We have £782 worth of Tesco Clubcard vouchers, and want to go on hols end of May....

[Wolfgirl]

can anyone help and recommend where we could go - incl. the resort and poss accommodation? I think using the vouchers, we can only use Cosmo.

So, can anyone recommend a Greek island for families with small children, two weeks end of May begin June. Ive done a quick search on the cosmo site, for Corfu, and a 2 week hol B&B would cost roughly £1650. So minus the £782.... we would only have to pay half that price - ish.

But, would dearly love some ideas, Balearics, Greece, Canaries.... anything please.

thanks so much. xx

Funnily enough - I have just been looking at the Cosmos site for holidays to use our vouchers.

Rhodes is nice, but haven't been anywhere else in Greece.

I shall be watching this thead with interest.

Good luck.

Menorca is lovely. Very family friendly (none of your clubbers go there!) and good sandy beaches all round the island. Easy to hire a car and explore too. Plus, there's a nice water park near Cala'n'Bosch, which is worth a day trip.
Kos is also a nice island. Again, quite low-key with good sandy beaches. We have also been to Crete (twice), but it was an awful lot larger and the beaches weren't half as nice as those on Menorca or Kos. Hope this helps!

hey bellavita, we should meet up, coincidentally of course LOL

Pesto, yes I did think of Menorca or Majorca, but I also lurrve to bits, Greece. Im going to give Cosmo a call in my lunch hour and explain about the voucher thang, and see what they advise. I'll get back to y'all soon.

Good luck with it Wolfy. I do hope you get something fantabuloso!

OK ladies, here is the update on using Tesco vouchers for a holiday.

1. you are limited as to what companies you can book with, so if you want say.... Greece, Canaries you have to book with Cosmos.

1. If you book with Cosmos, you can not look for a last minute deal, or book on-line to take advantage of the discount there. You have to pay the FULL BROCHURE PRICE!

Therefore, it is wise to weigh things up a little. We have £680 ish of vouchers to put towards a holiday. Cosmos is quoting us between £1900 - £2500 for 2 weeks, SC in places such as Corfu, Majorca etc. If we took a holiday with them for £2000, and use our vouchers, this would bring the basic price of the holiday down to £1320. This does not include insurance, meal on board plane, transfers, car hire, car parking at airport etc etc etc. This is just the basic price.

So what now. DH took a scout on the internet looking at a wider range of Tour operators and came up with the post discount price (£1320) for the same kind of countries/accommodation etc. We are now considering saving the vouchers and using them for something else. We may even book with another company, and use the vouchers for Travel insurance, airport car parking - things like that.

So using Tesco vouchers towards a package hol abroad is not always value for money.

Id be interested to learn of other recommendations, or people who have actually used Tesco vouchers for a holiday.

OH! and there are other considerations for using the Vouchers too. If you fall ill and you cannot travel, you need to check whether your holiday insurance covers the loss of the value of your Clubcard Vouchers should you have to cancel, as most policies don?t cover this - apparantly. And one other thing.... your holiday has to be a minimum of £500 before you can use the vouchers. No worries in my case then, eh! LOL

HT all H

I've booked through French Life for a mobile home - similar conditions in that you pay the full brochure price (which incidently is about £100 dearer than the Camping Life brochure, minimum £500, and excludes extras like alternative ferry crossings. All in all it worked out cheaper but not as good value as I was expecting.

we've just used ours to pay for eurostar for 5 of us at the end of May. It did mean paying the equivalent of a full adults price for the 3dc, but it meant we didn't actually pay anything ourselves iyswim. So yes they are not as good value as would first seem, but without them we couldn't have afforded to go.

same as ChippyMinton and marymoocow - we have been to France with French Life, also Haven and Butlins but didn't get the internet prices. Couldn't have afforded to go otherwise!
We are also looking for a holiday this year and have a fair few tesco vouchers, but haven't found anything yet - there are 5 of us and we have to go in school holidays.

Im now looking at the siblu holidays. So I did a search here on MN, and read some of peoples experiences. There are quite varied, but the scary ones say that the parcs are similar to Butlins, can get very full, and are quite tacky - pinball machines, arcades etc etc.

I was hoping that the Siblu parcs were a bit more advanced and modern than that. Have to say, Im a little cautious now, and dont quite know what to expect. But they do look cheap - ish. value for money, and with cheap Easyjet or Rynair flights, it would be within our budget. And I could use my Tesco vouchers for car hire and travel insurance.

I think it has always been understood that using vouchers for package holidays isn't great value for the reasons that you've described. So far the best travel deal that I have found with them is with Eurotunnel where you are only using vouchers to exchange for the actual fare as opposed to the fully flexible fare. Other than that I use them for annual passes to Legoland and Chessington (now the new Merlin annual passes) and for magazine subscriptions. I know that some people have used them with Virgin for cross-Atlantic trips and got reasonable value for money (though the saving still doesn't equate to 4 x face value due to the fact that you are paying brochure price).

LadyMuck,yes thats exactly what we have used the vouchers for in the past, and they do work out value for money then. We used them for Ferry trips to Ireland last year, and that was great, and as you say.... for days out, entrance tickets etc.

I think we may plump for the Siblu hols tbh, we can use our vouchers, get 15 day car hire, flights, travel ins and the holiday for about £1200 (plus using our vouchers) so that makes it do-able. The Italian parc is full, so looks like we will do Spain.

The flights with EasyJet to Italy are loads cheaper than those to Spain, tres strange, tres tres strange.

As others have sid it's not worth using them for part of your holiday! We go every year with french Life and you should ahve enough to apy for a holiday with them - esp out of season! If you take out Tesco insurance you are covered for the loss of your Tesco vouchers!! Gotcha there haven't they?!!!

Anyway I can thoroughly recommend Camping Life - mobiles are good quality , they go to fab sites and you can get a FREE holiday! This year we're going with them to Italy [www.portofelice.it] and it's costing £1000 (£250 of Tesco vouchers) for the 4 of us in August school hols for 2 weeks! Just had to pay for flights. there's a bus stop outside and a bus directly from teh airport so we're sorted (although dh would rather take a taxi!). they also had really cheap deals in their brochure for lake maggiore in a chalet - sleeps 5 - it was about £600 for the 4 of us for 2 weeks in school hols too (same sort of price for the Algarve). that's brochure price so that's what you'd pay using your vouchers.

I'd personally go with them than Siblu as I've stayed on a Siblu site before and wouldn't repeat it!! (although there was another Sblu site across the road which was MUCH nicer!)

oh just checked Canvas Life and they seem to ahve dropped the 2 really cheap sites - Italy and portugal!!! Must have been since they became canvas Life not Camping Life!

We are going camping life this year on clubcard, have previously done Haven in the UK a few times.

I think that the value is fab as long as you can pay a very large amount of your cost in vouchers - you always have to do the maths very carefully. But as long as the maths works out you have a bargain.

You can use Tesco vouchers with Individual Travellers was well as French Life/Camping Life (all same company - cottages4you basically - but only those brands)

The only restrictions are that the accommodation has to cost at least £500, regardless of how much your vouchers are worth, and you can't use vouchers towards ferry supplements.

You could also consider French Life apartments? The resorts usually have loads of facilities, and a lot have free kids' clubs plus organised activities (although those cost extra)

It is France though, obv , not Greece or Spain, but there are some in the S of France so weather should be pretty good.

Offer your vouchers for sale on ebay in bundles of 100 quid/50 quid. Take the money and BUY your holiday with the cash. Then you can get internet deals etc

How can you do that, ccat? They can only be used by the person named.

How do you all get so much in clubcard vouchers?

Is this just food shopping? over several years???

have a look on ebay...
just put 100 of tesco clubcard vouchers, will swop for deals of your choice. Then you do the swopping for them and post them on to them.
cgi.ebay.co.uk/36-50-Tesco-Clubcard-vouchers-worth-146-in-Deals_W0QQitemZ190202205615QQihZ009QQcateg oryZ109197QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Here a listing

Anybody with an old Clubcard credit card gets something like 1 point for every £2 they spend anywhere, plus extra points in Tesco.

We just got one and are trying to get all our petrol from there as well as at least half our groceries (I prefer Sainsburys); the non-Tesco points are only 1 for every £4 spent now though.

Oh and then there are the bonus points, eg at the moment I have a couple of till-spits for 200 points on £10 of children's goods (clothes, toys, whatever) and 300 points for £10 of men's clothes.

From your link, ccat - in large letters:

Ah credit cards... didn't think of that.

Thanks WW

Yeah, thats the seller covering themselves so that they dont swop for something that they buyer cant use.

eg holidays, ccat!

Anyway that one you linked to - £36.50, worth £146 - only went for £66 so not quite as good as using them direct...