by Lufthansa Flyer | Apr 24, 2015 | Featured, Hotel, Miles & More, Points/Miles |
Most of you have probably come across this opportunity, but for those of you who have not, here is a way to add 100 miles to you Miles & More balance for each of your Hotel stays.
I’m referring to the relationship that Miles & More has with HolidayCheck.de, a German-based hotel and travel review website. By simply visiting their website and spending no more than 5 minutes reviewing a hotel, you’ll earn 100 miles.
The website lets you add your review for any stay that you have had in the past 25 months and is based on the honor system in that there is no verification made regarding your stay. The website simple reviews your review to make sure that it meets their criteria for being informative and complete.
The process is fairly easy. Once you set up your online profile with HolidayCheck, all you need to do is go to their Hotel Review page, search for your hotel, and provide your ratings and comments. You’ll have the option to provide either a brief review or one with more details. Once complete, you enter your Miles & More number and once approved, your miles are credited within 2 weeks.
Considering most hotel stays offer only miles based on dollars spent or flat rate per stay, using this program can increase your actual miles earned from hotel stays by upwards of 30-100%.
A word of advice: I would not attempt to create a bunch of fictitious stays just to run up your miles balances. If they catch on to a pattern that suggests fraud, it can result in your account being closed and it could ruin the program for everyone.
A few caveats about the program:
You are limited to 10 hotel reviews a month, so basically if you have 120 hotel stays to review, you’ll earn 12,000 miles each year. When I do the miles per minute calculation (assuming 5 minutes per review), you will earn about 20 miles per minute spent providing your feedback. I’m not sure there are many of us that could claim 120 hotel stays in a year, but this the limitation of the program.
You’ll notice that the website is in German so you may want to enable your browser to automatically translate the webpage for you if German is not your forte.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Apr 21, 2015 | Featured, Miles & More, Payback, Plane Spotting |
A H/T to FlyerTalk’s Oliver2002 for putting this on my radar…..
For those of you participating in the PAYBACK loyalty/points program, an E-Coupon is available for the BodyShop that awards 1,000 points for your first purchase. Of course if you are a PAYBACK member, you know that the points automatically convert to Miles & More miles at a 1:1 ratio if you linked your MM account to your PAYBACK account thus making this coupon worth 1000 miles.
There is no minimum purchase required and there is even a coupon code that provides for free shipping (a €5 savings!).
As Oliver2002 suggested, the most economical way to earn the 1000 points (miles) is to purchase the 60ml size of the Moringa Shower Gel for €2 and then use a coupon code at check out to waive the shipping. The code that needs to be entered for the free shipping is AOGV011515.
Remember that your order needs to be shipped to an address in Germany. Also, if you are going to try and pay with a credit card that does not have a German billing address, you will not succeed. However, there is a Paypal option available which will carry a surcharge of .22 cents so at the end of the day, you’ll earn 1000 miles for only €2.22 or 1/5 cent per mile!
Keep in mind that the coupon expires on April 26…..
by Lufthansa Flyer | Apr 11, 2015 | Featured, Lufthansa, Miles & More |
Lufthansa’s Miles&More program underwent a cyber attack on Friday which resulted in the theft of miles and vouchers from a small number of accounts.
According to Lufthansa, damage was limited to a few hundred accounts and any miles or vouchers that were stolen or used have been restored to the rightful owner. Fortunately this was not as wide spread as the data breach that British Airways suffered that resulted in the hacking of 10’s of thousands of frequent flyer accounts just a few weeks ago.
Lufthansa’s IT department had identified the fraudulent activity early on as they discovered ‘Bots’ trying to using random username and passwords until the right combinations were found by the Bot. Once the ‘Bot’ was discovered, it was quickly removed and things were returned to normal.
Apparently no personal data was retrieved by this cyber attack, it was simply an attack trying to figure out user names and passwords. For the accounts that were affected, LH has changed the account numbers and contacted members to change user name and passwords.
It may behoove you to check your account and balances just to make sure you were not impacted.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Jan 4, 2015 | Featured, Miles & More |
With 2015 underway, it marks my switch from United’s MileagePlus to Lufthansa’s Miles & More and to that end I’ll be covering Miles & More much more closely and will share any opportunities that I think may be worthwhile.
For January, Miles & More members will benefit from a promo with Hertz that will award double miles and up to 25% off rental reservations made throughout January. Normally, you would earn 500 award miles per rental but with the promo the miles double to 1000.
The terms of the promo are that you have to reserve your vehicle by January 31 and the rental must be completed by March 31, 2015. The minimum rental period is only one day and there appear to be no limits as to how many rentals you can make to take advantage of the promo.
To benefit from the promo you MUST use Promo Code (PC): 300565 and Discount Code (CDP): 646999 when booking your car. You’ll also need to provide your Miles & More number when placing the reservation. According to the fine print, the amount of the discount may vary based on country/city of rental but the amount of miles earned will not be impacted.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Nov 11, 2014 | Featured, Miles & More, Travel |
A very nice and simple contest has been launched by CAT (City Airport Train) of Vienna/Austria for the month of November and December. The contest will award 3 lucky winners with 10,000 miles each for their Miles & More accounts simply for just booking their ticket online.
The contest is open only to the CAT’s C-Club members which is free to join and open to anyone. If you are not yet a member but your plans include taking the non-stop CAT service between Vienna and the Airport (or vice versa) during the next 2 months, use this link to visit the CAT website and sign-up. No obligation or restrictions exist beyond needing to be a C-Club member.
Good Luck!
