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Beat My Quote! Travel Agents Thread
What’s this about? This is a special thread where you can ask all the Travel Agents and MoneySavers who frequent this board to beat a holiday quote you have and get personalised replies. The idea is to see if someone can beat a quote for a specific holiday; not just a general price. So you need an exact quote. E.g. "I've…
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Travel Agent Code Of Conduct
MoneySavingExpert.com Travel Board Travel Agent Code of Conduct Many travel agents and advisers use this forum and voluntarily give up their time to help other MoneySavers. However as these are professional people who make their living out of deals; to ensure there’s no conflict of interest, I’ve drawn up the following…
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Overseas Holidays & Travel Planning Stickies - Please check before posting
Official MSE fully researched guides: Holidays and Flights 50+ Overseas Holiday Tips Cheap Package Holidays Cheap Flights Cheap Hotels Travel Credit Cards Cheap Airport Parking Travel Money Maximiser From the Forum: Welcome to Overseas Holidays and Travel Planning Orlando/Disneyworld Thread Las Vegas guide and MSE thread…
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Health Insurance for Visa to Croatia
My son is have a baby with his Croatian partner, and is applying for a visa to live out there. He tells me the visa requires proof of health insurance. Does anyone know where to get this type of insurance, would it be from a travel insurance provider or medical insurance provider, and are there sites anyone can recommend…
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esims
Hi all, I'm fortunate to be travelling to the US nex month and in the past I've just paid the £25 for the month with EE but they've now increased this to £25/week and £5/day so will cost me £45, therefore I'm looking at esims. I've noted the few recommended on here but does anyone have any experience? So far I've limited…
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Name change / reimbursement to previous person
Hello, Holiday booked and paid for. One passenger pulling out due to financial reasons. (This is the 4th time they have done this). No option for refund. I have considered doing a name change so holiday does not go to waste, the cost is actually quite reasonable, however, would the new passenger be expected to reimburse…
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Is it worth buying flights and hotel separately rather than using a travel agent?
We want to book a holiday to zell am see in Austria next year. I've been advised to book flights and accommodation with an independent travel agent so that we can get the abta and atol protection. But the choices theyve offered are quite limited for our budget and we have to pay upfront rather than if we paid separately,…
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TUI - Marella Cruises - mis-sold insurance
Issue: * In past year, TUI has sold insurance from Allianz for its cruises; but if you call Allianz they reveal the insurance is not suitable for cruises. It does not include insurance against missed ports or being confined to your cabin and having to miss excursions (which are not cheap!). * Also, the default sales option…
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Debit card costs in USA
my daughter who is 23 is going to New York for the week and only has a halifax debit card. She says she's tried to get a credit card but cant as she works part-time When I looked at the halifax fees they are 2.99% foreign transaction fee plus £0.50 per purchase Halifax have a travelready scheme were you pay £7 per week to…
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TUI misleading app adds
I regulary receive adds for specific hotels on Facebook from TUI - with the Fly Local message. There is one RIU hotel in south west Spain that caught my eye - when checking flights they are only from Gatwick !!! We live in central Scotland - is somebody at Luton having a laugh ? :D
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*updated* any way or reclaiming cost of pre booked flight seats when holiday cancelled?
I suspect I am wasting a post here but I thought I'd check just in case. Short story (full rant below for those interested) I booked a Tui full guided tour back in February to depart this September, a tour I have been wanting to do for a while. At the time of booking I upgraded my flight times through Tui, added extras on,…
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12 Oct '25 introduction of Biometric checks :- I'll already be in EU - what do i need to do?
I will already be in EU when these checks are introduced (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8deq8qm504o) is there any guidance on what I need to do for my return car journey trip to UK?
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Two 'one way' flights or return
We're booking our annual trip to our house in Cyprus. With the current uncertainties with flight cancellations, air traffic control etc, would we be 'safer' booking a return bundle with one airline rather than tow one-way tickets with different airlines (as we have done many times before) Don't really want to be stuck in a…
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Pre-existing Travel Insurance Guide Discussion
Hi, We've written a new pre-existing travel insurance guide for the website and we'd love your feedback. How did you find the info? Was it useful? Do you have any other tips you would add? Thanks for your help, MSE Rebecca
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Flights change during holiday booked with Travel Republic. What are my rights?l
Hi all, I am looking for some advice. We booked a package holiday (flights + hotel) through Travel Republic. While on our trip, we were informed that our return flight was cancelled and rebooked for the following day — meaning we now need to stay an extra night. Travel Republic has refused to cover the extra night at our…
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Thomas Cook change hotel
I booked a package holiday with Thomas Cook. The hotel has told me that they cannot longer accommodate me due to refurb work and that I’ll be offered an alternative by Thomas Cook. The flights depart in 2 days and, although Thomas Cook are aware of the situation, they haven’t offered an alternative hotel. I asked Thomas…
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Unsure of rights after cancellation
Hello - my daughter booked an 8 day holiday to France on the holiday pirates website (using loveholiday.com) but the day before she was due to fly, easyJet cancelled the flight and she had to rebook a different flight via easyJet for 2 days later. As such, she lost 2 days of her holiday and therefore had to contact the…
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Travel insurance
I purchased travel insurance by AXA for myself and partner, unfortunately we couldn't go on holiday as he took a brain aneurysm 4 weeks before flying, so I put in a travel insurance claim to Axa,Axa have phone me today saying that my claim has been rejected due to me not disclosing medication that my partner was on for an…
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TUI - Website - Manage My Booking - Travel Documents [+ early check-in via "Flight Extras"]
Issues: * 1.5 days spread over a week wasted attempting to get TUI to fix this (no apology; no written acknowledgement) * Website refusing to accept correctly entered travel document (i.e. passport) details * After 2-3 hours TUI manager acknowledged website is broken; they are trying to fix & provide work-arounds and keep…
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Ryanair Reserved Seating booked through Love Holidays
Hi, Hoping someone here can advise; we paid £52.00 for reserved seating (as we have two young kids under 5) on a Ryanair flight booked through 'Loveholidays' using our american express card. On our inbound flight to Stanstead we were told we had been allocated four RANDOM seats in dotted around the plane and the flight…
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query ref travel insurance as an annual policy ends mid holiday
Hi, My current annual policy ends on the 9th Sept this year. I recently booked a 15 night break abroad ( seperate apartment & flights in place we have stayed a few times before) this is from 1st Sept to 16th Sept. My plan was to re do an annual policy but only in Jan 26 as currently have no plans to go away again till…
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Cannot add baggage for Flight to US
Hi. We have just booked a trip to the US through expedia. We booked hotel and flights together as it gave us the best price, but checked baggage is not included. This is fine for me as I travel light and a cabin bag is big enough, but two of our group have decided they want to take a checked bag. On the United Airlines…
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Late cancellation with Thomas Cook
Hello, My family and I booked a holiday with Thomas Cook for a two week package holiday. I discovered that, a week prior to departing, my passport only had 4 months of remaining validity. I received an Emergency Passport two days later but cannot get a straight answer from the Turkish Consulate, the Turkish Embassy, our…
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