How to turn Tesco Clubcard Points into an easyJet Holiday

You'd be forgiven if you didn't know Tesco Clubcard points could pay for your easyJet holiday.

Most people treat Clubcard vouchers as a way to knock a few quid off the weekly shop, or maybe stretch to a Pizza Express meal if they've been saving hard. Completely fair, I'm never going to judge anyone on food.

But the fact is that those same points can be turned into a decent dent in the cost of a package holiday, at double the value, through their partnership with easyJet holidays, so here's how to do it!

How the Tesco Clubcard to easyJet Holidays exchange works

Every £1 of Clubcard vouchers becomes £2 of easyJet holidays credit. Convert £150 in vouchers and you're sitting on £300 of holiday credit.

I think that is a pretty good conversion rate and it works on package holidays, not some narrow list of add-ons nobody wants. I'll talk about how this compares to transferring your Clubcard points to Virgin Points below.

How does this compare to converting Clubcard Points to Virgin Points

easyJet holidays isn't the only place your Clubcard vouchers stretch further than face value. Virgin Atlantic's Flying Club is a longstanding Clubcard reward partner too, and it's worth putting side by side with the easyJet deal I think.

Convert to Virgin Points and every £1 of Clubcard vouchers becomes 200 Virgin Points, so £150 in vouchers turns into 30,000 Virgin Points. That's a different kind of value to the easyJet doubling, because you're not getting cash-equivalent credit, you're getting airline points that need redeeming against a flight or upgrade to actually mean anything.

Find a strong redemption and Virgin Points can be worth considerably more than 2p each, putting that £150 well ahead of the £300 easyJet gives you. But Virgin Atlantic prices its redemptions dynamically, a huge bug bear of mine, so the number of points a flight costs moves around with demand just like the cash fare does. There's no fixed chart to bank on, which makes the value harder to pin down than a flat conversion rate. easyJet's doubling, by contrast, is locked in the moment you exchange, no seat maps, no shifting availability, no guesswork.

Not to mention the ghastly hike of taxes and fee Virgin Atlantic introduced back in April this year, which also affects the value of Virgin Points.

What you can't use Clubcard holiday credit for

This isn't a free-for-all. The credit only works on package holidays booked directly through easyJet holidays. So that rules out standalone flights on easyJet, travel insurance, airport parking, or anything booked over the phone or through a travel agent.

You have to be part of the travel party yourself, and you can't pool your credit with family or friends to fund one big group trip. Anything for eight or more people gets kicked over to a phone booking anyway, so this is really built for couples, small families, and modest-sized groups.

There's also an annual ceiling worth knowing before you get carried away: £300 in Clubcard vouchers per 12-month period, capping your easyJet holidays credit at £600. Try to push past that and the transaction simply gets rejected, with your Clubcard points refunded rather than lost.

The six-month deadline to be aware of

Once converted, the credit is valid for six months, and that clock starts the moment you exchange.

You need to make the booking itself within that window, though the holiday doesn't have to be taken within six months, just booked.

Miss the window and the credit simply expires. It won't be refunded, re-credited, or swapped back into vouchers or points. So this only really makes sense if you've got a trip on the horizon, or you're confident enough in your travel plans to commit within half a year.

It won't replace a proper points and miles strategy if that's your thing. But for the average family doing their normal supermarket shop, turning loyalty points into holiday money deserves to be far better known than it currently is.

How to use the credit

There's no partner code for this one. Your Clubcard vouchers convert directly into "easyJet holidays credit," which shows automatically in your easyJet holidays account balance, labelled "Tesco Clubcard" credit so it's easy to spot.

Before placing your order for easyJet holidays credit:

1. Check your account emails match. Your easyJet holidays account needs to use the same email as your Tesco Clubcard account.

2. Go to the easyJet Holidays page on the Tesco Clubcard section of the Tesco website. Choose your exchange amount carefully. There's an annual cap on easyJet holidays credit, £300 in Clubcard Vouchers converts to £600 in credit. Orders exceeding this limit will be cancelled and your Clubcard points refunded. Note that once vouchers are converted, the credit is final: no refunds or exchanges on unused balances, so only convert what you'll actually use.

3. Give consent to share your email. Placing an order means agreeing to let Tesco share your account email with easyJet holidays for verification purposes.

4. Watch for two emails. You'll get an order confirmation straight away, followed by a second email once easyJet holidays verifies everything, this one explains how to access your credit.

5. Book your holiday. Head to easyJet holidays to put your credit toward a package holiday.

The bottom line

For some people, converting Tesco Clubcard vouchers into Virgin Points just isn't the best use of them, and that's fine to admit, even on a points and miles website. Not everyone wants to hunt for redemptions or ride out dynamic pricing to get the value they're after.

There's just as much to be said for a straightforward £600 off an easyJet holiday, guaranteed, with no research and no waiting for the right seat to show up.

Points and miles strategy has its place, but it isn't the only way to get value out of a Clubcard balance. Sometimes the better move is the simpler one. Do your weekly shop, and let your every day spend be put towards whatever you'll actually use.

Helena

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