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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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Ryanair booking
I need to fly Venice – Corfu on Sunday 7 September after 1pm Kayak finds Ryanair option – Venice – Barcelona and Barcelona
- Corfu. Total 5 hours 30mins. With a 70 mins change in Barcelona – which I
appreciate is tight! On Ryanair I cannot find this same option, is that because I
would need to book 2 completely separate…
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Airport Drop Off Charges - guide discussion
We've written a guide to Beating Airport Drop Off Charges and would appreciate your feedback. How did you find the info? Was it useful? Do you have any other tips you'd add? Thanks for your help! MSE Jenny K
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Flight cancelled without request
Really hope someone can offer practical advice to help. I've got a booking made with Budget Air for flights to Australia in July with Malaysia Airlines. I wanted to amend the outbound date, and have had real trouble getting either of these companies to process this. Both kept saying the other needed to make the change.…
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Which pre paid travel card
Hi all My wife and i are looking for advice and recommendations regarding a pre-paid travel card. I am currently using my credit card for purchases and my debit card for atm withdrawals, both have zero transaction fees and work well but If I misplaced or lost them whilst abroad, I would be in a bit of a pickle. I am toying…
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UK to Netherlands – Self-drive van hire
Hi all, Long story short, we’re moving from the UK to the Netherlands. We’re wanting to hire a van (to drive ourselves) to take all our belongings over. But ideally, wanting to drop the van off in the Netherlands. I know that would incur a fee – but would possibly work out cheaper, compared to driving back, getting another…
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Car Rental Rip Off
Apologies in advance for the length. I booked 6 days car rental on 24/2/25 for a SUV to be collected and returned to Orlando Airport (MCO) from 8/4/25 to 14/4/25 through MoneySavingExpert.com using a Company called HolidayCars.com. They reserved a car for me from United Rent A Car. I received the confirmation email that…
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Foreign ATM useage fees and refunds
Several banks offer debit cards with zero fee worldwide ATM withdrawal and conversion at mid-market rates with no foreign exchange fees. These cards are great but some foreign ATMs charge their own useage fees which can be high and in some countries it's very hard to find one that doesn't.Does anyone know of any banks that…
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What is the best way to buy things during a few days in Dublin ?
My wife and I shall be travelling to Dublin for a few days in a couple of months, so we must really start to get organised. What is the best way to buy things during our stay ? My wife has a Barclaycard credit card (for emergencies normal) and we both have halifax debit cards. A friend suggested Starling Bank, which I had…
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Taking hire car across European borders
Good evening, brand new member, looking for some advice and experience. Been looking at hiring a car from Memmingen airport, which is in the south of Germany. Then driving into Austria, where we will stay for 9 days before returning to memmingen to fly home. We are not traveling until August. It seems that it needs…
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Suggestions for multi leg flight search
Flying to SFO this summer, but want to stop on the East coast both ways to avoid overly long and overnight flights. So most airlines only seem to let you search and book 4 legs on their own websites but google flight search allows 5. The 5 google legs an then transfer to the airline booking websites without issue. It seems…
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Can we get a refund
My wife and son are flying to South America via Miami with American airlines. Their flight home was due to leave at 14.30 but now it is going to be 00.30. This is a big change - can they get a refund? I have contacted the agency but no reply yet. To add insult to injury we could have bought flights at that time for less…
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Euros with a credit card
Hi going away in July and wondering if anyone has any ways or thoughts on how to get euros but using an Amex credit card? I know a lot of people do not accept and if they do it will go down as a chargeable transaction. basically need to pay for our accommodation in cash and want to try and work out the best way as we won’t…
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Aer Lingus Refund
I recently was bumped from a flight due to an issue with the plane meaning the flew at half capacity. They booked me on another flight but the same thing happened. We eventually flew with another airline at my cost- we were offered a flight the next day by Aer Lingus but no accommodation costs. I believe we’re due: -…
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Missed flight
I am really getting old!!! I was supposed to fly out yesterday with Emirates but for some reason thought my flight is today. My travel agent said that rebooking fee is more than half what I paid. If I cancel, I will only get £35 back. My return flight in a few week's time will also be cancelled as I was a no show. Can I…
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Hire Car Mallorca Excess Loss and Damage Cover Added Despite Saying No
Hi Just back from Mallorca and have been billed an extra 231 Euros for reduced Excess Loss and Damage despite telling the guy at the desk we did not want it. We have our own cover. My husband is raging. He has written to them saying we hire 4 times a year or more and never take this out. We are waiting for a reply to…
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ATM Cashpoint cash withdrawl in Australia
I took £300 out of the ANZ bank cashpoint in Sydney on my Chase debit card and didnt get charged any bank fees by ANZ or Chase and got an excellent exchange rate. Fully recommend using Chase debit and ANZ ATMs in Australia. (No, I dont work for them..) Anyone else found this?
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The Currency Club
Hi, this site seems like a good site. I want to buy euros, which seem to offer better than others. Is this a legitimate Company? Thank you Boz
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Prepaid Travel Cards guide
Hi! This is the discussion thread for the Prepaid Travel Cards guide. Click reply below to discuss. If you haven’t already, join the forum to reply. If you aren’t sure how it all works, read our New to Forum? Intro Guide. Thanks folks,
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Cancelling/changing a Ryanair flight......
Hello all. Very quick question to find out if anyone has any tricks or hacks regarding cancelling/changing Ryanair flights. I have two flights booked for this week for myself and my daughter (she's under 16). She had an operation last week and is unable to travel for a month, so I can't use our flights. I know that Ryanair…
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Fraudulent use of my easyJet voucher
In April 2024 we were given the devastating blow that my husband was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia. As he took on the battle starting the day after with chemotherapy I began to unpick the year ahead plans, including our holiday to Spain. In April 2024 i submitted a critical illness form to EasyJet resulting in a…
