Best Tesco Clubcard Deal company

richardw

Thinking of a long weekend in August to Scandinavia, Germany or the Baltics. I have £75 in vouchers, worth £300, so need to pay £200 cash to make the minimum £500 spend. Not sure who to book through though, any thoughts?

bylromarha

Not Tradewinds.

Had huge problems using them when booking our New Zealand holiday last year, but as the only Tesco company that went there we had to use them.

pbright

What were your huge problems???

Also can anybody confirm it is ok to send two different account listed vouchers off to exchange for deal vouchers as long as you both live and are registered at the same address. I remember reading that here twice, however on the phone the lady i spoke to said we had to be registered to the same account whatever that means??

richardw

Thinking of Cresta, seem to have a good selection, do they have black out days?

pbright

Richardw...Cresta charge a fourtune for their packages through Tescos...i have just looked into it intensely. You have to buy a package from them. What i suggest you do is but low cost flights to your chosen destination and change your vouchers into hilton hotel vouchers. A little known fact is that with Tesco deal hilton vouchers you can stay at several european city hiltons such as Germany...and despite being quoted a little more than brochure price...it is still much more value than cresta. £200 a night could get you a deluxe room with Cresta chances are your weekend could reach £800ish staying in a 2-3* hotel..seriously. With hilton you could be staying in 5* for less money. There is also restrictions and limitations with cresta when paying with cresta vouchers...my opinion...stay clear.

bylromarha

pbright wrote:

What were your huge problems???

Quoted 1 price, was told it was honoured for 6 weeks, given another price 4 weeks later. Person dealing with us kept mucking us around with price for the rest of the time we rang to try to resolve. Told we had to have a bigger campervan...we had to explain to them how the campervan worked for 2 adults and a child.

They mucked up the insurance on our campervan...meant an hour of trying to sort out when dropping off the van.

They mucked up our transfer to the hotel (not nice trying to sort after a 27 hr flight with a toddler).

No request was made on our flights for bassinet seats/toddler meals, when Tradewinds told us they would do this...we had to ring the airline company ourselves and arrange.

No part of the booking or holiday that Tradewinds had been involved in was straightforward.