Joe Paxton
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As per this post on the 'hotukdeals' website, Trip.com have a special offer (expiring tonight - 16 July) of £18.60 for a one year Railcard.
It is a Digital Railcard, and has to be shown via the Trip.com mobile app (in the same way as a Railcard bought through the Trainline or from TrainPal).
Supposedly one needs to also buy a train ticket via Trip.com in order to activate the Railcard, but some comments indicate that this isn't actually necessary.
Comments on the deal and also elsewhere suggest that the Trip.com app is a bit flakey and doesn't necessarily show the Railcard if there is no data connection, which is of course daft if so. I think I've read similar about Railcards on the TrainPal app - and TrainPal is a Trip.com brand, so I wouldn't be surprised if the Trip.com and Trainpal apps are very similar.
However I think I could live with this.
The other thing that comes to mind if using Trip.com is the potential for data harvesting - Trip.com has its HQ in Singapore, though is owned by the Trip.com Group - a Chinese conglomerate. I don't think I'm of that much interest to the Chinese Ministry of State Security, but the broader issue of a weaker data protection culture on the other side of the world does come to mind.
Does anyone here have an experience of Railcards through the Trip.com app? Perhaps I'm volunteering myself to be the crash-test dummy!
It is a Digital Railcard, and has to be shown via the Trip.com mobile app (in the same way as a Railcard bought through the Trainline or from TrainPal).
Supposedly one needs to also buy a train ticket via Trip.com in order to activate the Railcard, but some comments indicate that this isn't actually necessary.
Comments on the deal and also elsewhere suggest that the Trip.com app is a bit flakey and doesn't necessarily show the Railcard if there is no data connection, which is of course daft if so. I think I've read similar about Railcards on the TrainPal app - and TrainPal is a Trip.com brand, so I wouldn't be surprised if the Trip.com and Trainpal apps are very similar.
However I think I could live with this.
The other thing that comes to mind if using Trip.com is the potential for data harvesting - Trip.com has its HQ in Singapore, though is owned by the Trip.com Group - a Chinese conglomerate. I don't think I'm of that much interest to the Chinese Ministry of State Security, but the broader issue of a weaker data protection culture on the other side of the world does come to mind.
Does anyone here have an experience of Railcards through the Trip.com app? Perhaps I'm volunteering myself to be the crash-test dummy!