More Offers: 10,000 Bonus Avios with BA Holidays, Plus £75 Off a UK Hotel with Amex
- Sam
- 17 minutes ago
- 4 min read
Yesterday we covered Virgin Atlantic's limited-time Tier Point promotion, which can get the lead booker to Silver (or even Gold) from a single holiday booking. You can read that one here. Turns out the timing wasn't a coincidence, because both British Airways Holidays and American Express have now jumped in with their own spring offers. Here's what's available to you.
British Airways Holidays: 10,000 bonus Avios offer
You can collect 10,000 bonus Avios when you book a package with British Airways Holidays between now and 20 April 2026, but just because the offer is with BA Holidays, doesn't mean it needs to be a holiday. I'll explain below.
It goes without saying that you'll need to be a British Airways Club member, and you'll need to register for the offer before you book (which you can do so here).
The rules are fairly simple:
Register with your British Airways Club account, and book between 9 and 20 April 2026
The booking must be a Flight and Hotel or Flight and Car package of five nights or more
Travel must be completed by 18 December 2026
The 10,000 bonus Avios land in your account once you've travelled
Interestingly, there is no spend requirement, meaning that feasibly you could make that family/business trip to Ireland, rent a car for five nights as part of the booking, and receive 10,000 Avios. For reference, if you wanted to boost your Avios to get 10,000 Avios, that would cost you £92 at its cheapest. So if you're getting 10,000 Avios back on a functional trip such as the one below, then I'd call that a great deal.
The contrast with Virgin Atlantic's offer from yesterday is an interesting one. BA is rewarding you with points (useful, but fungible), whereas Virgin is rewarding you with status (more valuable if you fly regularly, less so if you don't). Which one suits you better depends entirely on what you'll actually do with the benefit.
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Amex Stays is back, with up to £75 off a UK hotel break
If a weekend away has been on your list for a while, this one might be worth a look. American Express has brought back its Amex Stays offer: spend £300 or more at a participating UK hotel (and one in Hungary, for some reason) and you'll get £75 back as a statement credit.
You need to book and stay by 1 June 2026, and it's once per card.
You'll also need to save the offer to your card before you pay. This will not be applied retrospectively.
The hotel list is interesting, and I do mean that. From London landmarks like The Royal Horseguards, to country house escapes like Hambleton Hall in Rutland. If you like to golf, then Rusascks St Andrews, or Celtic Manor, Newport might be the ones for you. But then there's the Thistle Heathrow T5, which costs roughly £50 a night, meaning you'd need to book about six rooms to actually hit the £300 threshold. So unless you're running a small stag do for a group of spotters, I don't think that one is very useful...
One thing worth knowing before you book is that Amex has split the hotels into two categories, and it does matter which one yours falls into because this could determine how much you choose to spend on the room itself. At some properties, only your room spend counts towards the £300. At others, restaurant and dining spend does count. Make sure to check Amex's list of properties properly before you book so you know if that fancy dinner is going to get you over the line or not.
Getting 1/4 back on a £300 spend makes this a strong offer if you were already planning a break and one of the hotels fits your plans. As ever, the value's in the "already planning to spend" bit. But if a night at one of these places was already on your mind, it's a nice little nudge to actually book it.
The bigger picture
Three offers in as many days from three major travel brands isn't a coincidence, it's spring booking season, and don't they all know it. If you're in the market for a holiday or a UK break anyway, there's good value to be had across all three. If you're not, the usual rule applies: a discount on something you weren't going to buy isn't really a discount.
Sam
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