Tesco rewards

[loirelover]

Just booked for next trip via Eurotunnel using the Tesco rewards (can't remember the last time we paid) so started to think about how much Tescos reimburse Eurotunnel.

Have you ever looked around wondering how many people on the train or ferries have actually paid the advertised rates. With loyalty/shareholder schemes, newspaper offers, travel cost incorporated in holiday offers et al how much are full fare payers subsidising everone else? Or come to that do you pay the advertised fares?

 

[Dave&Olive]

hi ok

         Tesco reward points ..... you can now exchange them for a small bale of hay and a sack of oats  on the crossing

                    Dave [:)]

[Frecossais]

Interesting question. Like you we buy our shuttle tickets with Tesco's reward points, though not normally the whole amount, and our friends use a frequent travellers scheme, where you buy 10 tickets (five returns) that you can take at any time during a period of 12 months subject to some restrictions about times of travel. Don't know offhand how much it costs, but they say it's a very good deal. Eurotunnel make extra money if you want to change the time of your travel etc, but as you say, you do wonder if many pay top dollar for their journeys.

I prefer to take the tunnel because it's quicker and I'm not a good sailor, but OH says he misses the feeling of going on his holidays he gets when standing on board a ferry.