I was taken up The Shard last night ….

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• Mileage runner says:

  17 Mar17 March 06:33

  Hey Raffles,
  I have just encashed my $200 into a voucher for the Shangri -La in Sydney and I’m having my (almost free!) dinner there tonight! Thanks so much for highlighting this great offer all of those months back.

• flieduk says:

  17 Mar17 March 07:07

  So you went out last night and were so excited that whilst your wife was in bed you had to write an article up during the early hours in time for this morning? Sounds like dedication (or did you use some artistic licence for the pun).

  • Stu says:

    17 Mar17 March 07:20

    In fairness, being taken up the shard is enough to get anyone excited 😉

  • Frenske says:

    17 Mar17 March 07:54

    Some say, Raffles never sleeps. Some say he knows when the Tesco conversion bonus will happen.

    • Rob says:

      17 Mar17 March 08:42

      Absolutely don’t believe that!

    • Scott says:

      17 Mar17 March 10:38

      …All we know is he is called Raffles.

      Sorry couldn’t resist finishing off the Top Gear reference 😉

      • craig says:

        18 Mar18 March 10:50

        Oh well the long-awaited Tesco conversion bonus day comes there will be mayhem! Will it ever come though? Am starting to lose hope 🙁

  • Rob says:

    17 Mar17 March 08:46

    Minor artistic licence, sadly – it was Thursday night. I did write the post for Friday but pushed it back as I thought it made more sense on the day booking actually opened.

• Mr Bridge says:

  17 Mar17 March 08:09

  ooooh matron

• idrive says:

  17 Mar17 March 08:37

  i am stuck with 800 and 700 points, Golden Cirlce’s website quotes that drinks at their restaurant qualifies for points earning, can that be the route to reach 1000 on the account?

• Andrew says:

  17 Mar17 March 08:40

  Doesn’t look like it is an available redemption option on the Golden Circle site yet…

  • Rob says:

    17 Mar17 March 08:41

    Good point. If you book for the first week, you have to hope that Shangri La updates the Golden Circle website before the opening date!

    • Richard says:

      17 Mar17 March 20:24

      I can see the Shard from the drop down menu when you go to redeem

      • Andrew says:

        17 Mar17 March 22:18

        Yes but doesn’t allow you to select a redemption type, in order to book the vouchers.

• David says:

  17 Mar17 March 10:48

  My wife and I each earned 1,200 points from the earlier promotion, and the opening couldn’t be better timed as it falls a week before our wedding anniversary. We will be celebrating in style. Thanks Rob for the heads up.

• Nathan says:

  17 Mar17 March 11:30

  Great tip off in the first instance. The only problem is that I only managed to ‘earn’ 900 points, and my wife 800 points. Is there any way of earning the other 100-300 points needed to redeem $200? GoldenCircle has advised me that we can’t combine the points to redeem 1500 of them, so we are only able to do 500 each. If not, it looks like I’ll need to find an excuse to entertain a customer there!

  • Rob says:

    17 Mar17 March 13:16

    Perhaps you need to go once, credit the excess over $50 to your account (to earn the extra 100) then go again!

    • squills says:

      17 Mar17 March 18:17

      There will probably be further earning opps in future…

• Stephen says:

  17 Mar17 March 12:01

  $200? You mean $100 for 1,000.

  • Brian says:

    17 Mar17 March 13:07

    I think Raffles is assuming that most people have done this offer with their other half…

    • Rob says:

      17 Mar17 March 13:13

      Real or imagined other half …..!

  • Nathan says:

    17 Mar17 March 13:31

    Stephen – I mean $200. I have 900 points, so need 100 more to get 1000 and then claim $100. my wife has 800, so needs 200 more to get 1000 and then we can claim $100 on hers, so $200 overall.

    And, she is a real other half…!!

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