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Let me set the scene for our latest freebie scam.
We have been up the mountain playing in the snow all day, we look feral! We're both wearing layers of fleeces, jeans, hiking boots, and ski jackets. We look a lot like the Michelein(sp) men. We're strolling back to our hotel and happen upon a lovely department store that has signs at the entrances saying closed for private party. We push our rosy red noses against the glass and see very well dressed models and glamorous people sipping martinis and perusing the Prada. We want some of this action, so we ignore the signs and head in. We looked so out of place, but posh people are terribly polite and no-one mentioned our lack of designer threads. So there we were glamming it up with the upper crust of Vancouver drinking free martinis, snacking on delightful chocolate treats and hand made truffles. They were even nice enough to ask if we wanted to actually touch the Prada! What a delightful free evening, if only there had been gift bags from Tiffany it would have been perfect.
This just adds to the list of things we have been given on our travels.
Lots of free cookies, why? It certainly isn't because we look like we need fattening up.
A free pizza, take note budget travellers. Go in to the Pizza Parlours just as they are gettting ready to close, they give you stuff for FREE! Same with some restaurants and cafes. We've also received free chicken and pitta meals.
Beers. For free beers head to your nearest casino. Find the cheapest slots, ( in our case 1c machines) insert your dollar for a hundred credits and then wait for the drinks waitress to arrive with the free beer. If you are careful with your hundred credits there are at least two drinks in it before you need to find another dollar.
Special order take-aways have also proved a virtual treasure chest as well. For some reason when I order food without cheese the staff struggle with my weird blend of Australian/English/American ( and I promise I hardly put any of it on). The food always arrives with cheese. Then when you point it out they bring out the new stuff, Then they always ask if garbage man Jez will eat the stuff with the cheese because they are only going to throw it out....ummm yes.
One final freebie pops to mind. Prior to leaving Blighty Jez purchased Helly Hansen boots at an outlet store for 30 pounds. On our travels the same boots are selling in the States for around 160 USD. Anyway said boots started to come unstuck on the sole after about 6 weeks of constant wear. Jez pops in to the next Helly shop we see to discuss the failings of the boots, kind American salesman offers to swap them for a brand new pair!! Jez walks out with brand spanking new boots for free! If only the poor chap knew we'd only paid about 60 dollars for them in the first place.
Anyway that's enough insider tips for today, I have to go pack. We've managed to convince this lovely Canadian girl that she needs a 22 foot motorhome relocating from Vancouver to Calgary for 99 dollars. Sweet!
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