Tesco Clubcard Vouchers Rip Off

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blue_monkey wrote: »

OK, I looked at booking a holiday with my vouchers so let me tell you what I found:

Virgin holiday, holiday was £3,700 (without transfers which were another £240) - so £3940.

Booking flight on ba.com and hotel on expedia with Disney hotel for 2 weeks and Disney Magical Express (free transfer from Airport to Hotel to Airport) came to just under £2000.

So the choice is to use all £2000 in vouchers and top up £1940 - or you can book and pay £2000 for the exact same holiday and keep the vouchers in your pocket. No brainer?? But no incentive to use Tesco for vouchers anymore is there??

maybe an extreme example..
but if you had £985 in vouchers - enough to pay the £3940 in deals , then maybe still worth it ???

I save mine for holidays ( Had 2 freebies with XL) - but only if can pay in full ...
that said XL deal prices where generally a lot closer to actual cash prices.. , but of course they are no longer an option

Leigh-Anne_60

blue_monkey wrote: »

OK, I looked at booking a holiday with my vouchers so let me tell you what I found:

Virgin holiday, holiday was £3,700 (without transfers which were another £240) - so £3940.

Booking flight on ba.com and hotel on expedia with Disney hotel for 2 weeks and Disney Magical Express (free transfer from Airport to Hotel to Airport) came to just under £2000.

So the choice is to use all £2000 in vouchers and top up £1940 - or you can book and pay £2000 for the exact same holiday and keep the vouchers in your pocket. No brainer?? But no incentive to use Tesco for vouchers anymore is there??

For me who has 4k in deals - thats a crackin deal... just saved myself 2K in real money with your example

Incentive... hell yeah;)

flea72

blue_monkey wrote: »

OK, I looked at booking a holiday with my vouchers so let me tell you what I found:

Virgin holiday, holiday was £3,700 (without transfers which were another £240) - so £3940.

Booking flight on ba.com and hotel on expedia with Disney hotel for 2 weeks and Disney Magical Express (free transfer from Airport to Hotel to Airport) came to just under £2000.

So the choice is to use all £2000 in vouchers and top up £1940 - or you can book and pay £2000 for the exact same holiday and keep the vouchers in your pocket. No brainer?? But no incentive to use Tesco for vouchers anymore is there??

a disney hotel for 2wks, including flights for under £2k! wow you must have found some bargain there - book the darn thing, and stop worrying about tesco vouchers

Ive been searching for weeks and cant find a hovel for that kinda money, let alone a disney hotel. Can you pm me the details

Flea

blue_monkey_2

I've PM'd you flea. We want to stay in Pop Century but you can get a much better hotel for another £2-300 for the fortnight - might even get cheaper than this if you can go another time of year too. Have a look and see what you think.

Apparently Pop is one of the best hidden secrets and it is fab for the kids. I'd be tempted to go half board at the moment though, at least if the rate changes you'll know you are sorted for food for the fortnight!!

I've also shown you another recommendation for accomodation at the bottom of World Drive. Not sure what you want for accomdation but it was perfect for us. We chose not to drive as we was on top of everything there and even the cabs we got were cheaper than had we hired a car! I think we spent around $300 in cabs and tips and we went everywhere except Disney by cab.

As I said, it is all about shopping around and playing around with dates and accomodation to get the best deals. Fair enough if you've got 4k in vouchers. But, please remember that some things such as surcharges cannot be paid with vouchers so check it out before you want to book as you might be disappointed.

lesley1960

I had £1700 worth of Tescos vouchers which I used towards a holiday in Florida at Christmas.I looked in to it closely compared it to what the holiday would have cost without using them, and compared it towhat it would cost if we had booked flights and villa separately . I could have paid cash for the whole holiday and saved a few hundred , BUT using the vouchers i saved myself around £1300 of REAL money...., we paid forthe whole family ( 10 of us )so every bit hepled ....I did consider saving them for another holiday ,but that would have been spending themfor the sake of it lol

vikingaero

The holiday side of Clubcard Deals has gone downhill. But it's understandable. With every scheme you're going to get those who abuse the system and it's probably more than rocket science to predict levels of take up of offers. At the end of the day Tesco pay a pittance to these retailers and if actual demand exceeds predicted demand then the companies face a loss. That's why so many companies pulled out of the scheme.

mrs_T

crabbylady wrote: »

John Fowler holidays IS offering 50% off their holidays in thier brochure - red prices show discount, crossed out black prices are the 'original' price - you can only use CC on thier 'original price'.

THe vouchers are not 'something-for-nothing'. They are a percentage return on our shopping, credit card and fuel spending - we could have gone with a different company and had cash back or slightly cheaper products. Having factored this in, we decided to stick with Tesco because the return was good - no so good now!

Blue monkey - I too have wondered if some operators have put their 'original' prices up to compensate for them not getting a good return on their vouchers when they submit them to Tesco (a John Fowler phone person told me Tesco only give them a percentage back of the CC vouchers they send them to Tesco so the holiday operators arent happy about the T&C imposed by Tesco in recent months. They say the T&C have changed form last year when they could offer Tesco customers the same deal as everyone else)

I wish I'd read this before I converted my cc tokens, just got £460 of John Fowler coupons in the post yesterday. I didn't think I'd get the online price but did think I'd get the reduced price. If it's the full price I don't want to go, £754 (less £460) for their cheapest (nastiest) accomodation first week in July. Does anyone know if I can send them back to tesco?

vikingaero

mrs_T wrote: »

I wish I'd read this before I converted my cc tokens, just got £460 of John Fowler coupons in the post yesterday. I didn't think I'd get the online price but did think I'd get the reduced price. If it's the full price I don't want to go, £754 (less £460) for their cheapest (nastiest) accomodation first week in July. Does anyone know if I can send them back to tesco?

We've sent Chessington and Thorpe Park vouchers back when we found we ran out of time at the end of the season. We sent a covering letter and the value was credited back to the Clubcard Account.

Kez100

If you are no better off then just don't use them, save them for something else.

We have just had a weekend in London which cost us £112 per person (inc food and drink) . A combination of travelodge deals, early boked train tickets, offer on show booking and Tesco deals for all main meal food and the London bus tour.

Used wisely they are great value.

If we had not had deals we may have ate in cheaper places - like Pizza Hut - but we had whatever we fancied without having to worry about the cost. Fantastic value IMO.

photome

Kez100 wrote: »

If you are no better off then just don't use them, save them for something else.

We have just had a weekend in London which cost us £112 per person (inc food and drink) . A combination of travelodge deals, early boked train tickets, offer on show booking and Tesco deals for all main meal food and the London bus tour.

Used wisely they are great value.

If we had not had deals we may have ate in cheaper places - like Pizza Hut - but we had whatever we fancied without having to worry about the cost. Fantastic value IMO.

Well said, the problem is, some people always want more!