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When Gillian Lauder from Tyne and Wear bought her partner David an AA Guide to Golf Courses in Britain and Ireland as a Christmas stocking-filler, the first thing she did was ask if she could rip out the back page to enter the competition as soon as possible!...
He was sitting back, relaxed in a grand arm chair, she was sipping her sloe gin gazing out of the window, her eyes following the soft green slope down to the lake. He wondered if the porter had parked the car carefully and she hoped their luggage had been taken to the Deluxe Stateroom...
"I nearly gave up hoping... then the letter came with prize I'd always dreamt of winning"
Shona Pexton finally won her dream prize- a fabulous holiday to Portugal. When her sister had to cancel her honeymoon, after their father sadly passed away, Shona called the competition promoters ...
We planned the date for the holiday, 18 November 2004 and no sooner had we done this, the promoters at Total Greek Yoghurt began making arrangements. They were brilliant, phoning us every week to keep us updated. Two days before departure, and the tickets still hadn't arrived...
I won a place on a cookery course, spending the whole weekend at the gorgeous Swindon Park Hotel, North Yorkshire, getting passionate about food!My husband Pete and I were star-struck as Rosemary Schrager
What an amazing prize! All for the price of a stamp!
In mid-April my husband and I travelled on Virgin Atlantic flights to LA (the nice girl in check-in upgraded us to extra leg-room seats when she heard it was a competition win). We were picked up by a chauffer-driven limousine...
For these four friends from Kent, this is a trip of a lifetime; something that they have always wanted to do, but never imagined doing in such fabulous style! At the end of July they will start their two-month holiday, an awesome adventure in eight different countries in two months!...
Ernest and Julio, the promoters of the competition, gave away five first prizes of a holiday on California and my husband and I were lucky winners. With a choice of five top-notch hotels in different parts of the state, we decided upon Hotel Del Corondo- what a good choice we made!...
As a regular reader of my local newspaper - The Manchester Evening News - I was excited when I spotted a Cirque du Soleil competition. I had seen them before and thought they were brilliant so the idea of winning tickets to see them was just irresistable.
17 years ago, at just 21, Lynne was told she would never walk, drive or work again. She suffers from lupus and acute arthritis, affecting both her joints and organs. The body's immune system becomes hyperactive and attacks the body itself. Retiring at 21 sounds great, but when you are using a wheelchair...
We always joke about comping taking you places - but what if it could whisk you straight from your home this morning to an exotic destination in less than 24 hours? That's what happened to lucky comper Sarah Meir when she entered a competition with Absolute Radio to win a luxury trip to New York - that day!...
We had a wonderful response to our first instalment of the Comping Hall of Fame. Turns out we have a lot of big winners out there who want to share their stories with the world! This month, we've been talking to NCA member Donna Cary, who has amassed an amazing list of prizes over the past few years!...
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.... Unless you're lucky enough to win an amazing trip there absolutely free, in which case you won't be able to stop telling people about it! That's what happened to Isobel Warner, who entered a competition on the Strongbow website and forgot all about it until her...
The prize was a pair of Converse trainers, but not just any pair - the winner would have a pair designed to their specifications!
I love my leopard print lining ad even have my name printed on them. What a lovely prize! Love the magazine!
Lucky comper Jason Bradbury wrote to us to tell us about his best win so far - an all-inclusive snowboarding trip to Chamonix, with a little extra magic added himself!
Just wanted to say thanks (again). We are just back form two weeks in Turkey on a watersports holiday all free thanks to Simply Prizes.
I got the chance to shoot some great pics of people doing tricks wakboarding and waterskiing.
We got home to a massive box full of packets of kettle chips too :) Looking forward to winning another holiday.
We arrived at Vancouver airport on Thursday 19 May 05, our driver arrived moments later and we were driven the 111kms to the Whistler ski area. Wow, what a drive; the sheer beauty of the crisp, white mountains sparkling in the sun was breathtaking..
This month sees a question and answer session with Hazel Markland, one of our subscribers. She has been comping seriously for over a year and has now not only got a hobby for life but has been on the receiving end of some fantastic prizes! Hazel really is the proof in the pudding that ‘you’ve got to be in it to win it’!