Flights, currency & car hire

A tip I haven’t seen is to start a long haul from another country. A few years ago we were going to South Africa over Christmas. The direct Virgin flight from Heathrow to Cape Town was £1400 return economy. Skyscanner found that Amsterdam to Heathrow with BA, then the same Virgin flight was £620 return. On the way back we…

Hopefully someone can offer advice, as I am getting more frustrated by the minute, and the information I can find is sometimes contradictory. Some weeks ago I booked some BA flights for my daughters through an online travel agency, Trip.com. The flights, London/Stockholm/London are in May. Everything was fine, until this…

I booked a business class flight Manchester-Dallas through Last Minute.com 4 months in advance (stupid in retrospect but at the time I had a halo effect from when the company was an innovative startup, before it was sold). Aer Lingus/American Airlines cancelled the flight with 48 hrs notice and no offer to re-book. Having…

My daughter and I are booked on Easyjet flights to attend a diabetes conference in October. We booked a flight departing at 17.50 so that we would arrive for the start of the conference that evening. Easyjet then moved us to a later flight, departing 19.05, meaning we will miss the start of the conference. I started to…

HI All I am flying form London to Dubai with 1 hour stop in Bahrain with GulfAir ( all flights are with them). Just wanted to ask if any of you have done this stop and if 1 hours is enough time. Also i am guessing they are transferring the hold luggage being same company for the next flight? Thank you 

Does anyone know your rights if a car hire company has "no cars left" when you arrive to collect your car? We had to go to another company and hire at "walk-in" rates which was £900 instead of the original £250. We have had the £250 refunded but they don't want to discuss compensation for the £900 we had to fork out as we…

Hello, we are hiring a car in Barbados and are wondering if we need to take out stand alone SLI in addition to CDW insurance? Thank you in advance for your help!

Today I booked a TUI holiday with easyJet flights. Within an hour our easyJet seat prices have increased and if we change back to cheaper seats we are unable to claim the difference .. how is that fair !

I recently rented a car from Budget in Dubai and scraped it against a car park barrier doing some minor damage. Since no other vehicle was involved I didn't file a police report. When I returned the car they said that since I don't have a police report I'm liable for the full repair cost rather than the excess of AED 2000.…

Flights to Baltimore and Washington are currently coming out at £800 each for a 2 week trip in late October. Is it worth hanging on a bot longer to book in the expectation they may ease off later in the year?

I will be travelling to Montenegro at the end of September, and have hired a car through EasyJet - they use a company called Car Trawler. It's all arranged, at a reasonable cost. However, having read all of the small print, there is a sentence which worries me - "The car hire company may need the PIN for your Credit Card".…

Recently booked flights with easyjet and booked my car hire through them afterwards also. The booking is with Europcar and I selected the premium protection plan. I thought I was doing this on their own website. I got an email through this morning from Axa regarding this premium protection. Is this the company Europcar use…

Hello, I have a question, because I'm puzzled by the Small Claim process and I don't know if I've done something wrong. A well known airline cancelled our flight, and we had to wait days for the replacement flight. After a lot of letters, asking for compensation, which weren't answered, I started a Small Claim with the…

I had a booking to fly from Leeds/Bradford to Belfast at 12 PM on the 23rd of December My booking was through BA with Aer Lingus who use Emerald Airways. This was booked back in October and was a BA Reward flight. I received and only saw the text when I was plugging in my phone to charge it. A text was posted on my mobile…

Wizz Air has cancelled our / all flights in April from Hurghada to Milan. We were / are going to connect to an Easy jet flight to Manchester. WizzAir will not offer re-routing with another airline, plenty available just a refund So means booking at possibly a higher price. Can I take them to court in the UK for not…

My apologies as this may be a long one... My wife and I both worked overseas for many years, I relocated back to the UK 2 years ago to buy a house and get things set up here while my wife and daughter remain overseas so my wife can continue with her business and my daughter can finish her primary school so we're all having…

I was suppsoed to fly with Batik air last week. Due to midnight fog, the flight did not take off at the scheduled time. We were asked to wait for an hour and 2 hours later, we were told that the flight has been cancelled. We were to be taken to a hotel by coach and we would be put on the next flight at 2:00PM the same day.…

A very good evening, I hope you are well I am renting a car abroad in Maderia Island next month which i have booked. I see MSE has a list of Top excess insurance discounts: https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/travel/cheap-car-hire/ I see some have not the best reviews: Leisure Guard…

Hi. I am on a cruise in February and looking at spending a few extra days in Tenerife after the cruise. This would mean forfeit my return flight (return flight inc with cruise package) & book a new return flight & a hotel for ** nights Here the thing - a package deal (inc return flights & hotel) is cheaper than booking it…

My grandson is going skiing with the school. What is the best way for him to take his spending money as school leave that to the parents to manage.