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Summer Vacancy: The Pinnacles, Sheffield
The privilege card. Definitely fast and free.
Following on from the theme of “Fast and Free” we got thinking about exactly how much it is that our privilege card holders could save each week, even we were surprised!
Monday; we tottered off to Vodka Revolution to treat ourselves to lunch and take advantage of for 2 for 1 offer. We saved £6.95. Result!
So happy with that off we went to the Common Room for some pre club drinks, £1.80 a pint for four of us, £1.60 in the pocket saved, loverly jubberly!
That got us in the mood for a bit of a boogie and not wanting to queue we wandered down to the Leadmill, walked past the waiting punters with our cards, 25 extra minutes to enjoy the night… thank you!
Tuesday; In need of a little pampering after the night before a hair cut was booked at Toni & Guy, who wants to pay full price? Not us! 20% off please, £3 saved!
A chilled night in front of the TV was in order next, nothing in the fridge? Papis Chinese it is then! 20% off all our order, tasty saving of £3.60.
Wednesday: midweek dawned and Pizza Express for lunch was on the cards, 2 for 1 offers were available to us so we took full advantage! Two starters, two main courses, whopping saving of £11.20!
Chuffed with change in our pockets we decided to head to Riley’s Pool and Snooker hall and paid for 2 hours and got the 3rd free, 3 for 2 on all bottles and we got free membership! Total saved – £8.70.
Thursday; So nearly the weekend it was only right we ended up at the Tequila Bar for 2 for £5 cocktails and 2 shots for £1, cheap as chips! Totaled saved – £5.75
Nipped to SOYO, no queueing here either, excellent! Saved 20 minutes and didn’t have to twiddle our thumbs waiting to get in, cracking!
Of course we then wouldn’t want to queue at Plug for Jump Around either, guess what? We didn’t have to! Straight in! Danced our socks off, slept like a log that night!
Friday; Weekend is here!!!! Straight to Freshman’s for some new threads,15% off with our card and saved £3.75 on a new shirt, can’t argue with that!
Looking pretty dapper we headed down to the Old House and the Forum for drinks and saved £2, finished off with a trip to Corporation and with an entrance fee of just a quid we considered ourselves pretty well done by! £4 saved!
Saturday; The folks came up with visit and we were able to take advantage of our discounts at the Holiday Inn Royal Victoria and saved them a tidy sum of £20 on the room as well as 15% off food so we saved £5.34 on our lunch there too.
Sunday; Headed off to the Ski Village today and with 2 for 1 on skiing for four of us skiing for 2 hours we saved a colossal £59.20!!!!!
Two hours on the slopes worked up a massive appetite so before they headed home we nipped to the fantastic Nawaab Indian Restaurant and used our card for the “buy two meals, get the third free” offer saving us £9.90!
Have you been totting up our savings? No? Good job we did then. Drum roll please… in one week of using our privilege card we saved…..
£144.99!
Yes, that’s One Hundred and Forty Four POUNDS and Ninety Nine PENCE!
Need any more persuading to take advantage of your privilege card savings? Thought not!
Apply for student accommodation at the pinnacles here.
Words we love in Sheffield: FAST & FREE!
No Place, No Problem…
The Pinnacles are offering first year students peace of mind this year, promising to release anyone from their contract if they don’t get a place at a University in Sheffield! No other private accommodation provider is offering this deal and so really sets them apart from the rest.
Sign up at the Pinnacles today without the stress of your forthcoming results. If you don’t get the grades you need, no problem- simply provide the proof and the lovely folks at the Pinnacles will cancel your contract and return your deposit in full! *
For more information on this deal or to book a room, call the team on 0114 275 4659 or visit the website at: http://digpinnacles.co.uk/
* Subject to terms and conditions
WARNING ON FRAUDULENT CHEQUE SCHEMES
Officers from Lothian and Borders Police Specialist Fraud Unit and the Serious and Organised Crime Unit have advised that they believe crime groups are targeting students in a fraudulent scheme involving students paying fake cheques into their bank accounts.
It appears that criminals offer students a share of the cash, a few hundred pounds at most, to carry out these fraudulent transactions.
Ds Aitken of the Specialist Fraud Unit, warns us that: “The students are told by the criminals that they will not get caught even although they know the activity is criminal. In fact they are involved with organised dangerous criminals who will pursue them and demand their ‘pound of flesh’ even if the transactions fail. Many of the students are foreign nationals, and if found guilty at court of fraud will have a criminal record, probably be expelled from the universities or colleges they are studying at and will in all likelihood be deported. It just not worth the chance.”
Police are now asking anyone who has been approached in relation to this scheme to contact police immediately and avoid becoming involved in this illegal activity.”
It’s not just students that can find university daunting.
Starting at university is extremely daunting. A new place to live, new people, often a totally new city or even country miles away from home, whatever the situation it’s not an easy time in your life. Of course it’s exciting, a totally new adventure and new chapter but what about those you leave behind?
We’ve spoke to a few parents to see what went through their minds when their offspring flew the coup!
The over riding response was that a parent wanted their child to fit in, to be safe and to flourish in their new environment and not be weighed down by any stress that this new lifestyle could bring. We’re happy to report that each parent we asked had only praise for the support and accommodation that The Pinnacles in Sheffield offers its residents.
Each and every parent will want to research their son or daughter’s choice of city to study in and those who opted for a DIGs property found our detailed website, blogs and information a reassuring source to go to that helped them prepare for this important change in their family’s life. Spending time together looking into the place they decide to study is a great way of settling both of your nerves, seeing where they might live, socialise, study and shop. Why not take a virtual tour around the city using Google Earth? At least then when you do visit for the first time you might recognise a few places and be a bit more familiar with what it has to offer.
After speaking to both a parent based in the UK and one in the USA another really resounding piece of advice they had to offer was to make sure the parent and child have a set time and date to contact each other and we were surprised at how many spoke of using Skype to keep in contact (a great tool over the internet as it’s totally free so a student can’t have an excuse of not having any credit to phone home with an update!) Having this in place meant that the parent’s mind was put at ease knowing that the student was doing well (you can video call over Skype too so you can see if they are looking tidy!) and staying safe but also meant that mum wasn’t calling and interrupting an all important night out at the local quiz!
Something else that everyone we talked to mentioned was giving the child their freedom and allowing them to make their own discoveries and mistakes, and one parent put it perfectly, “let your children fly with their own wings when they are ready for it”. There will never be an easy way of packing your loved one off to university and letting them fend for themselves for the first time but here at DIGs we’d like to reassure parents that we are always on hand to offer them guidance, support and most of all keep them safe within our residences.
Accompanying your child on their first journey to their new home is also very important, we understand that you want to make sure they are settled and you can see where they are going to be spending most of their time. You might even want to meet some of our staff and they’d be more than happy to meet you!
If you need some accommodation whilst visiting here are some suggestions for our Sheffield site;
Ibis Hotel: Shude Hill, Sheffield S1 2AR. 0114 241 9600/ibishotel.com
Hilton Sheffield Hotel: Victoria Quays, 2 Furnival Rd, Sheffield, South Yorkshire. 0114 252 5500/hilton.com
Travelodge Sheffield Central: 1 Broad Street West Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S1 2BQ. 0871 984 6305/travelodge.co.uk
Mercure Sheffield St Pauls Hotel & Spa: 119 Norfolk Street Sheffield, South Yorkshire S1 2JE. 0114 278 2000/mercure.com
There is no piece of advice we can give to stop a parent feeling anxious about their child leaving home but what we can say is we will take very good care of them. Don’t forget, we’re always only a phone call / email away! We wish you and your son / daughter all the very best in your new chapter.
The DIGs team.