Leap Day 2020 Deals And Sales: Offers In Newton

NEWTON, MA — With Leap Day falling on Saturday in 2020, it might be smart to take advantage of the once-every-four-years occurrence by cashing in on a variety of deals being offered in Newton.

If you know of a great discount that isn’t on the list, feel free to add it in the comments section below.

Here are the deals being offered for Leap Day 2020 in Newton:

Restaurants and food services offering deals:

• 7-Eleven: On Saturday, you can get a whole pizza with cheese, pepperoni or “extreme meat” for $2.29 at participating stores.
• Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse (Boston): The steak house chain is offering a special meal for the once-every-four-years occasion. Starting Saturday at 6:30 p.m., you can try out dishes such as Duck Confit with Cherry Demi, New York Strip & Braised Short Rib and Orange Olive Oil Cake. The meal is $100 per person.
• Olive Garden: The restaurant will offer $2.29 Take Home entrées to all guests Saturday. Customers can choose among Fettuccine Alfredo, Five Cheese Ziti Al Forno and Spaghetti with Meat Sauce. Additionally, if you are part of the 205,000 people who were born on a Leap Day in the United States, you can get four free Dolicinis.
• Popeyes in partnership with Postmates: You can get a free chicken sandwich code for Popeyes from Feb. 24 to 28, when you place an order through Postmates of at least $15 from the fast-food chicken eatery.

Travel Deals:

• Graduate Hotels: Graduate Hotels across the United States are offering 29 percent off all stays booked between Leap Day and March 6 when you use the code “Leapyear” at checkout. The stay can occur anytime between now and July.

• Hotwire: Use the promo code LEAPDAY10 to get $10 off $100 on Hotwire.com, and LEAPDAY15 to get $15 off $100 when you use the Hotwire app. The two promos will run on Feb. 28 and 29.
• Kimpton Hotels: Select Kimpton properties are offering a variety of leap year specials, such as 29 percent off their best Flexible rate plus a food and beverage credit for $29 per night. Additionally, if you book between 7 p.m. Feb. 28 and midnight Feb. 29, you will become eligible for a drawing to win 29,000 IHG points.
• Motel 6: The motel chain is offering 10 to 20 percent off Motel 6 stays between Feb. 29 and March 31.

The inclusion of leap years and the added day in February every four years is humanity’s best attempt to sync calendars with the length of the natural year.

“It all comes down to the fact that the number of Earth’s revolutions about its own axis, or days, is not connected in any way for how long it takes for the Earth to go around the sun,” said John Lowe to National Geographic, who used to work for the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Time & Frequency Division.

The problem is the solar year isn’t exactly 365 days, it’s 365.2422 days long, which means that no calendar of whole days can match the number. Visit NationalGeographic.org to learn more about how adding the leap day every four years addresses this problem and the complications that still remain.