Family Fun with Tropicana


This is a compensated review by BlogHer and Tropicana.

Are you a family that 1) Loves orange juice? 2) Loves to do fun things together? 3) Loves to save money? I was recently invited to become a BlogHer Juicy Insider for Tropicana's Juicy Rewards program, which allows families to enjoy all three items on that list -- and boy, have we been having fun! I hope you'll join me and my family as we explore all that Juicy Rewards have to offer. The Basics Juicy Rewards is a great new program from Tropicana that helps you save on the stuff your family loves to do, just by buying stuff your family already loves -- orange juice. Each specially marked carton of Tropicana Pure Premium or Trop50 has a special code that you enter online to get Juicy Reward Points. You can redeem Juicy Reward Points for discounts on fun activities and gear (for more information, check out the Juicy Rewards official site). As a BlogHer Juicy Insider, I get to try out some of the activities that you can redeem discounts for, and tell you all about it. The Bongga Tropicana and BlogHer generously deposited 12 Juicy Rewards Points in my Juicy Rewards account to get me started, but racking up those points is as easy as drinking a glass of juice -- in just over a month, I was able to enter 38 points just by buying Tropicana juice and typing in the codes printed on the cartons! So what have we been doing with all those points? Check it out all the Juicy Fun we've been having: Singing, I mean Golfing in the Rain One afternoon, when The Pea was off gallivanting with friends, the boys were feeling sad since they don't get invited to a bazillion parties like The Pea does. So I decided to take them out for an afternoon of fun at the Malibu Grand Prix mini-golf course. I used 3 Juicy Rewards Points to redeem a coupon for a buy-one-get-one free golf session, so the whole afternoon cost less than a trip to our local coffee place for muffins and hot chocolate!
3Po and Jammy had an absolute blast.
The fact that it was drizzling the whole time did nothing to dampen their enthusiasm. In fact, the rain scared away all the crowds so we had the whole course to ourselves, and they could take as many shots as they wanted. They kept on whacking those golf balls like they were playing in Alice in Wonderland's wacky hedgehog-and-flamingo croquet game:

Okay, maybe they'll never be Tiger Woods.... but with the kind of news Tiger's making these days, that probably isn't such a bad thing. Playing Crocodile Hunter A couple of weeks ago, we spent the day at San Francisco's Aquarium of the Bay on Pier 39. We used 6 points to get a buy-one-get-one-free deal on admission tickets, which meant that we could afford to splurge on a nice restaurant for lunch instead of searching for the cheapest burger joint on Pier 39. The Aquarium of the Bay is an amazing place! The coolest part of the exhibit was walking through two glass tunnels submerged under a huge tank that had all kinds of marine animals swimming beside, below and above you. Talk about an immersive experience! I've never seen anything like it, and the kids are still talking about how cool it was to feel like they were underwater.
In another exhibit, we learned all about octopuses (octopi? I can never get it right) and how they can do amazing things like use their tentacles to open a screw-top can to eat the crab that's inside. They must really love crab -- we saw a video of an octopus squeezing itself into a hamster run to get to the crab on the other end. Then again, if it were a slice of chocolate caramel cheesecake at the end of the hamster run, even I might try it. In another exhibit, the kids got to touch sea stars of all colors and sizes:
Yeah, yeah, you say, ho hum, you can touch starfish at any old aquarium; science teachers even bring them into classrooms these days. Okay, but does your science teacher bring bat rays and leopard sharks are swimming and allow you to touch them?? And I've never been to an aquarium that allows you to get close enough to a bat ray that he can stick up his nose or whatever up in the air towards you, like it's some kind of dolphin.
All the time I kept thinking, isn't that the creature that stabbed Steve Irwin in the heart? If The Crocodile Hunter. Preparing for Camping Season For the past 2 years 3Po and Jammy have been shivering in their thin nylon CareBear toddler sleeping bags that I bought for them when they were 18 months old, so I figured it was time to get them some new sleeping bags. I bought my Coleman sleeping bag over a decade ago, so I didn't have to think twice about which brand to buy -- especially since I was able to redeem 9 Juicy Rewards points to get a 30% discount off a $60 purchase at Coleman.com.
When the sleeping bags arrived, the kids insisted on having a "camp-out" night in the downstairs playroom. Thanks to Juicy Rewards, we're already having some family fun even though camping season hasn't even started yet. Bribing Lady Luck The Juicy Rewards program has some great prizes up for grabs every month; the prize for April is an Adidas miCoach package, and you can enter once per day. They're also offering a trip to LA and a round of golf with Bruce Jenner; that contest costs 1 Juicy Rewards point to enter, and you can enter up to 3 times per day until April 16, 2010. So when I'm logged on to my Juicy Rewards account, it only costs me a second (and 3 Juicy Rewards points) to throw my name into the hat and dream about winning. Who knows, I might get lucky! Saving the Rainforest One of the things I like best about the Juicy Rewards program is that your points don't ever have to go to waste. Even if you can't find a single discount you want to use (and with over 20,000 of them I find that hard to imagine), you can donate the points you accumulate to Tropicana's Rescue the Rainforest program. Every Juicy Rewards point you donate will save 33 1/3 square feet of rainforest! I've donated 10 points so far, and I expect to donate many more between now and November 15th (when the Juicy Rewards Program ends). Getting Great Deals Did you know that the Juicy Rewards program has a Deal of the Day? They're special deals that are good only for a limited time, so you need to check your Tropicana Juicy Rewards home page often and see what's cooking. Last week it was a Buy-One-Get-One-Free coupon for Trop50 juice! I didn't hesitate to redeem that baby, and it saved me some money on our orange juice -- and also gave us 12 more Juicy Rewards points instead of just 6 :) Yay, more points for me! The latest Deal of the Day will be launching tomorrow, April 16. Watch out for that one because it's going to be a blockbuster of a deal!! I can't say exactly what the deal is, but you'll surely want to roll out the red carpet for it (hint! hint!). The Blah When you redeem Juicy Rewards Points for a discount to a museum or amusement place or some other attraction, you need to print the coupon out -- you can't have the coupon emailed to you, and you can't view your Juicy Rewards discount coupon before you print it out. Come to think of it, it would be great if we could just load up a virtual coupon on our mobile phones and show it at the booth and not even print it out! The Bottom Line I'm liking this rewards program a lot! Tropicana is one of about two or three orange juice brands that I like, but ever since I found out about the program, it's the only brand I've been buying. The Juicy Rewards Program easily inspires loyalty because it's so easy to rack up the points, the discounts are significant, and you can use them at some really great family entertainment places -- they're places I'd take my family if I had to pay full price, so getting a discount is just a big, juicy bonus! Register with and Tropicana Juicy Rewards and get one additional Juicy Rewards Point for free! To get you started, BlogHer and Tropicana have teamed up to offer new Juicy Rewards members a bonus Juicy Rewards point! How great is that: you get one step closer to redeeming a Juicy Reward, at no cost to you. To get your bonus point: 1. Go to http://www.tropicana.com/ 2. Set-up your Tropicana Juicy Rewards account (just take a minute!) 3. Visit the "Enter Codes" page within the site and get started with BLOGG-HER11 * *Note* This one-time use code is valid for new accounts ONLY. Must be entered within 6 hours of creating your account. Win a $50 Gift Card! One lucky Bonggamom Finds reader will win a $50 Visa gift card courtesy of BlogHer. To enter, visit the Tropicana Juicy Rewards page, then come back here and tell me about your family's favorite local attraction. Extra Entries For extra entries, you can do any or all of the following, (you can only do each extra entry once; please leave a separate comment for each extra entry): 1) Follow Bonggamom Finds on Networked Blogs (leave a comment on this post with your FB id). 2) Tweet this (leave a comment on this post with a link to your tweet): See what @bonggafinds is doing with her Juicy Rewards points & win a $50 Visa gift card from @blogherdeals http://tinyurl.com/y5gaotq #giveaway The Rules Maximum of 3 entries per person. This giveaway ends at midnight PST on May 2, 2010; I will draw a winner at random on May 3 and post the winner's name in the comments section after the winner confirms acceptance. Click here for official giveaway rules. For more information, check out the Juicy Rewards official site. And don't forget to visit the rest of the BlogHer Juicy Insiders' posts (links are on the BlogHer.com special offers page )-- you'll have 7 more chances to win! * UPDATE MAY 3, 2010 -- This giveaway is now closed -- watch out for the announcement of the winner's name soon! If you still want a chance to win a $50 Visa gift card, my latest Tropicana Juicy Insider post also has a giveaway for a $50 Visa gift card. Click here to read my latest post and enter to win a $50 Visa gift card! Disclosure: I am being compensated for my participation in the BlogHer Juicy Insiders program. The views and opinions expressed here are my own.

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Mami2jcn on April 15, 2010 at 1:08 PM said...

From the Tropicana Juice Rewards site, it looks like there's a discount for Gotcha Paintball in Raleigh, NC. That would be local to us and I'm sure my boys would love to try paintball.

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Mami2jcn on April 15, 2010 at 1:08 PM said...

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Jen said...

Our family loves going to Extreme Fun, a bouncy place. My 2 older kids can really use up a lot of energy here!

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Mindy on April 15, 2010 at 2:27 PM said...

We have a nice mini-golf/go-kart place down the road from us...

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Haydensmommy05 on April 15, 2010 at 6:30 PM said...

We love to go to the zoo! Its fun and educational!
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JC on April 15, 2010 at 8:02 PM said...

With kids, zoo is always the best place to have fun.

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Christy on April 15, 2010 at 8:03 PM said...

My family's favorite local attraction is the (Denver) zoo.

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Anonymous said...

The Downtown Aquarium or either a play in the theater district.

bayctygrl on April 16, 2010 at 8:36 AM said...

Our favorite local attraction is the miniature golf place and next door is the best ice-cream

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Amie on April 16, 2010 at 4:43 PM said...

we really like our children's museum...3 floors of wonder, fun for all ages!

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Erin from Long Island on April 17, 2010 at 1:49 AM said...

Oh we LOVE the Bronx Zoo!

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Unknown on April 17, 2010 at 2:54 PM said...

My family love going to six flags Elich Gardens in Denver, CO. We go each summer for our oldest sons birthday. We have a blast! =)

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Nelsby on April 18, 2010 at 10:15 AM said...

My family loves Paint Ball at Moss Hollow Creek in Hamlin, PA.
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Shelley on April 18, 2010 at 10:39 AM said...

We love going to Six Flags Elitch Gardens in Denver, with the zoo being a very close second.

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Literary Winner on April 18, 2010 at 4:31 PM said...

I see some discounts for The Land of Make Believe in NJ. Hopefully we'll get there someday.

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Literary Winner on April 18, 2010 at 4:33 PM said...

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Betty N on April 20, 2010 at 3:10 AM said...

Mote Marine Aquarium is a fav local attraction of our grandkids. Tropicana rewards has a complimentary admission with one full price admission..this will be great for summer and my husband drinks Tropicana juice every day so no problem in racking up those reward points

Betty N on April 20, 2010 at 3:13 AM said...

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Melinda on April 20, 2010 at 6:58 AM said...

the zoo!

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ShoppingChic2 on April 20, 2010 at 9:38 AM said...

we love the aquarium, its so much fun

Blue Girl on April 20, 2010 at 9:45 AM said...

The zoo is a fun place to go, so we would go there

Just Me on April 20, 2010 at 9:50 AM said...

I would use the Adidas coupon for new shoes

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Unknown on April 20, 2010 at 7:30 PM said...

i love going to the Zoo :)
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Karina on April 22, 2010 at 7:19 AM said...

Our family loves going to gymnastics centers

Jen Price on April 24, 2010 at 10:53 AM said...

Favorite attraction? Well, I would say going to the zoo.

DG on April 24, 2010 at 9:11 PM said...

our favorite local attraction is the aquarium - there's something so spectacular about fish and water in the middle of a city!

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Melissa on April 26, 2010 at 10:17 AM said...

Going to the zoo is always my favorite :)
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smartshopper2 on April 26, 2010 at 10:19 AM said...

Looks like Tropicana doesn't cover my area or maybe it's my state. Our family loves the beach, we pack a lunch take an umbrella and have fun. Thanks for this giveaway, we love Tropicana juice.

smartshopper2 on April 26, 2010 at 10:20 AM said...

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Kathleen D on April 26, 2010 at 11:24 AM said...

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lisanne on April 26, 2010 at 3:38 PM said...

My family loves to hike in the mountains behind our home and then head to the Cove.

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Unknown on April 26, 2010 at 8:31 PM said...

Guess i'll have to go with the Putting Edge Fun Center. I was really hoping to find 6 Flags in there :D.

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Heather and Jake on April 27, 2010 at 8:46 AM said...

We like the Thanksgiving Point gardens discount! We're going today, actually.

Tina B. on April 27, 2010 at 4:01 PM said...

Latta Equestrian Center in Huntersville, NC would be a place we'd love to visit!!

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Kristen on April 27, 2010 at 10:49 PM said...

Wow, thanks for telling me about this! I live 10 minutes away from the Adventure Aquarium, and i can get discounts on the tickets using the points. I'm gonna start getting some juice!

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Unknown on April 28, 2010 at 1:56 AM said...

Our favorite local place on Juicy Rewards would be Milwaukie Bowl

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DB on April 28, 2010 at 4:57 AM said...

I like the Fun Spot

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tiarastantrums on April 28, 2010 at 5:58 AM said...

My kids LOVE - LOVE the Children's Museum at Navy Pier - I personally do not think I can go there one more time in my lifetime- but I will! ha ha

Linda Stewart on April 28, 2010 at 6:03 AM said...

We like visiting aquariums.

Anonymous said...

My family and I love Children's Fairyland in Oakland, CA. Its a magical place where you get to see the old woman who lived in the shoe, little miss muffet on her tuffet and many more. Tons of family fun!

Scott on April 29, 2010 at 7:11 AM said...

We love to go to the Franklin Park Conservatory in Columbus Ohio. They are always having glorious displays like butterfly exhibits and orchid shows!
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angie lilly on April 29, 2010 at 7:26 AM said...

One of the BEST places in our area is the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. They are getting ready to open up a Polar Bear exhibit too!!! I can't wait! Was happy to see that the zoo was on the rewards list too!
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wigget on April 30, 2010 at 6:00 AM said...

definitely the national zoo

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lovelyritaann on May 1, 2010 at 6:34 PM said...

I visited Juicy Rewards and our favorite local attraction is water parks and family fun places. There aren't too many around our town but we can travel 1-2 hours to get to some pretty cool ones.

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Flowerg on May 1, 2010 at 6:35 PM said...

I like the GameWorks deal and the Sierra Safari Zoo in Nevada. Cool deals they have. Thanks for sharing with us :).

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Anonymous said...

That looks like a great time! We like to go to Cedar Point the theme park :)

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Anne on May 2, 2010 at 6:21 AM said...

The Erie canal museum in Syracuse is offering 50% off through tropicana rewards. It is a great local museum, with lots of hands on stuff for the kids.

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Mari on May 2, 2010 at 8:34 AM said...

My favorite is the Putting Edge Fun Center for golf.

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LilyBiscuit on May 2, 2010 at 10:37 AM said...

We love going to the Yale Peabody Museum. There's so much to explore there.The exhibits are amazing! I'm glad it's on the list at the Tropicana site! Of course, the kids love ending the day there with the gift shop too :)
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giveawaydarling on May 2, 2010 at 11:20 AM said...

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bonggamom on May 4, 2010 at 9:52 AM said...

Congratulations to the winner: #14, Christy!

bonggamom on May 4, 2010 at 9:54 AM said...

... and this giveaway is now closed. For another chance to win a $50 Visa giftcard, go to my latest Tropicana post and enter by May 16.

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