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Do you use private browsing when searching for holiday deals online?
I'm keen to hear from anyone who uses incognito/private tabs to research holiday deals. 🏖️ * Do you find prices appear differently depending on whether you use incognito/private or not? * Do you find new discounts appear for you depending on whether you use incognito/private or not? * Do you have any successes you can…
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Flights, Currency & Car Hire Sticky
✈️ Forum threads on this topic: * Cheap travel money discussion area * Cheap car hire discussion area * Travel credit cards discussion area * Prepaid travel cards discussion area * Easyjet tricks discussion area 🚙 Useful content from MoneySavingExpert.com: * Coronavirus travel rights * TravelMoneyMax - compare travel money…
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Belfast airport Budget car hire- been stung!
Hello, Thank you in advance for advice, these are the problems I encountered and wondered if anyone can help. I booked car hire with Avis Budget for 3 days hire through Expedia. Do I have a case to say I have been misled/ treated unfairly under the Consumer Act? Problems: Expedia in an email said I needed a credit card to…
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EasyJet flight release Spring/early Summer flights 2027
On the EasyJet App they say look out for the imminent release of flights for Spring/early summer 2027. Has anyone got any inside info as to the expected date? TIA
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Car hire - DCC issue
Hello! I rented a car yesterday from Malaga through ClickRent. The overall experience at the rental desk was fine and we have the car. However, I had to pay a €2,000 deposit - well I say pay, but I believe it's just a hold on my credit card rather than a payment at this stage. I noticed on my credit card app today that the…
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CarTrawler cancelled my car hire and kept the money
I rented a car with Europcar via the EasyJet website (= CarTrawler is their provider) for a week's holiday in Sicily pre-paid for a total of £489.51. On arrival at Palermo Airport, having spent some time getting thru the EES process and queuing at the Europcar desk, we realised that my husband didn't have his International…
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Car hire CDW
We hired a car at Malaga. Took photos of the damage to the car before we took it. We didnt think we needed to pay their upselling insurance which was about 400 euros. On return there were two new "dings". We hadnt done anything and they werent on my photos so hadnt happened before hire. They have kept all of the excess CDW…
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Advice on Car hire - Malaga
Hi all I will be hiring a car at Malaga airport in September for a week ( in planning stage atm) I have just looked at a few sites & I do not understand all the different extra & types e.g one said no excess & seemed to cover everything but was extra €50 a day ! I will be meeting my daughter at Malaga airport. My daughter…
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Is changing cash now becoming the best MSE option?
I never thought I'd say it but changing cash seems to be becoming the best option when abroad in a lot of places. In these days of not needing much cash because everywhere takes cards, and the lack of fee free ATMs in a lot of places, the ATM fees can easily be much more than the saving in exchange rate. For instance I was…
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Eurocar bogus cleaning charge and debt collection
Hi, I'm looking for some advice regarding a dispute with Europcar Italy. We rented a car from Venice Airport in February and returned it after hours. There was no Europcar agent present at the time of return, so we were unable to do a walk-around inspection together. Several weeks later, Europcar charged us around €160 for…
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Kiwi flight check in notifications issue
My partner booked return flights for Manchester - Pisa through Kiwi. The return flight had a layover in Eindhoven, but he never received any notifications that he needed to check in for the Eindhoven - Manchester flight. When we got off the plane from Pisa to Eindhoven, we were advised we missed the deadline and had to pay…
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Request refund for fights
Hi I purchased tickets via Skyscanner to travel to Pakistan. We live in Kashmir & it is advised by FCDO to not travel there unless emergency. The travel agent has advised the tickets are not cancellable & they can only refund minimal amount airport taxes or fuel taxes. Can I take out travel insurance now & request remining…
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Held at ransom at car hire desk in Italy
We had a terrible experience at Pisa Airport last week where it felt that we were scammed and held at ransom by the car hire company. I had booked a car for a week with VIP Cars about two months ago for an agreed sum of around £300 (paying a small deposit up front). When we got to the Noleggiare car desk they scribbled a…
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Spanish Car Hire Insurance Excess
Hello new to the forum, I was wondering if you could help, I saw an article on car hire excess insurance. We had a bit of a nightmare on holiday when we got to the car hire desk. Whilst waiting I contacted the insurance company through booking.com whom we had arranged the hire and paid for fully comp insurance. As expected…
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Alcohol in airport hand luggage?
Our local airport has recently had their scanners upgraded and now allow you to take 2 litres of liquid on board in your cabin bags. I am looking to take a bottle of wine on a UK internal flight (not for consumption on board but as a present). Will this be allowed through the security process? Does anyone have any…
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Fee for paying for a holiday in Euros with a Lloyds Credit Card
Hi all. I am looking to book holiday accommodation on booking.com, & was hoping to put it on my Lloyds credit card for the added section 75 protection. I have been quoted just under £3k, but think I will be charged a 2.95% non-sterling fee by Lloyd's, amounting to just under £90. I tried to phone them to ask, but was given…
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USA Car Rental - SLI insurance
Good afternoon, On our US road trips we always rented our cars from Alamo. They included Supplementary Liability Insurance (SLI) of US$ 1 million. Just to be on the safe side I tended to add on a fairly low cost stand alone SLI policy to increase this cover to US$ 2 million. The last place on earth you want to be under…
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Flight ticket refund - Trip.com
We cancelled our return flights to Jordan, booked for early May ‘26, in mid-April because new Foreign Office advice said ‘do not travel’ to Jordan due to the Middle East war. This advice remained in place until early June. We had booked a tour in Jordan with Intrepid Travel, who in mid-April , cancelled all Jordan tours…
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Withdraw Cash from Bank Croatia NOT ATM
Hello, UK Citizen travelling to Croatia. Need to take out cash (four figures of EUR) from a bank in Croatia. The amount will be outside of normal ATM card limits, and I want to make one transaction only. This is to pay local suppliers, the amount is not 100% decided yet so I do not want to get out EUR in the UK and take…
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FX Travel Ltd
Please please do not use this company to obtain your
currency. My order for £750 worth of
Euros was due to be delivered on the 1st October. Owing to a mistake between FX Ltd and their
courier Royal Mail my currency was not delivered. As a result, they missed the
deadline for my holiday and two weeks later I still have not…
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Air India Short Connection and Possible Missing Flight
I have a flight booked on 24th June from LHR to Manila connecting via Delhi with 1 hour 25 minutes. Flights are: AI2018 departs at 20:35 - 11:00 arrival in Delhi AI2362 departs at 12:25 - 21:50 arrival in Manila. I have been tracking recent flights and AI2018 gets delayed often. I have spoken to someone else who was on a…
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Etihad policy on cancellation on medical grounds
I had to cancel an Etihad flight because of an urgent medical issue the day before. Hopefully I'll get money back from my travel insurance but I knew they'd tell me to apply for the tax part of the flight cost back from the airline. So I phoned Etihad and they said because it was a medical reason for cancelling I could get…
