Cheap Car Insurance
If you are looking for cheap car insurance there are currently a number of great offers available from UK insurance companies.
Kwik Fit Car Insurance are offering new customers as much as 20% off.
Direct Line Car Insurance are offering 52 days free with this offer only available for online applications and ending 31/03/2010.
Marks and Spencer Car Insurance are not offering an online discount but clubcard holders receive 1,000 points.
So if your car insurance is up shortly it is well worth shopping around as currently there really are some great offers available.
Save Money on UK Airport Parking
With the holiday season here in the for those fortunate enough to be flying away and who have not already pre-booked their airport parking you should consider doing so asap. Below are examples of the money that can be saved at leading UK airports by booking before you arrive and not just turning up and paying on arrival. These examples are based on 2 weeks airport car parking.
Manchester airport normally charges for car parking £109.40 but this can be found for less than £50 by shopping around giving you a saving on your car parking of £59.40.
Heathrow airport the normal car parking cost is £228.90 but again 2 weeks pre-booked can be had for under £88 saving a massive £140+ (possibly enough for a short mini break)
Car Parking at London Gatwick Airport normal cost £126 but again the car parking fee be reduced to less than £90 by pre-booking.
London Luton airport normal parking cost £142.50 but again savings of at least £43.50 can be made by booking before you go.
Edinburgh Airport charges £108 for 2 weeks car parking but while searching yesterday i managed to get this to £54 so a staggering 50% off the normal charge for parking your car at Edinburgh airport.
Similar savings can also be had at the other leading airports like Stanstead, Birmingham, East Midlands, Bristol, Glasgow, Southanpton etc.
Further information on the airport car parking savings at other U.K airports can be found at http://www.carpetbagging.co.uk/airport_parking.html
source of the figures the U.K airports websites and http://www.carpetbagging.co.uk/airport_parking.html
UK Savings Rates
With Interest Rates being held at 0.5%. For savers it is therefore well worth taking advantage of some of the great rates available on fixed rate bonds.
Currently fixed rate bonds are offering as much as 5.00% and there is even an instant access savings account offering 3.15% as over the last couple of weeks the banks and building societies appear to be very keen to reduce the reliance on wholesale funding by attracting more savers.
Maximising the returns on savings accounts
With UK interest rates at historic lows and forecast to fall further many of the top savings rates have been withdrawn but there are still a few great rates available from organisations that are covered by the financial services compensation scheme to £50,000.
Some of the highlights are
1 year fixed rate bond paying 3.90% on minimum investment of £1,000
90 day notice account paying 3.50% on minimum investment of £100
Instant Access account paying 3.25% on minimum investment of £100
There are also some savings accounts now paying 0% interest so if you have not checked what your savings are paying lately it would be a good idea to check to make sure you are maximising the returns on your savings.
Holiday Discounts
Apparently January is the busiest month for people to book holidays and with the UK in recession the holiday companies are fighting each other for your business.
Currently some of the offers are
Thomsons save upto £200 per couple
Hilton Hotels get as much as 50% off
Virgin holidays starting from as little as £645 to Barbados and lots more.
The site below shows some of the current offers so if you are looking for a holiday might be a good place to compare the offers available.
January Sales
Most retailers have started the sales and below are some ways to get even more bargains through the use of promotional codes and discount codes.
And finally a merry christmas and a happy new year to all.
Discount Codes
I was just searching the internet and came acroos this site which has a load of codes to get discounts off online shopping in the UK.
You should be able to save by using them at currys, dixons etc