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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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Best card for spending abroad
Hi all, Just booked to go to Greece in may and wanted to know what the best card for spending abroad is? I still have a starling account but wanted to know if there are any better accounts available for spending abroad Kind regards Mark
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Wizz Air Check In Issues
Hi All, Going on a family holiday next week and the only flights that worked for us was Wizz Air. I desperately looked hard to find alternatives airlines after hearing a lot of bad reviews about Wizz Air but nothing worked so went with them. I heard about check in charges at the airport so paid for the auto check in option…
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Digital Passport Photos
On my last (postal) passport renewal I sent in physical photos that I had printed by ASDA photo 6 up on 6" x 4" matt prints (cut out 2 of them and sent those, kept the other sheets in case I needed a photo). Worked out pretty cost effective and they were accepted. I took them with a digital camera and stuck a poster on the…
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Europe Rail Travel
Hey all, My husband and I are planning a trip beginning of June to Europe. Taking the Eurostar to Amsterdam, then trains to Germany, Paris, etc. My husband is registered disabled, and is a blue badge holder. Is there such a thing as cheaper rail tickets for disabled passengers, or a free carer ticket, for example? Don't…
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Paid international flight booking cancelled without any notice
Hi All Any advice please, I recently booked flights online with TravelUp (found through Skyscanner) to and from Nairobi, Kenya with Kenya Airways carrier and an additional internal flight mid trip, 1 way only flight from Nairobi to Mombasa. For reasons of ill health we didn't take the internal flight so we expected to just…
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Nine and a half year passport renewal done.
Just renewed my wife's passport which expires in August, but is as useful as the proverbial Chocolate Tea Pot. Why can't we get a reduction for months that it's impossible to use due to EU rules?
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Amsterdam - cheap places to buy souvenirs
I will be in Amsterdam next week. I want to buy a couple of souvenirs like clogs, fridge magnets, windmills etc. Can anyone recommend a shop or store that sell them at cheaper prices compared to other shops? Thanks
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Best card for rewards in a year of continuous travel and holiday to America
I'm moving jobs and working remotely for the year. It gives me the opportunity to travel lots and so I'm planning a year of travelling throughout Europe and Asia. This summer I'm also booking a three week holiday to America. Everything is sorted but it just needs booked. Given that I will spend a lot of my year on flights…
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Las Vegas guide and MSE thread 2021
this thread is still under construction ... Las Vegas unlike nearly every other holiday destination you may have visited. This thread is in reference to https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6087584/las-vegas-guide-and-mse-thread-2020/p1/ where you find more useful information to Las Vegas.
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Emergency medical travel claim:repayment of non sterling transaction fee?
Hi everyone. My husband, 2 children and sister and brother in law are currently in thailand. Unfortunately, on Tuesday my husband suffered a heart attack, requiring angioplasty and stent in a local hospital. I had to pay a 200,000bhat deposit before they would even treat him, and a further 75000bhat on discharge. Insurance…
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Travel insurance
Options on best and cheapest travel insurers for existing medical issues and the ones to avoid please
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B2 visa - american boyfriend
I'm curious about people's experiences in a situation like this: I'm from the Netherlands and I'm in a relationship with an American men for a year and nine months and he is the love of my life! And I was in the US for the past three months and when I boarded in Minneapolis two officers told me that I had been in the US…
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Marrakesh
Booked a break to Marrakesh not sure if they will accept Euros and USD there as I can’t seem to get any local currency here in the UK? im sure I can exchange over there but get ripped off with the exchange rate?
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Travel Insurance - Avoid SAGA
You've planned and booked your holiday with SAGA and paid the premium for your Travel Insurance. So you can sit back, knowing your covered now... WRONG! SAGA Travel insurance doesn't start until you close the door behind you and actually set off at the start of your holiday. If anything goes wrong before that you are not…
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Girls Holiday - Should I pay?
Hi, I found this whilst browsing for advice so I thought I would try it out. :) So to begin, myself and three other girls have booked a package holiday through a travel agency. The holiday is booked for mid July this year, so only roughly four months away. the holiday we found was fairly on the cheaper side as we are…
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Club la Costa Timeshare
My son and daughter in law purchased a timeshare with Club La Costa in Spain in Oct 2019. They funded this though a loan with Hitachi. The timeshare is on a point basis with points rights of 1,000 until 2034, they attempted a claim against CLC and Hitachi which has been rejected by FOS. However they cannot use the points…
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Return leg cancelled - what can I do?
I've made a booking with a middle eastern airline between Europe and Asia and taken the first leg to Asia. I have now been informed that the return flights have been cancelled. I've phoned up the customer service hotline and been told that the airline has decided to stop flying that route and all I can do is email a…
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PAYG sim for Belize, Mexico and Honduras
Going on a cruise that takes us to Belize, Mexico and Honduras but having a heck of a time find a PAYG Sim package that includes data in these countries, any help?
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Insurance won't cover flights for cancelled cruise
Hi, I hope someone has some advice. We had a cruise booked with Virgin Voyages and we booked flights separately. Virgin have cancelled the cruise and we received 2/3 of the money for the flights back from the airlines however we are still a bit out of pocket. I have travel insurance and so I filled in all the details and…
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Brittany Ferries coupons (merged)
Hi there, does anyone have any spare club voyage coupons for use with Brittany Ferries? thanks :)