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Tesco Clubcard Easyjet Holidays promo ; Loophole?

mikeeen
mikeeen Posts: 3 Newbie
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Tesco clubcard has a new partner, easyjet holidays

As part of the launch promo, they are offering £100 of clubcard vouchers "back" if you book a holiday using clubcard vouchers

Looking at the T&Cs, i can't see anything stopping someone from finding a holiday for say £120, using £60 worth of clubcard vouchers (doubled with the reward partner) to pay for the whole thing, and therefore qualifying for the £100 cc voucher reward. ie a profit of £40 worth of clubcard vouchers for a holiday you don't even necessarily need to take ?

Can anyone else see any issues with this plan?
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  • mikeeen
    mikeeen Posts: 3 Newbie
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    After a quick initial search I found examples from £136, looking in the next couple of weeks with full flexibility on airport and destination (as I wouldn't intend on actually going anyway)
  • mikeeen
    mikeeen Posts: 3 Newbie
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    London Luton to Prague for 1 night from 25/2/25 is one such example , at Amigo city centre hotel
  • flaneurs_lobster
    flaneurs_lobster Posts: 7,565 Forumite
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    No problem with this plan per se, there may be an issue if you have no intention of taking the holiday.

    Cancellation fee (if cancelled > 60 days before travel) is £60pp, although this will normally be returned as a credit note.

    Don't really understand this para from the T&C for the free £100 points:

    14. Tesco reserves the right to not award the £100 worth of Clubcard points for any
    easyJet holidays that have been cancelled by the Customer in accordance with the
    easyJet holidays terms and conditions for example in the event of fraudulent activity
    by the Customer. This includes fraudulent or suspicious booking activity identified by
    easyJet holidays

    Is there some punctuation missing? Does it mean that any cancellation means the £100 isn't awarded, or only for dodgy cancellations?


  • NoodleDoodleMan
    NoodleDoodleMan Posts: 4,437 Forumite
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    Do these Easyjet prices include luggage ?
    I doubt it.

  • In the promotion T&Cs is this line

    Any customers who have exchanged Clubcard vouchers or booked a package holidays with easyJet holidays before the 17 February 2025 are excluded.

    I asked Tesco if this excludes any prior customers of easyJet Holidays entirely and they responded 

    This offer is valid for for bookings done between 17 February - 13 April 2025. The booking done before this are not part of this offer. However, any new booking done during the above mentioned period is eligible for this offer.

    How water tight do we think this is?

  • Westin
    Westin Posts: 6,386 Forumite
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    Do these Easyjet prices include luggage ?
    I doubt it.

    Beach holidays - yes
    City breaks - no
  • DullGreyGuy
    DullGreyGuy Posts: 18,613 Forumite
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    edited 19 February at 10:50AM
    No problem with this plan per se, there may be an issue if you have no intention of taking the holiday.

    Cancellation fee (if cancelled > 60 days before travel) is £60pp, although this will normally be returned as a credit note.

    Don't really understand this para from the T&C for the free £100 points:

    14. Tesco reserves the right to not award the £100 worth of Clubcard points for any
    easyJet holidays that have been cancelled by the Customer in accordance with the
    easyJet holidays terms and conditions for example in the event of fraudulent activity
    by the Customer. This includes fraudulent or suspicious booking activity identified by
    easyJet holidays

    Is there some punctuation missing? Does it mean that any cancellation means the £100 isn't awarded, or only for dodgy cancellations?


    Presumably the OP isnt intending to cancel but simply be a no show, probably with an excuse of having missed their train, over slept, bad traffic, norovirus/covid etc as the reason for having abandoned the holiday. 

    To save others looking for it

    Does appear to be missing some punctuation, given the above scenario I would struggle to see how it could be deemed "suspicious booking activity" and Tescos haven't given themselves the ultimate right to deny anyone just because they feel like it which many similar promotions would do to be a way of shutting loopholes that the writers hadn't considered.
  • Presumably the OP isnt intending to cancel but simply be a no show, probably with an excuse of having missed their train, over slept, bad traffic, norovirus/covid etc as the reason for having abandoned the holiday. 
    Blimey, shows how naive I am in the ways of freebie bagging - I hadn't even considered doing a no-show. 

    I know that no-showing when "skiplagging" can get you a ban from airlines but that's not like this situation.

    Go for it.
  • silvercar
    silvercar Posts: 49,979 Ambassador
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    You could even do online check in for a hotel.
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  • silvercar said:
    You could even do online check in for a hotel.
    Is that a thing? Why would you do this? Who does that benefit? 
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