Tesco Reward - Failed to Support Disabled

colin7777

I am discovering that a number of companies that accept Tesco Rewards vouchers are not willing to apply the vouchers to their published disabled prices and want to charge for full price tickets if using Tesco reward vouchers.

Pleasurewood Hills in Great Yarmouth is a typical example and when I raised this with Tesco they admitted that they do whatever the company accepting the voucher requests.

I can not believe that a company the size of Tesco are bowing down to these companies, Tesco's should stand up to these companies or is Tesco not really interested in disabled people unless of cause it gets them good publicity.

I would be interested in others who have had good or bad situations in relation to Tesco rewards and reactions to disability.

Regards

Colin

Richie-from-the-Boro

colin7777 wrote: »

I am discovering that a number of companies that accept Tesco Rewards vouchers are not willing to apply the vouchers to their published disabled prices and want to charge for full price tickets if using Tesco reward vouchers.

Pleasurewood Hills in Great Yarmouth is a typical example and when I raised this with Tesco they admitted that they do whatever the company accepting the voucher requests.

I can not believe that a company the size of Tesco are bowing down to these companies, Tesco's should stand up to these companies or is Tesco not really interested in disabled people unless of cause it gets them good publicity.

I would be interested in others who have had good or bad situations in relation to Tesco rewards and reactions to disability.

Regards

Colin

Are you saying that they give a financial discount to the disabled, and then refuse to give a further additional financial discount off the ride price ?

- are you saying that is wrong ?
- why is it wrong ?

jetta_wales

I can understand why they are doing that and I don't really think it's unreasonable tbh. Offering concessionary prices on tickets for the disabled or their carers is after all just a discretionary thing, they have no obligation to do so at all.

malcindebt

I personally have no problem with it. We have been a 'victim' of such a thing with the Blackpool Zoo.

A Family of 4 ticket is £45 pound I think, but 2 children and 2 adults at full price is £52 I think it was (can't be bothered looking on the website and trying to recall by memory), but they have a sign up that clearly states all vouchers for money off the entrance fee is on the standard admission prices and not the offers they provide.

I can see their point, after all, you have got 3 times the value of the club card points when you exchanged for vouchers, so you're already getting a bloody good deal.

Plus at the end of the day, what did you actually lose out on £5, £10 maybe. How much would admission have cost without the vouchers?

niandsa

We were pleasantly surprised to get a free carer's pass when I bought my Merlin Annual Pass with clubcard points. I wasn't expecting that as we were already saving loads with the points.

Buffer

I recently used Tesco Vouchers to stay at a very nice 4* hotel in London.

Although the vouchers were redeemed against what is commonly known as Rack Rate (£200 per night) I could have got the room for the price of £70 per night on Laterooms etc.

However considering it was free to stay using the vouchers for 5 nights and I extended it via Laterooms for another 2 nights, overall it was very very good value indeed. Even better was the fact that I was upgraded to a disabled adapted suite free of charge.

So even if places do charge full price for people using Clubcard vouchers it is still a cracking deal all round.

I am starting off collecting points now for next years trip.