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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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Avoid non sterling transaction fee
All I want is a way to pay for online purchases in Euros and avoid a non sterling transaction fee, bad exchange rates or any other fees. I've read the travel spending article but most of the solutions presented have various issues for me: - Credit cards or full credit checks aren't viable for me - I can't use banking apps…
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Air Passenger Duty from Turkish Airlines
My son booked a flight with Turkish Airlines from London to Kathmandu (via a stop off in Istanbul). He had to cancel the flight due to an accident a couple of weeks before the trip. Part of the cost is obviously Airport Duty Tax. Our insurance covered the actual flight but not the Airport Duty Tax. A call to Turkish…
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Taxi to airport
Her Maj and I are flying off to sunny climes in the spring 2026 to celebrate our retirement. Flights and hotel booked, but for the UK transfer I'm thinking of booking a taxi to get us to airport. I did consider meet and greet among other options, but I didn't want the faff and taxi works out a bit cheaper - plus we travel…
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Abysmal service from JL/Waitrose
I used MSE on Monday 12/1 to order Euros from the above, enticed by the rate and the 'promise' that the money would be at my local Waitose store after 2pm on Tuesday. I'm abroad from 4am tomorrow. Sillly me. I know they say you should wait for a confirmatrion e-mail but without one I visited the store on Tues evening. They…
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Wizz Air EU261 Claim Advice
I Booked Wizz Air flights (LGW-AGP, 18-26 Dec) for 4 with
Barclaycard in January. Between April-December, I got 12 Wizz schedule change
emails as most of which were minor few minutes schedule changes, so I stopped
reading them properly Then: * 10 Oct: They moved outbound to one full day earlier to 17 Dec (didn't notice,…
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Claiming back Airport Duty Tax from Turkish Airlines
My son booked a flight with Turkish Airlines from London to Kathmandu (via a stop off in Istanbul). He had to cancel the flight due to an accident a couple of weeks before the trip. Part of the cost is obviously Airport Duty Tax. Our insurance covered the actual flight but not the Airport Duty Tax. A call to Turkish…
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Using Standalone Car Insurance Policies
Stand-alone excess policies work very well. We have had to claim a
couple of times and on each occasion the refund has arrived before
the credit card bill. Unfortunately Hire Companies make much of
their profit from insurance policies and strongly motivate collection
desk staff to sell them. Their performances are…
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Travel Cash Card - Simplest and cheapest
Going to India for short trip. What is the simplest, cheapest cash travel card (I know they widely accept visa/mastercard) to buy? Over whelmed by the different discussions. and I've read MSE website with options. I don't mind digital if simplest to get. All I want to do is load some cash on it and use it during 10 days!!…
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EasyJet changed my seats
Just before Christmas, I received an email from EasyJet as follows: "We're sorry to say that the flight times for your flight to Barcelona on EZYXXXX have changed. Your new flight times are below. You'll also be flying on a different aircraft." "As the seat configuration on this aircraft is different your seat number(s)…
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Flying to South America in October - buy now or later?
I am flying to South America in October and the flights have recently increased in price. (I didn't buy because I had to wait for something). However I think it might come down again - what do people think?
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Complaining to Avis
After some advice on how to approach this with Avis. Earlier this month we hired a car from Avis in Italy. On day 5, I was driving along when the left rear tyre deflated. Pulled into the side of the road, checked the boot to find no spare so phoned the Avis helpline. After 45 minutes on hold, Avis arranged for a towtruck…
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Etihad price gouging - beware super strict rules on baggage and misleading advertising
TL:DR. Etihad are charging me £416 for me to add a suitcase to my booking. £76 more than my ticket cost me! I bought two flights LHR-AUH for March 2026. I didn't know what bags I needed but the price was good so I grabbed the tickets for us figuring I could add a suitcase later if I needed to. The website advertises a 65%…
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NYE a good day to book the flight at the cheapest price?
Looking to book a flight to Delhi in the summer. The price is pretty decent today. Will it likely be cheaper on NYE, as hardly anyone books flights on NYE. Momondo stats aren't really helping.
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Car rental in Sardinia - low cost operators a bad idea?
We need to rent a car from Olbia airport for 10 days in September, and have been scanning the price comparison sites recommended on the MSE site. Obviously the best prices (by far) are from companies that I've never heard of (B-Rent, Surprice, Felirent, etc), and those companies typically get universal 1 star "scammer"…
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Avis car booked through BA holidays package not available
Back in late September I arrived in Alicante quite late as our flight had been delayed, got to the avis desk and was told the only car available in the classi i booked was an automatic. I dont have experience of driving an automatic so I didn't feel comfortable (or safe) and was offered a much larger, manual vehicle at the…
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BA flights with hold bag cheapest via ba.com?
SO if I search direct flights to Kingston Jamaica the only option is BA. The search engines give other travel agents (trip, expedia, skyscanner etc) with lower prices, about 5-10% than BA but this is only for no hold bags. They then allow hold bags to be added for £100 per bag each way, £200 total. On the BA website you…
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Thrifty Car Rental Alicante - Smart Cover mis sold
I can see on this forum many issues regarding Thrifty and car rental insurance over the years. Is there a legal consumer group regarding mis sold car rentals insurance that can be approached with customers being treated unfairly?
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Upcoming flight with delay history
Hello members - I am flying out next week on a foreign low cost airline from Stansted airport with one hour and thirty minutes stop over in another country and then second onward flight to my destination. The reservation has both flights under same ticket. When I booked with this airline the flights were going on time but…
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WizzAir check in via a third party booking on modified flight
Hi, I booked a return WizzAir flight to Budapest tomorrow via Kiwi.com (yes, now I know that it's an error). The flight times have changed, not a problem as such, but now I am unable to check in online as WizzAir say that I need the Kiwi.com credentials as they 'own' the booking, but Kiwi.com says that when a flight is…
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MSE News: Super-cheap Easyjet flights for autumn and winter 2026/27 are about to land
Budget airline Easyjet opens up flight bookings in batches every few months – and if you find out what day they're launching and book swiftly, you can get FAR cheaper flights. We now know that tomorrow (Tuesday 9 December), the airline is launching flights for the autumn and winter of 2026/27, meaning there's an…
