Flights, currency & car hire

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…

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…

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…

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…

I have used this card for many years while abroad. It's the best card moneywise, but it's totally useless as they just suspend your card for no reason.Australia - Halifax suspended my card (and my friends at the same time). I had a heated call for over 30 mins for them stating it was the vendors fault, utter rubbish!!!New…

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'…

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…

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?

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…

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…

Hi everyone, New to this forum. I visited Moscow a while and still have a chunk of Roubles money so I want to convert it back to GBP. Are there any of them exchange places that you can still buy/sell Russian money so I can get my GBP back. Even if it means putting on a virtual card? Kind regards, MikeF

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?

Hi all, going on a cruise in May to Alaska, sailing from Vancouver into Seattle. Started to think about how to take some spending money and decided to take some cash for tips etc and then look at a card. We currently have a Natwest Reward Platinum account and looking at there terms it says that we can use our debit card…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Considering booking flightsOut with Jet2Back with RyanairRyanair is priced in Euros. Last time I did this I used my Nationwide card that has a good exchange rate etc but RY (of course) did their own unfavourable exchange as it was a UK card.Is there a way of avoiding this?(We still have a valid card with our Cypriot bank…

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…

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…