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Exchanging Mexican Pesos to GBP directly help!!
Hi, I'm having difficulty looking at options to convert Mexican pesos to pounds directly. From a relatives Mexican account to my UK bank. Has anyone found a provider for this that may work out lower fee % than converting to USD then to GBP? I'm looking to move ~£10k equivalent. Thanks for any help!
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Post Office travel card
Sorry if this has been commented on recently, but all the posts about the Post Office card seem to be years old. It doesn’t seem to be mentioned in the recently updated article. We got one a couple of years ago and used it for the US and Europe. At the time, we weren’t very confident about contactless purchases and…
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Best Travel money card for teen
Hello, my son is going to America with school and i'm trying to work out what is the best way for him to carry his money. I have looked at a few pre paid travel cards but every time I decide on one, I review it and they are awful, does anyone have an experience in this please?
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Orlando car hire Summer 2022
Hello, I've booked a family holiday in Orlando for the first 2 weeks in July 2022 with BA, and am now looking to book car hire (ideally a full size car or at least intermediate). I'd really appreciate any hints and tips and specifically wondered if anyone could give me an pointers on the following: - Any general tips for…
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EasyJet and EasyJet Car, high charge to change car when flight cancelled
Hello all I’ve searched recent forum posts but not seen anything recent related to this. I booked a return flight and then immediately after a hire car both with EasyJet back in autumn for this Easter to France. Several months later with no explanation they cancelled the outbound flight, forcing me to rebook a different…
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Check-in screen lacking instruction
Hello everyone, . On the 14th,I was booked on flight FR4027 @ 15:55 from Manchester to Alicante. I got to the Ryanair check in lounge around 12:20pm and checked the flight departure screen to see what the status was on my flight,but there was nothing under "remarks", I asked customer services should be checking in now,and…
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Emirates Cabin baggage
Hi All, According to the website I am allowed to take one bag up to 7kg. My laptop and camera weight about that but I still have alot of space in my cabin baggage and would like to take more. Does laptop and camera could as personal items? From experience do Emirates check cabin baggage weight? Any info or suggestions…
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BA flight voucher refund
New poster here looking for some advice please. I had a flight booked with BA in 2020 which was naturally cancelled due to COVID, BA issued me a flight voucher, all good so far. As restrictions lifted I used the vouchers to rebook for April this year. Sadly in November my father was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic…
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Picking up from Stansted Airport
Hi there, just checking what the cheapest way of picking up family from Stansted airport by car would be? There's quite a bit of outdated information out there so any tips welcome. Looks like the free pickup from the mid stay car park isn't there any more (happy to be corrected!) so the £15.00 pickup in the orange short…
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Philippines anniversary seat sale - book then change dates to a week earlier?
Hi all, I'm trying to book a flight from Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) to Manila (Philippines) and they currently have a promotion from 1st July where the ticket is only 178 USD. I want to travel on 24th June but the price for that day is currently 338 USD. The promo fare offers 'Unlimited free rebooking'…
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Flight change - or not
I booked with Ryanair to see my Mum in France leaving at 12:40pm a few weeks after booking I received a emailing stating they’d changed the flight to 7am. After a few days of figuring out how to accept the change (can only be done on desktop) I accepted. The website is still selling the 12:40pm flights My app (reinstalled…
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Using Avios - comparing Are Lingus and BA
Looking to book flights to Canada and both Aer Lingus and BA are pricing about the same. I want to use my Avios towards the tickets. Is there a way to compare the two without switching the Avios back and forward between accounts?
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Booking.com (carrentalsusa.com) car rental nightmare
Avis would not honour my booking and let me rent the car at LAX. They said it could not be amended ansd it was too late to cancel with a refund on the Booking.com app. This meant I had to pay the last minute counter price which was far more expensive. I have requested a full refund plus compensation for the additional…
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last minute.com extra charge after booking
My son booked 2 flights to Bangkok in April through lastminute.com. He recieved an email confirming his booking but it WASNT a confirmation email (we’ve only just seen it says pending confirmation). They’ve just rung and said they want an extra £54 as the flights have gone up? Is this usual practice? Is this something they…
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Foreign Exchange
Hi Having returned from Costa Rica I have high value paper Colon notes to exchange. However, as they are not polymer notes I cannot exchange them in the UK. Has anyone else experienced this problem?
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Car Hire, Greece
Going to Greece (Preveza Aktion) this August and wondering if I am missing something obvious (?). Whichever site I use, car hire is coming in at appx £600 plus for 11 days. Is this normal for Greece!? Or are there much cheaper local operators? Always used to fly to Spain and use Goldcar, was cheap as chips. Maybe we have…
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BA future travel voucher - retrospectively changing the value
Just had a very odd call from BA. Like others, we had our trip in 2020 cancelled due to the pandemic and we received a refund in future travel vouchers. The voucher we received was £600 more than the original cost of our holiday but we didn't think much of it at the time, lots of companies were offering incentives for…
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Credit Cards for overseas cash withdrawals.
The cheapest way to get cash is usually from overseas ATMs with a no fee credit card eg Halidax Clarity as long as you are careful that thru don't apply a local charge. I don't know why the advice pages tell you to pay in full rather put the card in credit by making a transfer before you go or as soon as you withdraw In…
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Package holiday issue - advice required
Hello all. To keep things brief, we booked a 'package holiday' (flights and accommodation) to go to New York this June. The hotel included in the package announced recently that it is being refurbished until August and will be closed for our holiday dates. We have called our provider and they refuse to provide alternative…
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Jet2 Charging 2 different costs for the same flight, is this allowed?
Hi all, trying to purchase flights to Alicante from LBA in August and if select return the outbound is roughly £55 each for 6 of us. However, the return leg is circa £190 but only £90 with Ryanair. So, I was trying to book Jet2 outbound and coming back on Ryanair. If I select single journey from to Alicante from LBA in…
