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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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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…
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MSE News: Book BA reward flights before 15 December as it'll cost you more from then
Avios Reward Flight costs are rising – meaning you'd need to use more Avios and spend more cash for the same journey. Read the full story: 'Avios user? Book British Airways flights before 15 December as it'll cost you more from then' If you haven’t already, join the forum to reply.
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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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Short trip to Hungary
Hello! My son is travelling to Hungary. He'll probably use the Santander zero for payments but if he wants some cash for markets, tips, etc. Where can he get the best rates? I read they are better over there, but any advice would be welcome. Also, if it is more convenient to take pounds, dollars of Euros. I found a thread…
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Car Hire in France - Free Cancellation or Not?
Hi clever peeps in my phone, If you were making a booking for car hire and these were the terms that came up when you made the booking online (screenshot attached), would you assume you could cancel the booking Free of Charge? We only ever book car hire with free cancellation and very rarely do we need to cancel a trip.…
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BA Avios flight availability - seem far fewer?
As BA announced that the cost of BA avios flights is going up (by about 10% each for number of points and cash) I looked at the Avios flights available - it seems to me that although they are being up front about increasing their costs....they may be reducing availability by quite a bit. Am I alone in thinking this or have…
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Europcar Gozen charges
Does anyone have any experience in being charged a Go zen charge by Europcar? We hired a car at Nice airport and the rental agent led me to believe I was signing for a security deposit and no money would be taken from my credit card however I was actually signing for a 'Gozen' charge and the money was taken from my credit…
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Avios devaluation.
I received an email from BA just now advising of changes to the reward program. Unsurprisingly, this wasn’t that everything was going to get cheaper! We wanted to let you know that from 15 December 2025, the price of Reward Flights will increase. This will affect both the Avios and cash elements of the fare. I’ll just put…
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Obtaining Foreign Currency Using Monzo Brainwave
I am shortly going to the Philippines to visit my fiancee. I will using my Monzo account for spending whilst there. However I will be needing cash too. The best exchange rate for acquiring PHPs is 72.5 according to Travel Money Max. But Monzo is showing an exchange rate of 77.6 , but they only allow you to withdraw £200…
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Please help me get to Australia this year
I want to get to Brisbane Australia this year to see my son. I have looked into flights but I'm completely overwhelmed by the variety of routes and airlines. I have recently 'finished' cancer treatment (6 monthly top ups from here onwards) and will turn 70 late this year. I will be travelling on my own. I have 71,000 Avios…
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TopCar issues
Hi there I’m on holiday in Gran Canaria and looking for some advice, I’ve hired a car through jet2holidays and the company they’ve subcontracted it to is TopCar. When I collected the car they demanded a €900 deposit even though we had purchased extra insurance with jet2 to avoid this. Then when I went to collect the car…
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New ticket bought due to inverted first and last name
I booked a flight and hotel combination from the UK to the US through Booking.com, which was executed by Lastminute.com I didn't realise at the time of booking that the first and last name were auto populated and wrong - my first name and last name were inverted. I only noticed when I tried to check in. Lastminute told me…
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Carwiz - Car rental scam
We brought the car back in an excellent condition. We even went for a car wash before, because we expected problems with Carwiz in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, after we read the more than 500 Carwiz customer reviews on Trustpilot. The scam spectrum reported there ranges from extra cash grabbing for cleaning to damage scams.…
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Simple flight search engine
Can anyone recommend a flight search that I can choose a destination and see alternative departure airports (from UK) and costs please. The usual flight searches are like Monty Python's Cheese Emporium: "Hello, I'd like a flight to X" "Where from and what dates?" "From Y and on this date" "Sorry, not available" "How about…
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ATM exchange rate wrong way round?!
Luton Airport Departures ATM. Surely they’ve got this the wrong way round. 100 Euro should cost £80-90, not £124.93. I’ve heard of crap exchange rates and charges but this takes the biscuit! The ATM is run by The Change Group, which on their website is quoting €100 for £89.04. Is this human error inputting today’s exchange…
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Car hire pick up
I have just reread the cheap car hire section on this website, and noted that there is a paragraph concerning returning the car which mentions the importance of returning it on time. However there is no advice concerning picking it up. I used a comparison site to identify the car I wanted to rent at Rome airport and put…
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Foreign Currency Exchange
I hope this is the right forum for this post. I have deposited some Hong Kong dollars into my HSBC HK bank account and need to exchange this money into GBP. I would be interested to know whether there is another bank / other options which offers a better exchange rate than HSBC UK? I have read that revolut and wise are…
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Money Moral Dilemma: Should my friends share the cost of my holiday speeding fine?
This week's MoneySaver who wants advice asks... While on holiday abroad with three friends, we hired a car. We were in a country notorious for being strict on speeding, so we were extremely careful to obey the limits. However, coming down a hill, I slipped over the limit. There were police with a radar gun waiting, and…
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Eastern Airlines “on brink of collapse”
Flights cancelled. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd04vyg4x19o
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ReduceMyExcess Policy Wording
I'm about to use ReduceMyExcess, but before I go ahead, I'd like to understand exactly what they mean by this clause in their policy wording. It seems at odds with the idea that I'd be able to claim back for any damage to the hire car: any claim where the Rental Excess or cost of Damage has been paid in cash or the amount…
