Staff benefits update
21 Jul 2016
It’s the post-heatwave special with fantastic holiday offers including five new highly rated Scottish hotels added to our travel discounts and a great new spa offer from The Midland Hotel
New website
We hope you are enjoying accessing benefits and discounts via the updated website. Bookmark www.manchester.ac.uk/reward for fast access to all your benefits!
Health and beauty
The Gym and The Spa at The Midland Hotel currently have three offers for you. Every Tuesday they are offering a 20% discount on their 55 minute spa treatments. You can choose from over 10 different types of treatments from their treatment menu. Visit The Midland discount page for the spa treatment menu, details of the promo code and how to access the offer.
Bluedot Festival
Jodrell Bank is hosting the Bluedot Festival 22-24 July combining music, science, arts, technology, culture, food and film. Day and weekend tickets/camping is available and kids go free on the Sunday. Find out more here.
Harry Potter launch party
Join us at Blackwell’s Manchester for our launch party for Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, the spellbinding eighth story – and play – in the Potter series. We will shake the cobwebs from your brain with our Harry quiz. We’ll have more surprises than Zonko’s Joke Shop – tasty treats, booky fun and maybe your very own wand! Do come in fancy dress – we’re preparing our costumes right now! We’ll magic up a prize for the best-dressed attendee."
Saturday, 30 July from 10.30pm until after midnight at Blackwell's bookshop, next to the Arthur Lewis Building, Bridgeford Street.
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Travel offers
We have linked up with a Scottish hotel group that are offering you 15% discount on four Edinburgh hotels and an Aberdeen hotel that all have a Certificate of Excellence from Tripadvisor due to their consistently high reviews. Edinburgh’s rich history, August festival and Hogmanay makes it a city to remember. Offers available for:
- The Inn on the Mile (pictured) – On the Royal Mile and rated 9th out of 150 hotels in Edinburgh
- Stay Central Hotel – In the heart of the Cowgate district
- The Murrayfield Hotel – Close to the zoo with complimentary parking
- The Grassmarket Hotel – In the historic old town, a five minute walk from the castle
- The Palm Court Hotel - based in the West End of Aberdeen, a city famous for its maritime history.
Summer is the perfect time to make the most of the great outdoors, and Hoseasons has some very special savings on breaks such as up to 50% off boats in their first class fleet ‘Starboard’ on the Oxford canal and 20% off other selected locations. The opportunity to wake up somewhere new every single day awaits, so make it a summer to remember and book your canal holiday today before it’s too late. Cottages.com has offers on their top 3 regions: – Somerset from £299, Lake District from £295 and Devon from £375 this week.
SuperBreak
The latest SuperBreak newsletter is out. Gibraltar is their Destination of the Month plus free cable car trip.
The second offer highlights the great selection of Bank Holiday breaks. There are also mentions for P&O Mini Cruise breaks, Beautiful – The Carole King musical which is show of the month, (Beautiful – The Musical breaks from £99pp) and An Evening with Antiques Road Trip’s Philip Serrell.
Perkz
Read the latest newsletter for more details, promo codes and how to register.
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