Pruhealth scrapping its free/discounted gym loophole in November. Discussion

whowants2brich

whowants2brich wrote: »

I just worked out for my partner to join asap, if she can get to silver status before the end of October, gold status within 3 months, and platinum within 3 months, she'd have the last 3 months of the year's gym membership for free...

£25 activation fee
3 months at £25 (before they change the pricing)
3 months at £30 (silver status LA fitness outside of London)
3 months at £14 (gold status LA fitness)
3 months at £0 (platinum status at LA fitness)

Following year: max £5 per month for health insurance policy, and £0 for gym membership...

I remember reading that people must never calculate this Pru Health deal on the basis of the first year - which will always work out expensive. Think always of the second year, which will cost virtually nothing - assuming that there is no claim on the policy - and that's when the savings kick in!

An update: My partner signed up, went to the gym to have a look, and cancelled pretty quickly. The only local gym that's covered by the Pru Health policy was a dump, dirty, the car park was suffering from subsidence and so there were not enough places to park, it was in need of a major overhaul and so she would never use the gym.

If it's that bad, I don't think even I'd want to sign up for it, even if it is free because I'd be platinum and it's outside of the M25.

I wonder what Pru Health would say if they were losing customers because of the state of some of the gyms.......

QQuaver

whowants2brich wrote: »

I wonder what Pru Health would say if they were losing customers because of the state of some of the gyms.......

The gym (Cannons) I joined is great, clean and friendly. Good air conditioning and, not too busy. I love my gym, and don't want to move, ever:cool:

brownbabygirl

QQuaver wrote: »

The gym (Cannons) I joined is great, clean and friendly. Good air conditioning and, not too busy. I love my gym, and don't want to move, ever:cool:

yeah me too, I am with Cannons as well. Great gym in Wimbledon just around the corner from my work and home. Being within M25 I will have to pay £8 per month come November but it is worth it and still a cracking deal!:D

Redknapp

The new look site is active now. Eurostar, Cineworld are on their as rewards. Plus you can get 100points extra by completing a review.

aliharris

Is it just me or is anyone else having probles with this new website?

Things are taking ages to load, not loading at all, had to do the vitality assessment 3 times as the first two didn't finish properly... Whenever I open emails within the site, they all say 'Please click on the attachements to view'.. there are no attachments! Confusion!

Just teething problems I hope, looking forward to the 100 bonus points being credited

Redknapp

Loading on the site is very slow at present.

Bargain_Rzl

Seems to be working a lot better now than it was earlier this morning, except for the fact that I couldn't get into my inbox.

I like the look of the new site - and the 100 points for the Vitality assessment should be very useful to some people who are struggling to hit Platinum (what category are they in - General?). I'll leave off doing mine until the end of September when my policy anniversary has passed, cos it's a waste of points for me otherwise.

Redknapp

Looks like you can earn points for meeting goals you set yourself within a certain period of time. 50pts a goal. 2 goal annual limit though.

camaj

Scumbag wrote: »

....however I see nothing that says there is any specific limit on the number of points per month that you can get via fitbug (regardless of what the muppets on the helpdesk might be telling people!)

That's right. There has never been anything on the website about this, which makes me suspicious! The only limit was 1500 a year and 10 points a day and 15 gym visits a month. If they limited you to 150 points per month, how would you be able to get 300 points from an fitness assessment?

You will therefore not hit platinum status for the next membership year, and your gym fees will be gold for the next 12 months.

AIUI, you'll only be gold until you reach 2000 points. I'm in a similar position, I might miss out on platinum by a whisker meaning I'll have to start all over again but I can't see them forcing you to pay for a "gold" rate if you get to platinum.

Had a look at the new site, very interesting. Eurostar for £10 (3 times a year) and very cheap unlimited cineworld cards!!!

cafecreme

The £10 Eurostar if you're on platinum is definitely v exciting. I wanted to book some Eurostar tickets today, but the stupid over-flashy confusing new site was down. So I had to ring PruHealth to get the number. When the guy at Eurostar eventually found my ID he said that I wasn't eligible for anything! Have been on Platinum for quite a while now... :mad: So had to ring PruHealth, poor lady at the other end of phone sounded v confused when I told her what the problem was but rang Eurostar and a supervisor and apparently it'll be sorted out within 48 hours.. I'll get excited again when it's done and I have the tickets...

Overall, though, v impressed with pruhealth. I've been to Champneys for not v much at all (esp when you consider the yummy food included) As of our renewal tomorrow we'll still be on Platinum which will benefit us come November because we won't have the ridiculous thing of having to go to the gym every day in the last month of the quarter to keep our costs down because there's been more to life than the gym. But I really feel for anyone caught out by the scheme, I'm sure it'll definitely put people off who are just signing up because that makes the first year really hard.