The Great 'Student Discounts' hunt

mum2one

ducatibabe wrote: »

does anyone know anything about the Open University's OUSBA card?......it's proof that you are studying, but alot of places wont accept it for student discounts, yet I used mine in Greece as ID as it has a photo on etc....

Pretty frustrating a(and embarrassing :-[) when you ask in shops etc and are refused!

Hi, the OUBSA card is issued through the Open Uni, although HMV take it as a student card, its mainly meant to get into student bars etc.
If you go online to the NUS website, or ring them ( get the number off website), you can get a proper student card costs £10, lasts to end December.

Im at the Open uni, when I rang the NUS they were absolutely brilliant.

God luck with the studies.:beer:

peanut80

My tip, for those students on Orange, is to combine Orange Wednesdays 2-4-1 with Student Discounts - £2 cinema tickets! Brilliant!

I've successfuly done this in both CineWorld and Picturehouse Cinemas - I think both people have to have student cards - my girlfriend doesn't have an NUS card, just a normal student id card, so they're pretty accepting to most forms of identification.

katilous

Cine world Cinemas: Take a friend to the Cinema and £1 off entry each! (Monday - Thursday).

Cities where we can use this discount voucher

Liverpool, Newcastle, Sheffield, Nottingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Birmingham, Southampton, Manchester, Middlesbrough.

DrFluffy

A friend told me about this site: http://www.studentdiscounts.co.uk/

It doesn't cover London yet, so no use to me, but thought it might be helpful to others...

okikokikate

mc donalds:

show your student card and you get to choose from a choice of a cheeseburger, (another burger i cant remember) or a mcflurry

which are all from the pound saver menu

victoriajayne1987

its heeseburger, hamburger or mcflurry

lemontart

not sure if allready here but microsoft have set up https://www.studentoptions.com where you can get some of their packages at very good prices - nus numbers not needed for this.

Liz

twinkle162

Nurse_Bambi wrote: »

heres a few from the NUS site:
Top shop 10%
Peacocks 10%
HMV 10%
UGC cinema
Pizza Hut Sun-thurs 20%
Microsoft - office st. edition 10%
Hewlett Packard upto 20%
Adobe upto 6-%
Camp america
Endsliegh
https://www.AcademicBookTrade.co.uk

Couldn't find too many on the site to be honest.

Pizza Hut are a bit dodgy re: student discounts. I've been in a few that will accept the university student card okay. Then, others need an international card etc... I got one of those and then they said that they need a card with the Pizza Hut logo on the back.... I wasn't very impressed.

Ant85

I have just recently been to Hong Kong, Sydney and Melbourne and must say what a great idea the NUS and International Student card rolled into one are.

Most tourist attractions offered much larger than 10% discount to students with some up to 50% !!

Raspberry_Swirl

twinkle162 wrote: »

then they said that they need a card with the Pizza Hut logo on the back....

no NUS card has that on it anymore so they need to be updating their staff. the 05/06 academic year NUS card had the pizzahut logo on the back but the current 06/07 card doesn't.