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Pre Paid Travel Cards - Exchange Rate Used?
When you load dollars onto the card, what exchange rate is used? Is this the same rate the company would be offering on the day if you bought cash dollars, or is another rate triggered perhaps less favourable? Thanks
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Carjet and Allmeet Rent a Car refused credit card
Hello, My mom have paid for car rental 99.21€ and €62.35 for premium insurance from Carjet.com using Revolut debit card on 22/09/24. When she arrived to Antalya (Turkey) (yesterday 23/10/24), the car rental company's (Allmeet Rent a Car) representative picked her, my dad and sister from the airport to their small office in…
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Flight refund after death
Good evening fellow money savers. Not sure if anyone can help? My sister recently passed away but had booked a holiday (via love holidays) with her carer. We have been told to go through easyJet for a flight refund (accommodation already refunded). EasyJet will only offer a voucher rather than the money (approx £400),…
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Advice needed - flight times changed
Hi all, I booked flights to Valencia for next summer using Ryanair. The flight booking was for 11.15am (from Stansted) and on way back departure time was 13.55. This was confirmed in an email booking. I recently checked my booking and now notice our flights have been moved. Departure time is now 7am, and on the return…
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Does anyone have a phone number for Ryanair please?
We can’t find the details of our return flight on the app or the website. We know it should be there as we saw it before we left home. Obviously we need it to download the boarding passes. Does anyone have a working phone number please?
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Holiday Autos Car Hire No Refund
Hello All, Fisrtly I acknowledge I'm an idiot! I forgot my entire purse during a recent week holiday to the French Alps and had to use Apple Pay all week on my phone. It meant Europ car (booked through Holiday Autos) would not let me have the car I had booked for £423 in Geneva because I had no physical credit card. That's…
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Crisp USD100 notes
Hello. I haven't bought real currency from an exchange for some years, but I need/want to take crisp US$100 notes with me to Argentina. Any suggestions? Do I just place an order online and ask them in advance specifically for crisp notes before I go and pick them up?
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Car hire insurance (including SLI)
Just wondering if anyone has any understanding of the various companies offering car hire insurance as per MSE link on https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/travel/cheap-car-hire/#excess and in particular whether there are any downsides (other than needing sufficient credit on credit card to pay out the costs to the rental…
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Flight cancelled, can I insist they book me on a different airline
We have booked flights on easyJet, Manchester to Venice return - 23/10 to 27/10. easyjet have cancelled the return leg due to industrial action. They have offered us an early flight (same day) via Paris, with a 5 hour stop over. Can we insist they book us seats with another air that has direct flight to Manchester?
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Virgin Points for trip
Have recently taken out a Virgin + CC for the 18k welcome bonus and free companion flight. Hoping to go to Vegas next September. Has anyone else done this and what’s easiest way to book points / cash / points and cash? Should have 40/45k points within next couple of months and want to know is it better to book flights only…
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What is the best way to buy in Holland .. day trip only
My daughter and her friend have just booked a day trip to Amsterdam from Newcastle. They'll have only a few hours in the city, but will need to buy some food no doubt and maybe a few other odds 'n ends. What is the best way to do this ? She has a UK bank debit card (HSBC) I happened to pass my local Post Office and saw an…
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Ryanair outrageous charge for 2 cabin bags
£35 each way for two cabin bags, so £70 on top of my flight , When are these practices are gonna end? why they don't charge the same across the board? even on the same flight they change the price if you book the day after and this is just a flight to France
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Easyjet Flights
Help I need to book flights to london for august 2025, am I better to book now oct 2024 or wait
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Standalone car hire excess for Australian resident
Hello! I'm meeting my Australian friend in Italy next week and we're looking at hiring a car with my friend doing the driving not me. We wanted to buy standalone car hire excess cover but all of the companies seem UK based and I wasn't sure how she would stand as it will all be in her name. She'd never heard of standalone…
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Flight cancelled
I booked return flights from Leeds to Malaga through MyTrip.com last June. They used Ryanair as the carrier. When we contacted Ryanair to book assistance for my wife we were told that they could not provide assistance because they already had 5 people with assistance on that flight and they weren't legally allowed to carry…
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Morocco - Debit card vs Halifax Clarity card?
Hi - OK so I've worked out that taking 2000 Moroccan Dirham is allowed from UK to Morocco but it's better rates to just get it there instead of buying it here, even at the airport. My question is when I'm there is it better to withdraw cash from ATMs and make purchases with my Halifax Clarity card or my hsbc debit card?…
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Move to Spain Currency Questions
I currently have a Monzo account as my main UK bank account and I have just opened a Revolut Euro and GPB account app only which I am hoping will be sufficient as my main Spanish bank account? So, I plan to move a large sum of money to Revolut to convert into Euros for my Spanish property purchase and keep some money in my…
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Car Hire Florida - SIXT - Insurance Queries
Hi everybody, apologies in advance if similar questions have been asked, I've spent the past 2 days trying to get my head around this issue. So we're visiting Florida and we're hiring a car from SIXT. When making the booking, I opted against the 'Peace Of Mind' extra protection (VERY pricey). When I view my booking online,…
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Package holiday flying with different carriers
There is an Adult Only hotel on the Costa del Sol which we really like - but only available as an "off the shelf" package through TUI.Flights on their aircraft to/from Malaga are Thursdays on a 7 day cycle - with BA as an alternative (sub contracted ?) carrier on Sundays.Therefore we can mix n' match 7 or 10 day options as…
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Ryanair name change, (more than 3 letters)
I've realised with 5 minutes of a mistake when i made my booking with Ryanair.. I'm guessing the booking name has to be exactly the same as the passport name. I've not had a passport for many years, but I've just got one. I always use the name Nick in everyday life, in fact it was autofill that put it in on my computer. My…
