Credit card vouchers

I have just got my letter to say the scheme is closing we are beening transfered to a Barclaycard Freedom  Rewards card and actually the rewards have a lot of choice to pick from.

The transfer takes place at the end of July and you can still redeem points till the end of August , any points left over will be changed to to Freedom points.

A bit disapointing as I liked to save my vouchers for peak period times on site.

Both my husband and myself have cc credit cards and we alternate them using one until we have a voucher then the other and this way you can have 10 vouchers a year if you collect enough points. We each have a card on the others account so its much easier to use this system .Just one thing to remember , if you have a refund on your card the equivalent points are removed.

Write your comments here...Yes we used to do this as well when we both working , its a good idea.

Yes we've just received our letter from Barclaycard as well and we are extremely disappointed about the site night vouchers.  Barclaycard Freedom points don't do anything for us, we spend very little in these stores.   We save our site night vouchers for either a 3 or 4 night stay in peak season to help with the finances.  When you are on a pension, every little helps and the site fees now are so expensive.   Looks like the CLs will be getting a bit more use.   Pity the Caravan Club don't give Senior discounts (excluding high peak) like the Camping and Caravanning Club do, at least that would compensate a little.   I know they offer Mon-Fri discounts on some sites but still doesn't cover a lot of the sites.

We only got the CC Barclaycard to obtain the vouchers, but have seen the number of points required per voucher steadily increase over the years. Now they intend to stop the voucher scheme, we shall simply shop around to find an alternative card that offers us the best deal - but it will not be a Barclaycard !

Not sure why Barclay card gets rubbished after having run the CC scheme for so long but there you go.In actual fact I believe there was only one increase in the number of points required for one site night when it moved from 2500 to 3000. As items purchased on the card have probably gone up it was probably not that much more expensive to earn a site night voucher, and besides, the value of the voucher has risen too.

Shame it's finished but there you go. There are actually better returns for your spending than could be earned on it... Halifx gives you £5 if you spend £300 and that takes some beating. However, you get no more than that so once you have £300 on the account use another card. Santander gives you 3% cashback on petrol,1% on groceries.

Asda give cash back of 1% on spending at Asda and 0.5% elsewhere with no need to tie yourself to a current account.

Not sure why Barclay card gets rubbished after having run the CC scheme for so long but there you go.In actual fact I believe there was only one increase in the number of points required for one site night when it moved from 2500 to 3000. As items purchased on the card have probably gone up it was probably not that much more expensive to earn a site night voucher, and besides, the value of the voucher has risen too.

Shame it's finished but there you go. There are actually better returns for your spending than could be earned on it... Halifx gives you £5 if you spend £300 and that takes some beating. However, you get no more than that so once you have £300 on the account use another card. Santander gives you 3% cashback on petrol,1% on groceries.

 

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In the early days it used to be 2,000 points to get a voucher then it went to 2,500 , now its 3,000 it used to be a good scheme and I will miss my vouchers.I think the card initally started off with Frizzell , then it went to another provider possibly MBNA for a short while before going to Barclaycard.

Well, that will be the end of Barclaycard for us.

Been doing some reckoning up of the rewards and Barclaycard are by far the worst. That's just comparing with Sainsbury and M&S.......I'm sure there will be others that are better still.

Also, that will be even fewer CC sites that we visit because we won't have vouchers to use in the Summer......no way are we paying £30/night.

Barclaycard have sent out notification of the closure to all caravan club credit cardholders and we expect these letters to arrive from today.

Please note that you can continue redeem your points to get Site Night vouchers until the end of August 2016.  Vouchers are valid for a year from date of issue. ( Vouchers ordered in August 2016 will be valid until the end of August 2017.)
 

It says 28 July in the letter that I got from them.

You can earn points until 28July but have until the end of August to redeem them, Ian. Should've gone to ............