Hints and Tips
Bundle your flight and hotel: lastminute.com sells flight and hotel packages at what it calls special package rates, with more than 400 airlines and over 2 million places to stay to choose from. Price the package before booking the two separately, and look at the partial stay options if you only need a hotel for part of the trip.
Book Europe and Asia trips a few months out: lastminute.com's own advice is to book peak-season vacations six to nine months ahead and shoulder-season trips to Europe and Asia three to six months ahead, warning that prices climb fast in the last 60 days before travel. If you're flexible on dates and destinations, it points you to its Last Minute Deals instead.
Spread the cost with a deposit: You can secure a flight and hotel package with a deposit and pay the remaining amount later. That helps if you're following lastminute.com's advice to book peak-season trips months ahead but don't want to pay in full upfront. Check the deposit amount and the balance due date before you confirm.
How We Source Our Promotions
At Marie Claire, we have a dedicated team of deal experts, commercial colleagues, and editors who find and negotiate the best sales and deals, as well as produce content aiming to help you shop affordably.
We have a dedicated team of 3 deal experts that are constantly sourcing and testing deals for some of the biggest retailers in fashion, beauty, and beyond to list on our website. They also work with affiliate networks to get a heads-up on future deals and discounts. This means we can update our pages.
Meanwhile, our commercial colleagues are key to keeping good relationships with retailers. Their experience with lifestyle brands helps them to negotiate the best deals and promotions for you.
On the pages themselves, you’ll find carefully researched saving information for all your beauty, lifestyle, and fashion purchases. Our contributing editors have years of experience in the industry and consistently update the page to reflect new ways to save. You’ll find helpful discount FAQs and saving tips which are checked and verified regularly.
What if my promo code doesn’t work?
Our team always tries to make sure any out-of-date sales or incorrect deals are not included on our pages. To do this, we check a few things, including:
- Trying the deal and checking if they are valid ourselves.
- Check we don’t have any unique, one-use promotions.
- Looking at the offer conditions to make sure you’ve got all the information.
However, there are occasions when details change or the sales may expire without us knowing. If this happens, be sure to contact us by emailing coupons.marieclaire@futurenet.com so we know.
How do we make money?
It’s completely free for customers to use the deals we have above. We’ll get a small percentage of the money spent as a commission from the retailer you shop at. As with most businesses, we do need to make money however this will never impact the price you pay. The brand will give us a small share of the profit for connecting you to them. This helps us keep going whilst saving you more money.
Simply put, the retailer makes a sale, we get a commission, and you get a deal.
