Discovery Vitality [2017]

With the Nandos R100 spend on a meal. Would that be any meal, wonder how that works
 
Yes... can't access the rewards, probably too many active connections or something.

From the Discovery website:

11-10-2017: Vitality Active Rewards
We are aware that members are experiencing the below technical issues when trying to access the Vitality Active Rewards screen on the Discovery App:

No information is being populated on the Vitality Active Rewards page.
Members are continuously being prompted to enter a password.
We are working on the issue and apologise for the inconvenience this has caused.
 
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Free smoothie... FML!! and I struggled, kept swiping and it said swipe faster - sounded like a chick.... landed on Mauritius reward at one time... bastards
 
Is the R219 per month fee worth it, right now I pay R580 odd for Virgin Active, would the discount offered for gym membership work in my favour?
 
Syphonx said:
Is the R219 per month fee worth it, right now I pay R580 odd for Virgin Active, would the discount offered for gym membership work in my favour?
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It all depends on how active you are. I make my goals each week so my gym membership is free (100% discount), you earn a bunch of smoothies (individual & team reward) and I get 25% off healthy foods at PnP (about R300 pm) and 25% off at Sportsmans Warehouse. So in a month it could add up to a decent amount of savings/cashbacks/freebies.

BTW I won the R100 voucher for the surprise reward - after it eventually accepted my spin...
 
Syphonx said:
Is the R219 per month fee worth it, right now I pay R580 odd for Virgin Active, would the discount offered for gym membership work in my favour?
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Yeah it's worth it. My Virgin Active fee is R200 with the standard 75% discount. Plus you get the free smoothies every week.

I normally take both the wrap and smoothie for R55 with the discount. So essentially I get the R80 wrap and R50 smoothie for R55 which is a R75 discount. Been using this twice a week with the team rewards so around 8 times a month. R75x8 = R600 savings per month on wraps and smoothies at Kauai.
 
livw88 said:
It all depends on how active you are. I make my goals each week so my gym membership is free (100% discount), you earn a bunch of smoothies (individual & team reward) and I get 25% off healthy foods at PnP (about R300 pm) and 25% off at Sportsmans Warehouse. So in a month it could add up to a decent amount of savings/cashbacks/freebies.

BTW I won the R100 voucher for the surprise reward - after it eventually accepted my spin...
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What are the goals? As in workout 5 times a week sort of thing?
SaiyanZ said:
Yeah it's worth it. My Virgin Active fee is R200 with the standard 75% discount. Plus you get the free smoothies every week.

I normally take both the wrap and smoothie for R55 with the discount. So essentially I get the R80 wrap and R50 smoothie for R55 which is a R75 discount. Been using this twice a week with the team rewards so around 8 times a month. R75x8 = R600 savings per month on wraps and smoothies at Kauai.
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I've never considered the smoothies that healthy, so to me it mostly boils down to whether it makes my gym expenses cheaper.........
 
Syphonx said:
What are the goals? As in workout 5 times a week sort of thing?
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To be completely honest, my goal for the past year is at the max (900 points) and it never comes down. The way I reach it is by training with a heart rate monitor. 2x cardio sessions per week (2x 300 points) and 3 gym visits (3x 100 points) with 2 days rest. This has always been my preferred training schedule and not motivated by the rewards - they are just a bonus. Without a heart rate device you would need to do the weekly parkrun (300 points) and then 6 gym visits - so you have no rest days.

As I said earlier, if you are fairly active the max goals are easy to reach, otherwise if you are training 3 times a week or less it might not be worth all the extra effort.
 
Syphonx said:
What are the goals? As in workout 5 times a week sort of thing?

I've never considered the smoothies that healthy, so to me it mostly boils down to whether it makes my gym expenses cheaper.........
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To activate the gym benefit on Vitality costs about R1800, even if you're already signed up for the gym - you have to end that contact, and start a new one and pay the activation fee. From there, if you visit the gym regularly, and meet your active rewards goals for every week, your gym membership will be free. You can however, only be on a one gym membership for it to be completely free
 
jman said:
To activate the gym benefit on Vitality costs about R1800, even if you're already signed up for the gym - you have to end that contact, and start a new one and pay the activation fee. From there, if you visit the gym regularly, and meet your active rewards goals for every week, your gym membership will be free. You can however, only be on a one gym membership for it to be completely free
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Now I feel very stupid :( I never knew this, I make my targets most weeks, but still paying the R200 something every month, in essence I will have to cancel my current contract and pay R1800 (9 months to make up the R1800), I do not even want to think about what I've lost already. I have a national access to all Virgin active gyms, will I loose this if I renew contract?
 
Xino_sam said:
Now I feel very stupid :( I never knew this, I make my targets most weeks, but still paying the R200 something every month, in essence I will have to cancel my current contract and pay R1800 (9 months to make up the R1800), I do not even want to think about what I've lost already. I have a national access to all Virgin active gyms, will I loose this if I renew contract?
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If you already have the gym benefit through Vitality, you don't need to cancel. Just downgrade your membership to a single club, then you'll be able to activate gym booster
 
Xino_sam said:
Now I feel very stupid :( I never knew this, I make my targets most weeks, but still paying the R200 something every month, in essence I will have to cancel my current contract and pay R1800 (9 months to make up the R1800), I do not even want to think about what I've lost already. I have a national access to all Virgin active gyms, will I loose this if I renew contract?
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I opt for the national membership. Discovery Vitality reduces this, I can’t recall by how much. So you don’t have to switch to a single club membership however if you did your potential savings would be greater.
 
Xino_sam said:
Now I feel very stupid :( I never knew this, I make my targets most weeks, but still paying the R200 something every month, in essence I will have to cancel my current contract and pay R1800 (9 months to make up the R1800), I do not even want to think about what I've lost already. I have a national access to all Virgin active gyms, will I loose this if I renew contract?
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The R200 something you pay is for Premier membership is it not? In other words, if you downgraded to access at a single gym, you would not pay anything for gym, over and above your Vitality monthly fee? That is how it is for me, but that is because I am still on the pre-2010 Vitality option where I paid a once off activation fee of R800 in 2009 and then 'free' every month after that.
 
Syphonx said:
What are the goals? As in workout 5 times a week sort of thing?

I've never considered the smoothies that healthy, so to me it mostly boils down to whether it makes my gym expenses cheaper.........
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The raw juices are healthy though, those are close to R40
 
The goals don't increase too much. Mine started at 50 points and increased by 50 points a week. It stopped at 300 points and has been stuck on that for the last 2 months. I just do 3 gym visits a week for 3x100 points and don't go over.
 
SaiyanZ said:
The goals don't increase too much. Mine started at 50 points and increased by 50 points a week. It stopped at 300 points and has been stuck on that for the last 2 months. I just do 3 gym visits a week for 3x100 points and don't go over.
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It may start slow now, but once it goes over 350, it will never ever drop lower than that again. I did ask. It also drops a lot slower than it goes up. So once you at 900, even if you stop for months, it will take more than a year to go below 500.

Which I guess is fair if you think about it, its about your fitness level and they then expect at least that much from you.
But while its low, its great.
 
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