Money Saving Girl Money Saving Tips and Ideas
As you may remember we have bought a huuuuuge house recently and invited our families for Easter. As my sister’s daughter Nela is 6 years old and Lenjia is 2 it is important to find some cool activities for kids /toddlers to enjoy while here in London. So far we were lucky to visit:
- Danson Park – a heaven for kids as not only the park is enormous and beautiful but also has a fantastic playground area, which Nela enjoyed thoroughly. A must-visit place in South East London! Address: Danson Road, Bexleyheath, Greater London, DA6 8HL, England
2. Imperial War Museum – free admission- an amazing place for probably bit older kids than Nela nonetheless her parents enjoyed the I and II World War-related exhibitions. I must say the cafe in the museum offers quite delicious food – a bit pricey though. Getting there is also a bit of a mission depending on which side of London you are coming from. For us the easiest way to take the train as far as we could have so to Waterloo East and to walk 10 more minutes to the museum.
3. Childhood Museum – when you go to Bethnal Green this museum is a must see placed – located a short distance from the tube station and with free admission it offers not only permanent exhibitions but also now they host an exhibition called ‘Century of the Child: Nordic Design for Children 1900 to Today’ it is on from 30/03/2018 until 02/09/2018
4. Spitalfield Market – as it’s not far away from the Childhood Museum we decided to walk through Brick Lane and visit Spitalfields Market at the end of our walk. A lovely market with an eclectic range of retailers and restaurateurs to discover. I really enjoyed this market as it is a true tourist attraction on its own 🙂 ah, and I found possibly the best coffee in the whole of London just there too! It is sold at Climpson & Sons coffee kiosk and tastes awesome, the best cortado I had in ages.. totally worth £2.6
5. Eltham Palace – as it is local to us and one-time entry ticket cost £15. However as I intend on doing more UK than abroad trips this year – as buying the house broke the bank a bit – we decided to buy an English Heritage membership as Eltham Palace and Garden are owned by English Heritage. A truly beautiful place.
STEPS for saving on ENGLISH HERITAGE membership:
- I went on the Topcashback site to get 8% cashback (it was as high at the time of buying the membership)
- I then used my NUS card which lowered my annual membership price from £56 to £46 and I got my husband’s membership using a valid promo code: EH2018 – supplied to me by Pouch – it lowered the membership price by 15% so from £56 to 47.60
- We saved that way +£20 on our memberships (discounts + plus cashback) and of course were able to use them straight away as you got a temporary membership card valid for one month
- The biggest saving possible to make for a couple is when getting the joint membership and using a valid promo code to knock down the price. As it can work out as £99*15%= £14.85 to be saved via promo code alone and you can still get a few % worths of savings from cash back on the top of that 🙂 I didn’t choose this option as I wanted to pay monthly for my membership as I like to have a direct debit as I have multiple bank accounts so having one more direct debit will come in handy 🙂
- Install Pouch – to get a valid code on this and many more shopping pages and never miss a working discount code. I love Pouch as I am sick and tired of checking discount codes form pages ranking on the top of Google as most of them are either no discounts at all or don’t work at all. The pouch gives you working codes and the Chrome extension allows you never miss any discount – so ensure you get it today 🙂
I really enjoyed my latest tourist discoveries and can highly recommend the above to anyone sightseeing central on South East London 🙂. If your guest visit briefly it may be easier for them to use Nannybag suitcase and bags Storage if they do a bit of sightseeing on the last day of their stay and want to optimise their day in the most efficient way!
