tesco vouchers - how do you gte the best out of them ?

[Mercedes]

We've got about £60 worth of tesco vouchers and I was looking at booking a holiday in majorca. When I looked online with Cosmos they were quoting a £500 for an adult for 7 days self catering which seems v. v. expensive.

I've seen on here people talking about holidays booked with clubcard deals but how? are there any tricks or things to consider?

Bumping for you.

I am not much use other than to say that we never use them in Tesco. We save them up and spend them on Eurotunnel vouchers as they are worth 4 times their face value, so for us, we need £37.50 of vouchers to buy a return Eurotunnel crossing! Saves us a packet and we always do this.
Good luck

We use them on meals out or days out eg. safari parks/theme parks, where you get four times the value. We had looked at holidays in the past but actually found them to be very expensive (as you have found) Good luck in finding somethign suitable.

I went with Haven twice & to siblu- last Haven cost me £45 in cash & the Silbu £820 Tesco vouchers & about £180

I think I must be assuming that the holidays will be really cheap on top of getting 4 x voucher value. I did notice the Eurotunnel was a good but maybe I should think around that.

I've switched my elec and gas and am about to get Tesco points for every £1 so I shall maybe hold on to them a bit longer and see what the return is on the utility bills.

I used mine on a weekend break at a UK hotel after I realised they wouldn't get me much of a holiday with the kids.

We have £80 vouchers which is £320 off a holiday, and we also realised that we could get cheaper deals than that on the Cosmos holidays by going on websites eg travelrepublic. So we might use our vouchers for a weekend break at a Marriot hotel on the South Coast with us and the kids sharing a room.

merlin passes
days out vouchers
magazine subscriptions
meal vouchers
holidays eg French Life (last year I had about £1200 towards the holiday)

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Wow how do you get so many vouchers? We only do our big shop at tescos just to make sure we do get the vouchers. CM that is so impressive.

meals
days out
eurotunnel
mag subs (Eve for me and NG Kids for ds1)
RAC subs
MFI (now gone)

We have had alot because we also have tesco credit card, and ex used to regularly have £2/3k spend on expenses a month. I still have back-log of vouchers from that.

Yep, high proportion of monthly spend goes on the tesco credit card (then paid off in full, of course). That's it really.

Individual Travellers (same co as French Life) do self-catering in Spain, Italy, Portugal as well as France.

When you say £60 worth do you mean £240 in deals?

NB if you get a Tesco credit card now it's not nearly as good as the old ones - they give something like 2 points for every £ spent at Tesco & 1 point for every £ elsewhere.

New cards (I have one ) only give 5 points for every £4 at Tesco, 1 point for every £4 elsewhere.

Get all your petrol there though, & use the credit card any time you shop there (pay off every month of course) & make sure you use all the bonus points vouchers you get on tillspits & clubcard statements.

good point on the old/new tesco credit cards, mine is the old one.

I have an old one too - they are much better

I put everything on the Tesco card & pay off each month - my Car Ins is due & that will be nearly £1000 so it soon build up

We save ours and last year had a lovely long weekend in London which paid for two nights accomodation and two evening meals plus various attractions around London.

This year, I have bought a magazine subscription, used some vouchers for a meal at Pizza Express (only cost us the drinks), 4 cases of wine and another long weekend in London in May with still some vouchers left over for restaurants.

I tend to do all my shopping at Tesco and use the Tesco credit card and DH puts all of his petrol on the same card - which is about £250/300 per month but all paid off.

Oh, and, if you have an ordinary clubcard and a credit card, make sure you have at least 150 points on the ordinary card each quarter & then you get 2 lots of bonus point vouchers etc (I missed last time & just got a statement with no vouchers)

We've had Tesco car insurance for years & never get any points despite having the card registered & querying it, I wonder if someone else is getting ours?

Really?

How do I do that?

Put my clubcard through before paying for my shopping at Tesco instead of it going on my CC?

Ah, well, as you have the old credit card I'm sure if it would benefit you as much, Katymac.

I use the ordinary card when I pay cash - that way I get 4 points for £4 (if I pay by card I get 5 points for £4). If you pay by card you get 8 points for £4 so you'd lose 4 points if you paid cash - you'd have to weigh up if the extra vouchers would make up the difference - a complicated calculation!

sorry, I'm not sure if it would benefit you (my brain keeps dropping words out of sentences )

Gosh - I don't use cash ......what is that?

Sorry to hijack..but I'm thew same. Have only got £130 or so in vouchers but this translates as about £500.

KatyMac..what was Siblu like? Where did you go? Is it camping then?

£130 is about 520 in vouchers

Siblu was lovely - very clean, Food OK, entertainment very french we really enjoyed it

If you search on my name & siblu you might get some old threads

I think if you book through the French Life link on the clubcard site, you will get Canvas Holidays, as well.