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Swissair increasing flight of the price after I have paid, and now asking for more money
Hello, Strange one here. I had to rebook my flights due to covid issues. I called swissair to confirm the new dates of my flight. They quoted me an additional £600, although their advertised rate on their site was actually £1000 less. After much conversation I succumbed and confirmed to take the new dates, plus the extra…
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Banks not able to fulfil exchange hang onto your money!
Hi, off to Barbados in a couple of weeks and used HSBC forex exchange service to order BBD $'s at a not fantastic but ok rate. Transaction went through, delivery date booked and UK sterling taken from my bank. 2 days later I get a call from HSBC saying that they cannot get hold of the cash and so have cancelled the…
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Renting a Car in London
I am looking to hire a car locally. I live in London and I'm planning on driving down to Lulworth Cove for 4 days this weekend. Since I am new to this hiring car thing, I wonder if anyone has tips on where to get good, cheap hire cars? I've seen Kayak, Europcar, RentalCars and, Go Rentals but if there's more, your help…
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Country in lockdown but Ryanair won't offer anything as flight went ahead.
Hi all! Spent c.£250 on flights to Austria and back early December. Unfortunately we didn't end up going as the country was in lockdown when our outbound flights were (the return flights fell a day after their lockdown ended.) I didn't take out travel insurance as I didn't think it was going to cover us for this. I gave…
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Barclay card rewards fee free spending overseas forum guide different to t and cs on account ???
Reading the guide it says the barclaycards rewards card is now one of the best cards to have to travel. with that in mind i got one , here is what the forum guide says The top pick as it charges no fees or interest on spending AND overseas cash withdrawals repaid in full. Plus there are a couple of perks – you get 0.25%…
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Air Transat or WestJet?
I haven't travelled in years, so wondering which of these is the best airline to travel to Toronto from London with? Unfortunately Air Canada is out of our budget (£50 more per person). Will be going with 6 adults, I think we require just one luggage, and the rest of us are OK with carry on. I think the main thing is food,…
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33% charge for transfering money from Spain to UK
As a resident in Spain, I have just transferred 130€ from my Spanish bank account to a third party UK bank. For this, my bank has charged me 42€.Surely this can't be right!
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Organised tour - not incl. flights
Hi everyone, I
am interested in booking an organised tour, but the flights have to be booked
independently, meaning that if the tour were to be cancelled, I would lose
money on my airfares. This has happened to me before when booking with this
same company. Can anyone tell me about any travel insurance policies that would…
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20 Ryanair tips – official MSE guide discussion
Hello there, The original Ryanair tips thread is now closed, so I've created a new one here, which is specifically to discuss the following guide:20 Ryanair tips What do you think of the guide? Has it helped you save money? Do you have any other tips we could add to it? Thanks for your help, MSE Kelvin :)
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Travel Agent or self book?
We would like to visit relatives abroad for about 6 weeks, accommodation would be left to relatives to sort. My question is -'Should we book flights/seats/luggage/insurance ourselves or use a travel agent. I'll add we're not very web-site savvy! Thank you
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Ryanair taking back refunded flights money
not sure if anyone else has had this experience, back in 2020 at the start of the pandemic we had flights booked with ryanair for portugal in June, Ryaniair cancelled the flight in May 2020 and offeered us a voucher or refund, we went for the refund. They kept trying to get us to swap to a voucher but we persisted with the…
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Travel money question
I feel like I have been mugged off, we went to the travel agents who we booked our holiday with to change up currency after checking their exchange rate as being 1.325. We were making two separate transactions, after the first one I realised that they had only given us a rate of 1.242. When I questioned it I was told that…
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How to contact KLM or advice re EMD number
I am trying to contact KLM but cannot reach them by phone despite trying many times and being on hold for very long periods of time without success. I have tried contacting them through messenger and whatsapp without success as you just get the automated BOT that cant assist and a human operator never appears. They have no…
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Legality of some OTA fees
When an airline cancels a flight and you are offered a refund, I am keen to understand the legality of OTA's imposing feed to process the refund. My thinking is the OTA is contracted by you to take you from A to B at a given time. A flight cancellation is a breach of contract, so a fee to refund you would appear to be…
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TUI flight query
Good morning, I hope I’m worrying unnecessarily - but can anyone tell me how I can check if a Summer flight has been cancelled? I have booked a holiday from Aberdeen to Majorca in August, and when I went to look to see if there was any availability as someone wanted to join us, I could see that there were no flight on a…
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Sixt car hire charging for damages I didn’t incur
Hello all. Thank you in advance. My partner and I visited our daughter in Amsterdam during October 2021. I had been recovering from breast cancer and it was a much needed break. We hired a car from Sixt at the airport. This is the first time we have hired a car. We drove to where our daughter was staying and then drove…
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Any discounts for Eurostar/French train travel?
We're a family of four travelling to France in the spring. Is there any card or any way of getting the best price for our train tickets? TIA!
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Shake up of UK Flight Delay Compensation rules coming?
As reported by the BBC: Airlines may pay out for one-hour UK flight delays - BBC News Seems a bit of a shake up might be coming including the introduction of tiered compensation payments from a 1 hour delay, although potentially limited by the price the customer payed. Seems to offer more questions than it answers at this…
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Booking a flight - what if the rules change?
We are planning on going away with another couple to Greece in July, but one of them isn’t vaccinated by choice. We’ve checked the gov website and they can still travel just have to do an approved PCR test 72 hours prior to travel. what happens to our flights should the rules change, and Greece decide you have to be fully…
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Sitting together on Ryanair flight: special assistance
I have a medical condition called Ehler's Danlos syndrome, and one of the issues it causes is an increased risk of severe allergic reaction. I have had three incidences of anaphylaxis and carry an epi-pen. I recently booked a Ryanair flight and started an online chat to request that my partner and I be allocated seats…
