Monday, September 2, 2013

Entertainment Book - Sydney


I don't know about you, but I love a bargain...and free stuff. I am trying to save for a house; in Sydney, so you can't really blame me. I heard about the entertainment book through work who are selling it for the Christmas Party fundraising. You can get a book based on location, such as: Sydney, Sydney North, Sydney Greater West etc. Obviously I bought Sydney as I live in Sydney.
 
It is full of vouchers for fine dining, cafes, restaurants, dry cleaning, take away, fast food, the cinemas etc. You name the category and it is probably in there. The restaurants are not crap restaurants either. I was a huge sceptic before I bought this book. I thought 'who would buy that, it probably only has shitty cafes that no-one goes to anyway'. I was mistaken and gladly so.
 
The book cost me $65, though I think the price varies depending on the region you buy for. I got it two weeks ago and already I have saved $65 from the vouchers so it has paid itself off. Earning its keep from day one. I am not getting paid for this review, nor do the people who created the book even know about this tiny little blog. The point of this post is to let you know that if you buy the book, we can all be a bit cheap together save money.
 
So far, I have only used vouchers for places I regularly go to. I am a creature of habit, I know. I do however intend to use the book to open my eyes and find new places. Perhaps ones I even need to drive to! I was surprised at the list of offerings available and am really keen to try out a few of the places I would usually never venture to. Most of the deals are either for 25% off or a complimentary main meal when another is purchased. Obviously up to a certain value, but still a great offer.
 
Some offerings in the fine dining section in Sydney include: Ocean Room, Bistrode CBD, Cafe Sydney, Kobe Jones. As I said, the offerings in the book are not too shabby.
 
If you don't have an entertainment book, I'd highly recommend grabbing one. Even if you don't want to save money because you're rolling in it, it's a good way to find new places to eat out.



8 comments :

  1. My friends have the entertainment book and they certainly love it!

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    1. It's great if you eat out a lot like I do haha

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  2. We have one! They are awesome hey :)

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    1. So good! We've saved about $75 already and have only had it close to three weeks!

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  3. The Adelaide one is $65 too. We sell them for Ovarian Cancer Australia at work, $13 from each book goes to the charity. The best bit? Get your dining buddies to get books, then you can use more than one Gold Card for every couple, and you save even more!

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  4. Oh we buy one / get one as a gift from J's parents, every year! I love it, and I seriously wonder if we spend more because of it...like would we go and eat out and do fun activities if we didn't "save" because we were doing it? Probably not.
    But life is more fun when you can do fun stuff for cheap!

    When I bought ours this year, I was so overwhelmed because the charity we bought it off wrote us like 3 letters to say thank you, so that was nice!

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    1. We eat out all the time, so for us we're not going out any more than we normally would. Mainly due to laziness... I get bored on weekends so decide we should eat out. We have had to scale back though due to saving so only go out maybe once a fortnight now. I really like that the book has places to eat from all over the place.. Makes us choose places we wouldn't normally go to.

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