of WOW air’s destination cities the then Travel Guide is responsible for all travel expenses for the journey to the nearest WOW air’s destination. 

Travel allowance: Payments made in accordance with regulations of Iceland.

Travel Guides will take 8 trips to random WOW air destinations from Iceland. Each trip will last for 2-4 days. Travel Guides will also take at least 4 domestic trips in Iceland. All trips will be taken over the course of 10 weeks during the summer of 2018.

To apply, you will need to create and upload a short video travel guide (max 2 min) of your hometown. The WOW site explains the process:

They also have a video:

It looks like anyone worldwide can enter, although the winners must fund their own trip to the nearest WOW destination, plus speak good English.

If you have ten weeks to spare this summer then this seems like a great way to spend the time.

https://travelguide.wowair.com/

IHG Snow Globe Christmas Competition

03 Sunday Dec 2017

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10th December 2017 update: So far the items that have appeared as prizes have been pretty rubbish – there have been many days when I didn’t even bother to enter. So don’t be too disappointed if you shake the globe and find you’re offered something completely useless.

Intercontinental/Holiday Inn have a daily competition until December 25th 2017. The promotion is open to all legal residents in the European Union aged 18 years and over, excluding residents of Italy, Turkey, Russia and Poland.

To enter, you visit this site: http://adventcalendar.ihgrewardsclub.com/

You click ‘SHAKE’ and prizes start falling down the globe. You’ll also see that day’s date is among the falling items – click on that to discover the prize draw you can enter. If you don’t click on the date, you can always shake again.

Today, 3rd December 2017, the prize draw was for a Clinique Sonic Cleansing Brush & Sonic Soap Set.

Answer is 61000 Points but was easy to find on the redemption catalogue https://www.globalcatalogue.ihg.com/IHGCcsp?uXWKl8bWg6E=

If you’re a member of IHG Rewards Club, you are given an extra entry. It’s free to sign up for that. After you submit the form, you can gain extra entries by sharing on social media.

Good luck!

Win a Pair of Tickets to Aruba and seven nights hotel

14 Tuesday Nov 2017

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KLM are running a competition with the following prize:

A pair of KLM return flights, with seven nights accommodation and breakfast for two at Amsterdam Manor Beach Resort. Plus return airport transfers with De Palm Tours and a complimentary island tour!

Located on one of the best beaches in the World, Eagle Beach, Amsterdam Manor Beach Resort is a 72 room intimate hideaway with the luxuries of a large resort.

If you were the winner, it looks like your flight needs to depart from the UK, but I can’t see anything in the T&Cs that say you have to be a UK resident.

The link to the competition is here: https://takemetoarubaklm.klm.com/register.php

You need to enter your name, email, gender and preferred UK departure airport. I was actually surprised to see only two choices of gender from the permissive Dutch, considering how many gender-issue news stories are around at the moment. Luckily for me, this wasn’t an issue – I didn’t even need to check!

The next screens ask you to play a video and answer a simple question. The videos are short and mostly entertaining, but if you really don’t have time to watch them, the answers are:

  • Willem III Tower
  • Pastechi
  • Quiet Cove
  • Tumba

The last screen says you can enter multiple times – the questions don’t change.

Good luck!

 

Win two return flight tickets (worth up to 5000 Euros) – ended July 17th 2017

26 Monday Jun 2017

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Airbus are running a competition to win two return flight tickets worth up to 5000 Euros. Contest begins at 10:00 AM (Paris time) on June 15th 2017 and ends at 23:59 (Paris time) on July 17th 2017.

Airbus are a manufacturer and not an airline, so the prize can be used to book tickets on any one of the 13 A380 operators (Air France, Asiana Airlines, British Airways, China Southern Airlines, Emirates, Etihad Airways, Korean Air, Lufthansa, Malaysia Airlines, Qantas, Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines, Thai Airways International). You don’t actually have to fly an Airbus A380.

You can spend up to 5000 Euros – no change is given.

To enter you need to choose which of the following are most important when flying:

  • Smooth
  • Quiet
  • Comfortable
  • Spacious

There’s no wrong answer as Airbus claim all of the above are benefits of flying an A380.

They also want your name, email address and country of residence.

After you enter, they’ll provide a unique url that you can share with friends and obtain up to ten more entries. I used the one they sent me in this article.

Travelzoo UK-only Competition – Seven Nights in the Maldives

25 Sunday Jun 2017

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The UK Travelzoo site is running a competition to win a holiday in the Maldives. Competition is only open to residents of the United Kingdom.

The prize:
Seven nights at the Kuredu Island Resort & Spa, in a Beach Villa, on an all-inclusive basis
Return flights
Seaplane transfers

There aren’t any questions to answer, you just need to provide an email and a UK postcode. It’s basically a data collection exercise with a raffle. In the terms and conditions, Travelzoo write:
Sponsor will be collecting personal data about Participants when they enter the Game by signing up for the Email. By participating in the Game, Participants hereby agree to all personal information uses and disclaimers as explained in Travelzoo’s privacy policy. The data will not be passed without the consent of the user to third parties. Please review Travelzoo’s privacy policy at www.travelzoo.com/uk/privacy/

After you enter, you’ll be sent a unique url that you can share with friends. For each friend who clicks your link and enters, you get an extra entry. I used my unique url at the top of this article.

The prize is provided by Southall Travel. Looking at their site, it looks like the prize has a value of around £4000. The flights are most likely economy and not direct.

Prize must be taken August-October 2017 or January-March 2018

Draw ends 23:59 p.m. 2 August 2017 (BST).

The winner will be determined in a random drawing by computer to be held on or about 4 August 2017.

The picture below was taken on my last visit to the Maldives in 2011:

Star Alliance Million Mile Competition

16 Tuesday May 2017

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The Star Alliance is celebrating its 20-year anniversary with a competition to win one million miles that you can then spend on flights. There are 21 prizes, one for each of the 21 frequent flyer programmes that are part of the Star Alliance. But you can only enter once – usually your entry would be associated with the frequent flyer programme where you are a member. You can join a programme and then enter.

Closing date for entries is 31 July 2017.

If you aren’t a member of any Star Alliance programme, or even if you are, there are a couple of things to consider:

  • Should you join the programme of the airline that you would use the most if you won? You should be able to spend miles with any alliance airline.
  • You could consider joining the smallest programme as there would be less entries competing against you. I would guess the smallest is ‘Miles + Bonus’ run by ‘Aegean Airlines’.
  • 20 out of the 21 participating programmes are offering miles (or an equivalent metric). SAS’s EuroBonus Programme is offering four round-the-World Business Class tickets. Usually when you spend miles, you still have to pay some taxes and fees – the SAS prize sounds like four free flights. So if a round-the-World trip in Business Class is what you’re looking for then join EuroBonus.

I actually entered using my Lufthansa Miles and More number – that may have been a mistake as Miles and More is Europe’s biggest frequent flyer programme; includes Adria Airways, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Croatia Airlines, LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa and SWISS.

All entries should be submitted here: http://mileagemillionaire.staralliance.com/?language=en

The first thing you need to do is submit two photos:

  • A photo of yourself against a plain and simple background (no patterns), with you in the centre.
  • A photo of a cultural experience from your library that you’d like to share, making sure it’s in the same format and orientation as your portrait (i.e. both jpg files in landscape or both in portrait).

The reason for the above guidelines isn’t obvious until you upload both photos and then find that they are used in a mashup picture. I had to go back and choose different photos until I got it right. My cultural experience was a picture I’d taken in Kyoto, Japan and this is how the mashup appeared:

I liked the way that the bamboo lined my face – not so much how the carriage was cut off at the top.

You then need to write a few words about your experience, add your details, frequent flyer membership number and submit your entry.

Good luck!

Congratulations you won a holiday to Dubai! Well thanks but I don’t want the prize

04 Wednesday Jan 2017

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I’m a member of Heathrow Rewards – this is a scheme that allows you to collect points while spending at London Heathrow airport. You can then transfer the points into various loyalty schemes. I’ve previously written about Heathrow Rewards here.

Heathrow Rewards often run competitions. A month or so before Christmas, I clicked to enter a competition to win return economy flights to Dubai on Royal Brunei Airlines plus four nights accommodation in a deluxe room in the Hilton Al Hamra Beach & Golf Resort. I did hesitate slightly before entering – see my article ‘Dubai – is visiting worth the risk?’.

And just before Christmas, I received an email from Heathrow Rewards to congratulate me on winning. They then sent my details to Royal Brunei Airlines and I started an email conversation with them between Christmas and New Year.

The first thing I did was look at the flight times:

Departure:
17:05 Heathrow (LHR)
04:00 +1 day Dubai International (DXB)
Total duration 06h55m, Direct flight
Royal Brunei (BI98)

Return:
03:00 Dubai International (DXB)
06:45 Heathrow (LHR)
Total duration 07h45m, Direct flight
Royal Brunei (BI97)

Possibly the worst flight times ever! Imagine arriving at what feels like Midnight from an economy flight (so no fast track through Dubai Airport) and then take a 45-minute transfer to Ras Al Khaimah. You’d want accommodation, but that would mean using one of your four days to check in at around 6am in the morning.

Then imagine that it’s your last day and even with a late checkout you’d need to be out of the room by 4pm. Then wait until Midnight for a transfer back to Dubai Airport, fly at 3am in economy for almost 8 hours and arrive bleary-eyed at Heathrow early morning.

Royal Brunei Airlines is also a ‘dry’ airline – so no alcohol served on board.

I’d probably use one of my four nights so I could keep the room on the last day. So that really means just two nights in the hotel. I asked Royal Brunei Airlines about that and they confirmed I would need to use ‘nights’ to check in early morning and checkout at Midnight.

The hotel looked good and so I looked at other flights. There were plenty of options, flying at good times and with reasonable prices. I asked Royal Brunei Airlines if I could just have the accommodation element of the prize – they said no.

I asked if I could give the prize to some friends – not surprisingly that wasn’t possible.

I did consider running some social media campaign whereby someone with my name, or who was prepared to change their name to mine, could have the prize, but decided that would have been against the rules.

And so I decided to return the ‘prize’ so it could be re-drawn and hopefully go to someone who wouldn’t mind roughing it for a free holiday.

What would you have done in these circumstances?

If you won my returned prize please let me know how you enjoyed the holiday.

Malaysia Airlines renames ‘bucket list’ contest

04 Thursday Sep 2014

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Malaysia Airlines launched a contest on Monday, inviting travellers in Australia and New Zealand to submit a 500-word answer to the question: “What and where would you like to tick off on your bucket list, and explain why?” The original URL (now taken down) was http://www.malaysiaairlines.com/au/en/campaign/bucket-list-contest.html

For an airline that has lost two planeloads of passengers, this was clearly a PR disaster. See my previous post

They’ve now changed the text to ‘What and where would you to tick off your to-do list, and explain why?’ and new URL: http://www.malaysiaairlines.com/au/en/campaign/win-monthly-prizes.html

The word ‘like’ missing from their sentence above reflects the hurried stress of the editor.

The airline said in a statement on Wednesday. “Malaysia Airlines has withdrawn the title of a competition running in Australia and New Zealand, as it is found to be inappropriate at this point in time. The competition had been earlier approved as it was themed around a common phrase used in both countries. The airline appreciates and respects the sentiments of the public and in no way did it intend to offend any parties.”

Only open to Australian and New Zealand citizens age 18 years and above holding a valid and paid Malaysia Airlines-operated flight bookings purchased from the Malaysian Airlines website this year.

Radisson Five Free Nights for Life Competition (July 7 – August 17 2014)

18 Friday Jul 2014

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Radisson are running a sweepstakes http://radissonforlife.com/ where the winner will receive one five-consecutive-night stay at any participating Radisson hotel per calendar year for up to fifty-eight (58) years. You have to be 21 years of age or older to enter, so if you are 21 and win then you’ll need to pay your own hotel after your seventy-ninth birthday.

There are also weekly prizes where one winner will receive a hotel voucher redeemable for a one night stay at any participating Radisson in North America.

Entry is just a data collection form plus social media links – so if you feel uncomfortable about sharing so much detail then this competition isn’t for you.

The competition isn’t open to residents of Australia, Brazil, Cuba, Czech Republic, France, India, Iran, Malaysia, North Korea, Quebec (Canada), Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Syria, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. Love the fact they included North Korea in the list – as if someone from there would be able to enjoy five nights a year in a Radisson anyway.

Win Flying Blue Platinum membership for 1 year and 200,000 Miles – my entries

29 Sunday Jun 2014

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Last Tuesday 24th June, I wrote about the Flying Blue photo competition – there’s still time to enter.

Links to my entries below. Most were taken on my iPhone and looking at some of the other entries, I don’t think I have that much chance of winning. But it was fun to look back a bunch of old photos and choose some for the competition.

The competition rules say that photos will be judged by a panel, but I’m sure it will help to have a few Facebook likes. So if you like the picture and are logged into to Facebook, please click like.

The view from the mountains of Montenegro, looking down at the fjords – I’ve been to the Grand Canyon, USA, but I thought this was more impressive. While in Montenegro, we stayed at Sveti Stefan where there were wasps.

Ducks in, Prague, Czech Republic so many pictures of Prague to choose from and I decided to steer away from the classic Charles Bridge and Castle views.

Trams in Lisbon, Portugal – so long ago when I was there that I don’t have any reviews – was an interesting town though.

A small harbour in Mallorca, Spain – we stayed at the Blau Porto Petro and I wrote about this on Trip Advisor, then when they finally failed to replace my lost laundry, I wrote another Trip Advisor update. So far these have been seen by thousands – so much bad publicity just for the sake of a lost polo shirt.

The beach of the Hilton Hotel, Mauritius, at sunset – a good hotel this and reviewed here.

Another Hilton Mauritius beach at sunset.

The Mauritius botanical gardens – I liked this one because there were two girls having a picnic under a pink umbrella.

The Everglades, Florida, USA – I liked this as it looked like an African savannah. For our visit to the Everglades, we flew American Airlines to Miami and stayed in the Hampton Inn, Homestead, Florida.

If you enter the competition, add a comment with links to your entries.