Now I'm 50 what can I get free or discounts on

Dora_the_Explorer_5

Check out MegaBus and MegaTrain. Brilliant prices if you go to/from/via London. Lots of journies for £1 plus 50p booking fee. Open to all ages, not just us Frisky Fifties. Try searching on this site - I know they've been mentioned in a thread somewhere.

So....not ageist then, just regionalist :mad:
How come the cheapest fares are in the richest areas of the country :wall:

clearvisor

card is called (Finetime) is your time,
Discount for pensioners, at Little Chef and Choices,
there is however set time to get your discount, you get the details with your card.i have had ine about four years now but not used it lately.No funon your own!

watch_this_space

Don't knock Saga...they're not all bad! Hubby subscribes to Saga magazine(uses special offer deal) which keeps him quiet for ages...contains useful finacial/savings/retirement etc advice as well as usual mag stuff. Also always contains Saga/Hilton hotel offers- have taken advantage of these. Different prices in different areas at different times but have had a 2 night bed, breakfast + evening meal break for £47 pp in Bradford (visiting son at uni, before someone comments about staying in Bradford!) and have also had an excellent week's stay in Edinburgh using same offer. You only need to have the code number and BE OVER 50 to take advantage of these.

webwiz

It's no fun growing old. I advise against it.

lin473

webwiz wrote:

It's no fun growing old. I advise against it.

It's not so bad when you consider the alternative.
(Oscar Wilde I think )

funnyguy

women can save on tampax &panti liners cos they normally have gone through the menopause by 50

Johan

watch_this_space wrote:

Don't knock Saga...they're not all bad! Hubby subscribes to Saga magazine(uses special offer deal) which keeps him quiet for ages...contains useful finacial/savings/retirement etc advice as well as usual mag stuff. Also always contains Saga/Hilton hotel offers- have taken advantage of these. Different prices in different areas at different times but have had a 2 night bed, breakfast + evening meal break for £47 pp in Bradford (visiting son at uni, before someone comments about staying in Bradford!) and have also had an excellent week's stay in Edinburgh using same offer. You only need to have the code number and BE OVER 50 to take advantage of these.

Not all bad!!! you say! there must be a bit of doubt in there, so why can't somebody get insurance cover for going to work when he is over 50 then, I am 51 and that would affect me also, I also had the Saga magazine for a year and they seem to think that once your 50 you can go on holidays and cruises and all that and assume that all your flock have left the house and have no probs!

I cancelled the magazine because I became all dissolusioned by it.

And to top it all up they are still sending me the flipping Saga magazine for free!!! :rolleyes:

P8RSON

What about holidays????

Someone somewhere MUST have read/seen/spoken of 'done dodderer's deals'!

descartesmum

I've discovered that the magic age isn't 50 but 60. At 60 we can get the heating allowance of £200, free bus passes (I have mine already coz I'm disbled), and a reduction of the tv licence or so I have been told.

*sigh* 4 years to go.

Dora_the_Explorer_5

Sadly - there's no reduction in the price at any age and the free licence kicks in at 75.
Re the car insurance - I'm over 60 and still working and happy with my insurance supplier which is not ageist and treats me as the adult I am who does grown up things like working.