Never Spend Tesco Clubcard Vouchers In-store!!!

tinkerbelluk

That;s the thing - I'm not sure how many miles it would get me and as yet we are undecided where we want to go :-)

TimC

tinkerbelluk wrote:

That;s the thing - I'm not sure how many miles it would get me and as yet we are undecided where we want to go :-)

£400 will get you 96,000 BA miles at the standard redemption rate of 2.4.

For where you can go look here - basically you need 50,000 for an economy ticket to the US/Canada. Another good options is to book a cheap ex-European fare in premium economy and upgrade to business class (flat bed) for 25,000 miles (for US/Canada).

All you need to know can be found on FT

Do you have any destinations in mind? Might be able to help further then!

tinkerbelluk

Destination wise either - Las Vegas, Orlando, Bangkok or Singapore - Thanks for all of your help so far :-)

TimC

tinkerbelluk wrote:

Destination wise either - Las Vegas, Orlando, Bangkok or Singapore - Thanks for all of your help so far :-)

So East or West then!!

If you have an Executive club account, you can check redemption availability 11 months ahead - even if you don't currently have the miles. So worth seeing what is possible - use LON as the outbound airport and MCO for Orlando, BKK & SIN. BA don't fly from London to Vegas - you'd have to call them to find availability via JFK or Chicago most likely.

Just to give you an idea though, there is currently no availability in economy to SIN, barely anything to MCO and BKK for next August for 2 people. Plenty to BKK & MCO in September - but still nothing to SIN.

You are only 4k miles short of MCO - for two, but you can get those easily with some more Tescos points, buy them or get 5,000 when you take out the BA Premium Plus Amex Card. Taxes & Charges would be £206 - to buy the same tickets would cost £1,600.

Other option would be 4 upgraded tickets - getting you into Club World hardly MoneySaving unless you were planning on going in club - from Amsterdam they are £791 + 25,000 miles each - about ½ the price of going direct from London in Club.

Lots of choices - you can't properly price it until you have dates though - and then you can compare with the brochures.

mrs_lds

Please can someone help me out. A complete novice so please be patient with me. I have £150 worth of clubcard vouchers and I need to send my daughter to colorado next autumn for university. What is my cheapest option BA airmiles or the airmiles route?(excuse the pun) Airmile quoted me something rediculous like £400 plus my airmiles and taxes surely there must be a cheaper option? Is there anyone outhere who can advise me or better still someone who works for BA airmiles or Airmiles itself. Thanking you in advance for your time and advice.

finlay

I contacted tradewinds for a quote for four nights in San Francisco next April. They quoted me nearly £1800 for two people BEFORE I had told them I wanted to use deals. Well I do have a lot of deals but not that many!! That is more than I paid for a fortnight in the US last year, with good hotels too! Needless to say I will not be patronising them! Cosmos sun?

TimC

mrs_lds wrote:

Please can someone help me out. A complete novice so please be patient with me. I have £150 worth of clubcard vouchers and I need to send my daughter to colorado next autumn for university. What is my cheapest option BA airmiles or the airmiles route?(excuse the pun) Airmile quoted me something rediculous like £400 plus my airmiles and taxes surely there must be a cheaper option? Is there anyone outhere who can advise me or better still someone who works for BA airmiles or Airmiles itself. Thanking you in advance for your time and advice.

Your cheapest option is most likely to buy the ticket as far in advance as possible, especially if she wants to return for Christmas.

Current cheapest price to Denver leaving September 1st - Returning Nov 15th is £525 from Gatwick via Detroit with Northwest. No point in travelling from Europe at these price levels, you won't save much. At £525 it makes the Airmiles option seem very poor value.

Cheapest non-stop seems to be £601 with BA.

Those vouchers will get you 36,000 BA miles - 14,000 short of an economy redemption return - so possible if you can earn the remaining miles/clubcard points, but availability is your enemy and the clock will be ticking! Currently reward availability is wide open throughout September outbound and November inbound. (December won't show until next month). Get an Executive Club Account with BA setup assuming you don't have one - easiest way is with the BA Amex apply via this link to get 1,000 to 5,000 bonus BA miles - depending on whether you want to pay for the card or not (if you have an existing Amex Blue - the fee drops from £120 per annum to £30). Then you are only 9,000 to 13,000 short. A few Tescos deals that post before February's statement will sort that!

Taxes on the fare will be £107.80.

Better still - keep the spending on the BA Amex (£10,000 on the Premium Plus Amex) and you can earn a companion voucher, which when you have enough miles again, means you plus one other can go and visit her for 50,000 BA miles + taxes.

Colin2511

MFI GOING BUST????????

Does anyone know anything about this? I have just got £2500 of vouchers for them (courtesy of beef in gravy from Tesco), and went to choose my kitchen yesterday. The shop is shut until Boxing Day, so "staff can rest", - I could accept this but the web site is also closed and I read a while back they were struggling

I dont want to find out that I cant get my kitchen anyone know anything?

also if they are not going bust/ and given that it takes a few days to convert to deal vouchers, if I dont use them all (as I cant price the kitchen with the web site down), can I convert back to clubcard vouchers any left until I decide what to do with them?

Louisa_Jane_2

I think MFI closes the week before Christmas every year .

Colin2511

cheers - wish they had not shut the flippen web sitethough as I can't plan my kitchen til boxing day !