Earning Virgin Flying Club points from other places

[joanne]

This is intended to be a list that you can all add to for places where you can earn miles/points which you can then convert to Virgin Flying Club miles.

If you know of anywhere please reply to this thread with details of the place/hotel chain, where you can join their points club, how to convert, if any free miles are available just for joining :)

American Express credit card
Radisson SAS hotels
Starpoints from spg.com
Hyatt hotels

[Slowhand]

Red Carnation Hotel group is another.

Actually all of the locations are listed in the booklet sent out by Virgin to their members.
I can never find it when I need it though, so a "sticky" thread like this will be useful Jo. [Hey that almost rhymes!] :lol:

[joanne]

If only I knew where I'd put that book... :lol:

[g1rbw]

Virgin credit card, I think you can get upto 8000 miles just for joining, if you pay the £80 fee and after that 2 miles for every £1 spent.

[PaulaK]

Hertz Car Rental
Avis Car Rental
Cunard Cruises

Off the top of my head. :)

[PaulaK]

Virgin Cars! (time to buy that X5 methinks!)
Virgin Bikes
Virgin Wine Club

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You can earn flying club miles on Virgin Atlantic when you preorder at least 4 days prior to flying by calling the preorder team on +44 (0) 870 190 3003 .
Miles earned for every £1 spent 10.

[american idol]

Cunard Cruises

:)


isn't that who runs the QM2 :think: to convince the wallet lol!!

[ukwdwnut]

dont know how recent this is but its from my book :)

[PaulaK]

OOOOh!!! La Residencia in Mallorca! :bounce:

[ukwdwnut]

thought that might excite you a bit paula :D

[PaulaK]

isn't that who runs the QM2 :think: to convince the wallet lol!!

serpently is! A quick 6 day voyage to NY perhaps? :whistle:

I quite fancy La Residencia :D Trouble is I think a week there is as expensive as WDW!

[ukwdwnut]

really, i know my uncle likes the le meridien, and he is a fussy so and so

[american idol]

£500 a night i think Paula :eek: we'll start our trip with a trip to Le Manoir a Quatre Saisons (just down the road from me :wink: ) we'll do a week there followed by a mediteranean cruise on the QM2- any takers?

we'll earn lots of points :wink:

[ukwdwnut]

wouldnt mind earning that a week brit :lol:

[wrtinch]

My most common source of additional miles for Virgin is Hyatt, Radisson, Sheraton and Hilton Hotels and Delta Airlines. However, to qualify for miles for a hotel stay you must book the hotel direct or through Virgin. I was refused miles for a stay at the Sheraton at Heathrow because I had booked through Expedia. I haven't had the same problem at a Hyatt and never had a query about flights with Delta though I have rarely booked them direct.
My best source of miles is through my Amercian Express card though it takes about a month to have the points transferred to Virgin.

[pluto]

my favourite source is Hilton, but it works out better for me to collect them all as Hilton Points and then transfer them to Virgin if I wish to use them, that way I have the choice who I fly with rather than just using Virgin. Also you can use Hilton Points to pay for disneyTickets

[PaulaK]

We did that with starwood. We registered for their own loyalty programme and then transferred them across to Virgin.

I checked my balance and my Radisson miles hadn't gone on so I called and they said the hotels are useless at processing the paperwork etc. I have to send my Radisson paperwork to the flying club and they'll add them for me. Good job we kept it!

We read somewhere that if you spend £15k on your Virgin credit card in a year you get a free companion flight. We need to check on that if anyone knows anything about it? I'm sure I must have spent that or be close to it.

[chips]

:wacko: how does this all work:sorry: ..........how do you become member ?? so that you can collect virgin miles:eek: .............please help !

thankyou in advance CHIPS:)

[ukwdwnut]

you first need(or you might even be able to register b4 you fly, not sure) to travel on virgin then register here (http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/en/gb/frequentflyer/index.jsp;jsessionid=CnRXRyD8BY8Gw0fh6WZnL1pYv4XGv QFTQ22r1XFp6KvZ9rZhG69y!2070358953)

and then when you next travel you have more miles added and you can also add 2000 miles to get a discount on your next flight, ie i got a quote for last 2 weeks in oct, normal price £613, with 2000 airmiles £377

hope this helps

[chips]

you first need(or you might even be able to register b4 you fly, not sure) to travel on virgin then register here (http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/en/gb/frequentflyer/index.jsp;jsessionid=CnRXRyD8BY8Gw0fh6WZnL1pYv4XGv QFTQ22r1XFp6KvZ9rZhG69y!2070358953)

and then when you next travel you have more miles added and you can also add 2000 miles to get a discount on your next flight, ie i got a quote for last 2 weeks in oct, normal price £613, with 2000 airmiles £377

hope this helps:unsure: Oh well..........we were to late did fly with virgin last september but did not know about air miles............we rang them today they said it was too late.....we can only book them up to 6 months after your trip..........but thanks anyway :)

CHIPS:overhere:

[ukwdwnut]

thats a shame i just reclaimed some mile for on of the people who traveled with us in oct, had 1 week to spare :D phew!!!!!!!!!

[chips]

Virgin credit card, I think you can get upto 8000 miles just for joining, if you pay the £80 fee and after that 2 miles for every £1 spent.

:rolleyes: It does not say anything on the website for virgin credit card that you can change your points into aiair-miles..........how would you go about this:confused: how do you find out more !:hehe:
THankyou in advance :thumbs:

[triciacarole]

Virgin offer 2 types of credit cards, for the card that earns miles you need to go through the link on the Virgin Atlantic website on the flying club page, http://uk.virginmoney.com/vaa-credit-card/ I had the same confusion myself!

[PaulaK]

Pre-order your duty free to be delivered to your seat, you get 10 miles per £1 spent! :wiggle:

[triciacarole]

Thanks Paula, think I will do that :)