East Coast Rewards offering special 2nd birthday deals

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• Scott says:

  6 Aug6 August 07:20

  I had a look at that yesterday and used the reward finder to see when these £0 fares (redemption) were available. Tried a few different stations down to Kings Cross and nothing.
  The e-vouchers are only £1 per 100 points so probably not worth it unless you’ve 1000s of points you want to get rid of.

• Scott says:

  6 Aug6 August 07:27

  Added: Found quite a few fares now so they may have been loaded since I tried yesterday. Nothing on the exact day I want but that’s pretty much at the limit of the booking period.

  • Rob says:

    6 Aug6 August 08:58

    Oddly, I booked 2 F redemptions on East Coast last night to Doncaster (long story). East Midlands Trains wanted £170 for 2 one-way F tickets for me and my daughter, but I got it for 350 points plus £10 for the child ticket plus £20 for a taxi from Doncaster to Sheffield. Very surprised to find availability on Friday night 5pm trains out of London.

• Scott says:

  6 Aug6 August 09:19

  Only goes up to the 25th Oct at present so going to have to wait until next week to see what’s available for the date I want.
  Some trains have up to 9+ seats for First and Standard all through the day whereas other days may have a couple of trains before 9am (Doncast to Kings Cross).

• Dean says:

  6 Aug6 August 10:57

  Don’t forget that you can redeem now (at the lower promo rates) and then you still have 6 months to make the bookings. If you redeem for 4x2nd class tickets at the same time you get extra discount which means you get all four for 720 points.

• Scott says:

  6 Aug6 August 11:26

  I only had 207 points so limited in my redemptions 😉
  Tend to drive down to London more as I catch early flights and the first trains don’t get me to LHR/LGW until 9:30-10am at the earliest unless I stay overnight.
  Quite often fares from my town to KX can be £12 or less so not really worth wasting a voucher on that. Will try and grab some peak time £85 single to get my money’s worth!
  Sometimes East Midlands do those £10 off vouchers that bring the cost of a ticket from Sheffield to St Pancras down to £12-20 in First (like now I think).

• Joel says:

  6 Aug6 August 12:55

  I’d always redeemed points for 2nd class tickets previously (I travel Newcastle to Kings X and back). However I had enough points to buy 4 1st class reward tickets this time round by combining the 20% off with the special offer on 4 tickets purchased at the same time. As Raffles mentioned, I was (pleasantly) surprised by the significantly greater availability of 1st class reward seats than standard class – often on the early morning commuter trains as well as peak afternoon (when standard class reward seats are normally not available, even 12 weeks ahead).

• Andrew M says:

  6 Aug6 August 13:04

  Do you earn points by booking tickets through them regardless of the network you travel on? Or do you only earn points for parts of the journey on East Coast “metal”?

  I live in Chester and usually take the train into Euston, so spend most my time on Virgin trains.

  • Alan says:

    6 Aug6 August 14:13

    You earn through any tickets booked through them, higher earning rate for first class.

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