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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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HOUSE INSURANCE WHEN OUT OF THE COUNTRY FOIR MORE THAN 60 DAYS
My wife and I are planning to be away for more than 60 days this winter I had my house insurance renewal through today and after reading the standard questions (will the property be unoccupied for 30 days which in the past I answered no - I rang to find out what teh definition of unoccupied was as I could arrange to have…
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Amtrak lost my bag!
If anybody is thinking about using Amtrak’s Checked Baggage Service, then please read this first. I strongly urge you to not let any Amtrak staff anywhere near your luggage. I purchased an Amtrak pass with ten single trips to help me to see America during the World Cup. Everything went well to start. The pass helped me to…
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MSE News: Got Eurostar loyalty points? Use them before 29 October to maximise your miles
You'll need to earn MORE points to claim the same Eurostar rewards under the train operator's loyalty scheme from 29 October. So if you have a stash of points, redeem them ahead of the shake-up if you can. A 'free' standard one-way, off-peak ticket to or from London, for example, will now require 100 more points… Read the…
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Want some free Euros in Spain ?
Santander have announced a deal with a £240 carrot. Switch your current account to their Everyday Current Account to qualify. If you take the debit card to a Banco Santander branch based ATM in Spain or Canaries you can withdraw Euros fee free. That's approximately € 280 at today's rate if you decide to maximise the offer…
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On The Beach Holidays hotel issue (before travel)
Hello helpful people. I have an issue with a hotel I have booked through On The Beach (as part of a fligths and hotel package). The hotel has closed the large main swimming pool (for a refurb, with no agrred opening date). The pool was the main reason for booking the specific hotel, lots of sunbeds, swim up pool, day beds…
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Is this site legit?
I have already booked via Booking.Com with free cancellation on this hotel in Hamburg. It is a similar price to Hotels. Com and the official hotel site, around £130. However, the link below is the official hotel website according to Google, but they only want £88 for my three day stay. Bettenburg Hotel - Availability…
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Travel insurance when awaiting medical investigations
We're taking my grown up kids and other-halves on holiday shortly and two of our party have outstanding issues that are waiting on dates for minor investigative ops. The two conditions are not urgent or serious, but when they've used Moneysupermarket's tool they get no quotes back. Does anyone know of an insurer that will…
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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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UK Passport Expiry
I have a UK PP issue date 22 Dec 2016 & Expiry 22 July 27. Looking at both Europe & Caribbean holidays before Dec 26. ill my PP be valid 100% or not?
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Claim on insurance through booking.com
Hi, I booked accommodation through booking.com in France a couple of months ago, my partner broke his leg the day before travel in June so we had to cancel. We got insurance through booking.com, they will cover ferries so not problem with those, however I need a cancellation notice from the France accommodation and…
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Hainan Airlines cancelled flight, Trip.com won’t rebook properly – rights under UK261?
Hi all, Hoping for some guidance or experience from others. My wife and I had a return flight booked from Manchester to Shanghai on 15 May 2025 with Hainan Airlines, booked via Trip.com. A few days ago, Trip.com told us the flight was cancelled. They offered to rebook, but only with Hainan Airlines — which no longer offers…
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Annual Travel insurance vs Single and Cancellation questions
Hi Looking into travel insurance atm and with several pre-plan trips, I assume the Annual travel insurance would be more reasonable to get. However I would like to understand a bit more in regards to the cancellation coverage. Supposedly if I have 2-3 separate trips plan and due to unexpected incident had to cancel 2 of 3…
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BA app and contacting BA
I travel a fair bit and have always found BA to be one of the worst airlines - and now I am having issues after deciding to give them another try. I have booked my flights, no problem at all using my PC. However it suggests having the BA app on the phone so I can check in on my return journey. The issue is the app won't…
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Cancellation insurance for passport potentially not being available
Hi all. I probably know the answer to this, but thought I'd check… We have recently adopted a son (13 months old), with the adoption order process ongoing. The quirk of this means that the relevant local authority are required to apply for a passport. They are doing so as we speak, but the timeframes are a little opaque……
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EES role out
I have looked at this forum and other websites to see if there is a definitive answer and I have yet to find one. Being a frequent European traveller, I have had the delight of being fingerprinted and facial recognisioned seven times in different countries so far. Each time I tell them it has already been done, but they…
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Ryanair: why can't I simply surrender an unused £20 booking?
I have a Ryanair flight booked for 30 August which I now know I won't be taking. The fare was only £20, so I'm not looking for a refund and I'm quite happy to write the £20 off. What I find strange is that there doesn't seem to be any way to simply cancel/surrender the booking so that Ryanair can make the seat available to…
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Travel insurance - Aviva (Nationwide FlexPlus), pre-existing conditions
Pre-existing medical conditions you need to tell us about This travel insurance is designed to cover the costs of cancellation, emergency medical treatment abroad and getting home, if any insured person becomes suddenly and unexpectedly ill or injured, due to a new illness, injury or disease. Medical conditions that an…
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Cancel or not?
My doctor has indicated that I should not take a planned trip (see the Lyon airport thread) because the extremely and unusually high temperatures are likely to make my (declared pre-existing) health issues worse. But I suppose that the travel insurers are likely to regard that as unwillingness to travel, and so not…
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Nobody to sign passport photos, anyway out of it
I would like and really need a passport. Due to ill health I haven't been able to travel so haven't ever had an adult one (only child one was when I was on my mother's old passport) but I have a chance to go away this year. The thing is, I have nobody to sign my photos. I looked at it before and gave up as I had nobody but…
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On holiday with missing luggage
Flew out on Saturday to Paphos. Landed 10.30pm and a load of passengers Inc us have missing suitcases (40 cases as we find out later) Airport staff took our details and we were told it'll be investigated TUI rep came to our hotel yesterday and took more details and comped us £100 per missing suitcase to buy essentials.…
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