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Prepaid travel currency cards
Hi, I'm going to Italy on holiday in April and am considering getting a prepaid currency card like the fairfx, cantonfx or ice cards. Has anyone used these and are they useful when shopping and eating out etc? I've only ever taken cash or travellers cheques before. I know there are charges for withdrawing from ATMs, I was…
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Exchanging large denominations for smaller ones - Dubai Dirhams
I have some 500 Dirham notes that I would like to change for smaller denominations before I go. Went into Hays who said they can't do it. Any suggestions?
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Thomson Seating Allocation
My OH and I are going away next week, we tried to check in online yesterday only to find that we have been seated separately on the way there but together on the way back, 80% of the seats were not allocated so we tried to change it so we were sat together but we have to pay £9 for this. How can this be anything other than…
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AMS - Schipol Quandry
Usually I'm on a pass through ticket to connect to my long haul flight, but we've got family in Abu Dhabi who've booked us some ID50 tickets (nice seats :D ) from AMS (Schipol) to Abu Dhabi. Thing is, we need to get to AMS, the Abu Dhabi flight leaves at 10pm, and we need to get in on an alternative carrier - so the flight…
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Stupid Car Hire Question!
Hiya, It's been a while since I've booked car hire, it used to be book the car, then buy the excess insurance elsewhere (all fine). However, looking for cars in Malaga, I see many of them offer zero excess CDW. Now, here's the stupid question - does this mean I don't need the excess insurance? Ive read the T&Cs and I'm…
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Flights to US with a minor
Hi going to Florida with my grown up kids and their kids in June. Flying into Sanford. One of the grand kids is traveling with her Mother but has her dads surname. We have her passport, ESTA and a letter stating that her dad is happy for her to travel with us foe a vacation. Is this all we will need or can anyone think of…
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Investment in Bitcoin
"One way of investing into Bitcoin is to buy bitcoins to hold them as a long-term high-risk investment.[86] Winklevoss twins made a US$1.5 million personal investment[87] and attempt to launch a bitcoin ETF.[16] The New York Times has called vulnerability to hacking and theft to limit bitcoin use as an investment,…
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Rupees
Help I've rupees I need to change back to sterling, who will exchange them.It needs to be local to me in either in Dudley or Wolverhampton or is there anywhere I can trust to post them to.
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Lanzarote car hire?
Can one of the regular Lanzarote visitors be able to tell me--is it wiser to hire the car from here on t'internet or wait until we get there, going for 10 days want a car for 7! Do not want from airport as transfers to Cost Teguise already paid for.
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British Airways Holidays - booking tip
Hi All Thought I'd share. When booking a holiday on BA (that's a Flight+Hotel or Flight+Car Hire) you can pay a low deposit if the holiday is more thank 10 weeks in advance. When you pay the deposit you will be subjected to a £9 surcharge on the card should you pay by most credit cards. If you pay the deposit by debit card…
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Halifax Clarity Card
HI i have a card with a limit of 10k gbp...Just wondering if i was to buy currency online (which would be in euros) for 9k would this be worth my while ??? I am buying a property abroad and only need this money for 2 weeks and will be paying it back after then as have a shortage of cash flow until then... ANY HELP much…
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Discounts (or Coupon) for booking Transatlantic Flight
We are looking to book a transatlantic flight with one of the scheduled airlines - possibly US Airways. The prices seem fairly consistent regardless of who we book through - Crystal Travel, Major Travel, Netflights, Lastminute, Traveltrolley, Opodo, Expedia, etc. I was trying to find if any of these websites (or others)…
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Disastrous Missing Money from Post Office Currency Exchange
Hi. I am in quite a horrible situation at the moment, brought on by my own oversight, and I am desperately seeking any kind of help or advice. I went into my local Post Office on Wednesday to exchange sterling for euros in preperation for my return to a Eurozone univeristy. The gentleman serving me was very friendly and…
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Ryanair Yes or No
Nervous about booking with Ryanair, price difference with Thomas Cook is £100.00 cheaper, is it worth paying the extra and flying with Thomas Cook?
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recommend Seat choices on Ryanair with toddler and young child?
2 adults 1 x 2 yr old 1 x 4 yr old Now Ryanair can prebook seats, I'm going to do that, as it was always stressful before whether we would get seats together and people end up queing so early on any recommendations on which seat numbers? bit annoying that the layout is two sides of 3 only i'm thinking to stay at least a…
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easyJet return flight £1009
Is it a record? London Gatwick to Nice Dep Tue, 11 March 2014 07:15 Arr Tue, 11 March 2014 10:10 Flight 8349 1 Adult 1 x £503.49 2 Nice to London Luton Dep Fri, 14 March 2014 11:00 Arr Fri, 14 March 2014 12:05 Flight 2124 1 Adult 1 x £505.76 Final Price £1,009.25
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Travelex Money Card
Hi I am looking to get the Travelex Cash Passport for going to Australia for 10 weeks. I wondered if anybody had any advice/problems using this type of card? I noticed on their website that to load/reload it costs 2% for a GBP sterling card, is that right? thanks
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prebooking flight seats?
off to mexico with the family at easter. just got the e-tickets through from Thomsons with an invitation to pre-book our seats now for £72. had a quick look and 80-90% of the seats are "unavailable", and of those available, you can only get two together. Am hoping this is bullsh1t and we will get 3 seats together when we…
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Travellers Cheques? Are they still used.
Im going to the USA in a months time and want to take approx. £5000 in spending money. When I collected my tickets from Thompson Holidays they were trying to get me to take one of their money cards. When I last went I took a certain amount in dollars and they rest in Thomas Cook travellers cheques. Do these still get used…
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Flights Advice To California Sacremento
Hoping to get as cheap as possible flights to California Sacramento from London or Birmingham Airports , flying from the 29th June till 6th July. Any suggestions for cheap flights would be good. xx