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Travelling Alone
Hi Everyone I have an extra week's Annual Leave to take and thought I'd take myself off for a week somewhere. Sometime between 27th Mar - 3rd Apr. I've never travelled abroad before (usually have all the family with me) but they're all working so thought I'd treat myself. Something relaxing, I'm not sporty at all lol.…
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Groupon excursions
Sorry if this has been asked before, but can anyone tell me if they have used Groupon to book excursions on while on holiday. My concern is that i prebook a couple and then due weather they are postponed, but without enough time left on my holiday to take them. Am i able to get a refund under these circumstances? I have…
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Recommendations Please For Holiday Abroad For 1 Person
Hi Everyone I have an extra week's Annual Leave to take and thought I'd take myself off for a week somewhere. I've never travelled abroad before (usually have all the family with me) but they're all working so thought I'd treat myself. Something relaxing, I'm not sporty at all lol. Where would you go for a week - somewhere…
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Trying to find a cheap break in school holidays
I am trying to look into a family holiday for 3 of us, the problem is that my Daughter is 7 so is in school, so it needs to be taken in school holidays. The problem with that is of course prices go up so much during school holidays. Does anybody have any tips on the best places to look to be able to get a reasonably priced…
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Central America Holiday
My boyfriend and I are both poor Masters students who will be graduating this year. We would like to go travelling around central America in celebration of this... but on a tight-ish budget. We are looking to go from November 2015- end of January 2016 I have a couple of questions: 1) where is the cheapest place to fly…
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Passport: Countersigning a photo and sending off...
Hi, I have looked at the amount of txt needed to sign a photo for a friend, i am going to have to do very small hand writing! Are there any guidelines that the signature has to be exactly within "any" borders. The photo's are on a strip of 4, with no obvious borders. I don't think that my friend should cut down the photo's…
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£534 holiday cancelation fee with on the beach. Please help.
Hi all, Me and my girlfriend booked a holiday to Tenerife for late August this year through 'on the beach'. We booked this holiday a couple of days after xmas. Since then unforeseen circumstances have seen us break up. I tried to cancel the holiday yesterday expecting to lose my £100 deposit, but they are asking for a…
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Canada trip planning - advice please!
We've just booked flights to Vancouver at the end of May for 2 weeks, and now have the fun task of planning our itinerary, hotels, car hire and activities! People on here have been so helpful in the past, so I'm wondering if anyone has any tips and advice for the following... Sights/activities not to miss in BC Considering…
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holidaylettings.co.uk
Recently booked an apartment with the above website, just a heads up to watch out for the booking fee which is not actually mentioned until you have entered your credit card details (its not a credit card fee), I got stung for just under 12% which is extortionate, when I spoke to them about it I was told its anything…
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Kuwait airways
Has anyone ever flown with them? What were they like? We have a flight to New York in February and just wondered what to expect as I've only flown long haul a couple of times and that was more than 10 years ago.
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Family group to Greece
Hello, you lot, Has anyone got any suggestions for a half board destinantion (could be Greece , but could be somewhere else beachy) , for a large family group - 4 adults and 4 children ? Thanks .
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Transfers
Hello, The travel agent I booked with isn't able to get me a transfer from the airport to the resort in Greece (and back again) (none are, the hotel isn't running transfers as it's technically out of season) Does anyone have some good transfer sites? Might book in Euros as the exchange rate is good? Option to choose coach…
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FAO halifax clarity card users
Thinking of getting 1 for when we go to salou in august. How do people who have them use them ? Do you take any money with you for the first night ? I don't want to be left stranded with no money until I can find a cash machine.
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Travel money rates held back
Anyone know if the Travel money exchange rate companies, hold back like the oil based companies that dont pass on savings immediately to consumers ?
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Cannot find passport..Help!
So I have been searching for my passport for a while now and can't find it (EHIC card is with it too). I may be going to Paris for a couple of days at the end of February (getting there via Eurostar). Is a passport vital? Can I not take my birth certificate in place of it? Also, how do I sort out getting a new passport…
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Holiday Insurance Claim
I had holiday insurance with Virgin, and travelled with Thomson airlines. Our bags were delayed for 3 days, so essential items were purchased which Virgin are covering. When our bags arrived they had been broken into and items stolen, including Christmas presents, toiletries, dress jewellery, Ipad mini and Kindle. I can…
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flightxpert/holidayxpert
Hi all, just wondered if anyone had ever booked a flight or holiday through this, just booked flights to oz and now I'm worrying its a bugus company, they have a travel trust assurance number, the company display an abta logo but no record of them on there,the company has a London mailing address, sounds like their call…
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Barcelona advice
Looks like Cuba is out due to price and availability so looking at other options, first of which is a long weekend to Barcelona. Have found some good value flights with BA for the bank holiday weekend in April and am looking for some ideas as to where to stay. Want to be in a nice area, near-ish to the airport but nothing…
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Dreamliner seating
Going to Mexico in April and been looking at reserving seats on the plane. A lot of the seats are already taken but just wondering who had flown on a Dreamliner before and what sort of recommendations anyone would give. We were looking at the middle 3 seats in row 30 which is directly behind the toilets which could obv be…
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Groupon holiday scam - how to successfully get refund?
(Will try to keep this as short as possible, sorry!!) Summary: Travel company via Groupon hastily booked random holiday dates on our behalf without our authorisation to attempt to nullify our Groupon "Right to Cancel" contract agreement once we requested a refund; has not given us any holiday details and refused to refund.…