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How long to clear US Customs at Dublin using Aer Lingus?
Hi Planning to fly to LAX from Manchester via Dublin using Aer Lingus. Has anybody used this route recently and give me an idea of how long it should take to clear US Customs in Dublin? I am looking at flights with a 2h 10m layover. Is that realistic? Never used this route before. My sister (who lives in the USA) uses it…
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Has your Fairfx card arrived yet?
Got a message from Fairfx at the beginning of December, that they were moving to a new online platform (web site, I think they mean!) and my existing prepaid currency card will close in January 2024.So I ordered a new card online pretty soon after that. But no sign of the new (physical) card. You can create a virtual card…
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Independently Booked Flights have Become Useless Because of Cruise Port Change
Hello We had a cruise booked for October and booked our flights & the cruise separately (cruise was booked by a travel agent, I booked the flights on the Jet2 website). The cruise was due to go out of Barcelona and return to Barcelona so we booked flights with Jet2 once we'd booked our cruise - paid a deposit for the…
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Cancelled flight booked through travel agent
We booked a return ticket to India through Sothall travels(BA). The return leg of the flight was cancelled and with no alternate provided, we had to book another flight(stupidly again with Southall) at a much higher rate. Multiple delays and chargeback rejection later, would it be worth submitted a section 75? Paid through…
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Best way for spending in Spain
I have a Wise account and a Chase account. Which is the cheapest way to fund my spending abroad, load up Wise with sterling and convert to euros then spend the euros with the card or just use the card which takes from the sterling balance? Or use a Chase card? I'm thinking its best to fund Wise via sterling and convert to…
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Booked a return flight to Oz - was left stranded in Sydney due to online travel agent error
Hi, some advice please. I booked a return ticket (flight only) with Expedia to travel to Sydney. Once there, I needed to return earlier than planned so contacted Expedia online to change my flight. This was an excruciatingly painful experience due to getting constantly cut off from whoever I was dealing with and having to…
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Long Stop-Overs - can you leave the airport?
I'm trying to decide on flights - option 1 is a flight with a long-stopover of 6 hours, option 2 is direct but is about 35% more expensive. If I go for the cheaper option - can I leave the airport for a few hours ( the stop-over is daytime )?
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Contact from abroad.
Does anyone have experience of contacting the credit card providers from abroad ? Previously with Tesco credit card when abroad it was put on hold as was my JaJa (previously post office) credit card Jaja eventually contacted me by calling me on WhatsApp and I was able to resolve the issue. Unfortunately having only been…
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Europcar and Recocash debt collection
Does anyone have any experience of this lot? Received a threatening letter about enforcing payment for a matter that is still being disputed.
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Car Hire Deposit Exchange Rate Charges
Hi I have recently hired cars in two different European countries from different car hire companies. Both times, the companies have taken the deposit from my credit card (rather than just putting a hold on the card as they have done in previous years). This has meant I have lost money through the exchange rate. I imagine…
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Wizz Air - Schedule change notification - Can they?
Hi, I booked a holiday to Greece for next May/June half term for our family of three, back in September. I've just recieved two emails in the past few days to say: We regret to inform you that there has been a schedule change that affects your flight(s) under confirmation code ******. Please accept our sincere apologies…
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Virgin/Heathrow
Have not travelled with Virgin to Florida since 2018. I’m looking to book flights for this December and note they now travel from London Heathrow. I have two questions which I hope someone can answer for me. Firstly do Virgin still do Twilight check-in at Heathrow and secondly, which would be the best hotel for a disabled…
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booking a flight to turkey
I havent been abroad for a long time, so finding it confusing booking everything. Ive booked the hotel, and have a transfer company waiting for me to send flight details. I've gone on kayak and found a good flight time each way , there was easyjet and corendon coming back. Was proceeding and then realised the easyjet…
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BA cancelled 4th leg - have I messed up?
Would be grateful for advice please. In April this year we (me & husband) booked BA flights
to India for February 2024: Outbound: Manchester -> Heathrow-> Mumbai Inbound: Mumbai -> Heathrow -> Manchester In July, BA notified me by email that the 4th leg (Heathrow
-> Manchester) was cancelled. When using the ‘manage my…
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"My Baggage" Luggage (non)Delivery service.
Travelling to Thailand we needed to take an additional suitcase. Did an internet search an found a luggage delivery company. I looked them up on Trustpilot and they had reasonably good reviews. So we packed a case and made a booking, at this point the price went up, apparently due to surcharge. Made the booking and paid,…
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Ticket confirmed but payment not taken
I paid for a flight from South America to London, and it is now "confirmed" according to the airline, but the money hasn't properly left my account. I paid with a credit card, and the amount has been blocked, but there hasn't been a transaction, nor is there a pending one. What's happened to the flight? It's been at least…
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My rights with hand luggage
I recently flew British airways and was forced to check in my hold luggage at the gate. This was prior to boarding and because I was waiting at the gate early prior to boarding. Although I told the staff member I had Christmas presents and daily medicines, I was told if I didn’t check in my bag, i would be refused…
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Sixt want £1,000 for a scratch, refuse appeal and chasing through courts
Moneysavers: beware Sixt with their excessive damage charges and aggressive legal threats. Last summer I hired a car from Sixt to drive around the narrow Italian mountain roads around Lake Garda. The car I ordered wasn’t there on arrival and I was ‘upgraded’ to a 9-seater impractical mini-bus. During the week I scratched…
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Ryanair sold our return tickets!
I'd booked return flights from Stansted to Baden-Baden. We were unable to check-in online due to no signal and no WiFi in our AirBnb so arrived at the airport at around 6am to check-in, almost two hours before the departure time of 7:45am. We had briefly missed online check-in which closed at two hours before the flight so…
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Ryanair - queue at airport for boarding pass
Ryanair has come up with something new to encourage people to pay for a selected seat. Choosing a free random seat has resulted in some passengers being refused a digital boarding pass and being told to queue for a paper one at the airport. It is unclear who this affects. It may be the case that this only applies to the…
