In the lead-up to the summer holiday season, RAKBank, the Ras Al Khaimah-based retail lender, has teamed up with makemytrip.ae, the online travel agency, to offer customers two-for-one package holiday deals.
The offer, which is valid until the end of July, is available to customers who pay for trips with either their credit, debit or prepaid cards.
The deal applies to discounted packages to Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka and includes accommodation in a four-star hotel for four nights/five days, daily breakfast, sightseeing tours, return airport transfers, hotel taxes and service charges.
"By tying up with makemytrip.ae, we are giving our customers double the reason to enjoy their holidays," says Graham Honeybill, the chief executive of RAKBank, which was founded in 1976 as the National Bank of Ras Al Khaimah.
The two-for-one holiday offer follows the lender's recent launch of a new website, www.rakbankdeals.ae, which gives credit and prepaid card customers exclusive weekly deals. To book one of the holiday offers, go to www.makemytrip.ae and look for RAKBanks's special offers, then call 800 141 414. For details, go to www.rakbank.ae.
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Mashreq bank hopes to lure the UAE's affluent with its "have it all" Platinum Elite credit card.
The card carries added-value benefits such as golf discounts of up to 50 per cent, access to more than 600 airport lounges worldwide, dining privileges at 400 outlets in the Emirates and up to a 40 per cent discount for health check-ups.
"The Platinum Elite credit card bundles all of the additional benefits any affluent consumer could want into a single card," says Farhad Irani, Mashreq's head of retail banking.
