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Hiring a car without a credit card
Hi. I can't find my original thread but I wanted to post an update as I'm sure I'm not the only one in this situation I asked for advice as everywhere says that you need a credit card to book your car hire and that a credit card is required when collecting. I don't have a credit card. I've booked with my debit card and…
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Croatia - Travel Money Prepaid Card help***
Hi, Hope everyone is well and not too sad about the football. We are off to croatia next week and have finally got round to looking into prepaid cards. We want a prepaid card instead of a CC. The advice on this site is great but i am finding it a little confusing. Like I say we will be heading to Croatia (Kuna) but most of…
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book flight now or later?
I am having to get my passport renewed for a holiday to turkey on 10 july. I have an appointment at the passport office for the the 4 hour renewal on 25 june. I can get a flight now for approx. 130 return. I know the suggestion is to not book your holiday until you have received your passport but am worried that by waiting…
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Refund of Ryanair insurance after they forced me to cancel flight
I booked a Ryainair flight a few months ago and accidentally included the insurance option without noticing (don't get me started!). About a month before the flight Ryanair informed me that they were moving the flight by 13 hours and offered me the option to cancel which I had to do due to our young family. When they…
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Using NatWest Visa Debit Card in U.S?
Does anyone here have any experience using a NatWest Visa Debit Card in the U.S recently? What was it like in terms of charges and easy to use? I'm trying to find the best way to withdraw money while I'm there (In Atlanta). I'm going for 3 months for business so won't need a lot of leisure money, most likely will spend…
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Thomas Cook Foreign Exchange
Hi there, Just thought some of you guys should be aware of certain tricks of the foreign exchange trade. I work in foreign exchange (I will not disclose where) and with competition hotting up between bureaus everyone is upping their game. However, word of warning about Thomas Cooks services. When you are searching for the…
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Thomson - 'select your seat'!!!!
So I've paid Thomson £38 to be able to select our seats on a flight to Kos. I can 'select' at the 90 day to return flight date, which is today. Brilliant, NOT. Logged on to discover entire plane empty so I can pretty much pick wherever I want, NOT. Pre pay bookers "are not allowed to leave a window seat vacant", therefore…
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connecting in lgw
I am looking at booking a holiday to Canada in september. There is a cheap air transat flight back to gatwick but it only gives us 1 hour 10 minutes to connect to an easyjet flight to aberdeen, is this enough as we will obviously have more than hand luggage?
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Finding cheapest internal US flights when booking from UK?
Does anyone know the best way to go about this? We've booked our international flight but still need to book an internal one separately (return between East Coast and Midwest). Would it just be the usual UK comparison websites, or are there US-based sites and specific airlines I should try? I've been told that some US…
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Flight cancelled - options?
Hi, Sorry if this is something I've missed by searching but I'm at work and trying to help as quickly as I can! My dad and his wife are on their way to New York, they were scheduled on United 80 this morning out of MAN to EWR at 9.25. There was a short delay, then they finally boarded they taxied to the runway and then…
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Is there any negatives regards post office money travel card
Thinking of using this has a savings card for euros for when I go on holiday will only be using it in mainly shops to buy meals etc Thank you
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Ryanair family travel
New deals for families: http://corporate.ryanair.com/news/news/140617-ryanair-launches-ryanair-family-extra/?market=en
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Dollars - where to exchange?
I have about US$400 dollars in cash left over from a previous trip. I'm heading to Japan next week and I was wondering, would it be better to exchange to pounds here or take it with me to Japan and exchange it there? Or would to make no difference?! Thanks
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Flights via ebookers?
Hi all I'm looking to book a flight to Auckland then on to Sydney, and ebookers are coming out around £200 cheaper than direct with Qantas for the same flights. I've never booked with them before, so can anyone advise if they are any good? The other thing is do you get your proper reference number so that you can online to…
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Shekels for teenager travelling with another family
My early teens offspring is travelling to Israel with a friend and their family I want them to have access to money out there but I don't want to send them off with a fistful of dollars (shekels). Other that asking the accompanying parents to be surrogate bankers is there an easy way to provide shekels in a reasonably safe…
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Flights to Myanmar (Burma)
Does anyone know (or been) to Myanmar (Burma)? We are looking at best prices, as we have been looking on Tripadvisor but it seems to be quite old info? We are looking at a trip possibly in November?
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Flights to New York advice
Hi all, Myself and partner had a plan to honeymoon next August (2015) with a trip to USA for two weeks. The idea to fly from UK any London (or other airport if significantly cheaper) around 11th August 2015 to New York, rent a car for the two weeks and return from New York back to UK. Now having had a look, flights for…
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Airlines' unlawful 084, 087 & 09 phone numbers
From today, 13th June 2014, Article 21 of Directive 2011/83/EU on Consumer Rights outlaws surcharged telephone numbers for customer service lines across the European Union and the wider European Economic Area. Although the directive excludes passenger transport services, the UK decided to remove this exclusion when…
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Car hire insurance excess for 87 year old
Does anyone know of any companies out there who will sell us excess insurance when the lead drive is over 85? Is it worth the risk not to take out excess insurance cover? We're going to France for a week.
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BA - Pay for upgrade to Business
We are flying to San Francisco in September. Flights are booked,economy out, premium economy return. I am considering upgrading to Business either there or back (or both!) I know it's not very MSE, but it's a special occasion, and I have the money to do it. Does anyone have any inside info on Business fare structures.…
