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Best hire car for price/loyalty balance
I regularly hire cars in France, and currently it appears that Europcar, whilst being quite cheap, seem to regularly mess up on the loyalty front. The excuse I was given was that the airport branch are a franchisee and only send hire details to head office at irregular intervals. It took me multiple emails and phone calls…
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Bereavement fares from UK to EU?
Anyone know if any airlines offer bereavement fares for last-minute bookings to the mainland?
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Fair FX exchange rates
Hi all, I'm staying in Denmark for 6 months and will mostly use the Halifax Clarity card for purchaese but will also need some access to cash so got a FairFX Anywhere card. I can't find on their site what the exchange rate is for GBP to DKK apart from for their currency purchase service which I'm hoping is not the same…
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Car hire insurance - legal fee cover?
Hi all I am trying to book car insurance cover as I will be hiring a car in Barcelona. With all the car hire insurance websites, I cant see anything about legal fees being included. Any ideas of where I can? Is this now listed under a different name? Thanks.
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wrong forum - whoops. Can I have some compo ?
Whoops - posted on the wrong forum Can I have some compensation ?
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Booking outbound and inbound flights separetly
Hi I'm trying to book flights for family going to barcelona at short notice, as a consequence Easyjet is very expensive and I don't really want to fly Ryanair which doesn't work out much cheaper anyway. I'm looking at booking the outbound and inbound separately as I can get reasonable prices then, the return flight would…
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Flight Delayed over 32 hours - Compensation?
18/1/13 - We were due to fly from Birmingham to Tenerife 11.10am on the day the snow arrived Basically the short story is that our departure was delayed 32hrs & 50 mins. We boarded a snow covered plane at 11am on 18/1 for a departure time of 11.10am. We were told that we would be late departing as they would need to sweep…
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Ryan Air (and others) and tennis rackets
Has anybody had any experience of taking a couple of tennis rackets on board a ryanair plane(or other)?ould they cahrge for these , is there anyway to find out before I book?
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How far ahead do Easyjet sell flights?
Hi all I want to go to Berlin with some friends over New Year, probably 29 Dec to 2 Jan. But we don't want to book accom yet in case flights are ridiculously expensive. Easyjet are selling flights upto the end of October - does anyone know how regularly they add flights? Is it done a month at a time or in chunks throughout…
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Ryan Air - help needed
Hi, new to MSE as you can see and I'm asking for some help. Hoping that the internet can spread the message and find that one person who can help me. I booked fights with Ryan Air in December for travel in February, just been to the website to check in and realized I have made an awful mistake, instead of booking the…
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Lost luggage - claim against airline or use own insuarance?
Hi Thomson Airline lost my luggage on our return to Gatwick from a skiing holiday. The bag contained items belonging to me and my wife with a "bought new" value of £1800. We had a snowboard bag that arrived safely, but our luggage was lost without trace. I would now like to make a claim for the luggage. The options are to…
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Driving out of Miami Airport
Can anyone on this forum who has recent driving experience of Miami Airport tell me whether all roads are toll roads in the immediate vicinity of the airport and if there is a toll-free alternative route to head to the Tamiami Trail? Thanks.
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Contacting United Airlines (from the UK)?
Does anyone know the best way to contact United Airlines from the UK? The phone/email links they provide in their confirmation email go to a non-existant web page, and I can only find US numbers on their website. They have charged me twice for flights booked online and I need to get it sorted ASAP! Thanks for any help.
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Buying Prepaid Card as a honeymoon gift
Step daughter is getting married in September and is going on honeymoon to USA and Hawaii. We would like to give them a $1000 spending money for the trip and we would prefer to give it to them as a surprise gift at the wedding. Is it possible to buy a prepaid card and load it in the name of someone else ?
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The dollar and the £
Hi all, The £ rate against the $ has been drastically falling recently, It's gone down from 1.60 to 1.56 in just a few weeks! If Im going on Holdiday in March, is it better to my dollars now or then? I heard the BoE has suggested making the £ more weak to encourage exports..
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Atlas Choice Hire Car Charged €1916.62
Hi! Looking forsome assistance from the wealth of experience on the forum! I went on holiday back in November to Portugal with some friends and hired a car viaAtlas Choice. The car was hired from the10th – 17th November for about £63 + a local charge of €25for an out of hours fee. I booked the car and shortly received an…
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Excess insurance - conditions
I recently picked up a hire car from Budget in the UK, and as we were going though a list of all all the extras, that I was not going to buy, the assistant suggested to me, that some 3rd party excess policies were not all that they were cracked up to be. He indicated that some policies only paid out when the damage occurs…
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Beware of Sixt toll road admin fees in Florida!
Hi All, Just been researching car hire costs for Florida and was amazed to discover that Sixt car rental company charges $36.99 per week of a car rental period for E-Tolls. So, over a three week period the charge will be as high as $110.97 - even if a driver does not even use any toll roads or only incurs toll fees of $5…
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UK to Cape Town return
Hi all new to the travel section of the site but have been recommended it by a friend. I am looking on travelling to South Africa for my 30th birthday this year to fulfil a dream of seeing a great white shark in the flesh. I also plan to abseil down table mountain and a whole raft of exciting things. However I am new to…
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Goodbye Gaddafi, Hello O'Leary
Michael O'Leary is looking at a move into the Libyan market. Anyone know of some bombed runways near Tripoli that Ryanair could use? http://www.libyaherald.com/2013/01/23/irish-airline-ryanair-eyes-libyan-market/
