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Virgin Holidays miles
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26 Feb 2017, 06:46by sythe20
Hello,
Has anyone had any experience of collecting miles through V Hols? I'm just wondering when the miles are meant to credit - after booking, sometime between or after you've taken the holiday? I believe it's 2 miles per £ spent.
Re: Virgin Holidays miles
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26 Feb 2017, 07:03by CHill710
They should post after your departure date
Re: Virgin Holidays miles
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26 Feb 2017, 09:11by sythe20
Excellent - thank you for clarifying that!
Re: Virgin Holidays miles
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26 Feb 2017, 09:45by hunterdwmgzt
I believe it's only 1 mile per pound spent, but I may be wrong.
Re: Virgin Holidays miles
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26 Feb 2017, 10:01by Penny_L
Red members earn 1 Mile per £ spent, Silver and Gold members earn 2 miles per £ spent
Re: Virgin Holidays miles
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26 Feb 2017, 23:24by vmike
I must say i am a little bit confused by the last few posts. Surely the amount of miles you get is dependant on the flight you take and the class of ticket (even through VH). My last trip through VH was Barbados out PE (K ticket) return UC ( i ticket) . So a trip of 4200mls each way returned 11500 miles per passenger with FC (red) . According to the ticketing tools available on this site (and my GCE maths
) thats exactly correct.
I paid a very reasonable £4400 for the whole holiday(2 people) including AI Hotel and EU Dublin connectors.
I am probably missing something here so please feel free to keep me right.
Re: Virgin Holidays miles
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26 Feb 2017, 23:45by Penny_L
vmike wrote:I must say i am a little bit confused by the last few posts. Surely the amount of miles you get is dependant on the flight you take and the class of ticket (even through VH). My last trip through VH was Barbados out PE (K ticket) return UC ( i ticket) . So a trip of 4200mls each way returned 11500 miles per passenger with FC (red) . According to the ticketing tools available on this site (and my GCE maths ) thats exactly correct.
I paid a very reasonable £4400 for the whole holiday(2 people) including AI Hotel and EU Dublin connectors.
I am probably missing something here so please feel free to keep me right.
http://www.virginatlantic.com/gb/en/fly ... idays.html
Re: Virgin Holidays miles
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26 Feb 2017, 23:49by CHill710
You should also receive miles for the booking with VH so you should have received the miles for the flight and an additional 1 mile per £ from VH if you gave them your number at the time of booking.
Re: Virgin Holidays miles
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27 Feb 2017, 06:22by sythe20
CHill710 wrote:You should also receive miles for the booking with VH so you should have received the miles for the flight and an additional 1 mile per £ from VH if you gave them your number at the time of booking.
This is what I understood too - miles for the booking (1 or 2 miles per £) with VS miles totally separate. A perk of booking with VH.
Re: Virgin Holidays miles
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27 Feb 2017, 09:12by Penny_L
Miles are only allocated to lead name on booking
Re: Virgin Holidays miles
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27 Feb 2017, 11:30by vmike
Thankyou very much folks for your replys..i shall follow this up
Re: Virgin Holidays miles
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28 Feb 2017, 23:52by daisymay
I hope you get your VIrgin Holiday miles, I have had numerous holidays that they do not give miles for as they said I had a small discount on the holiday price,which I think is very poor as most customers try and book when there is a sale of some sort on !!Virgin Atlantic however have always posted my miles flown as soon as I have returned home.
Re: Virgin Holidays miles
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11 Mar 2017, 13:26by sythe20
daisymay wrote:I hope you get your VIrgin Holiday miles, I have had numerous holidays that they do not give miles for as they said I had a small discount on the holiday price,which I think is very poor as most customers try and book when there is a sale of some sort on !!Virgin Atlantic however have always posted my miles flown as soon as I have returned home.
Well I hope so too as the only reason I went with VH was for the miles really. I could have booked dorect with Disney with VS flights for a slightly cheaper price.
Re: Virgin Holidays miles
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11 Mar 2017, 13:44by mitchja
It's only in the last few months or so that V Hols haven actually started offering those extra Flying Club miles for their holiday packages booked online.
Previously, to get the extra miles for V Hols bookings, you had to either ring to book or visit a V Hols store / concession stand. Online bookings used to be always excluded from earning those extra miles.
Re: Virgin Holidays miles
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11 Mar 2017, 23:13by jilly
I booked my stay in BGI last month through Virgin Atlantic (flight plus hotel). As I'm sure you're all aware this takes you to travelplus.virginatlantic.com
The cost of a package can be slightly less than the VH site although doesn't automatically include transfers, all tickets and hotel vouchers are still sent by VH.
However, when booking (unlike VH) it shows the total amount of miles earned on the booking, even if there is a discount.
I emailed VH who told me I could not have miles as I had a discount, did not book in store or by phone and give my FF number and this was the only way to earn miles through them.
I sent the screenshot of the booking asking for the miles again, it took a few days but I received an apology and the miles were credited immediately. VH said that their system could not differentiate between each type of booking and that's why I didn't get them automatically.
I now have received 2 x the cost of the booking plus miles flown for all passengers.
Jilly
Re: Virgin Holidays miles
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12 Mar 2017, 00:07by mitchja
The V Hols website does now show how many extra miles you will earn online (along with automatically adding on your Flying Club tier based discount) once you get to the entering your details section of the website after building your holiday package.
You do have to enter you name though and then FC number (new ones work) as it's clearly looking up your FC tier status to apply the relevant discount automatically.
After a couple of seconds the standard online discount gets replaced with your FC discount and you get the following :
Success! Your new price is £1,102.92 total, including a £39.21 total discount. Oh, and you’ve earned 2206 miles too!
The online discount started at something like £24 but changed to ~£39 after entering my FC number.
Re: Virgin Holidays miles
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12 Mar 2017, 02:17by jilly
mitchja wrote:The V Hols website does now show how many extra miles you will earn online (along with automatically adding on your Flying Club tier based discount) once you get to the entering your details section of the website after building your holiday package.
You do have to enter you name though and then FC number (new ones work) as it's clearly looking up your FC tier status to apply the relevant discount automatically.
After a couple of seconds the standard online discount gets replaced with your FC discount and you get the following :
Success! Your new price is £1,102.92 total, including a £39.21 total discount. Oh, and you’ve earned 2206 miles too!
The online discount started at something like £24 but changed to ~£39 after entering my FC number.
That's good to know, although when I booked the discount was way over 10% even before I added our FC numbers along with our other details - which could explain why the price didn't change for that particular booking.
Interesting that by email VH staff still said to me that it wasn't possible to book online , get a discount and earn miles though you obviously now can.
However, one point she did make is that miles, at the moment, are not added to any bookings automatically and that I would still have to claim miles by email or telephone for any future bookings. Can you confirm whether this is true or not?
Jilly
Re: Virgin Holidays miles
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19 Mar 2017, 07:04by sythe20
The whole process sounds very disorganised.
I booked in store, provided my flying club no. for the discount, and assumed this would mean I will qualify for the miles.
I suppose the only way of knowing in advance would be to e-mail VH and ask if I will qualify. As far as I know it was just a regular booking and during busy school holidays at top dollar so I will be slightly annoyed if not!