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Up to 70% bonus on Virgin Points until 4 October? Here's whether it's worth buying or not.
Got a trip you're a few points short of? Virgin Atlantic, via Virgin Red, are running another buy points promotion with up to 70% bonus when you buy or gift Virgin Points. It runs from 1 September to 4 October 2026. If you've got a redemption lined up and you're just shy of the points, this is worth a look. So what's the deal, how many bonus points do I get? Between 1 September to 4 October 2026: Under 5,000 points: no bonus 5,000 – 39,000 points: 20% bonus 40,000 – 79,000 po

Helena
Sep 24 min read


Two families, one obsession: Flying the world using points
In our fourth guest post, today's post has been kindly written by Beta and Nat from Fly Smart Club. They're two best friends from Brazil who use points to see their families more frequently, and take the odd holiday too! We're exceedingly happy with the response from you all to our guest writers. If you'd like to guest write, simply DM us on Instagram or email sam@pointswellmade.co.uk with an idea, and we will make it work! Hey! We are Beta & Nat from Fly Smart Club, two frie
Guest Writer
Aug 315 min read


Double Virgin Points on train tickets are back, plus 2,000 for a Railcard
Virgin Trains Ticketing are running two offers currently. Book a train ticket by 20 September 2026 and you'll earn six Virgin Points per £1 instead of the usual three, and buy a digital Railcard in the same window and you'll get 2,000 bonus points on top. We covered the last time this offer ran back in March. All of the details are the same, apart from the finishing date. Double points on tickets Six points per £1 applies to journeys anywhere in Great Britain on any operator

Sam
Aug 252 min read


Reminder: get up to 15,000 points just for switching your broadband
I'm currently going through one of life's many pleasures by talking (screaming internally) to Virgin Media attempting to renew our broadband for another year, pleading for a price that doesn't make me want to go through the switching to another provider because I'm already quite busy, something I'm sure you can relate to! Considering how my live chat experience is going, I may soon be looking for a new broadband provider, which gives me an excuse to shop around on the Avios S

Sam
Aug 182 min read


The 30% bonus on Tesco Clubcard to Virgin Points is back, again!
Virgin Red and Tesco Clubcard have restarted the 30% bonus on voucher exchanges. It runs from today until 23:59 on 23 September 2026, and it works exactly as it did before. The bonus sits on top of the standard 1 Clubcard point = 2 Virgin Points, so 1,000 Clubcard points come out as 2,600 Virgin Points instead of the usual 2,000. Manual and auto exchange are two different things Tesco gives you two ways to turn Clubcard vouchers into Virgin Points. Auto-exchange is the set an

Sam
Aug 103 min read


Every O2 show you can book with Virgin Points in the Virgin Red Room, in price order - July 2026
There's been a bit of a Virgin Red Room focus for us right now, but this will be the last for a while, I promise! There are 57 shows bookable right now at the Virgin Red Room using your Virgin Points, from August 2026 through to April 2027, and we thought we'd put them down for you all in price order. So here they all are, cheapest first, starting from only 10,000 Virgin Points. What the Virgin Red Room is The Virgin Red Room is a private box inside The O2, positioned central

Sam
Jul 304 min read


Could this free reward flight search, Ruma Travel, be the key to your next flight?
You'll all know the pain that is finding reward flights. Multiple tabs open at once, fighting airline systems that insist on logging you out every five minutes (I'm looking at you Virgin Atlantic, Qatar Airways etc). This, in part, is why we created our Avios calculator, because nowhere else online allows you to directly compare the Avios pricing among all the Avios airlines, and we felt like that was important. Meanwhile, for a user friendly experience that allows you to act

Sam
Jul 284 min read


Virgin Red Room at the O2 review: what 40,000 Virgin Points gets you
Most people collecting Virgin Points are saving them for a flight, and this is normally what we'd be doing, but in all honesty, I was bored one day and wanted to book us something to look forward to. In that vein, did you know that Virgin Red has a private suite inside the O2 arena in London called the Virgin Red Room, and you can book it for almost any show there using points rather than money? You book the whole thing through Virgin Red directly in about the time it takes t

Sam
Jul 255 min read


We've made every mistake in points and miles so you don't have to, starting with the day we set fire to 100,000 Avios
If you're fairly new to this, or you've got a stash of Avios you're a bit scared of spending wrong, here's some good news. We've made all the mistakes for you! Most of what we know about Avios and points, we learned by getting it wrong first, and inevitably that cost us. You'll see online people claiming to have optimised every point, never wasted a voucher, and they read every word of the terms before applying. I've not always been that person, and if I'm being honest, I'd b

Sam
Jun 65 min read


Up to 70% bonus on Virgin Points until 7 July, here's whether it's worth buying
Got a trip you're a few points short of? Virgin Atlantic, via Virgin Red, are running another buy points promotion with up to 70% bonus when you buy or gift Virgin Points. It runs from 4 June to 7 July 2026. If you've got a redemption lined up and you're just shy of the points, this is worth a look. So what's the deal, how many bonus points do I get? Between 4 June and 7 July 2026: Under 5,000 points: no bonus 5,000 – 39,000 points: 20% bonus 40,000 – 79,000 points: 40% bonus

Sam
Jun 44 min read
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