{"id":811,"date":"2015-02-12T16:17:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T16:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wade.one\/blog\/?p=811"},"modified":"2016-04-28T15:36:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T15:36:23","slug":"won-a-heineken-valentines-dinner-reservation-only-a-reservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wade.one\/blog\/2015\/02\/12\/won-a-heineken-valentines-dinner-reservation-only-a-reservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Won a @Heineken Valentine&#8217;s Dinner Reservation &#8211; ONLY a reservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I got a call around lunch today saying I won the prize at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/startreatment.co\/star-access\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/startreatment.co\/star-access\/<\/a>\u00a0for a dinner reservation for Valentine&#8217;s today at a nice restaurant, I was a little taken back but very happy &#8211; it&#8217;s a free Valentine&#8217;s\u00a0\u00a0day meal for me and my husband, great! As with most of these competition&#8217;s I wasn&#8217;t expecting to win but was extremely pleased to get the phone call.<\/p>\n<p>Then I got this email&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wade.one\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/heineken.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-833\" src=\"https:\/\/wade.one\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/heineken-1024x603.jpg\" alt=\"heineken\" width=\"800\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wade.one\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/heineken-1024x603.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wade.one\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/heineken-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wade.one\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/heineken-250x147.jpg 250w, https:\/\/wade.one\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/heineken-150x88.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wade.one\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/heineken.jpg 1796w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To quote the bit that took me by surprise: &#8220;Just a little reminder; this is just a reservation, <strong>it\u2019s up to you to foot the bill<\/strong>.\u00a0&#8221; That&#8217;s right, I won a table at a restaurant that I could&#8217;ve booked myself! Oh 2 free pints worth around \u00a36.40? The train tickets will cost us \u00a326 from York! That&#8217;s an amazing price of minus \u00a320!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, I won a competition for a table at a restaurant with a free beer but no food. Cheers Heineken! Needless to say I won&#8217;t be going from York to Leed&#8217;s\u00a0on Valentine&#8217;s day for a meal that I have to pay for when I can just stay in York and go somewhere like the Star Inn the City; at least then I am going expecting to pay and not being excited to win\u00a0something worse less than the cost of getting there to have it!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I got a call around lunch today saying I won the prize at\u00a0http:\/\/startreatment.co\/star-access\/\u00a0for a dinner reservation for Valentine&#8217;s today at a nice restaurant, I was a little taken back but very happy &#8211; it&#8217;s a free Valentine&#8217;s\u00a0\u00a0day meal for me and my husband, great! 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