1. The 2,000 bonus points will only be awarded to those that have received this email and made a booking between 9-14 March 2017 for travel between 25 March – 24 August 2017 inclusive.
2. Bonus points will be awarded on first transaction only and not for multiple bookings. The bonus points will be awarded by 10 April 2017.
3. Promotional First and Standard Class Fares are available on selected Virgin Trains services only on the West Coast Mainline.
4. Promotional First and Standard Class fares available on virgintrains.com virgintrains.co.uk, trainline.com, trainline.co.uk, Virgin Trains app, Trainline app and selected Travel Management Companies only.
5. Subject to availability on specific services, and requested journeys cannot be guaranteed.
6. Promotional fares are available for booking between 9-14 March 2017 inclusive.
7. Promotional fares are available for travel between 25 March – 24 August 2017 inclusive.
8. Promotional fares available on First and Standard Class tickets.
9. Tickets are non-refundable, change of travel date and/or time is available up to the departure on payment of a £10 admin fee plus the difference of the new applicable fare.
10. Other discounts including Railcards and Group discounts do not apply.
11. Child discounts apply.

Great.....IF you got the email

What.... not available on Southern Snailways..............Ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :sunglasses:

West Coast Mainline only? It doesn't say £4 is the minimum either. Can someone state which journey is best to do? As in buying tickets just for the points not to actually travel.

Thanks - booked some trains for a weekend back home!

£10 admin fee to change the date of a ticket is outrageous. Virgin are a disgrace. This so called birthday sale doesn't in any way make up for their ripoff fares the rest of the time.

What is the cheapest just for the points - London to Birmingham - what dates? Thanks a lot.

I got an email but it reads differently:


I'm not sure you have to buy a seat in the sale to qualify for the points

Thanks, booked one for 2 quid too - hopefully they give the points.

I bought a ticket for £1.30, will see what happens!

Last time they didn't load the points I found live chat useless but 'Resolver' worked :smiley:

You only get the points once, and they get awarded on 10th April.

I saw this email and (as I do with most) just deleted it haha.
Have gone back and booked a Manchester - Liverpool train for £3.

Would be nice to get £10 worth of points for a £3 spend, true. If all else fails however, a train to Liverpool for £3 isn't to be sniffed at - cheaper than the petrol to drive there anyway.

I am still waiting for my 1k points from using dhl in december - have emailed customer services reg the same . Going by personal experience and some of the comments here , be prepared to do some chasing up as points don't seem to be automatically added....

Do note that the offer is valid for Virgin trains only. Tickets booked via Virgin website for trains operated by other operators (such as London Midland, etc) do not qualify for the bonus.

Hot! have just booked Coventry-London return £8! thanks

"Invested" 200 pence towards a child ticket... Lets see if the Nectar points pay out... bring on 10th April!

Just booked a child fare London to Brum for £2... we shall see what happens!

With sainsburys double up it's £18 for nowt :wink:

wild goose chase.
booked previously when the offer was on and didnt get any points.

just booked London to Birmingham child £3 ticket came through London midland service although booked through virgin west coast no doubt will not get points

That's still dodgy advice.

Manchester to Stockport is serviced by Northern, Crosscountry, Transpenine and Virgin (and possibly others but that's all the different operators I found on just one page of results)

You have to be sure you are booking on a Virgin service

No email for me, I'm jealous.

You can purchase a virgin only single from Manchester to Stockport. Even if you purchased a normal single, however , it would count.

I know but it's important to point out that that route is not exclusively operated by Virgin and so people might still buy the wrong tickets

edit: sorry, are you saying you think they'll reward you for buying tickets on a non-virgin service?

Just checked my Nectar account and got my additional 2000 points.
Also have another offer for 1000 more for next booking as its my Birthday.

Got my 2000pts on a £2 ticket too!

Anyone else still waiting on points?

I got live chat to add my missing points