Special Offers Discussion

CaptainHaddock · 12 Nov 2015

10% off Grand Central tickets using code NOV10. You must book by end of November but it appears you can travel up to February 2016 (with certain exceptions).

http://www.grandcentralrail.com/special-offers/wowvember!/

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Mojo · 23 Nov 2015

Free travel in London offer running on Mondays only for four weeks, starting today. Does not include boats but does include the cable car. Subject to a maximum refund of £27.90 per cardholder, per day. You will be billed as normal and refunded at a later date.

You have to pay using Mastercard with Apple Pay.

westv · 25 Nov 2015

I saw that VTEC tweeted that something EPIC (their capitals) will be announced Friday. I expect it will be a change of biscuits in 1st class to custard creams.

Kite159 · 25 Nov 2015

westv said:
I saw that VTEC tweeted that something EPIC (their capitals) will be announced Friday. I expect it will be a change of biscuits in 1st class to custard creams.

I would say double nectar points for a limited time, but I had an email about that yesterday.

A Black Friday seat sale most likely will be the announcement

westv · 26 Nov 2015

Kite159 said:
I would say double nectar points for a limited time, but I had an email about that yesterday.

A Black Friday seat sale most likely will be the announcement

When's the double points offer on? Nothing received here. Not that double points is worth much.
--- old post above --- --- new post below ---
Yes, it's a seat sale so I won't hold out much hope for anything to benefit my route then.

Tetchytyke · 27 Nov 2015

westv said:
I saw that VTEC tweeted that something EPIC (their capitals) will be announced Friday. I expect it will be a change of biscuits in 1st class to custard creams.

Free wifi in standard class today, it seems, unless something else is being announced later.

London Midland are offering 50% off advance tickets booked between now and Sunday night.

bakerstreet · 27 Nov 2015

Gatwick Express have disappeared off Quidco and TopCashBack. What is the best cashback for rail tickets (non TOC specific) now....?

Tetchytyke · 27 Nov 2015

bakerstreet said:
What is the best cashback for rail tickets (non TOC specific) now....?

It is probably First Hull Trains- 2% cashback on Quidco and Nectar points.

bakerstreet · 27 Nov 2015

Arctic Troll said:
It is probably First Hull Trains- 2% cashback on Quidco and Nectar points.

Thanks - good I have Nectar too so I will give it a try

Romilly · 27 Nov 2015

westv said:
I saw that VTEC tweeted that something EPIC (their capitals) will be announced Friday. I expect it will be a change of biscuits in 1st class to custard creams.

It's actually 50% off VTEC Advances for travel in the period 4th January to 12th February 2016 if booked by 9pm today.

Wolfie · 27 Nov 2015

Arctic Troll said:
London Midland are offering 50% off advance tickets booked between now and Sunday night.

Has anyone actually got this to work? Doesn't seem to be for me...

westv · 27 Nov 2015

westv said:
When's the double points offer on? Nothing received here. Not that double points is worth much.
--- old post above --- --- new post below ---
Yes, it's a seat sale so I won't hold out much hope for anything to benefit my route then.

I was actually surprised to be able to get 50% off tickets x 6 for Fridays.

woody505 · 27 Nov 2015

Trans Pennine doing triple nectar points this weekend. Triple points apply between 00:01 on Friday 27th November to 23:59 on Monday 30th November 2015.

Just booked a £4 train gave me 24 points hopefully they'll honour that

Wolfie · 27 Nov 2015

Wolfie said:
Has anyone actually got this to work? Doesn't seem to be for me...

Eventually got it to work for Dec dates but had problems with Jan... and l don't see any end date limitations...

Brucey · 29 Nov 2015

Arctic Troll said:
It is probably First Hull Trains- 2% cashback on Quidco and Nectar points.

3.1% at imutual: http://www.imutual.co.uk/s/2TDp

bakerstreet · 30 Nov 2015

Brucey said:
3.1% at imutual: http://www.imutual.co.uk/s/2TDp

Thanks. I've not heard of imutual before that's a v good rate. I'll give that a try

hassaanhc · 30 Nov 2015

Virgin Trains West Coast: First Class Seat Sale. Tickets from £17.50 with no further discount for railcards.
Book until 3 December for travel 12 December to 23 January 2016.

Bill Badger · 30 Nov 2015

This must be one of the most convoluted sales ever devised!!

15% discount on off-peak returns TO Basingstoke, Portsmouth, Salisbury and Southampton - all from a different set of destinations after 10am (apart from Southampton which is 9.55) and can't return between 4-7pm any day including weekends.

Oh yes..... and only available if purchased in advance online

Details here: South West Trains Sale

crehld · 30 Nov 2015

Bill Badger said:
This must be one of the most convoluted sales ever devised!!

It's an SWT sale - what were you expecting

Kite159 · 30 Nov 2015

Bill Badger said:
This must be one of the most convoluted sales ever devised!!

15% discount on off-peak returns TO Basingstoke, Portsmouth, Salisbury and Southampton - all from a different set of destinations after 10am (apart from Southampton which is 9.55) and can't return between 4-7pm any day including weekends.

Oh yes..... and only available if purchased in advance online

Details here: South West Trains Sale

Seems to be rather pointless, 15% off with no further discount for rail-cards, for a limited number of stations only to Basingstoke [and who wants to go to Basingstoke?], Portsmouth, Salisbury or Southampton.

Surprised Winchester isn't mentioned as they've got a good Christmas market

westv · 30 Nov 2015

Brucey said:
3.1% at imutual: http://www.imutual.co.uk/s/2TDp

How reliable are these people for cash back on regular weekly ticket purchases?

furlong · 30 Nov 2015

westv said:
How reliable are these people for cash back on regular weekly ticket purchases?

You can never be certain you'll get the cashback you expect from any cashback site. And google will lead you to some interesting stories about previous companies connected with the founder of this one.

Starmill · 1 Dec 2015

hassaanhc said:
Virgin Trains West Coast: First Class Seat Sale. Tickets from £17.50 with no further discount for railcards.
Book until 3 December for travel 12 December to 23 January 2016.

Thanks for the tip-off; this is excellent. I've booked the 1630 London Euston > Glasgow Central for £35 First Class :P

extendedpaul · 1 Dec 2015

I agree - a really worthwhile deal. We've booked a Monday up on an evening meal service from London to Glasgow and a Wednesday back on a breakfast service for a total of £140 for two. I liked being told I had saved about £800

Worth knowing that there is currently a 30% discount code (BOOKJAN3 worked 20 minutes ago) for travelodge January stays. We got two nights at the Glasgow Central Travelodge for a total of £53.20 reduced from £76

There are centrally located travelodges all along the Virgin West Coast routes, eg Lancaster, Carlisle, Preston, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and of course London.

Kite159 · 2 Dec 2015

Anybody else get an email from Virgin East Coast promoting their new app (Virgin Red)?

trainophile · 2 Dec 2015

Kite159 said:
Anybody else get an email from Virgin East Coast promoting their new app (Virgin Red)?

Yes, but I deleted it, it seemed to offer things I wouldn't be interested in.

If there are any nuggets in there that I may have missed I'll be kicking myself!

Kite159 · 2 Dec 2015

trainophile said:
Yes, but I deleted it, it seemed to offer things I wouldn't be interested in.

If there are any nuggets in there that I may have missed I'll be kicking myself!

Same here.

Although VTEC sent me a 1000 bonus points email for my next booking, and I'm finding it hard to use it (got no real plans involving Virgin Trains East Coast for the next few months which haven't already been booked)

IanD · 2 Dec 2015

Kite159 said:
Same here.

Although VTEC sent me a 1000 bonus points email for my next booking, and I'm finding it hard to use it (got no real plans involving Virgin Trains East Coast for the next few months which haven't already been booked)

Damn, I believed it when the told me I'd been chosen because I'm a valued customer (never booked a ticket with them in my life) and also great looking (can't fault their reasoning there

)

CaptainHaddock · 3 Dec 2015

trainophile said:
Yes, but I deleted it, it seemed to offer things I wouldn't be interested in.

If there are any nuggets in there that I may have missed I'll be kicking myself!

20% off Virgin advance fares with the code VRed20?

https://www.virgintrains.co.uk/virgin-red-20

The webpage implies you have to be a Virgin Red member to take advantage but playing around with the journey planner seems to bring up the 20% fares without any membership requirement.

westv · 3 Dec 2015

CaptainHaddock said:
20% off Virgin advance fares with the code VRed20?

https://www.virgintrains.co.uk/virgin-red-20

The webpage implies you have to be a Virgin Red member to take advantage but playing around with the journey planner seems to bring up the 20% fares without any membership requirement.

That got my interest until I realised it was WC rather than EC.

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