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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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Half Board without Drinks
Hi, Planning for a half board and wondering if I'm going to find it difficult/awkward if I decline having drinks with my meals as a way to save money?!...I know it's a choice, just wondering how awkward/difficult it would be if anyone has any experience of this?! Thanks, Sam
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Pre-Paid Local Sims
Hi all Does anyone have any experience in purchasing pre-paid local sims in Monte Carlo? Heading there next week for the tennis and considering taking a mobile Wi-Fi router. Are there any mobile phone stores locally where I could purchase a SIM card to insert please? Many thanks, Terry
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Did online seller try to scam me?
So I was on google flights looking for summer holiday and a online retailer came the cheapest. Did a quick check on trustpilot and it had 5 stars. So went ahead and booked it. When I made the payment I realised there was apostrophe ‘ next to one name. Maybe my typo error. So I called them straightaway and they demanded I…
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Admiral travel insurance- disgusting company
Took out Admiral travel insurance when I booked my holiday back in February. A few days before I'm due to go on holiday, I get a call to say my sister is in hospital on end-of-life care. She has been an alcoholic for years, excluded all people from her life and she has been very secretive about her life. As her next of…
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Morocco 2 weeks suggestion
I am flying to Casablanca for 2 weeks. 3 school age kids and 2 adults. Nothings planned, I’ve done this impulse buy before and had a great unplanned holiday. But that was Italy with European Trains and 1 less child. So I want other travellers suggestion. I’m thinking Casablanca 2 days. 5 days fez, 5 days Marrakesh and then…
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Jet 2 Seating
I wonder if anyone can help please? Due to check in on line for a holiday in a couple of days, which is the 28 day prior point. I wonder if anyone has any tips please. Did not book our seats as last time we did it to get where we wanted that part of it was ok. But at both ends it was a free for all getting on which rather…
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10 years rule for passport
Just a reminder to check your passport is valid. Yet again - according to the BBC - people being caught out with the rules, and blaming the travel operators.
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Holiday canceled
Could anyone advice if I’m being given the correct information- So I had a holiday booked with a “friend” deposit and first payment was paid in full via “friends” bank account we’d fallen out before next payment was due I tried many times to get in contact via call and text as I was still happy to go ahead with the holiday…
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Valencia !
Thinking about going to Valencia for 3 nights in mid April - it looks great but have never been there. I would love any tips from Forumites on where to stay, what to do and obviously any money saving tips Thanks in advance !
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Schedule Airline Failure and travel insurance
Hi all, does anyone know of any travel insurance policies that include SAF? Virgin, who I used last year, has quietly removed SAF from being included. Then only one I've found so far is LV (their Premier policy).
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Expedia booking issue
Hello I have been trying for the past 3 days to book a holiday on Expedia - at the very end I approve the transaction in my banking app, then finally get a message on expedia "Sorry we weren't able to proceed with your booking. Please try your search again." I have tried different browsers on different computers, clearing…
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Customs rules list
Is there anywhere I can find a comprehensive list of what I can take into a country before having to declare to customs? I mean cash, bullion, jewelry, Rolex value etc.. Attending a destination wedding and not sure if I need to declare the wedding present I am taking with me. I would rather not declare if I can help it…
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Holidays for disabled people
I'm trying to help my parents with perhaps their last big foreign holiday. One has very poor mobility and would be reliant on having a mobility scooter. They are torn between Canada and seeing the Rockies, but one also wants one last dip in the sea which may be a little too chilly in Canada? On top of the mobility, toilets…
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COVID and Travel Insurance
Hi, the day or two before our trip to Poland i was bed bound with a really bad flu and was unable to get up for over 3 days. When i was able i took a COVID test and was positive. Holiday ruined i called our travel insurance company to be told that i am required to make a face to face visit with my doctor and also have them…
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Travelling to Europe by car ? Operation Brock is back
There's a contraflow in place on M20 and stacked trucks BUT the concrete barrier isn't in place, just cones. It began on Wednesday and there have been three accidents so far, just before or in the contraflow, including a truck fire. If travelling to Europe before or during Easter, be prepared for long queues and have…
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Booking.com
I've today booked a holiday apartment in June this year for 6 days via booking.com. I have paid a deposit which was half of the booking price and received confirmation from booking.com with all the booking details. I then had a message direct from the owner/agent that I had booked apartment 0, I emailed them back asking if…
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Travel Insurance and new undiagnosed (but not really) condition
I'm absolutely certain that this isn't the first time this has happened (albeit my rudimentary search found no results) so I'm after experiences as well as advice if that's okay. We're heading off on holiday on Friday and booked our insurance back in January when we booked the trip. Recently I've had some issues that my GP…
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10 day trip to Europe
My wife and I want to do a 10 day trip to Europe My wife wants to visits Vienna and lausenne and obviously stops on the way and way back. We want to drive but we also don't want to be driving all the time so we thought maybe we could go by train or a mix of train and car Are there good forums where we can get honest advice…
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Visiting the Stans
I'm going to visit the Stans this summer. The countries I'm going to are: Kazakhstan Uzbekistan Turkmenistan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Feel free to suggest places to see and things to do, however I am going on an organised tour so the itinerary is already planned out for me. What I really would like some views on is the whole…
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Brittany Ferries coupons (merged)
Hi there, does anyone have any spare club voyage coupons for use with Brittany Ferries? thanks :)