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Best way to take money to New Zealand
My youngest son is off to New Zealand in a couple of months for a month. What is the best way to take money please? He doesn't want to rely on just his bank debit card in case it gets lost or stolen. We were thinking of a card that could be pre loaded with money and that we could top up for him if needed. I think the post…
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Monarch hand baggage.
Monarch Airlines, a UK-based airline company, is offering increased baggage allowance for passengers on scheduled flights. The leisure air carrier will be offering the capacity from November 1, 2012, when it will be providing new gauges at airports to assist passengers in checking the specified size of hand baggage.…
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Got My Clarity Card But What About Cash?
Hi, My husband and I are going to Florida next month and will be taking our Clarity Card with us (thanks Martin!!) but what do we do about small things and car parking at the parks etc? I was going to get £1000 of dollars from Fairfx today on my credit card but they charge £27 for doing that, is it best to use my Lloyds…
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Getting cash fromATMs in Sydney
Going to Sydney to see family over Xmas/NY. Have Halifax Clarity and SAGA credit cards. Research shows that ATM charges will apply for drawing cash on these cards, so will it be best to take AUD from the UK or stump up for the ATM charges? Anyone know what the ATM charges will be?
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How does Ryanair make so much money?
Yahoo finance article > http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/how-does-ryanair-money-29102012.html
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Has Ryanair dropped the Luton-Marrakech route?
Does anyone know if Ryanair have dropped the Luton-Marrakech route? Their site only shows journeys up the end of November, is that a bad sign. I know Easyjet do the Gatwick-Marrakech route but they are so much dearer.
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RTW Flights - good idea or not?
I've been looking at travelling round the world, and am trying to work out what is the most esensible option. With the seeming decline of traditioanl open-jaw or genuine RTW tickets, I've been disappointed to find most places (STA, trailfinders, the various alliances etc) all require specific dates and destinations for…
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BA Cancel Flight; Thomson want to charge us for changing our room booking
About 6 weeks ago, a group of friends and I booked a package holiday with Thomson to Las Vegas next year. Our flights were with BA. This morning, I received a call from Thomson to say that BA had cancelled our outbound flight from the UK and that our booking would now be put back one day; therefore, we would now depart a…
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Flight delayed: Who to claim off
Hi, I was due to fly out of Glasgow on an easy jet flight at 0840 and be in paris for lunch time. I had a trip up the eiffel tower booked and straight after a river illuminations cruise. These things had to be booked in advance as your not guaranteed to get on by just turning up. At about 0700 a Jet2 flight made an…
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Flights to Dubai Advice
Hi, I'm looking at taking the family (3 adults, 1 x 14yr old) to Dubai for 2 weeks at the end of March / beginning of April next year to visit my sister. When is the best time to book flight? As early as possible or wait till nearer the time? Any tricks to drive down prices? I'm hoping to fly from Cardiff but presume the…
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Expedia dodging a refund...
I recently booked a trip to Paris for me, my mum and sister. Unfortunately, the date proved to be difficult for my mum, so I called Expedia to work out what to do. They immediately refunded the cost of the hotel, and emailed me with Eurostar's details for a refund for the travel. Eurostar, however, advised that the refund…
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Flights to florida DOUBLED in past 4 weeks
On 7th October we booked flights for my husband and our 3 teenagers to fly to Orlando next July, home from Miami 2 weeks later. Cost £450 each which at the time we thought was pretty good! We didnt book mine as I am not able to get the time off, so will go a few days later and just do Miami. When I looked now the flights…
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Credit card need for car rental ?
Hi my wife is going to Belfast for Xmas and I have booked her a hire car from Europcar for her trip. She needs a credit card to be able to pick it up but she hasn't got one she dosent work as she is a house wife looking after the kids. She has been to her bank and they have turned her down,she is starting to panic. Can…
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Hurricane / Tropical Storm 'Sandy' - compensation ?
Hi all This may seem a strange question, but this seems to be the best place to ask.... We have just arrived back home in the UK from a 2 week break in Jamaica, where our final day (Tuesday) was a little breezy, and it was clear the hotel was swinging it's 'Hurricane' preparations into action. Our return flight into…
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e-rewards: What to spend points on?
Hi all, I have 24000 points accumulated with e-rewards and was wondering what the best way to spend them would be? Which point conversion would give me most bang for my points? http://www.e-rewards.co.uk/rewardslevel.do?level=-1 1,200 Opinion Points 250 Extra Points 250 Flying Club Miles 2,000 Opinion Points 200 Skywards…
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help with ryanair please
hi there checked in online at home yesterday for 3 flights and did not print off boarding cards. Now at work trying to print off and normally I go into online check-in again, it knows I have already entered details so allows me to print. However every time I go into 'manage my booking' I get an error message saying I have…
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Compensation for Delayed Flight on Package holidays
With the new ruling for compensation for delayed flights how does this apply to package holidays. we went on a Monarch holidays package flying by Monarch Airlines to the Canary Islands last year and had a 5 hour delay in both directions. monarch gave us £50 each as a goodwill gesture but refused us anymore. should we now…
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Totally Confused - 5 Currencies
I've spent ages looking through pages of currency/credit card information for holiday money, and I'm getting more and more confused. Is there some kind soul out there who can give some advice please? We're British pensioners living permanently in Spain. We have an English bank account (HSBC), a Spanish bank account and a…
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Ryanair promotional code
Hi Does anyone have any active promotional codes for ryanair? Thanks Beth
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Still charged Ryanair Admin fee with their card
I think this is my fault and I don't suppose that R/A will refund me but ... I have a R/A cash passport - the one where they don't charge you the admin fee. The last three times that I have booked flights I have still paid the admin fee and stupidly, I've only just noticed! - I think that I have clicked the drop down box…
