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Flight to Sofia - is it mis-selling?
Bulgaria is on the government green list for travel, so looks like a possible holiday destination. No need to quarantine on return, just a couple of tests before and after travel. Having booked flights with Wizzair, flying out to Sofia and back from Varna, I looked on the web to find arrangements for Covid testing, only to…
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British Airways charging double
Thought you might like to know that my cousin and I were looking at flights to Northern Ireland and the price quoted to her (living in Northern Ireland) was £207 but for me in England on the same website it was £645. I don’t know if it was because she is in NI, but I thought it was worth mentioning.
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Missold car hire insurance
After hiring a car from Europcar at Inverness airport I signed the agreement and set off On our return I received my credit card bill of £301 for extra insurance from Europcar . I’ve rung there complaints dept they said as I signed the agreement there was nothing they could do . At no time when I collected the car was car…
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Are airlines exploiting tall people and failing to meet their obligations under rules of passage?
My daughter is going on her first holiday with her boyfriend who is 6' 7" tall. My husband really values not being treated like a sardine and at 6' 11.5" can just about suffer a short haul flight on a regular airline seat. This is not the case for tall boyfriend: he absolutely needs the extra leg room option. When did it…
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Postponing Easyjet flights
Like most people, we've had our original Easyjet flights cancelled about 3 times, starting March 2020. We were finally going to go to France in October but with increased deaths from Coronovirus and daily protests, we just don't want to take the risk. We received an email a few weeks ago from Easyjet saying we could still…
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Money O/S From A 2020 Flight Cancellation
I need to pursue a claim against Byojet. Any tips ? It's quite entrenched and they're clearly set up to avoid dialogue
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Prepaided Cards or Online Bank for Holiday to Disney
Looking for some advice for our upcoming holiday to Disney (Florida) if it doesn't get coivd cancelled again. We are looking at putting the spending money we have saved onto a pre-paid travel/creditcard and wondering if anyone here has got advice on what one to use? The other option i've seen people mention is and online…
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SLI/TLI Insurance in California
Travelling to LA next year for 3 weeks and just noticed that on my car hire with Budget, through Discover Cars, it specifically states that Third Party Liability is excluded, whereas CDW and Theft Protection, both with zero excess, are included. Every other time I've hired a car in California that's been included. From…
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Cancelled 1 leg of flight /full refund?
Hi, I've a return flight from Hesthrow to Gran Canaria with Portugal TAP airlines. It's a stopover in Lisbon both ways The final leg Lisbon to Heathrow has been cancelled They are offering me a voucher. Am I due a full refund? Thanks all Craig
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Moved flights
Hi all, first post so please be kind!! like most we have moved several flights over the last 20months, each time we’ve had to pay more with easyJet. I believe we have booked our first holiday now in 2022, but the flights are a little over £600. In total I have paid £950 with various flights where it has been free to move,…
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Bankers Draft in $USD
Hello all, I have a question similar to what has already been asked here https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6045527/where-can-a-get-a-bank-draft-in-hong-kong-dollars/p1 https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/76470043/#Comment_76470043 *BUT* I can also send a bank draft in $USD. Which I hope…
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Care Hire (seems like. scam) anything I can do?
Hey all Recently rented a car at an airport. The car was in a different area to where I did the paperwork, it was 1am (pitch black & no lights in the car park) & a storm (torrential rain). I inspected the car when I picked it up and didn't see (couldn't see) damage because it was so dark & rainy. Car was then parked at my…
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Travel Cash from ATM France
For years I have withdrawn euros from a Credit Agricole ATM in France for no fee and getting an excellent rate of exchange using a Barclaycard Travel Credit Card. This week I tried to withdraw 200 euros and received a screen message stating that I would be charged 5 euros for the transaction. Are other French banks making…
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Ryanair cancelled then reinstated flights
Hi, I wondered if anyone could help please? Ryanair cancelled my flights from Birmingham to Sofia in December, I was given the option to transfer my flghts to leave from Stansted which I did. The Birmingham flight is now back on the Ryanair website (same times and dates) and I contacted them to be put back on the flight I…
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Moving to Ireland but will still be working (remotely) for UK charity
Hi, can anyone give me some advise please? I'm making a permanent move to Ireland next month to support my elderly mum and will be working remotely (part-time 22 hours) for a UK based charity. Does anyone have any idea on how that might work in terms of who I need to notify (in UK and/or Ireland)?, any tax implications?…
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EU passport validity
Hello clever people i have a holiday booked for 28th July. I have an Irish (EU) passport but it is due to expire 26/10/2021 I’ve just applied in a panic for a renewed Irish passport but someone has just told me that I can go to Spain with my current passport. couple of questions please. Is this true? Can I fly from uk to…
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Car Hire - Theoretical Question on being strung out
Hey all, This is a totally theoretical question... Although am still fingers crossed we can fly to the US in mid Sep, i got this thought in the back of my mind that a rental firm (broker or renter) may pull a fast 1, maybe.... I booked us an SUV with rentalcars.com , using Thrifty, for a large SUV (expedition or…
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Ryanair and cancellation
Hi chaps, is there anything I can do please, my wife booked return flights to Spain (1 week beginning September) and is getting stressed by the possible grief and extra expense of getting covid tests. It looks like Ryanair doesn’t allow cancellations, that figures, so have we lost flight costs. Thanks chaps …
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International currency exchange companies
Has anyone used a company called Direct Currencies? I need to send a larger mount od euros from Spain to UK.
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Norwegian Air Cash Points
I’ve got 18 family members “cash Points” in limbo - AmEx was returning the $ but 4 days later changed their mind! Norwegian Air has over $20,000 of our money and no service to and from Norway!