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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…
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350,000 ISK charge from blue car rental in Iceland for wind damage
Hi I was wondering if I could possibly get any advice please... We rented a car from Keflavik airport for one week using blue car rental. The collection and drop off process was through a drop off box due to the time of day of arrival at the airport. We've been charged 350,000 ISK on our credit card, which is around £2000…
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Ryanair have changed flight time but are still selling the original flight........
I booked flights for a group of friends travelling to France in May - flights booked (in January) for 20th May & return on 23rd May. On booking, the flight numbers were FR522/FR523, I have been sent an email tonight changing the return flight to Wednesday 25th May still as FR523. This doesn't work for us so we will either…
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Benidorm (Spain question)
Does anyone know if these health forms will be scrapped anytime soon? where we need to fill them in before and after we arrive in Spain and go back home, I was going to go in June, but these forms are putting me off to be honest as they sound like a nightmare to deal with, plus we have now got told we need to have that…
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Eastern Airways Flight Cancellations
Hi Not sure whether anyone has flights booked with Eastern Airways - but they have just cancelled a number of routes - one of which impacts me - as far as I can tell there is nothing on their website about this. They sent me an email, with a WORD attachment, which my email account thought was junk - pure luck I spotted it…
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Flight Cancellation Twice
Hello - I was due to fly on a specific date from Manchester. The airline contacted contacted me a few weeks before departure explaining the departure flight had been cancelled, offering some alternative options. We agreed to depart a day earlier. Approx 1 week before departure - I was contacted again explaining that our…
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Easyjet vouchers
As a single Mum to two, a holiday this year was looking unaffordable. My generous and kind friend wants to donate her Easyjet vouchers to me for flights cancelled in the pandemic which she will struggle to use. The T&Cs say they're non transferable and must be booked using original account. Is there a way around this?…
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LLOYDS BANK CASHBACK CREDIT CARD - good when travelling overseas?
Hello, I wondered if the above card was useful for travelling overseas, or if the currency exchange fees would make it a bad choice. Thank you!
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YARS - Yet Another Ryanair Scam - Adding things you didn't ask for.
Seems like RyanAir have yet another way to get money out of you that you didn't expect. I just checked in today for my flight to Valencia and just for convenience sake, I took the option to choose a seat for the inbound flight, just so that I could print out the boarding pass now and not whilst on the hoof (who carries a…
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Tenerife, take euro’s or cards?
Hi it’s been a couple of years since we’ve been away due to obvious reasons. We used to take roughly half the amount we thought we’d need in euros then also spend on my Halifax clarity card. Whats it like spending out there now, are most shops & restaurants accepting cards over cash?
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Cancelled flight
Hi I had my flight with last minute.com cancelled back in July, I'm still waiting for my refund, I have made over 12 calls since September when I realised this refund just wasn't happening and I've sent email that are ignored , its the same response each time I call they take my details put me on hold for over 5mins, they…
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Virgin Atlantic upgrade auction
Virgin Atlantic flights offer travellers the option to bid for a flight upgrade to Upper Class. Has anyone ever won one of these auctions? How low did you go with your offer? We are hoping to be lucky when we submit our bid ahead of our next holiday.
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FX Travel Ltd
Please please do not use this company to obtain your
currency. My order for £750 worth of
Euros was due to be delivered on the 1st October. Owing to a mistake between FX Ltd and their
courier Royal Mail my currency was not delivered. As a result, they missed the
deadline for my holiday and two weeks later I still have not…
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Beware - Fake airline refund website
I thought this article published today at Head for Points was worthy of a repost here. Seems a scam circulating to catch the unsuspecting who might be seeking help obtaining a refund from (in the case Vueling) an airline. I feel sure if they can set up for Vueling they can set up under other airline names. The fake…
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Ebookers/Expedia Flight change...where do I stand?
Hi all, Wondering if someone might be able to shed some light on a situation I've got currently going on with Ebookers. We booked a flight through them a while back to fly to Florida in April of this year. In most recent weeks, the flight number, times and lay over times have changed dramatically. In total there has been 9…
