The first is signing up for details from the BBC to be in the audience. We have enjoyed a couple of nights out at the Comedy Store in Manchester courtesy of the BBC where they have been recording radio shows and we have attended as members of the audience. We are fortunate to live not too far from the city centre and can use public transport to get to there. I have also been offered tickets to attend the filming of shows at Media City where the BBC are based at Salford Quays. Again this is within a reasonable travelling distance and there are good public transport links. Once you have signed up then you should receive emails on a regular basis giving details of shows that are available for you to apply for tickets to attend. The shows are all over the UK and not just based within my area so there should be something within a reasonable travelling distance for many.
A second way that we get a free (or free-ish) night out is by using my Tesco Clubcard vouchers. I have written about these in a previous posting which you can read about here. Basically, whenever you spend you earn points and the points are converted into £ money off vouchers. These vouchers can be converted from Tesco vouchers into money off vouchers at restaurants and they are much better value because you get 4X the value. I usually wait until I have £10 and then convert them to £40 for a meal. Pizza Express and Cafe Rouge are favourites although we have also visited Prezzo which is another pleasant night out.
I book the restaurants on-line and the websites ask for your email address so that they can send an email confirmation. This then becomes another way to have reduced nights out as they email you on a regular basis with offers such as 25% off or 3 courses for say £12.95 etc. So, sometimes I do not have any vouchers to use for a free meal but feel like a night out and we use one of the offers that the restaurants have sent to us via email.
I have also signed up to a website called Show Film First which has regular free tickets for films and events such as dance or theatre in a number of locations throughout the UK. We have had free tickets to some great films at different cinemas around our area. Sometimes they have BOGOF (buy one get one free) on tickets and other times they have prize draws for cinema tickets. They are good value for money as when we have looked at the prices we would have paid then they have been around £15 mark.
One of our cheapest nights out was a night at the Trafford Centre where we went to the cinema with free tickets from Show Film First followed by a meal at Cafe Rouge. The only thing we paid for were the drinks at Cafe Rouge so our night out should have cost £55 and we paid about £12 for a bottle of wine. Not a bad price for two people.
I book the restaurants on-line and the websites ask for your email address so that they can send an email confirmation. This then becomes another way to have reduced nights out as they email you on a regular basis with offers such as 25% off or 3 courses for say £12.95 etc. So, sometimes I do not have any vouchers to use for a free meal but feel like a night out and we use one of the offers that the restaurants have sent to us via email.
I have also signed up to a website called Show Film First which has regular free tickets for films and events such as dance or theatre in a number of locations throughout the UK. We have had free tickets to some great films at different cinemas around our area. Sometimes they have BOGOF (buy one get one free) on tickets and other times they have prize draws for cinema tickets. They are good value for money as when we have looked at the prices we would have paid then they have been around £15 mark.
One of our cheapest nights out was a night at the Trafford Centre where we went to the cinema with free tickets from Show Film First followed by a meal at Cafe Rouge. The only thing we paid for were the drinks at Cafe Rouge so our night out should have cost £55 and we paid about £12 for a bottle of wine. Not a bad price for two people.
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