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£5 Free Voucher for Streaming Amazon Music

14 December 2023 / Leave a comment

Try your luck on another Amazon voucher code promotion!

You can check your eligibility here. If targeted, you only need to stream one complete song on Amazon Music and a £5 free voucher will be deposited into your account within 7 days.

A minimum order value of £20 is required for redeeming the voucher. The offer runs until January 23rd and is limited to 2,500 redemptions only. Note that the offer is for Amazon Prime members only and in theory you must not have streamed Amazon Music before.

Other Amazon offers:

Black Friday Flight & Hotel deals roundup

25 November 2023 / Leave a comment

Etihad

  • Book by November 27th
  • Travel between January 15th and June 12th
  • Use promo code WHITEFRIDAY20 or BLACKFRIDAY20
  • Save 20% on economy and business class fares

Note that the 20% discount applies to the base fare only, which means in reality the savings will be much less.

Aegean

  • Book by November 27th
  • Travel between January 15th and October 26th
  • No promo code needed
  • Save up to 50% on all tickets across the network

The actual discount depends on your travel date.

ITA Airways

  • Book by November 27th
  • Travel between December 1st and December 31st
  • Use promo code BLACK
  • Save 30% on all tickets except Economy Lite

The offer is available to many markets including UK, Europe and US (20% off).

Cathay Pacific

  • Book by November 26th
  • Travel between December 1st and June 28th
  • Use promo code UKBLACKFRI for flights departing from the UK
  • £100 off business class and £75 off economy / premium economy

Similar deals are available for France and Germany etc.

Air China

£100 discount on UK flights to China / Asia. Claim your voucher on Trip.com – they have other Black Friday offers as explained in this blog post.

TAP Portugal

London – Boston in business class for ~£1000 return, and the cost can be further reduced if you add a stopover (>24 hours) in Lisbon to avoid the UK APD. Example:

Use Google Flights and Skyscanner to find cheap date combinations. Book by November 28th.

Virgin Atlantic

  • Book by November 27th
  • Travel by September 30th
  • Pay 30% fewer points for all reward flights

This is an incredible deal for flying to/from Shanghai:

Redemptions for US destinations are unfortunately bundled with outrageous fees, so they might not be a great deal even with the 30% discount.

Melia

  • Book by November 26th
  • Stay by December 20th, 2024 (hotel dependant)
  • Save up to 50%

Remember to stack the Gold 20% off and App 5% off. The discount is genuine although not necessarily at 50% at most properties, and many of the rates are flexible.

Accor

20% bonus on digital gift card purchases. Gift cards are valid for 5 years, and can be used at participating hotels in the UK, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Greece and Poland.

Kimpton Hotels

The following UK Kimpton hotels are offering 20% discount of gift vouchers:

Gift vouchers are valid for 12 months and can be used upon hotel checkout. They work well with pay-at-hotel rates, including Amex FHR and IHG Luxury & Lifestyle.

Malmaison / Hotel Du Vin

Malmaison – rate starts at £100, including £50 dinner credit

Hotel Du Vin – rate starts at £145 for two nights, including £50 dinner credit

£100 flight / hotel discount with Trip.com

23 November 2023 / Leave a comment

We wrote about Trip.com’s constant flight discount recently, and they’ve just revealed their Black Friday promotions which are worth a look.

The landing page is here. Note that the specs here are for the UK market, but similar promotions run for France, Germany and Spain as well.

Flight discount:

  • Nov 24, 5pm – £50 off £200
  • Nov 24, 8pm – £20 off £30 on flights to Spain, excluding budget airlines
  • Nov 25, 12pm – £100 off £500
  • Nov 25, 8pm – £30 off £40 on flights to Turkey
  • Nov 26, 12pm – £15 off 100
  • Nov 26, 8pm – £100 off £150 on flights to Thailand

Supply will be limited and they will probably go fast. The flight must depart from the UK, but besides that there are very few restrictions. Keep your alarm clock on if you have flight tickets to buy!

Hotel discount:

  • Nov 24, 6pm – £50 off £150
  • Nov 25, 6pm – £100 off £250
  • Nov 26, 6pm – £20 off £100

Unlike the flight offer there’s no geographical restriction on the hotels, although they can only be applied to “selected hotels”.

Temu Shopping is in the UK and I tried it out

19 November 2023 / Leave a comment

Ok, this is an unconventional post for our blog, and feel free not to read it! But since we cover Amazon offers from time to time, I suppose some readers might be interested in other shopping deals too.

We’ll be talking about Temu today, that entered the UK market only in April 2023. Temu is an international spinoff of Pinduoduo / 拼多多，one of the largest e-commerce companies in China. Pinduoduo was born after I left China so I haven’t got a chance to use them, but I used Temu recently and has so far been quite happy. If you are intrigued as well, we have a coupon code available at the end of this article.

[Product Catalogue]

As we’ve said earlier Temu is a B2C e-commerce company, so you can see it as Amazon in a way. They have a pretty big catalogue, and you can find clothing, jewellery, electronics, office supply and household supply etc on Temu.

I guess a closer comparable would be AliExpress, the counterpart by Alibaba which is also a Chinese company. AliExpress sells more stuff including furniture and large appliances, but on the other hand Temu can be ridiculously cheap, as you’ll see later in this article.

What you won’t find on Temu is “big names”, or premium products with top quality. So it really depends on your expectations: if you are looking for cheap merchandises and not so fussed about quality, for example socks and t-shirts, then Temu is worthy of checking out.

[Shipping]

Free shipping is available on purchases of £10 or more. However the products are shipped from China so it takes a while to arrive, typically one to two weeks. If you need something right away, buy from Amazon or in store.

If your order arrives later than the expected date you’ll be compensated with £5 credit. Their tracking system is well designed – you get email reminders for dispatching, the cargo flight and delivery etc. Temu takes care of customs so you won’t pay any additional fees.

Their main logistics partner in the UK is Evri, which has a questionable reputation. My experience is fine though – no problem encountered and it doesn’t feel any different to other delivery services. One of my orders was delivered by Royal Mail, probably due to it being a “valuable” item worth £50+.

[Unboxed]

Here are some of the items that I bought.

Plain white t-shirts, £1.19

Shoes, £5.26

Belt, 90p

Sunglasses, £1.92

Kitchen sink strainer, 16p

Oil sprayer, 87p

Garden watering gadget, 4p

Wiko T10 dual-sim Android smartphone, £54.81

I applied a coupon on every order, and the numbers above are what I actually paid after the discount. I am genuinely impressed by how cheap Temu is. In fact it is almost as much as what you expect to pay in China!

Every order comes with a free return within 90 days. I haven’t used it so far, but it is a typical returning process which involves printing out a return label and bringing back your item to an Evri collection point. A friend did a return and received refund after approximately two weeks.

[Price Adjustment]

One very interesting feature Temu offers is Price Adjustment, which means if the price drops within 30 days after you’ve placed the order, they will refund the difference.

The refund doesn’t happen automatically. You need to check the app regularly, and when the Price Adjustment button pops up you know there are eligible items in that order. The refunded amount can be affected by the coupon you applied, and it is processed right away.

It is very courageous for Temu to offer this gesture. As far as I know, although Amazon has something similar, it is only available during special period such as the Prime Day and Black Friday sales.

[Precautions]

A big warning: Pinduoduo is the notorious pioneer in upping clickbait to a totally different level. They have all sorts of “promotions” in the app which encourages you to invite your friends for free money and huge prizes etc. They are most of the time a waste of time and can be very annoying.

Unfortunately you’ll see such things in Temu as well, and I know people who uninstall the app immediately when they see how toxic the app is. My advice is to ignore all these messages, and only pay attention to the coupons they gift you.

If you are curious to try Temu out, our referral link will give you 50% off the first order (max. discount £20) and a £100 coupon bundle. You could also enter the coupon code apu94348. Temu tends to offer you many other coupons in the first weeks, so take advantage of being a new customer.

£45 off Amazon Morrisons / Fresh orders, £3 instore coupon

6 November 2023 / Leave a comment

If you have never used Amazon Fresh or Morrisons, you could potentially save up to £45 on your first grocery orders. Check your eligibility on the following pages, and if it works out you could apply coupon codes when checking out.

Note that you must be an Amazon Prime member to benefit.

[Amazon Fresh]

  • £15 off £60: coupon code FRESHNNEW15, valid three times and you only need to enter the code once. The offer expires on October 4th.

[Morrisons on Amazon]

  • £15 off £60 spend: coupon code MOR15OFFER1 / MOR15OFFER2 / MOR15OFFER3 , valid three times (note that there is a different code each time). The offer expires on September 30th.

There are a couple of codes that might work for existing customers:

  • NEXT10MOR £10 off £70 spend
  • LONDON20OFF £20 off £70 spend

[Fresh Instore]

If you are based in London and can pop into one of the Amazon Fresh stores, here are a two coupons for you:

Once added to your account, visit the mentioned store and spend at least £7 for the discount to apply automatically. You have until December 31st to redeem the offer, and note each coupon is valid only once.

Other Amazon offers:

Aegean flash sale: £30 off and buy 1 get 1 free!

1 November 2023 / Leave a comment

The Greek airline Aegean is working with Trip.com to launch a flash sale targeting the UK market. You can see the offer details here.

For our London audience, the most relevant bit is the BOGO sale.

  • Going live on November 2, 10am
  • Buy two economy class tickets from London to Athens for the price of one
  • Travel between November 15 and March 31
  • Limited availability

In addition there’s a promo code YXWFIVIWAW that you can claim and redeem until November 10. It gives you £20 discount when travelling from London / Manchester / Birmingham / Edinburgh to Athens and the Greek islands, but unfortunately London – Athens is excluded.

Remember that by booking via the Trip.com app you get an additional £10 off – £30 off a flight is not to be sniffed at, although not as good as the BOGO deal.

As you can see from the image above, your itinerary doesn’t have to be entirely Aegean, but somehow it doesn’t always work. Note that you must enter the passenger information first before being able to see whether the £20 promo code applies.

Uber: 15% off gift card, £20 flight cashback and promo codes

23 October 2023 / Leave a comment

A roundup of some current Uber (and Eats / Travel) promotions.

Tesco is offering a discount on select gift cards, including Uber. Until November 5th you are entitled 15% off when purchasing the eVoucher, which can be used to top up your account. Uber credit can be used on car ride, takeaway and train / bus tickets, with the exception of grocery delivery.

Uber Travel has an ongoing offer of 10% cashback on train and bus bookings, and it was recently extended till the end of the year. There is now a new incentive for booking flights exclusively for Uber One members: make your first fight booking by November 5th to earn a £20 cashback per passenger, with a minimum fare of £20.

I had a quick look and flights on Uber Travel tends to be more expensive than on Skyscanner, sometimes significantly. That being said, if your flight costs just over £20 then it’s nearly free.

Some promo codes (may be targeted):

  • tpns658w2bhz – my referral code, £10 credit after first Uber Travel booking
  • rp915yjss1q1 – my referral code, £5 off first five rides
  • ORDERAGAIN50 – 50% off next two rides, up to £14
  • EATUK30 – 30% off next five Uber Eats orders
  • EATUK40 – 30% off next five Uber Eats orders
  • UKEATS40O52 – 40% off next five Uber Eats orders
  • UK5DEAL – 50% off next five Uber Eats orders
  • RSUE10 – £10 off two £25 Uber Eats orders at select Chinese restaurants in London

Free £5 Amazon voucher to claim

17 October 2023 / Leave a comment

This is probably the most generous and easiest offer that Amazon issues, as all you need to do is click a button to click it.

You can check if you are eligible here, and claim the voucher if so. The £5 voucher is valid on a purchase of £15 or more, and as usual limited to Amazon-sold items only (excluding Amazon devices).

The voucher should apply to your next eligible purchase directly. You have until October 29th to claim and use the voucher, however it’s only limited to 10,000 uses so I wouldn’t wait.

Other Amazon offers:

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