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British Council Club Card

Introduction

From September 2012, the British Council is introducing a card that could make your wishes come true.

What you can expect from your card:

  • interesting offers from our partners
  • better ticket prices fro selected cultural events
  • a gateway to the UK

Who is the British Council Club Card for?

When you register for our course or examination, you will automatically receive the British Council Club Card.

How long is the British Council Club Card valid?

The card is valid from September 2012 until August 2013. For more information please contact our Customer Services team at
info@britishcouncil.sk

Special offers

Here you can find special seasonal or one-off offers of our partners. Watch this space!

Partners

Bagel & Coffee Story

www.bagelcoffeestory.com

Bagel and Coffee Story is a unique concept full of freshness, flavour and aroma with our own bakery, patisserie and in house roasted coffee. 100% organic whole wheat bagels, always fresh hand roasted coffee, home made sweets, ice tea and 100% fresh lemonades, super light and trendy salads always prepared on order – all this is a Bagel and Coffee Story.

Bagel and Coffee Story
Obchodna 10
811 01 Bratislava
Tel: +421 911 306 130
Opening hours:
MON–FRI: 7.30–21.00
SAT: 9.00–21.00
SUN: CLOSED

Bagel and Coffee Story
Hlavne namestie 3
811 01 Bratislava
Tel: +421 911 312 777
Opening hours:
MON–SAT: 8.00–21.00
SUN: 9.00–21.00

Offer for British Council Club Card holders: 10% discount on anything from the menu at Bagel and Coffee Story

BPP Professional Education

www.bpp.com

BPP Professional Education

The only activity that BPP Professional Education undertakes is “Training”. That is our business, that is what we do and that is what we are good at. Our history of quality, expertise and credibility results in our clients benefiting from successful training. This training improves the performance of their people and ultimately improves the performance and profitability of their organisation.

BPP Professional Education has over 35 year experience world-wide and 12 years in Slovakia. BPP trains and publishes for more professional qualifications than any other company in the world and in Slovakia we provide course leading to the following professional qualifications: ACCA, CIMA, DipIFR, CIA, CMI, CIM and CIPD.

BPP highlights:

  • Courses leading to professional qualifications.
  • BPP Slovakia was awarded ‘Platinum Approval’ status by the ACCA, making BPP the only provider to achieve this award across the county. We were commended for our learning media materials, face-to-face tuition and online programmes.
  • Great track-record of BPP success. Our students pass with confidence and achieve excellent results, often performing significantly higher than students elsewhere.
  • All BPP programmes are entirely flexible. There are a range of study options available, as face to face, Online Classroom or Online Classroom LIVE, and you can tailor your mode of study to suit your personal needs and circumstances.
  • On-going support and guidance – whether you choose to study in the classroom, from work or at home., our expert tutors will be on hand to give you advice, by email, on the phone or in person.

Offer for British Council Club Card holders: 15% discount on one of all offered courses per half a year

Bubo Travel Agency

www.bubo.sk

BUBO Travel Agency, adventure tours around the globe. More intensive experience a level higher.

Offer for British Council Club Card holders:
In case if you would like to travel for the first time with this travel agent, you already can enjoy discounts for customers from BUBO Travel Agency who participated at least once for a trip longer than 9 days.

Trip price from to
Offer for British Council
Club Card holders:
from 166 € to 331 €
17 €
from 332 € to 663 €
33 €
from 664 € to 1327 €
33 €
from 1328 € to 1991 €
50 €
from 1992 € to 2655 €
58 €
from 2656 €
66 €

Discount conditions:

  • Discount will be granted on proof of the British Council Club Card.
  • Discount will be provided from the base list price of the trip. We don’t offer discounts for any of the extra cost like visas, airport taxes, insurance, and the ferry.
  • Discount can not be added together with any other discounts or savings. Discount has to be claimed at the time of the first advance payment for the tour and can not be applied retroactively.
  • The discount on the trip may be applied in the office BUBO Travel Agency only, no discount is offered with our affiliate partners.
DANA KLEINERT

www.danakleinert.com

DANA KLEINERT – with love to knitwear

DANA KLEINERT means original knitwear and accessories. We create smart, multipurpose, reversible and locally produced fashion design. Dress...skirt...top...turn it inside out...upside down...make it your own... We offer self-confident fashion along with using sustainable methods and responsibility to our environment. Process starts right from the beginning – from the yarn itself. We create our own patterns, textures, model cuts, we mix colors and seek solutions of a new, innovative way. Pieces from various collections are connected to each other, mixed but also worn as a solitaire. You can find us in United Kingdom, Japan, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Austria and Czech Republic, as well.

Offer for British Council
Club Card holders:
10% discount of DANA KLEINERT products bought at Design Studio Panská 17, Bratislava and on-line at www.danakleinert.com  /excl. products already “on sale”/

Hotel Devín

www.hoteldevin.sk

Hotel Devin –
The true spirit of Bratislava

This traditional hotel in the historical centre of Bratislava offers the harmony of a pleasant atmosphere and the glamour of the past along with modern facilities and excellent services. Rooms and suites with an exclusive view of the Danube River and Bratislava Castle, an elegant French Restaurant, an intimate Spa Centre, traditional Thai massages and conference rooms for corporate and private events. You can experience all of this in a hotel with the true atmosphere of old Bratislava.

Offer for British Council
Club Card holders:

  • 20% discount on entry to Spa Centre and using of indoor pool, Finnish sauna, steam bath, relaxation zone and fitness centre.
  • 20% discount on squash court rental.
  • (the offer is valid from October 1st, 2012)
Eurobooks

www.eurobooks.sk

Eurobooks has everything you need to learn English: student’s books, workbooks, audio CDs, dictionaries… you name it, we have it! Our shelves are full of titles from Shakespeare to Harry Potter and many others! Eurobooks is here for you more than 12 years, providing you with excellent choice of literature not only in English.

Eurobooks – Foreign Literature, Jesenského 5–9, 811 01 Bratislava

Offer for British Council Club Card holders:
15% discount on books (CDs, DVDs, etc) in English

Foreign Language Publications

www.flp.sk

Foreign Language Publications

We publish magazines that serve as supplementary teaching and learning aids for both teachers and students of  foreign languages here in the Slovak Republic as well as in the Czech Republic. Our magazines have a long standing tradition and our readers continue to enjoy each new issue. Hurra! is for beginning students and teachers of German. Our English language  magazines are  Friendship ( for post beginners), Hello! (for beginners) and Hello Kids! (for absolute beginners).

Offer for British Council
Club Card holders:
10% discount on annual subscriptions. The offer is valid until December 31st, 2012.

Jazykové pobyty

www.jazykovepobyty.sk

Jazykové pobyty is the exclusive Slovak partner of the international company EF Education First which has a dominant position in the market for more than 40 years. We organize different types of courses for all ages in many countries throughout the world. We are offering courses in the USA, UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Canada, China and Costa Rica.  Our teachers provide quality education with proven and effective methods which are guaranteed in any of our destinations.

Offer for British Council
Club Card holders:
5% discount on the price of an intensive course at the International Language Schools

Korea Foods / Seoul Plaza

www.koreafoods.co.uk/en/sl_retail_01.php

Seoul Plaza

Korea Foods Company Ltd. and its retail shop Seoul Plaza for the six years of its operation in the Slovak market gained many satisfied customers. Seoul Plaza store will enchant everyone with its friendly atmosphere, helpful staff and a varied selection of Asian food. A pleasant surprise is also a wide range of delicacies from the UK.
We invite you to the Asian food shops Seoul Plaza, Bajkalská 5, Bratislava, where we have prepared a special discount for the British Council Card holders.

Offer for British Council
Club Card holders:
5% discount on purchase over 10 € and 10% discount on purchase over 50 €.

Maxman Consultants

www.maxman-consultants.com

Maxman Consultants is a Slovak consulting and training company and for the last 18 years we have delivered our services to 200+ organisations. Our clients are major Slovak and international corporations from all sectors and we operate in 14 countries in Europe and Asia.
We help our clients find optimal solutions in achieving their business goals by developing individuals and teams, improving the sales process and improving the effectiveness of teamwork. Together with our clients we take joint responsibility for the implementation and execution of the solutions adopted.
We are happy to help managers and specialists to develop their people management skills and leadership competencies, increase sales efficiency and significantly improve communication skills.
We are happy to help students who are at the beginning of their career, to identify their strengths, eliminate internal barriers of effectiveness and together find their optimal career path.

Offer for British Council
Club Card holders:
30% discount on individual coaching, 40% discount on coaching of smal group of 2–3 people. A small group coaching is better opportunity to learn and develop than individual one.

Optika Exclusive

www.optikaexclusiv.sk

Optika Exclusive offers the following goods and services since 1993.

  • Eyeglasses
  • Sunglasses
  • Contact lenses
  • Solutions for contact lenses
  • Eyewash
  • Cases and other complementary products to glasses
  • Technical optics
  • Eye examination
  • Application of contact lenses

Our goal is to offer products of high quality, aesthetically pleasing, interesting in design and technologically superior. For example glasses: Lindberg or Alain Mikli.
In addition to common services, eye examinations and contact lens applications implement some special tests like Prism correction or eye colour vision disorders.

Our shops and opening hours:

OPTIKA EXCLUSIV spol. s r.o.
Laurinská 3
811 01 Bratislava 1
Tel.: 02/54410493
Fax: 02/54433878
Mob: 0905450973
E-mail: laura@optikaexclusiv.sk

Opening hours:
MON–FRI: 9:00–19:00
SAT: 10:00–14:00

OPTIKA EXCLUSIV spol. s r.o.
Apollo Business Center
Prievozská 2/A
821 09 Bratislava 2
Tel.: 02/53634424
Fax: 02/53634425
E-mail: apollo@optikaexclusiv.sk

Opening hours:
MON–FRI: 9:00–18:30

Offer for British Council
Club Card holders:

  • Prescription glasses and sunglasses: 15%
  • Contact Lenses 1-Day: 15%
  • Other products: 10%
  • Services (only with the goods): 10%
Oxford Bookshop

www.megabooks.sk

Oxford Bookshop on Laurinska st. no. 9 is a specialized bookshop belonging to Megabooks SK, the biggest importer and distributor of foreign literature in Slovakia. The Bookshop offers wide selection of textbooks and other educational material for foreign language teaching, wide range of fiction in six world languages, children’s books and pictorial publications. The Bookshop specializes also in academic literature from various fields, such as economics, law, medicine, architecture, design, history, linguistics and others. The Bookshop also provides special orders service.

Contact: Laurinská 9, 811 01, Bratislava, bookshop@megabooks.sk

Offer for British Council
Club Card holders:
10% discount on all books, CDs and DVDs.

Slovak National Gallery

www.sng.sk

The Slovak National Gallery (SNG) is the largest museum of art in Slovakia. In its collections it has over fifty-five thousand works of ancient, modern and contemporary art. In addition to exciting exhibitions it prepares for you a variety of cultural and educational programmes for children and adults.
In the Esterhazy Palace in Bratislava viewers can see interesting exhibitions. Many of them were awarded the Exhibition of the year prize (New Slovakia, Lost Time, Gothic, Renaissance, etc.).

The individual exhibitions are always accompanied by rich programme (lectures, guided tours, workshops, animations, movies, concerts, etc.). In the summer, visitors can also go to the so called SNG Summer Pavilion or to see a movie in the Summer Cinema in the amphitheatre SNG.

In addition to the premises in Bratislava, SNG consists of another four branch facilities: Zvolen castle, Mansion of Strazky in Spisska Bela, Ludovit Fulla Gallery in Ruzomberok and Gallery of Naive Art in Schaubmar mill in Pezinok-Cajla.

Contact:
SNG, Riecna 1, 815 13 Bratislava
T 02/20 47 61 47
info@sng.sk
http://www.facebook.com/SlovenskaNarodnaGaleria

Offer for British Council
Club Card holders
20% discount on entrance fee to the Slovak National Gallery

Slovak National Museum

Slovak National Museum is the most important and the biggest cultural and educational institution in Slovakia and helds nearly four million exhibits from all disciplines.

Prírodovedné múzeum
Vajanského nábrežie č. 2, P. O. BOX 13
810 06 Bratislava 16
tel.: +421 2 20469154, +421 2 20469127

Historické múzeum
P.O.BOX 13, 810 06 Bratislava 16
tel.: +421 2 20483104, +421 2 20483111

Hudobné múzeum
Žižkova 18, P.O.BOX 13, 810 06 Dolná Krupá
tel.: +421 33 2453130

Archeologické múzeum
Žižkova ul. 12, P.O.BOX 13, 810 06 Bratislava 16
tel.: +421 2 59207245, +421 2 59207218

Múzeum kultúry karpatských Nemcov
Žižkova ul. 14, P.O.BOX 13, 810 06 Bratislava 16
tel.: +421 2 54415570, +421 2 52907225

Múzeum kultúry Maďarov na Slovensku
Žižkova ul. 18, P.O.BOX 13, 810 06 Bratislava 16
tel.: +421 2 59207258, +421 2 20491255

Múzeum židovskej kultúry
Židovská 17, 811 01 Bratislava
tel.: +421 2 20490103

Múzeum kultúry Chorvátov na Slovensku
Istrijská ulica č. 68, Bratislava - Devínska Nová Ves
tel.: +421 2 20493101-02-03

Múzeum Ľudovíta Štúra
Štúrova ul. 84, 900 01 Modra
tel.: +421 33 6472765, +421 33 6472944

Múzeum Červený Kameň
900 89 Častá
tel.: +421 33 6905803

Múzeum Slovenských národných rád
Štúrova ul. 2, 907 01 Myjava
tel.: +421 34 2451102, +421 34 2451101, +421 918 905939

Múzeum Bojnice
Ul. Zámok a okolie 1, 972 01 Bojnice
tel.: +421 46 5430633, +421 46 5430624

Múzeum bábkarských kultúr a hračiek Hrad Modrý Kameň
Zámocká ul. 1, 992 01 Modrý Kameň
tel.: +421 47 4870218

Slovenské národné múzeum v Martine
Malá hora 2, P. O. BOX 155, 036 80 Martin
tel.: +421 43 4131011 / 12, +421 43 2454231

Spišské múzeum
Nám. Majstra Pavla 40, 054 01 Levoča
tel.: +421 53 4512786 fax: +421 53 4512824

Múzeum Betliar
Kaštieľna ul. 6, 049 21 Betliar
tel.: +421 58 7983118

Múzeum Ukrajinskej kultúry
Centrálna ul. 258, 089 01 Svidník
tel.: +421 54 2451001, +421 54 2451003

Múzeum rusínskej kultúry Bojnice
Masarykova 20, P. O. BOX 91, 080 01 Prešov
tel.: +421 51 7731526, +421 51 2453315, +421 907 814739

Offer for British Council
Club Card holders:
10% discount on entrance fee to the listed museums

Slovak Spectator

www.spectator.sk

The Slovak Spectator is Slovakia’s only English-language newspaper. It is published weekly by The Rock, s.r.o. publishing house and has brought news to its readers continuously since 1995. The company also publishes five special publications that appear throughout the year, including the acclaimed Spectacular Slovakia travel guide, the Book of Lists business directory, and comprehensive guides to local real estate, the investment environment and human resources.

The www.spectator.sk website is the only portal of its kind that provides comprehensive news about Slovakia, produced by native English speakers, on a daily basis. Thanks to its sub-sites – greenpages.spectator.sk, living.spectator.sk, and travel.spectator.sk – it offers extensive information on a range of topics, and is a gateway for individuals interested in Slovakia.

For more details contact our Circulation dept. at circulation@spectator.sk or +421 (0)2 5923-3300

Offer for British Council
Club Card holders:
50% discount on subscription to weekly newspaper and travel guide Spectacular Slovakia.

Toni & Guy

www.toniandguy.sk

TONI&GUY is the most powerful hairdressing brand in the world. The company is constantly evolving artistically and commercially. It offers the best education on the planet and boasts fabulous product ranges and a dynamic and modern image.

Toni&Guy is the only hairdressing company to be awarded “Superbrand” and “Coolbrand” status and to truly represent the catwalk-to-client philosophy.

All hairdressers go through structured education programme and keep in touch with the key members of the Artistic Team. The mission of the Artistic Team is to share knowledge and experience with other hairdressers all around the world and draw attention to the fundamental trends in key areas in technology, client approach and image.

As well as on a first-rate quality of haircuts and styling, we emphasize the quality of our client care, good knowledge of used products and sale skills.

Opening hours:
Monday: 12:00–20:00
Tuesday: 10:00–20:00
Wednesday: 10.00–20:00
Thursday: 10:00–20:00
Friday: 10:00–20:00
Saturday: 09:00–17:00

You can find us on Paulínyho 1, 811 02 Bratislava and contact us on 02/546 416 64, 02/546 416 65.

Offer for British Council
Club Card holders:
10% discount on offered services

Upside Down

www.upsidedown.sk

The Upsde Down restaurant brings a whole new view on steak & whisky

Today great steak isn't only for the chosen few. So we decided to go a step further and offer you a wonderful emotional experience as well – one that will tease all of your senses. We will make it an extraordinary one by creating a beautiful place filled with wonderful staff that cares about the work they do. Our clear goal is to make you feel like you're at home and that our team is taking care of you like they would do for their loved ones. Our culinary team works tirelessly night and day so that we can present you with the best of the best that the world of steaks has to offer. Because dining on such tasty and juicy steak is not just to fill you up.

Our restaurant specializes in the preparation of various kinds of steaks, but the menu also includes tasty fish, salads and home made desserts. All meals are exclusively prepared from the best quality, fresh ingredients.

Offer for British Council
Club Card holders:
10% discount on offered food and drinks

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