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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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Avios/Amex Questions
Hi All, I was hoping for some advice regarding various Avios and AMEX questions. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help! Current situation - My household BA Avios account balance is around 185-190,000 Avios points. I have a Barclaycard Avios plus Cabin upgrade voucher to use. I am about to reach the spending threshold to…
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Travel insurance - do we need extra cover for European holiday in current climate?
We have just booked our holiday for this year (August) and are currently in the process of sorting out travel insurance, and wondering what we need to be looking out for amid the current uncertainty with air travel. Destination itself isn't an issue (we're only going to Germany so not passing through any compromised…
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Signing a Waiver
we are due to travel to Dubai end June and have been told by Gold Star which is a third party trade ticketing agent for our travel agent we have to sign a waiver to say we still want to go despite the FCDO , even though we don’t, or we lose £1800 on Tuesday. I can’t lose this amount of money, they have told us we have to…
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TUI Travel have rejected our complaint despite raising an issue at the time of arrival
Need a bit of guidance please, I'll try to make this as brief as possible. In March we travelled to Florida with our Autistic daughter, travel can be very difficult for her, but she now has a lanyard and we also pre-empted with TUI. On arrival at our hotel, check in was at 4pm. So we joined a queue!! It soon became evident…
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EES (Entry/Exit System) for most EU countries
EES is due to be implemented in the not too distant future, official start date Sunday 12th October. If/when anybody has experienced the biometric data recording procedures on or after that date it would be appreciated if it could be shared hereabouts. It applies to all EU member countries except Ireland and Cyprus, plus…
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TUI Smiles Reward Club
I was curious to see what this new initiative on offer might be - so attempted to register - not sure if it worked or not - but it brought up a Scandanavian language (Swedish ?) application link and seems to have accepted my TUI account details !!! TUI customer services were unable to help much - I suspect this is as new…
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THE SUN SO CALLED £9.50 DEALS
I made the mistake of collecting the vouchers in the sun newspaper. Went to do my booking, booked october so out of season as it was the only weekend available. I really wish i had not booked it! It did not include any entertainment passes or swimming pool and to add them it was another £45. Out of curiosity I checked the…
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Travelling to Malaysia via Dubai
I booked a holiday to Malaysia in Jan 2026 for June 2026. The flight is indirect via emirates with a stopover in Dubai. My flight is in few weeks and I still have not heard from Emirates or Carlton Leisure (where I booked my flight) of if the flight will go ahead or needs to be cancelled. I don't know if it needs to be…
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Travel insurance costs
I'm aged 92 and, not surprisingly, have various medical conditions (high blood pressure, atrial fibrillation, etc). Take lots of pills, have never needed hospital admission, can walk fine. Insureandgo have quoted me £450 for a one week single trip to France, and £1700 for an annual policy for Europe. I'm wondering if these…
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Travel insurance when already in Europe?
We apparently dropped the ball and didn't get travel insurance sorted before leaving the UK. Are there any insurers that will cover us our 60 day trip, either a a single trip or as part of annual cover? We have cover for our campervan(insurance and breakdown cover), and our ghic cards.
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Where to apply for holiday travel insurance if i have ongoing DVT treatment?
hi All I would love to go to Turkey for 9 days from UK however beginning of January i had deep vein thrombosis discovered in my led and started blood thinning pills. I am 47 and feel normal but to improve my treatment i decided not to drink any alcohol for the whole treatment which should last about 12 month - does it…
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2 Days in Oslo suggestions & recommendations?
Hi. I have two days in Oslo booked for a party of 5 (2 adults, 3 kids (8-13)) during the first weekend of November. Does anyone have any great suggestions / recommendations of where to go, what to do, where to eat, etc? Apparently the timing of this trip is out of the main tourist season, so I there'll be less queues and I…
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Ryanair keeping APD for Teens
Ok I am not sure if this is a scam but here is what I have found, this is the advice from uk-gov website on APD for childern Children Children under 2 years old without a seat are exempt from Air Passenger Duty, it does not matter what class they travel in. However, if a seat is purchased for an infant, they will only by…
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Turkish Airlines Miles and Smiles Rewards
I have had problems trying to convert miles for a gift card. My wife and I have around 16000 miles, each equating to about £80 in vouchers. I tried to convert these but the TA App suggested I had to verify my account first. They offer several ways to do this but none are really suitable. Examples are "Quick Verification "…
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Any dealings with Hainan airlines?
I have a flight booked with Hainan through Expedia. To book seats you have to go through Hainan's website which is proving very difficult. Any done it? Expedia have told me to call them which I will try tomorrow but very frustrated with how difficult it is. I get to the payment page and am directed to pay through Paypal…
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Luggage delivery services
I'm old enough that dealing with luggage is an effort, though I can manage if necessary. I live in London, and Airportr seems a decent service, reliable and not too expensive, for taking my luggage from home to Heathrow and putting it on the plane so I only have to bother at the arrival end. But as far as I can tell they…
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Extending EasyJet return
Out of interest, has anyone had any luck extending their holiday return flight while already on holiday ? Eg return flight booked for 15th but returning 25th ? Of a month
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Middle East Situation - Travel Insurance
I’m hoping someone might be able to clarify the best course of action regarding a flight booking issue. British Airways has offered me a refund for my flight to Dubai in May but the flight itself has not actually been cancelled yet. Because of this trip, I have also booked airport parking and hotel accommodation…
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EES & Returning to UK from European Airports
Has anyone got any advice regarding returning from a European Airport recently with EES in place? Specifically, if you can’t check in your luggage until 2 hours before flight departure at a European airport, how can you get to the boarding gate on time to catch your flight, if the gate number is not shown immediately? If…
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Getting from Longstay South Carpark to North Terminal Gatwick
Staying at the Courtyard Marriott with parking in Long Stay South, but flying from North terminal. It mentions online that there's a shuttle bus from the carpark to the terminal but doesn't say whether it just goes to South terminal or whether it goes to both. Trying to establish if we will need to get the shuttle train…
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