Holidays paid for by Tescos

Cullumpster

I'm sure this has been asked before, but has anyone used there club card points to pay for a holiday?

If so how do you go about it and did it work out cheaper.

I'm debating whether to convert my points into Airmiles and saving them to pay for a holiday to Florida for the kids at the end of next year.

what do you guys think

richardw

Check the small print to see if you have to pay the taxes, fees, charges and surcharges because these can add up to a lot.
for example LGW-TPA on British Airways, the taxes, fees and surcharges are £110.10 per adult per return flight.

cougar_3

That's not an unreasonable value. You pay around £100 tax and charges on a ticket to America usually

Baz-Bee

Used ours last year. 4 Adults £850 each Cosmos Brochure price. That is what we paid with no extras, fees, taxes, etc on top. It was a European Coach Tour for 15 days that included flights to Germany, Coach transport, hotels, porterage, general sightseeing excursions, all breakfasts and some dinners. Only extras were for the option sight seeing tours and the usual gratuities.


However, this time last year the airlines were not imposing fuel surcharges, so I assume it will depend on how the tour operator covers this in the small print as to whether you will have to pay anything extra.

It was no bother booking. Send off your clubcard vouchers to get the Deal Tokens at 4 x value, book the holiday and send of the tokens. Easy as that. If you are not paying the full amount using the tokens they required the deposit in “proper money”. You could not mix and match. Either pay all in tokens at time of booking or pay deposit in “cash” and balance in all tokens or tokens plus cash. We paid using all tokens and just sent off when booking.

Word of warning. Check your travel insurance covers you for recovering the full value of your tokens if you ahve to cancel, etc. many policies will not cover and you could lose ouit big time. You can get insurance as it is similar to using Airmiles. We used Columbus who last year did cover but do check and take out cover when booking.

payless

Perhaps the Club deals ( Cosmos ?) might work out better value than airmiles

although not sure about expirey/ timescales - ie holding on to Tesco vouchers for as long as poss, then converting to Deals

( edit ... beaten to it, by above)

rustyjames

Also take a look at this thread:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=65619

We've just got back from two weeks in Spain with all accomodation and car hire payed for. Just had to pay for some cheap flights.

bylromarha

We found airmiles flights were more expensive to start with than other companies like expedia. So for our value of vouchers and the fact the flight was to NZ, airmiles wasn't worth it at all, so do shop around.

I want to pay vouchers for an entire holiday with tradewinds, but they want a cash deposit; the deals brochure says I should be able to pay in vouchers.

And the T + C say you must have a package including flight and accomodation, accomodation only holidays aren't allowed.

jeanna_2

if you pay the whole holiday with vouchers you don't need to pay a deposit. we went to america this year and as long as you have something booked with them either accomodation or car hire every day with your flight that is ok.we had 5nts new york andt hen hired our car separate.then we had 4 nts at different hotels with them .we had 2nts which we booked separate ourselves then 4 nts in boston. booking a holiday is good if you have alot of vouchers.2 years ago we booked flights accomodation and car hire and found out later you can have one or the other or both but you can get hotels cheaper yourself. it depends how many vouchers you have. hope this helps

elisebutt65

I get my clubcards points turned onto Airmiles vouchers automatically now.Going to Barcelona in a couple of weeks.

BF is going with his sons(16/18) and has booked an apt and flights already. He saidf I could join them so booked a flight via Airmiles from Birmingham - cost me 990 airmiles and £40.17 tax:j .

I think the main thing with airmiles is timing - For a few days the prices were quite steep then it suddenly went down from 1400 miles to 990, so i jumped in and then booked.

researcher

I used my deal vouchers for a trip to Paris and got a brilliant price. All surcharges were included in the price, and I received all the discounts, upgrades and extra free day in a hotel.

If you can see a holiday you like I'd definately recommend using the vouchers this way rather than exchange them for airmiles, where prices for flights seem to be high.

Also you have six months in which to use them after they've been exchanged, so if you're getting to the end of the 'use by date' change them. You do not have to use the vouchers for the 'deal' that you exchanged them for.

(My travel insurer - free Lloyds tsb - do cover the cost of replacement vouchers).

cougar_3

Do you get 4x more air miles than you used to, compared to before they extended the 4x offer to everything)