Get into London Theatre ticket offer

I love the theatre but it is a once every so often treat purely because it really is too expensive! So I'm always on the look out for cheap ticket deals and this one is well worth checking out. Get into London Theatre, the popular theatrical ticket promotion is back and from 21st June until 9th September 2012 you can book a wide range of musicals, plays, dance and entertainment with tickets priced at £10, £20, £30 and £40 with no additional booking or postage fees.

Tickets from £10 include the Olivier Award nominated shows One Man, Two Guvnors and the stage adaptation of the children’s book, The Tiger Who Came To Tea.
There are more than 40 shows available and there really is something for everyone, all the big musicals and plays - from English National Ballet's Swan Lake to the RSC's Julius Caesar and Disney's The Lion King. Maybe now I'll finally get to see The Woman In Black!

Visit the Get into London Theatre website  or call the 24hr ticket hotline on 0844 412 2703 for further information. Tickets must be booked by 31 May and there are no booking or postage fees. The website also has a whole host of travel advice and restaurant & hotel offers.

Get Into London Theatre summer 2012 is just one of many initiatives the Society of London Theatre (SOLT) has put together to help audiences make the most of the Olympic summer. Visit Official London Theatre’s Theatre 2012 section for helpful tips on travel, a list of all the shows running over the Olympic period and the Don’t Miss The Real Show theatrical trailer.

SOLT (Society of London Theatres) has worked with Transport for London to produce an Olympic-period-specific ‘theatre travel guide’ enabling visitors to plan and make the most of their trips to the theatre during the games.  A PDF of the guide can be downloaded from Official London Theatre's dedicated 2012 section

Exotic travel and getting the best discounts

Before I had children I was in the lucky position of editing a leading bridal magazine. Although I had to get excited about weddings and wedding etiquette, oh and of course frocks, I also was in the enviable position of being asked on a regular basis to review honeymoons.

Yes, you read correctly, HONEYMOONS!

Not your b&b somewhere windswept and wet but proper, pucker, 5 star city hotels and deserted island beaches. Sometimes I went with a group of other journalists, often with my other half who thought he'd died and gone to heaven. Working for the local council at the time which he did, he didn't often get offered a night in a luxury hotel with the wine cellar open for testing and the manager at our beck and call.

The picture here is from Wanderlust - who specialise in once-in-a-lifetime trips to whet your appetite.

Another world and another life-time... but it was the '80's.

Now we have to compromise both on price (budget is all) and on the type of holiday we can all enjoy. This often means we end up in an 'all-inclusive' miles from anywhere where we are abandoned for other teenagers, the bar and the all-night club. Which is fair enough, and I know I am lucky on two accounts. One that I can afford a holiday at all, and two that the teenagers still want to come on holiday with us. But I do hanker after something a bit more bespoke and grown-up.

This has made me a bit of a 'travel-porn' junkie. I look at travel websites like other women look at shoe websites and men look at, well whatever it is that men look at... I lust after rooms with Egyptian cotton sheets and terraces overlooking a white sand beach. I crave fluffy bathrobes and champagne on arrival. But there is hope and it comes in the form of a travel club which offers some pretty amazing discounts. Voyage Prive is a club that is invitation only and every month will email details of some amazing offers to  hotels, resorts and holidays that are almost too good to resist. So for 3 star prices you can get 5 star treatment and locations. At the moment they have apartments in Lisbon for 65% off,

Marrakech hotels at a saving of 70% and an amazing Seychelles holiday for 42% off (not including flights unfortunately but you can't have everything). Here it is...

I still haven't managed to actually book anything but my month is definitely brightened by the thought of what I could book if I could get the money together and the timing right...

So before you book your Summer holiday check out how to get invited (you can always leave me a comment and I'll recommend you with pleasure), sign-up to Voyage Prive and you won't be disappointed...

Update: since writing this post we got inspired and booked a couple of nights at Sandbanks Hotel, Dorset for an incredible half price! Can't wait to go....