Ticket to Paris with BBC what to wear mag [CLOSED]

littlelibrarylass · 11 February 2005 at 3:56PM

http://www.whattowearmagazine.com/paris/tickets.html

free return ticket to Paris with 1.80 magazine

Insert from Martin:

I've not seen this particular offer directly, but wanted to put a general note in. Many of these type of 'free flight' offers have a couple of traditional catches it is worth being wary of.

1. You have to pay taxes and other surcharges (usually £10 to £20 each way)
2. You can only choose a selection of dates and it doesn't mean you'll get them.
3. You can't have two people from one family group doing the offer. This does mean you should still be able to do it as friends, but you may be given different days.
4. Often they mess up and you have to wait ages to actually get the trip.
5. You need travel insurance (don't get their's though see cheapest travel insurance article which includes how to get cheap insurance for a single trip)
Now by no means am i saying don't do it. Just beware, however for £1.80 its definitely worth the gamble it will pay off for you. Please do let us all know here how it goes.

Martin

rizla01 · 11 February 2005 at 4:15PM

Great post little.

Purchase a copy of the current issue of What to Wear magazine (priced £1.80, available from most supermarkets and newsagents)

Send us the till receipt of the purchase and the contents page from the magazine along with your name, address and telephone number to: What to Wear Paris offer, PO Box 468, Swansea SA1 3WY

You will receive a booking voucher by return post, on which you fill out your preferred form of transport (flight or Eurostar), departure point and preferred dates of travel

Send in the booking voucher to What to Wear Paris offer, PO Box 468, Swansea SA1 3WY

You will receive confirmation of availability, by phone, within 21 days. Should you wish, you can also book accompanying tickets for a companion at a rate of £78 per flight and £99 on Eurostar

Or why not suggest your friends buy a copy of What to Wear magazine to claim their very own free ticket!

You will receive your tickets approximately seven days before date of departure

Where there is no availability for the date(s) you have specified then you will be telephoned to arrange another suitable travel date

Bookings must be made by 30/11/05 and travel must be completed by 30/12/05

If you have any queries, please call our promotion helpline on 0870 444 1015, open Monday to Friday between 9.00am and 5.30pm (calls are charged at national rate).

O.k if you can get the tickets to coincide with one another or I can see you waving at one another as your planes pass in the sky.

Riz

brass_monkeys_2 · 11 February 2005 at 4:20PM

thanks!!!!

Sir_Stanley_Bowles · 11 February 2005 at 4:28PM

thanks for that what a bonus

rchddap1 · 11 February 2005 at 4:29PM

One minor issue. Is this a return ticket, or do you have to find your own way home again? lol

elvis_bloggs · 11 February 2005 at 5:17PM

Ah the good old beeb mag.

jo_b_2 · 13 February 2005 at 10:33PM

Thanks for the info, littlelibrarylass. I'm going to move the thread over to the 'Quick! Grabbit!' board so that more people get a chance to see it. Thanks again. Jo.

JeanieM · 14 February 2005 at 10:02AM

rchddap1 wrote:

One minor issue. Is this a return ticket, or do you have to find your own way home again? lol

The original post states:

free return ticket to Paris with 1.80 magazine

The web site also says the same - sounds great.

littlemisscheap · 14 February 2005 at 10:41AM

Is there any kind of minimum/overnight stay required? or can you do a day trip out of this (subject to availability of course)

ferretktf · 14 February 2005 at 10:42AM

rizla01 wrote:

O.k if you can get the tickets to coincide with one another or I can see you waving at one another as your planes pass in the sky.

Riz

That is the catch.

As with the Samsung Free Flights promotion - you will not. They will go out of their way to ensure that you will not.

They will charge you £78 + taxes (probably two sets of taxes) which will mean you will pay more in total to fly when they say you can fly ... than you would if you flew a low cost carrier on the date and time that you wanted

Sorry to sound pessimistic but I've been bitten twice before by these sorts of offers (the Gallo wine was the other time) and they are really not worth pursuing

Just my opinion of course ....

And if yiou are a single traveller then these are probably GREAT !!

mike_the_bike_2 · 14 February 2005 at 10:53AM

To be honest ..I get very angry with these offers where quite frankly they are insulting peoples intelligence..I mean look at this from the terms and conditions

"Airport and other taxes, passenger service charges, airline failure insurance and other surcharges levied by the airline or travel organiser are excluded and, where applicable, payable on confirmation. "

So basically this means could be anything from £1 - £1000 passenger service charge

£1-£1000 "other Surcharges"

They know how much they will be before they publish so why don't they just state what it is..

"No such thing as a free lunch"

Ticket to Paris with BBC what to wear mag [CLOSED]

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