Bits: DragonPass accepted in T5 and Gatwick Regus, get 20% off gift cards at Tesco
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News in brief:
DragonPass now accepted at Terminal 5 and Gatwick Regus
DragonPass, the Asian-based airport lounge access business (a clone of Priority Pass) is beginning to make inroads into the UK market. With the demise of Airport Angel, they have picked up the lounge access deal offered to Barclays current account holders.
Without telling anyone, DragonPass has launched a deal with the Regus business centre in Terminal 5 arrivals at Heathrow and the South terminal (landside) at Gatwick. This is a small coup given that Priority Pass does not have such an arrangement.
Regus in Terminal 5 is a business centre more than an airport lounge. There is no free food but there is a free Nespresso coffee machine. There are two sofa chairs, plus two ‘pods’ for working and a shared table of six seats best suited for working. There are no newspapers but there are some magazines.
It is not somewhere to ‘lounge’ but, if you need to work before or after a flight and do not have British Airways lounge access, it is not a bad place to go. I was working in there yesterday before catching an afternoon flight to Finland (more on that soon).
Get a 20% discount on selected Tesco gift cards
Tesco is currently offering a 20% discount on selected gift cards via their online gift card shop. It is not clear if this offer is also available instore.
The retailers included are:
- Pizza Express
- iTunes
- Mitchell & Butlers
- New Look
- Monsoon
- Accessorize
The deal is only available on ‘plastic’ gift cards and not digital gift codes. This means that you must pay for postage which will add at least £1.50.
The key thing to remember is that you will receive 150 Clubcard points for every £50 you spend on gift cards (excluding Tesco-branded cards). That is 360 Avios.
You need to spend £50 after taking into account the 20% discount and your order must be in multiples of £50 – ie if you spend £100 there must be a theoretical way of separating the order into two lots of £50, otherwise you just get one lot of bonus points.
Pizza Express cards come in a £20 denomination and the others as £25. The cheapest route is therefore 2 x £20 Pizza Express and 1 x £25 from elsewhere, total £65, which reduces to £52. Postage adds £1.50 or more if you want recorded delivery. This means that you are paying £53.50 for £60 of gift cards plus 360 Avios points.
The deal ends on 22nd November.
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