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2013 PTA Legoland California Buy One, Get One Coupons

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Headed to Legoland California this year? Then you may want to buddy up to a local Parent Teacher Association (PTA) or buy the coupons off Ebay. Select PTA groups within the California area have coupons valid for buy an adult ticket, get a free ticket of equal or lesser value. Coupon expires 12/31/2013. Scans of coupons provided for reference only, as no photocopies are permitted to receive the discount.

Receive a free Hopper Ticket to Legoland California and Sea Life Carlsbad Aquarium or Legoland Water Park with purchase of a full price ticket of equal or greater value. Plus receive $10 off up to six (6) additional tickets.

Redeem original coupon for one free one-day Hopper Ticket with purchase of a full-price one-day Hopper Ticket to Legoland California and your choice of either Sea Life Carlsbad Aquarium or Legoland Water Park. Only one (1) complimentary Hopper Ticket per coupon. Legoland and Legoland Water Park admission must be used within the same day of purchase. Legoland and Sea Life admission must be used within 9 days of purchase. Up to six (6) additional Hopper Tickets may be purchased for $10 off. Valid only on the day of purchase at Legoland California Resort. Offer cannot be applied to pre-purchased, online ticket sales, or combined with any other discounts or offers including Birthday Party tickets. No photocopies or facsimiles will be accepted. Additional restrictions may apply. The right of final interpretation resides with Legoland California Resort.

To stay up-to-date on all the latest developments on admission to the various Legoland facilities around the world, please visit our page Legoland Promotions, Discounts, and Coupons (Buy One, Get One).

120219 Groupon Science Center

$42 for Admission to 300+ Science & Technology Museums

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When traveling to a new city, one of the great ways to entertain the family is to visit Science and Technology centers. The museums are typically filled with hundreds of hands on activities to help educate your children, and who knows, you may learn something too. That is why I really like this opportunity via Groupon, to purchase a family membership to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University – Logan Square (affiliate link) for only $42. Individual memberships can also be purchased for $25 via this promotion.

120219 Groupon Science Center

Yes your membership includes the following:

  • Unlimited, free admission to the Academy, including special exhibits
  • Exclusive previews of Academy exhibits
  • Free, expedited entrance to our popular festivals, including Paleopalooza and Bug Fest
  • Discounted guest passes for friends and family
  • Special access to the Academy’s scientists and collections
  • A behind-the-scenes look at the Academy at our annual Members’ Night
  • Priority seating for select Center for Environmental Policy programs
  • Special members-only discounts on Safari Overnights, Academy Explorers Camp, Tiny Tot Explorers, birthday parties, and other kids’ programs
  • Discounts on Academy programming for adults, including workshops and field studies with scientists
  • 10 percent discount in the Academy Shop and Academy Café
  • Free subscription to Academy Frontiers, our quarterly member magazine
  • Free admission to more than 300 Science and Technology centers through the Association of Science – Technology Centers’ Passport Program
  • Research access to the Academy Library by appointment
  • Member parking discounts
  • Special member access to facilities and unique programs at the Drexel Recreation Center
  • A Kids Club membership for our younger members, ages 12 and under
  • Discounted guest passes
  • 15 percent discount on a Philadelphia Film Society membership
  • The chance to add an extra adult to your membership

However, the real beauty of your membership is your free admission to over 300 Science and Technology Museums acround the world.

Lets take a quick look at a handful of some of the museums this membership would get you and your family access to during your travels. See the above link for a list of all the Science and Technology centers that participate in the reciprocal program. All savings are calculated assuming two adults and two kids for a single day admission.

Great Lakes Science Center (Cleveland, Ohio) – $52

Children’s Museum of Houston (Houston, Texas) – $36

Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) – $50

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California) – $34

Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago, Illinois) – $50

Miami Science Center (Miami, Florida) – $51.80

As you can see, visiting just one other museum within a year pays for the price of this deal.

Here are some things to keep in mind for this membership.

1) You need to activate your membership to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University – Logan Square in person before May 31, 2013. So if you have no plans to be around Philadelphia, this deal may not be for you.

2) Your membership gets you typically into only the permanent collections at reciprocal museums. In other words, special exhibits, theaters, or programs may incur additional costs.

3) Benefits you receive from membership to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University – Logan Square (i.e. discounts in stores and restaurants) do not transfer to other museums.

4) Family membership may be defined differently at each property. Your Family membership includes two adults and up to five children younger than 18 from the same household, or up to five grandchildren younger than 18. However, other properties may only define a family membership as two (2) children. Please call in advance of your visit to confirm.

5) There is a 90 mile stipulation on free membership surrounding the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University – Logan Square. In other words, other museums within a 90 mile radius are excluded unless noted otherwise. Updated lists can be viewed on the ASTC website.

Visit Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University – Logan Square (affiliate link) to purchase your membership.

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Daily Feats

Earn US Bank FlexPerks via DailyFeats and Plastic Jungle

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Daily Feats

This week I received a mailer from the US Bank FlexPerks program discussing some of the new promotions that have been added to the lineup of offers. Some of the benefits include Lounge Access via Regus as well as some of the free point offers that we discussed for email signups and photo contests. However, there are two programs that I am excited to introduce.

The first of which is a partnership with DailyFeats. The idea is simple. Create tasks that lead to a healthier lifestyle and upon completion, they reward you with points that can later be converted into FlexPerks. So I decided to give it a try.

To begin, I recommend visiting flexperkspromos.usbank.com. After signing into your account, you should see an offer to join the DailyFeat program.

You will then need to create a new account with DailyFeat. After you enter your name and email address, you will notice there is a promo code field. After a little bit of research, I found a code on Southern Savers that offered up to 202 free points by entering in promo code southernsavers100.

You will notice your account starts out with 100 free points. Additional points can then be earned by completing a special challenge.

Within minutes, I was up and running, and by clicking around through the hundreds of little feats, I was able to either instantly earn free points, or set up tasks that will earn me more points once completed.

So what is all of this really worth?

Well looking at the reward program, there are lots of options for everything from gift cards to FlexPerks, and the ratio seems pretty favorable.

Daily Feats Rewards

The FlexPerks redemptions are pretty stellar in my opinion. For only 50 points you will earn 250 FlexPerks, and 90 points earns you 500 FlexPerks. The only poor thing is that the redemption is only limited to once every three (3) months.

I am really falling in love with the charmingness of the DailyFeats program. Cute little tasks that can easily be accomplished, and furnish a thought process that should help you lead to a more productive lifestyle. At the same time, you will be earning rewards that will help you earn free FlexPerks that can be used towards travel.

Plastic Jungle FlexPerks

Plastic Jungle Conversion to FlexPerks

I foresee some great potential out of the new partnership between Plastic Jungle and FlexPerks. Before I get into more details of this promotion, lets come to a basic understanding of the FlexPerks program. Just the other day I promoted the US Bank FlexPerks credit card, and highlighted how points earned are valued at $0.02 per point. Why is this important?

When you earn 20,000 FlexPerks, you can then redeem them for a trip up to $400 in value. Where you need to be careful is that if you try to book a flight between $400.01-600 (via Travelocity), the program will require 30,000 points. One cent makes a big difference.

By opening both a personal and business version of the US Bank FlexPerks credit cards last year, our family is sitting on a pile of 43,000+ points, which means we have $800 in travel rewards coming to us. It is pretty undeniable the value and potential of the program.

So now back to the Plastic Jungle promotion. I was curious to see how lucrative the offer was for the consumer, so I tested out a couple of our gift cards.

$25 Regal Cinemas – 1063 FlexPerks
$25 Home Depot – 1100 FlexPerks
$25 JCPenney – 750 FlexPerks

So lets take the most lucrative of these offers, Home Depot, valued at 1100 FlexPerks. We want to get to the magic 20,000 FlexPerks number to get a $400 travel valuation. Using the $25 Home Depot gift cards, we would need to shell out:

20,000 FlexPerks / 1100 FlexPerks = 18 * $25 = $450

With the above example, if you put all 18 Home Depot $25 gift cards on your US Bank FlexPerks card, you would earn 450 FlexPerks + 19,800 FlexPerks via Plastic Jungle, plenty to get to the 20,000 redemption level. The problem is that this experiment results in spending more than the value of the travel redemption (i.e. it would cost you $450 to earn $400 in travel rewards). Obviously, this example does not work. However, quite possibly higher value gift cards and/or those sold with a higher resale value may make the math work out.

Lets take a quick look at the breakeven point.

20,000 FlexPerks / 1250 FlexPerks = 16 * $25 = $400

As you can see, we are not too far off. I can not guarantee there is a valuation that makes this work in our favor, but there very well could be with some experimentation.

One way this could possibly work in our favor is to use Discover Cashback to purchase gift cards at a discount. For example, one could redeem $80 in cashback for a $100 Banana Republic, Brooks Brothers, Gap, Lands’ End, L.L. Bean, Old Navy, or The Limited cards. Then it would depend how many FlexPerks we would be given, plus figuring out the best way to acquire $80 in Discover cashback with the least amount of out-of-pocket spend. This could take some more investigation, plus an evaluation of time versus money to actually make the FlexPerks/Plastic Jungle promotion lucrative. Not as good as I initially thought, but there could be promise.

US Bank FlexPerks Referral

Interested in opening a US Bank FlexPerks card? As an existing card holder, I am able to refer guests to the best current offer that I am aware of at this time. Our refer a friend program is offering 17,500 FlexPerks for opening the card and spending $2,500 or more within five months from account opening.

When completing the application, at the top there is a field labeled “Referring Friend’s FlexPoints #.” Please enter in account number 400003689876. We will earn 5,000 points as a referral bonus, and you will be on the way to earning FlexPerks. We thank you!

If you have any questions, please let us know.

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