Senior discounts

[Gemini]

Are you benefitting from the discounts which being 60 plus can bring?

I know not all our members are in the 60 plus bracket, but if you are, you may as well make the most of it!
Talking to a friend last week I realised that she and her husband have never bought senior rate theatre or cinema tickets, nor reduced price admission to anywhere on days out. She is 61, her husband 66.
I always look for the discount. Occasionally I have been too young (nice feeling LOL) and the age has been 62 or 65, but the majority of times is it 60 and over.
We have saved on theatre, cinema, and admissions rates to various places, Senior Special lunches when out with mum and auntie, boat and bus trips, and in Cape Cod on the local bus!
I also have a senior rail card, paid for with £15 in Tesco points, which is half the cost of paying in cash. Worthwhile even if just for my Birmingham GRU trip

So, do you remember to ask for the senior rate?!

[Mimi]

Specsavers offer a discount on their glasses for the over 60s . I am hoping the offer is still on next month when I am due for my 12 monthly checkup and I suspect a need a change in prescription !

[Glammanana]

I'm hoping that also Mimi I am in dire need of an eye test either that or my reading specs need a good clean lol. I always look for offers of discounts I have even been known to ask at the Chinese Restaurant to re total the bill when I forgot to mention at point of ordering I was over 60 (DS2 shrank away red faced) it all adds up over the month doesn't it, if you remember when I hit 60 that day I spent it on the local buses flashing the card about on all the journies as I had been waiting for ages to get a pensioners pass everyone was convinced I had lost the plot.

[Nanto2girls]

We always try to take advantage of over 60's discount.
2 weeks ago, I booked online for Sagrada familia and Park Guell, for when we go to Barcelona, and took advantage of the reduced rates for over 60's.

[Glammanana]

Nanto The Spanish certainly know how to discount their "Pensionista's" don't they when we lived there many of our customers went to lots of the outdoor performances given locally by touring groups of actors and musicians and the cost was discounted so much more than here in UK,if you where a fully paid up memeber of the Spanish Pension system you had the offer every year of a massively discounted 7 day holiday to Majorca/Ibiza or any of the other Islands if they where available all Fully Inclusive fat chance of that happening here I think,I have 9yrs full payments into the pension system and even I can now when 65 claim a part payment of Spanish Pension pro rata they certainly know how to look after their pensioners.

[Nanto2girls]

They seem to have a good system there for pensioners Glammana. That's good, that you can claim on their pension.

[Grauntie Mag]

Ho yes, I always ask for discounts as I'm a pensioner and...keep it under your hat...I used to masquerade as a pensioner when all but me were. That says a lot for the wrinkles. 👵🏻 I have discount cards for B&Q, the local plant nursery etc. I travel to Stanstead Airport on my travel card and have been around the Isle of Wight for nowt. Always on the lookout for cheapies.

[Shemadee]

Got £5 off my haircut recently which was a nice surprise especially as it was my first visit and the cost was half the price I had been paying! He even asked if I was a pensioner so I could tell myself I obviously don't look my age!

[Daisy]

I always get a pensioner's discount at the hairdressers, but if doesn't apply to Fridays and Saturdays, and I was really shocked a couple of weeks ago when i had to move my appointment to a Saturday and didn't get my usual bargain price! We always look for the discounts on admissions prices anywhere.

OH was really upset recently when he needed to go to B&Q on a Thursday!

[Avo]

Haven't reached that milestone yet! Hubby is 62 and he can't get a bus pass until he is 65 (but as we only get one bus a week it's not a great problem )!

[Nanto2girls]

My hubby got his bus pass when he was 60, I got mine at 61. We never use the pass for going on the bus. We used to get free train travel with ours, but that stopped nearly 2 years ago. We can use it for half price rail travel in South Yorkshire.

[Gemini]

OH and I don't get our bus passes until we are 66

[Nanto2girls]

When hubby got his at 60, the same applied to women.So, when I got to 60 and applied,i was told I couldn't get it till I started getting state pension. Because of the changes to pensions, I was 61 when I started drawing the pension.

[Avo]

I shall be 67 when I get mine!

[grannyjules]

It still amazes me that prescriptions are free at 60. With everything else changing I thought that would have too.