Got a Tesco credit card? Jump on a GREAT Hotels.com promotion

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• BJ says:

  12 Jul12 July 05:22

  Spelling it out will very likely get it pulled or relaunched in hours to day! Somebody keeps posting stuff fro HfP on the hot and cold place within a few hours. Anybody having a go should do so today to be on the safe side.

  • Dubious says:

    12 Jul12 July 08:54

    I can see his term being enacted…
    [• Tesco Bank and Hotels.com reserve the right to withdraw the promotion or amend these Terms and Conditions without prior notice at any time, for whatever reason, and without any liability to customers for doing so.]

    However I must say if not for this post I would have missed this offer, despite Tesco emailing it to me (I get so many emails from them that turn out to be superfluous that I’ve started ignoring them).

  • Mouse says:

    12 Jul12 July 09:06

    What’s the hot and cold place?

    • Grant says:

      12 Jul12 July 09:15

      A website where Deals are posted from the UK which people think are Hot

      • Mouse says:

        12 Jul12 July 09:48

        I’ve never seen that before, it’s hideous!

• Polly says:

  12 Jul12 July 06:40

  Almost back to the old days here.. better book up quick. The hostels will be glad of the custom, as am sure there are not many backpackers around. Especially in SE Asia too…

  • BJ says:

    12 Jul12 July 06:57

    Sadly no Tesco card for me. Bet the wrong way a few years ago and ditched both the CA and CC in anticipation of a new variant with sign up bonus thst Hever came to pass.

    • Polly says:

      12 Jul12 July 07:34

      Same here, cancelled then too. But other family member can benefit from this tho, as they have the card. They are supposed to be coming to Bali w us in Nov, so may well use some nights booked. If not, it’s a donation to the locals.

  • Si says:

    12 Jul12 July 07:07

    The virtual trip around India i’ve just booked myself might be the nearest thing to an actual holiday I get for a good wee while. Even if doesn’t come off, I’ll happily donate my various £3-4s to the local infrastructure

    • Greenpen says:

      12 Jul12 July 09:11

      Book and STAY. Hotels.com require the stay when giving out their rewards.

      • Grant says:

        12 Jul12 July 09:13

        But this is a Tesco Bank promotion.

      • Rob says:

        12 Jul12 July 09:44

        You clearly don’t understand how Hotels.com works in practice 🙂

• Andy says:

  12 Jul12 July 07:15

  Just so people are aware, many cheap hostels in Delhi etc are cheap because they know people are going to eat and drink there. So the room cost is kept minimal to get people in and they then make any money from the food/beers (which, from my own experience, I know backpackers have a way of finding budget for!)

  I suspect these hostels will be pretty empty just now so this may well be a moot point but it would be a shame for a hostel to fill up with ghost bookings.

  • BJ says:

    12 Jul12 July 07:35

    That’s a discussion we’ve had many times before, a difficult other.

  • ash says:

    12 Jul12 July 14:32

    They know, they don’t care!

    They will be crying about capitalism and disadvantage UK children later on – from their city job!

• meta says:

  12 Jul12 July 07:29

  People please stop commenting…

  • BJ says:

    12 Jul12 July 07:39

    Makes no difference, Rob spelled it out but that made no difference either because somebody would have done so in comment anyway… why he probably used ‘jump’ in the title.

    • meta says:

      12 Jul12 July 08:02

      Although now reading the terms, it will take some time before the points are awarded.

      • meta says:

        12 Jul12 July 08:07

        And don’t forget quarterly caps either!

• Rui N. says:

  12 Jul12 July 07:33

  When I go backpacking like this I usually book the sub £2 hostels.

• Peter says:

  12 Jul12 July 07:51

  Jaisalmer, will be busy 😀

• YC says:

  12 Jul12 July 08:26

  Which is the Tesco Bank Bonus card?

  • Rob says:

    12 Jul12 July 08:34

    No idea, and we have been covering Tesco cards for years!

    • YC says:

      12 Jul12 July 08:58

      Do you think its safe to take out a 0% Purchase card for this? On top of it, seems like a decent product for 0% purchases (earn clubcard points on top of free period)

      • Rob says:

        12 Jul12 July 09:46

        It would work, whether the offer lasts long enough though ….

        Aside from that, it is the only 0% card which earns points I think so is decent from that point of view.

    • WillPS says:

      12 Jul12 July 09:42

      It was sold about 20 years ago. Doesn’t earn Clubcard Points on regular spend, so I would guess that is the reason it won’t work here.

• Dubious says:

  12 Jul12 July 08:57

  Last time I booked at hostel in SE Asia to keep my account alive…ended up having to get my Credit Card blocked and replaced as I started getting Netflix Charges posted to it.

  • Blenz101 says:

    12 Jul12 July 10:08

    Odd because the hotel never charges you. Your card is charged directly by hotels.com who in turn make payment to the hotel after taking their commission.

    Just an unfortunate coincidence. It would also be a very odd thing to put on a credit card given many in SE Asia know how to get around having to pay for accounts with any streaming provider so would be a very silly risk to using a stolen credit card for in that part of the world.

    • Dubious says:

      12 Jul12 July 15:24

      I have a feeling that hotels.com essentially sends and email through to the hotel to confirm the booking and that includes all your booking details, including the credit card (even if Hotels.com charged it in advanced). This gives the hotel the ability to charge you for any incidentals or might consume (or damage you might cause). Whether or not the fraud is related to a hotel employee, I suspect they leave printed copies of the reservations lying around. This part of the world is not known for their consideration of personal data protection nor cyber security.

      • Blenz101 says:

        12 Jul12 July 21:05

        I’ve never had a hotels.com booking where I was not again required to leave a personal credit card swipe for incidentals where available at reception.

        That isn’t to say your data isn’t being processed offshore in some way as anybody who has dealt with their customer services will attest.

        Given most credit / debit cards now seem to want to use a OTP or app verification for anything out of the ordinary I’m personally pretty relaxed.

        It would be pretty major news if Hotels.com suffered a significant data breach impacting customers card details.

        • John says:

          12 Jul12 July 21:10

          I’ve never had a hotels.com booking where I had to present a card at check-in. But my hotels.com stays are generally at small independent hotels with no incidentals available anyway.

          Occasionally hotels would make me sign a check-in form which contained a redacted credit card number, but this was never the same as the card which I used.

          I have been led to believe that those credit card numbers were “virtual cards” belonging to expedia that the hotel can charge via its card terminal – though some hotels get a bank transfer from expedia.

      • John says:

        12 Jul12 July 21:12

        That has not happened to me – and from check-in forms that I’ve been asked to sign, the (redacted) credit card number forwarded by hotels.com is never the same as the card which I used to pay.

      • Fenny says:

        14 Jul14 July 10:14

        But I have a completely different set of cards I use when travelling abroad. If I book via an online agent to be billed in sterling it wouldn’t be the same card I used if paying in currency abroad.

  • WillPS says:

    12 Jul12 July 13:20

    Just thought I’d chime in here to say that it would appear the full details do get sent to the organisation – I placed several bookings in Bangkok this morning and had a fraudulent transaction for Delta Airways spotted just now. Obviously it could be a co-incidence but I doubt it.

    Tesco Bank have now blocked the card so I guess I’ll have to stop at 25 unless this offer is not ‘fixed’ by the time the new cards arrive.

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