Noddle Lifesmart Rewards

Zogger

Difficult to know where to put this as it branches in to many areas!

Received an email about this LifeSmart rewards and thought I would start a thread, see if anyone else had an opinion.
http://noddle.lifesmartrewards.com/

It touts itself as a way to save over £400, including a big headline of a free return flight to Europe, and while I think there is some reasonable value in there it is a little too good to be true.

Here's the deal (from the email link)

Here’s what you get for only £49.95:

1. Return Flight to Europe: You get a European return flight and we even cover the taxes for you. Choose from one of these great European cities; Alicante, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, Dublin, Malaga, Palma, Paris, Prague and Rome.

2. £100 Holiday Voucher: Wherever you’d like to go on your next holiday, you can save £100 off the total cost of your booking with Lifesmart Rewards from Noddle.

3. Hi-Life Diners Club Membership: You’ll get a membership to a Hi-Life Diners club which gives you great offers, such as 2 for 1 dining at over 4,000 restaurants in the UK and ROI.

4. Cinema tickets: Enjoy a night out at Odeon or Vue cinemas with a pair of cinema tickets. Choose from over 180 cinemas in the UK to find whatever film you’re after.

5. £20 Groceries Cashback: Wherever you do your grocery shopping, your Lifesmart Rewards from Noddle membership gives you £20 cashback.

6. Days Out: From paint balling to go-karting, medieval jousting to roller-coasters; Lifesmart Rewards will give you access to a great range of offers for days out up and down the country.

And here's wot i fink..


I'll start with £20 Grocery Cashback - good. Everyone can get this so it reduces the price to effectively £30 for the rest of the benefits

Return flight to europe. Sounds exciting, a return flight for only £30. Then you read the T&Cs
Basically, it's quite difficult to work out, but it sounds like you choose three destinations from the list and three months, they then give you a choice of three options based on what you select. If you don't like any of them you don't get the free flight. Additional passengers are a minimum of £120 and you have to pay for flight extras (presumably luggage). So when you're on your 7am Ryanair flight in the middle of November you'll be thinking "I'm glad I didn't pay for this". Oh wait...

£100 holiday voucher. Restricted to a travel agency no-one's ever heard of (Concepts for Travel Ltd) with no visible deals before signing up.... bit of a gamble then.

Hi-Life diners club - Sounds ok, not terrible for £30 but locally doesn't have the range that tastecard does, and I have an offer in my inbox for a tastecard for £30 right now...

Cinema Tickets - Reasonable if you live near an Odeon or Vue. Not valid for 3D screenings though.

Days out - At a guess these are probably offers that are available everywhere else as well, but again no external visibility, so who knows?

Overall, I can't see myself using free flights, probably wouldn't use the diners club, don't live near an odeon or vue, wouldn't use the £100 discount, days out are a mystery, so for £50 I would probably just get £20 back


Edit: I've just discovered that the organiser (i-Deal promotions limited) is a branch of CPP, everyone's favourite card insurance mis-seller. Think I would give this one a barge-pole length miss then.

lyster101

Thanks for deconstructing this so thoroughly Zogger.

I'm particularly glad you highlighted the restrictions on the flight, rendering them useless. How can they claim its worth £150 if you have to do as you say and get to Stansted for 7am on a Tuesday morning? I also have Taste which, despite its many flaws, has the best coverage of the cards. I agree that the £100 off a holiday is also worthless. I live near to an Odeon and a Vue so I would only use this and the grocery discount. The days out thing seems like what already exists for free.

I'm also going to pass.

Cheers