Discovery Vitality 2020

[Koosvanwyk]

Posted in wrong year !

From 2020 you will no longer have to achieve Gold Vitality status for three consecutive years to reach Diamond status. You can now reach Diamond Vitality status in a single year by earning 50 000 Vitality points. This means that your health and fitness outcomes will now be directly related to your Vitality status. To reach Diamond Vitality status in 2020 you will need to achieve 50 000 Vitality points, even if you reached Gold for the 2 previous years.

When you have additional adult dependants on your membership, the additional points that need to be earned in order for the family to reach each Vitality status will be lowered to 50% of the single member threshold. This means that additional adult dependents add 3 750 Vitality points to the threshold for the family to reach Bronze Vitality status, 12 500 points for the family to reach Silver, 20 000 points for the family to reach Gold and 25 000 points for the family to reach Diamond Vitality status. These members can earn a maximum of 25 000 Vitality points per year.

Vitality points in 2020

In 2020 we will be aligning our points structure to better reflect members? health status and reward them accordingly. This has resulted in some exciting new changes.

www.discovery.co.za

Please confirm how you understand this - so a main member and one adult dependant - reach diamond in 2020 by getting 75 000 points. But the main member needs to get 50 000 as the adult dependant can only earn 25 000 per year ?

No, this is not correct. The term additional adult is confusing, this actually refers to adult number 3 and up on a single vitality policy. So if there is only one ( the main) member on a vitality policy you will need 50,000 points for diamond. If you have the main member + one adult, then you need 100,000. If you have one member + one adult + additional adult you need 125,000 for Diamond. From here on you add 25,000 for every additional adult. If you ready the T&C of your vitality policy you will see that they define "additional adult" from the 3rd adult and up.

 

[Gtx Gaming]

Good Morning

So trying to make sense of all the new changes to discovery. I have never been a vitality member but I am starting to consider it for gym and active rewards. Can anyone point out a reason to go for full vitality vs vitality active. I do not like restricting myself to buying "health" foods from predetermined stores as my local green grocer has is predominately where I buy my fruits and veg. Baring the discounts on HealthFood,HealthGear and Travel is there any other significant differences between the two?

Thanks in advance

Active is just 50% off gym, full is 75%. Decent virgin actives are R800 just for that gym, so might be worth it just get the full package.

 

[crashy]

I cannot spot the - "Overall maximum Vitality fitness points 30 000 cap" in the 2020 - write up ? could this long standing cap possible be removed ? any ideas ?

Anyone got an answer for this? Would be epic if the 30k fitness points are removed

 

[DENROCwtf]

I found this rather interesting.

 

[DENROCwtf]

This one as well - For your info - if you like a summary by youtube

 

[beefymoocow]

I found this rather interesting.

It’s ok. She kinda got some of her facts wrong. Like the international flights. She said you get 75% off but you get only 50% off. She didn’t mention anything about miles multiplier as well, wonder if they stopping that completely?

 

[DENROCwtf]

It’s ok. She kinda got some of her facts wrong. Like the international flights. She said you get 75% off but you get only 50% off. She didn’t mention anything about miles multiplier as well, wonder if they stopping that completely?

It seem a lot of the issues or benefits are still up in the air - Discovery like to test thing out - launch quickly then change.

 

[citizensa]

It’s ok. She kinda got some of her facts wrong. Like the international flights. She said you get 75% off but you get only 50% off. She didn’t mention anything about miles multiplier as well, wonder if they stopping that completely?

Guys I am more or less sure miles multiplier is not gonna come back and I see they converted that portion into extra bank rewards which they promote as 50% healthy food cash back and 25% healthy gear and care etc this from bank side.
She is correct in 50% for international flights but it’s very restricted so I am sure they are trying to sugar coat things

 

[beefymoocow]

Guys I am more or less sure miles multiplier is not gonna come back and I see they converted that portion into extra bank rewards which they promote as 50% healthy food cash back and 25% healthy gear and care etc this from bank side.
She is correct in 50% for international flights but it’s very restricted so I am sure they are trying to sugar coat things

Yep. It’s been confirmed multiplier has been discontinued. One of their agents confirmed it.

 

[CranialBlaze]

202 is starting to look like a great year to ditch vitality.

The overall value, for me at least, has already dropped quite considerably.

I don't shop off their healthy food list cause its a ****ing joke.

I so seldom shop at sportmans anymore, pretty much have all the kit and **** I need and what I do need they don't sell.

Pretty sure I am going to drop the gym as I only joined for the pool and I have realised triathlons are not for me, the idea was more fun before I became an enduro bro.

The weekly spins are a pile of crap, now all that's moving to miles which once I drop the gym will be exclusively funded by weekly spins.

What's actually left, these are literally all the benefits I got from it.

 

[BlockingThePass]

Do I have to have the full suite to get a gym rebate from discovery Bank?

 

[Aharon]

Do I have to have the full suite to get a gym rebate from discovery Bank?

You definitely need a credit card...

 

[CranialBlaze]

Do I have to have the full suite to get a gym rebate from discovery Bank?

No, just the account, you need the full suite to get any value out of vitality money though.

 

[SueC]

Can anyone help... re healthy food at woolies... if I separate my groceries, and then pay for the “healthy food” items on one slip and the not-so-healthy items on another slip, will they still cancel each other out? Ie does the -20 work per slip or per month?

 

[ies87]

Can anyone help... re healthy food at woolies... if I separate my groceries, and then pay for the “healthy food” items on one slip and the not-so-healthy items on another slip, will they still cancel each other out? Ie does the -20 work per slip or per month?

I do that all the time. I don’t swipe my healthy food (w rewards) card for non-healthy food purchases so I never get penalised.

 

[SueC]

I do that all the time. I don’t swipe my healthy food (w rewards) card for non-healthy food purchases so I never get penalised.

Thank you!

Also ... if i swipe my woolies card on a different day for clothes, (or Chuckles....) will the deductions only count for that particular slip, or will they cancel out healthy food i have purchased previously during the month?

 

[CranialBlaze]

Thank you!

Also ... if i swipe my woolies card on a different day for clothes, (or Chuckles....) will the deductions only count for that particular slip, or will they cancel out healthy food i have purchased previously during the month?

It runs month to month, good food adds points, bad food removes points. The day matters not.

 

[XFlorenceX]

Won't have Vitality in 2020. I'm done with Discovery's endless problems. From firstly not fixing the glitch where I couldn't retrieve rewards on the app for 8 weeks, and of course, last week when I WAS able to retrieve Dischem vouchers FINALLY, it ended up NOT working telling me that it is not valid. Been another week with no updates or feedback from Discovery yet their phone staff said I'll get a reply within several days. Oh, the icing on the cake is that they also called me the wrong name in their previous email to me. Their service has really gone downhill from me within a 3 month period.

 

[L-Dog]

I see I can't redeem my 2 diamonds anymore. Though I had till the end of the week as I don;t want useless additional spins.

 

[CranialBlaze]

I see I can't redeem my 2 diamonds anymore. Though I had till the end of the week as I don;t want useless additional spins.

Rewards week end midnight Tuesday. Points week ends midnight Friday.