Brochure holidays are packed with benefits. First of all, you’ll find everything you need for your holiday in one place – no arranging hotels and flights in separate places and hoping everything ties together. Plus, there’s an enormous range to choose from. Brochure holidays are far more flexible than just “package trips to Benidorm”, you can book exotic holidays, cruises, adventure weekends, skiing breaks and much more, both at home and abroad.
Of course, you can put a holiday together yourself online, but this might not be such an enjoyable experience. Usually, it’s a matter of “pot luck” and going back and forth between companies. Sometimes you don’t even know what the accommodation looks like or how good the facilities are, and you have all the worries and aggravation associated with arranging everything yourself. Brochure holidays often work out cheaper anyway and you have the added reassurance that they’re often ABTA-bonded.
Besides, what could be nicer, on a cold winter’s day, than the “ther-dunk” of glossy holiday brochures hitting the doormat? (Or the “beep” as they pop into your mailbox as PDF files.) You can sit flicking through them at your leisure, admiring the photos and imagining yourself in the same locations. It actually makes you feel the holiday has already started.
The cost of brochure holidays really comes down if you add Airmiles to the equation. Companies like Kuoni, Thomas Cook, Orient Express and Butlins can all be booked with Airmiles. If you have enough miles, you can even get a free holiday out of it. There are no better brochure holidays than the ones you don’t have to pay for!
When you have a family, it can be expensive treating them to days out such as activities, theme parks and the cinema or theatre. One way you can cut the cost is to earn free days out by collecting Airmiles.
You can collect Airmiles for free days out in many different ways, such as using a Lloyds TSB Airmiles Duo Credit Card to buy your shopping, or collecting Tesco Clubcard vouchers and exchanging them for Airmiles. You can even collect Airmiles by shopping online at the Airmiles eStore website, at names like eBay.co.uk and play.com.
Once you’ve started collecting Airmiles, you can choose from many different free activities on the Airmiles website. You could opt for free theatre tickets and see a popular West End show in London, such as Queen’s We Will Rock You, or you could try free activities such as experience days like driving a fast car or becoming a spy for a day.
The free days you can get on the website are almost limitless, with even free days out at theme parks such as Alton Towers and Legoland® Windsor.
When you’re collecting Airmiles and turning them into free activities, you can take your family out for the day for less.
We all love something for free; it’s human nature and part of what makes the world go round, but how can you go round the world for free? Air travel can be very expensive, but there are ways to save money on air travel and gain free flights. Here is a list ways others have scored a free flight:
- Become a pilot – this one isn’t that easy and can take years to actually achieve, but pilots get to fly the planes, not only for free, but they’re paid to do so. Sadly you can’t choose the destination even if you are the one behind the wheel.
- Smuggle yourself aboard in a suitcase – the flight may be cramped, even more so than flying economy, but the rewards are that you’re flying for free. Best avoid trips to the USA in a suitcase as they may not like the intrusion. Just how far would you go for a free flight?
- Flash a badge and pretend to impound the plane – it worked for Face Man in the A-Team, so maybe it could work for anyone. A little confidence goes a long way in grabbing free flights.
- Probably the most practical is to save using loyalty programmes – there are many different loyalty programmes that allow you to save for free flights as rewards when you do everyday activities, such as when you buy your shopping, fill up your car or even pay your electricity bill.
