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Worldwide Hotels offers over 1,000,000 properties, exclusive discounts and more across the whole world. With huge savings of up to 60% on accommodation, members are sure to save on both short breaks and long vacations. Additionally, members can book exclusively priced car rental. Here are some of our top picks around the world, showing you just how much you can save!
Treat your loved one, or even yourself with an indulgent treat, fantastic day out, or once-in-a-lifetime experience! World Privilege Plus have teamed up with Virgin Experiences Days to offer you a fantastic 20% discount on all full priced experiences – that’s all 2000 of them!
So just what is a Virgin Experience Days voucher? It’s a gift the goes the extra mile to offer something memorable, different and fun, whatever you’re into. It’s a memory to make at your own convenience, packed stylishly in a Virgin gift pack so you know you’re receiving quality.
Take a look at some of our top picks below!
With this Double Supercar Blast for Two there’s no need for you to miss out on all the driving thrills, as both you and a friend will be able to get behin
d the wheel of two iconic superstars. With 12 different supercars and a rally driving experience to choose from it’ll be a tough decision, but no matter which you go with you’re sure of the drive of your life.
Behind the wheel you’ll each get to enjoy up to six miles of exhilarating driving, dependant on which of the 11 locations available you choose to go for. Whichever location and whichever two speedy monsters you choose to get to grips with you’re in for an exceptional thrill ride you won’t find down your local A roads, and an expert instructor will be on hand to guide you both through the best way to take on your chosen circuit.At the end of your day’s driving you’ll each be presented with a commemorative driving certificate, a great memento and reminder of your amazing experience.
Dine in superb style at ‘maze by Gordon Ramsay’. Overlooking the beautiful gardens of Grosvenor Squ
are in Mayfair, London, you and a friend or loved one will thoroughly enjoy this five-course tasting menu experience, along with a glass of stylish Champagne each.
You’ll receive excellent service and sample maze’s delightful French cuisine with Asian influences, which are innovatively presented in smaller dishes allowing you to sample more of the impressive menu. A fusion of taste and style this restaurant will allow you to take in the stunning contemporary design as you are each served five tasting courses from a set menu, to include a glass of chilled champagne each and a delicate pre-dessert. Whether you decide to take this as a lunch time treat or a romantic dinner, you are sure to have a culinary experience to remember.
Get into your jumpsuit, strap on those goggles and board the aircraft. This is a fantastic experience where you will feel the thrill of jumping from a plane door at a height of up to 12,000 feet. Enjoy the unique sensation of free fall before that all important moment when your parachute is deployed and it’s time to slow down and take in the spectacular scenery below you.
There’s not much to worry about, you will be strapped to a qualified and experienced instructor the whole time so you can relax and enjoy the ride. Bring along some friends so they can witness you take on this unusual opportunity to display your adventurous side.
Discover London’s ‘Theatreland’ with this fantastic experience that includes dinner and two tickets to a West End show. You’ll enjoy a memorable evening in London, beginning with a delicious pre-theatre two-course mea
l at a restaurant within walking distance from your chosen theatre. Once you have finished your tasty meal, it’s off to one of London’s fabulous West End theatres for the main attraction.
Upon entering the theatre you will admire the decadent architecture and stylish décor that make a trip to the West End so special. When the lights go down you will be transported to another world as the show begins and the talented ensemble take to the stage. There are a variety of performances to choose from, from long-running productions to successful new shows, and restaurants to suit every taste. So whether it’s comedy, horror, musical or drama that you’re into, this spectacular experience won’t disappoint.
Take a trip to northern Wales and spend a night with someone special in a Noble Room at the historic Ruthin Castle, with a full Welsh breakfast included to give you a full Welsh experience.
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eeped in history, Ruthin Castle dates back from Arthurian legend through to the English Civil War, and was once owned by King
Henry VIII. During your stay you can walk among the old walls, take in the countryside or explore the nearby market towns and hunt for something quaint – assuming you don’t want to just spend your time enjoying the hotel’s Moat Spa Thermal Suite and Gym.
Your room includes 24-hour room service, hospitality drinks and complimentary Wi-Fi, so even staying in an ancient castle doesn’t mean you’ll be completely separated from the modern world. There are lots of restaurants around five minutes’ walk away in Ruthin, but if you’d rather stay on-site you can purchase gourmet pan-European dishes at the hotel’s Bertie’s Restaurant. On the morning after your stay you’ll be served a complimentary full Welsh breakfast to ready you for the journey home ahead.
Roaming is an area that lots of people are still confused about and we’d like to try to explain what roaming is all about and how you can avoid being handed a huge bill for calls, texts and data when you travel abroad.
Roaming…what exactly does it mean? Well in simple terms, it means taking your phone abroad and using networks in the country you are visiting to enable you to use your phone as you would at home, so voice, SMS, email and the internet. Your normal mobile provider would have agreements with many networks around the world, enabling you to continue to use your SIM card abroad. The only downfall of this is the astronomical rates your normal provider charges for using your phone abroad.
So why is roaming so expensive? Well, to be quite honest, main network operators won’t and don’t reduce their roaming rates because most people won’t switch to an alternative provider when they travel abroad, and so seem to be happy to pay their astronomical rates!
A few years ago, the only way to avoid horrendous roaming bills was to simply switch your phone off and just check it occasionally to see what calls and texts you had missed. Then if there was anything urgent you could respond to it. Nowadays, it’s not necessary to switch your phone off completely. You can still make and receive calls and texts, and use data, but you just have to be a bit carefully and consider your options before you travel abroad.
Most of you will already be aware of the changes that have been happening in the EU over the past few years, and the EU Commission has managed to force MNO’s (Mobile Network Operators – such as Vodafone, EE, AT&T and Verizon) to reduce their roaming rates within the EU for voice, texting and data, and have capped rates with reduced rates coming into force every year for the past four years. As of December 2016, MNO’s will not be able to charge a different rate to customers who are travelling within the EU, they will simply be able to take their SIM and bundle deal and use it wherever they like in the EU and not incur any additional fees. All calls, SMS and data will be taken from their bundle. However, that is no so for the rest of the World and customers will still have to look at their rates for the rest of the world and see what the best options are for them.
So what are your options?
Keep your normal SIM
You could continue to use your normal SIM card from home. It’s convenient, you can continue to use the same number, it’s easy for people to contact you, you don’t have to spend time switching SIMs, copying contacts from your SIM to you phone, and you don’t have to look at alternative options. However, there are downsides and they are going to always be that you cannot get away from paying extortionate rates.
Use VoiP
You could look at using a VoiP service for calling and messaging whilst you’re abroad. There are some fabulous services available and most people we know have an account with a major VoiP provider! You can voice call and video call, so it’s like being in the same room as the person you are talking to. Great for both business and personal use. However, to be able to use the service you need to have a data connection. When you’re on a free WiFi connection all is great, but beware of the data charges! Unless you are connected to a WiFi, you’ll be looking at substantial data roaming rates (see below for WiFi pros and cons).
Free WiFi Hotspots
Free WiFi hotspots are great, letting you catch up on all your communications, and are becoming increasingly common globally. Public places such as hotels, restaurants, coffee shops, exhibition centres and more offer free WiFi hotspots, but be mindful, for when you are out of range you can’t benefit from free data and could begin incurring roaming charges. Check your phone settings and if you are roaming, ensure you switch Data Roaming OFF in your settings to avoid any possibility of bill shock.
Buy a Local SIM
You could buy a Local SIM card with a local mobile number. Obviously the major benefits of this are that you’ll get low local domestic rates for voice, SMS and data within the country you are visiting, and you won’t have to pay to receive any calls. However, you will pay high rates to call internationally and each time you visit a new country you have to swap to a different SIM. You’ll have to keep updating friends and family who may need to contact you that you have a different number, and any credit you might have left on the SIM when you leave the country will be lost when you leave the country.
Buy a global roaming SIM
Many people are seeing the benefits of using a roaming SIM when travelling abroad. Mobile/cell companies specialising in providing roaming service generally offer voice, SMS and data service on one SIM. The coverage ranges from between 175 and 200 countries and network agreements are generally set up with multiple networks in each country that the service works in. This enables customers to use a service that remains active a lot of the time, with the SIM automatically switching to the strongest network at all times.
A roaming service provides a convenient solution to being able to remain in contact, at all times, without having to switch data off completely, and have peace of mind that you will not incur a horrendous bill for use of your phone when travelling abroad. There is no more juggling of multiple SIMs and providing numerous contact numbers so people can call or text you! One SIM, one account, one balance to manage and incredibly low call, text and data rates covering the majority, if not all, of the countries you would ever want to visit!
We have teamed up with Aether Mobile to offer you an amazing 20% off their SIM+credit packages and handsets!
Aether Mobile is a global roaming service provider, offering low cost solutions for voice, data and SMS in over 200 countries. Why not take a look at their rates so you can see just how much lower theirs are than the main network operators?
Once consigned to the pastime of choice for eccentric professors in tweed and bow ties, cycling seemed to morph into the sport of choice for professionals almost overnight.
You needn’t have paid much attention to the Rio Olympics to hear just how much UK cyclists have been dominating the sport. Much like the London Olympics in 2012, cycling has been thrust into the limelight with local heroes like Bradley Wiggins and Laura Trott becoming household names.
The commitment and dedication in these performances reverberates strongly with modern professionals. Setting off on a 100km ride on a Saturday morning with your friends, colleagues or business partners is a commitment that can’t be replicated by swinging at a golf ball & praying the wind sets it down roughly where you aimed for. And yet at the same time riding a bike is, well… as easy as riding a bike!
Cycling is so easy and so accessible, the same professionals out on the roads on Saturday can just as easily go for a bike ride with their families on Sunday.
There are no drawn-out 18-hole games here:
Once you’ve bought your bike and cycle gear, there are no course membership fees to pay (although if the bug really bites you might run up a nice tab at your favourite coffee spot). You can bring the kids along too, thanks to brands like ‘Frog Bikes’ who have revolutionised children’s bikes, they’re much safer and easier to ride than the crude & bulky contraptions we rode around on as kids!
The final nail in the coffin for Golf? High quality performance bikes are no longer the reserve of financial bankers and oil barons. Not only can you get 0% Finance on a bike, priced from as little as £250 up to the most jaw-dropping & impressive ‘crafted-by-men-in-labcoats’ machine you set your heart on, we have teamed up with Wheelies.co.uk to bring you a 10% discount on over a thousand bikes until September 11th.
At Secret Escapes, we think booking a holiday should be an exciting, enjoyable and str
ess-free experience, so we decided to create a website where we hand-pick the best hotels and holidays and curate exclusive offers available only to our members. Our flash sale prices are better than anywhere else online during our sale, that’s our guarantee.
Every week we run short ‘flash sales’ lasting around ten days each – the time left is indicated on each individual sale. There may be as many as 140 sales going on at any one time, but we’ll email you to let you know what’s coming up during the week.
It’s worth noting that, although all of our prices are better than anywhere else online during a flash sale, the availability of our lowest advertised rates may be limited. Our offers are often available to book days, weeks or months in advance.
By hand-picking hotels and holidays for members, Secret Escapes acts as an agent for the suppliers, tour operators and hotels featured on the site.
Leasing is a fantastic way to own a new car and change it every 2, 3 or 4 years without losing thousands of pounds in depreciation. The car is brand new, is covered by the manufacturers warranty, along with roadside and breakdown cover. The Road Fund License is even included – for the first year on PCP and HP, and for the duration of the contract on PCH and CH
Very few people have a lump sum available to buy a new car without some sort of finance. Even if you can afford to purchase a new car outright you will still lose a great deal of money as soon as you drive off the forecourt through depreciation. The other thing to remember is that we buy hundreds of cars a year and therefore can negotiate discounts from the dealerships AND the manufacturers, whereas individuals can only receive discounts that local dealers can offer.