Save money on going out
December 21st, 2008 | by Lynn Connelly |Whether you’re booking sports, concert or theatre tickets this Christmas, your best bet to save money is to call is the venue direct. Some promoters will only sell via agencies but if the venue sells direct, they often offer cut-price or no booking fees.
You should try this even if the adverts for the event direct you to a ticket agency. They do this because often, the agencies pay a share of covering advertising cost in return for getting their phone number or website listed.
Alternatively, try a price comparison site to find out where you can get that all important ticket cheapest. One of the best is www.ticketmaster.co.uk
If you regularly eat out, a good site for finding lots of BOGOFs and other deals is www.wagamama.com where, if you sign up for membership, you’ll get access to its ‘promotions room’, and 2for1 offers and other vouchers, all updated weekly.
For days out by train, you can find lots of really good money saving deals and BOGOFs at www.daysoutguide.co.uk
And look out for free cinema tickets in the newspapers as well as offers such as cheap family screenings at weekends. Vue runs a cheap KidsAm offer, details of which are here www.myvue.com/kidsam and the Odeon runs a similar offer. See www.odeon.co.uk/fanatic/kids for details.