Tesco's Clubcard deals........bloody bloody hell

[Currypowder]

Have been shopping like a loony to save up Tesco's points for a weekend break.
Thought I had enough and started to try and book a hotel.
Seems that there is a separate (much much much higher) pricing band if you are using Tesco points to pay.
e.g. Normal cost if paying by cash £95. Cost if paying with points £195. Bloody con. Considering how much you have to spend in the first place.
Not only that but it seems that the hotels only have so many rooms available for Tesco riff raff. Trying to book a date I actually wanted was impossible (and I had a short list of six dates!)
Not AT ALL impressed. Bloody mad in fact.
Think this is the final nail in the coffin for me and Tesco. I got told off for giving my son a grape last week.
Watch out Sainsbury's one whingeing, grape stealer on her way.

I was gutted the night before i went to longleat i discovered i could have swapped £20 of Tesco vouchers for £72 of passports (2a&2c).
I will be sending off early next year.

We only pay for basic HSA which is about £9 a month(in cash) for a family. Because we always forget to send our receipts off within 3 months it is NOT worth us having it but in theory it is because DP and I both wear glasses (each of us can claim 50% of cost of glasses up to a max of £100 a year) and DP's dental costs are huge (same basis).

I think you have to weigh up your health costs each year to see if it's worth it. Although having said that of course it doesn't actually cost anything in real money and only about £40 in vouchers for the deal so I suppose it IS worth it. Really must go and see if I can find those dental receipts......

that makes me sick that tesco only pay half back to the zoo's etc how they get away with soo much it is criminal

It seems fair to me, actually - you pay £2.50 for £10-worth of something, and Tesco and the suppliers of the something split the cost between them.

If you're not happy with that, pay the £10 yourself!

and the zoo'z etc dont have to join up - presumably it is economical for them to do so - they get more visitors round that they otherwise would, who then also spend extras when they are there.
Interesting to know what the spilt is though, I have always wondered.

and the zoo'z etc dont have to join up - presumably it is economical for them to do so - they get more visitors round that they otherwise would, who then also spend extras when they are there.
Interesting to know what the spilt is though, I have always wondered.

will have a look , I don't have glasses but atm have no dentist as can't afford privat e and havd no NHS one so may work out

Airkix - this looks fabulous!

We saw it on the Apprentice this week and dh said he fancied doing it. I do too, and the boys would love it.
(I would never in a million years jump out of a plane, but do fancy having some of the experience without the risk iyswim.)

As soon as my vouchers arrive at the end of this month I'll have enough

Greedy tesco always come out top,
i will make more enquiries into it to see if it is fair and what the zoo's really think, I would rather the conservation parks get a bigger chunk..... than add to tesco's billions of profits...

FWIW when we went to a zoo attraction at easter using our days out vouchers, we were asked to fill in a quick survey about where we'd heard of the place and how we were paying. Virtually everyone else on the sheet had also ticked the clubcard box. We only went because of the vouchers, if the other visitors were doing the same, the place would've been half empty and the zoo would've got no revenue. Surely half of something is better than nothing?

I can't see that Tesco are doing anything wrong really.

Tesco don't make money from clubcard vouchers do they? Apart from the incentive to spend more money at the tills and on their credit card.

The attractions may lose 50% of the ticket price but it's Tesco who are forking out for the other 50%.

The attractions must make on it otherwise they wouldn't sign up for it. Also these places do other deals like free child tickets, family tickets, half-price days so one way or another very few people will pay the full admission price at the gate so it's just another way of getting you through the gate.

In fact in what sense is it adding to Tesco's profits at all? Apart from the max £250 we have to spend - which we'd be spending anyway although maybe not in Tesco - to get the £2.50 of vouchers which we then use to buy £10 worth of admission to the zoo or whatever, for which Tesco pays £3.75 presumably?

There are a lot of things Tesco can be criticised for but I don't believe this is one of them.

We always use our vouchers for holidays with Frenh life and have to pay full brochure price - you can't get the free insurance or early bookers deals if using Tesco vouchers BUT it means a 'free' holidays every year!! We ahve also used them with Cresta to go to Eurodisney and qualified for the 3 for 2 or 4 for the price of 3 nights stay deals even with tesco vouchers.

We're in the situation too that if we didn't use our vouchers for things like Woburn or hwatever we wouldn't go - at legoland last year virtually every British family in the queues had tesco vouchers! They get more money out of you in the parka nd it boosts their visiting /marketing figures.

we were looking at the macdonald hotels too anyone tried them?