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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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Refund on airport duty tax from travel agent
Does anyone know how to get the refund from the travel agent on the airport duty tax. Travel agent did not pass to airline so nothing to do with BA, but won’t answer my 35+ emails to them. So in essence they are fraudulently keeping this tax for 6 adults. Thanks for reading
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Expedia and Goldcar standoff
My family recently took a trip to France where we would be staying some distance from Marseille airport and therefore booked a hire car in advance. Unfortunately, the Ryanair flight was delayed leaving Bristol by an hour and forty minutes. To make sure that the hire company new I would be delayed, I phoned the contact…
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Help! Kiwi issues, BA cancellation
Please help!!!! I booked a once in a lifetime trip 2 weeks ago. I booked flights London to Honolulu for next year with one layover. London to LA and reverse is with British Airways, then LA to Honolulu is with Hawaiian. Now I know I should have booked direct but there was a £200 difference so booked with Kiwi. Randomly…
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Car rental nightmare
I booked car rental via one of those money comparison websites (maybe it was Kayak?) and I paid the amount in full to Wisecars which then issued a voucher with the Dollar car rental company. When I got to the destination, the agent at Dollar informed me that they had been having issues with Wisecars and most of the…
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Another car rental nightmare
One nightmare after another… This time it’s to do with embossed credit card numbers. I had no idea that some car rentals don’t accept the new credit cards which don’t have embossed numbers!! After arriving at the destination, the car hire wanted to charge 4 times the price if I wanted to use a credit card without the…
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Vueling change of flight time / refund?
Hey all, looking for a bit of advice. I've booked a flight with Vueling for the summer which sets off at 2.30pm, landing at 6pm ish. We received an email last week saying they have changed the time of it so it now takes off at 9pm, landing at 1am ish. In the email it gave us options of accepting the flight, change to…
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Car hire no show
I booked a RyanAir flight to Italy and hired a car as an add on - it was very cheap, £170 for 8 days. I was given a collection time of 4:30pm local time and instructions to take a shuttle bus and ring a number. The flight out was delayed by nearly an hour, so we didn't land until 4:30pm. When we got out tof the airport, I…
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Car Hire Deposit Taken in Full and Then Returned Minus Fees
Is it normal for car hire companies to charge a full damage deposit to your credit card rather than charge a nominal £0.01 pending the return of the vehicle? I've just been hit with c.£40 of currency exchange/transaction charges because the hire company charged 900 Euros to my card and then returned 900 Euros a few days…
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Issue with Kiwi/Wizz Air flight refund
i booked a flight from London on Wizz Air via Kiwi.com. The flight comprised one from London to Rome and then a second flight from Rome to the final destination. Wizz cancelled the second flight and could not provide an alternative so I didn’t travel. I requested a refund through Kiwi.com who say that Wizz refused the…
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First family holiday (Tui) - is it worth paying to select seats?
We are going on our first family holiday with 2 kids 13 + 15. We have been given the option to select flight seats which would be £132 for both flights to guarantee we are sitting together. The flight is only 2 hours. It doesn’t bother myself and husband to sit separately but the kids have never flown before. I feel in…
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Goldcar Rental & DoYouSpain
We paid a deposit for Car Rental through DoYouSpain for a car to be picked up from Goldcar in Alicante Airport. We got to the Goldcar kiosk at 11pm on 12th July to see a huge huddle of people. They had a ticket system where you had to click whether you had a booking or not. Those that had bookings already were left waiting…
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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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Travel credit cards
Hi! This is the discussion thread for the Travel credit 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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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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Barclaycard travel wallet
Says no 2.99% fee to use debit card abroad. Has anyone experience of using this and could recommend or not please? Is there a catch?
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Turkey - Obtaining Cash
I’m travelling to Turkey later in the year, first time in 25 years so no doubt things have changed considerably. As a user of UK bank products that eliminate foreign transaction fees, I’m getting the impression obtaining Turkish cash can result in other fees being charged. Other than hotels, are credit cards now widely…
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Denmark charging extra card fees
Just got back from Denmark, where almost every card payment (using Chase and Halifax clarity) incurred a mysterious added fee of a few per cent, even when choosing to pay in Euros. I asked the sellers and they said it's not us, it's from your bank.. it's not mentioned separately on the card statement. Since then I've spent…
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100ml liquid rule at BHX and EDI scrapped
https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/travel/birmingham-edinburgh-airports-scrapping-100ml-liquids-rule-what-need-know-3793959?ico=most_popular
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How do I get a Cancellation Invoice from Aer Lingus
We were due to fly return to Aer Lingus last week but I cancelled the flights back in April due to my husband's illness and he'd been advised not to fly. Despite trying to communicate with them in many different ways, they still haven't sent me a Cancellation Invoice so I can't claim the travel insurance. When they have…
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How to avoid being ripped off by a car rental company?
Hello, I am going abroad soon and need to rent a car at the airport. I've had a few interesting experiences myself and am wondering how to avoid issues this time. Once, I booked a car at the best price I could find online through a car rental comparison site. While collecting the keys at the counter, they tried to sell me…
