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Damascus - Debit cards
Please help Will be in damascus for 5 months. What is the most cost effective way of accessing my money. I have heard it is very expensive to use a debit card (HBOS) .
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Currency Change... UK or Eurozone...Please Help!!
I'm going abroad next week to the canary islands, would it be better to change my pounds in the UK or out in the Canaries? Please Help?!
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Renting a car in Boston
I am investigating car rental costs and options from Boston airport. We need a full-size or premium car for 10 days with unlimited mileage and ABS brakes. Is it better to organise and pre-pay using a UK based site, thus providing all inclusive insurance cover, and if so does anyone have any recommendations? If not, I'd be…
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I know I'm not being ripped off by Ryanair but...
...I have a Visa Electron to book my flights with no debit card surcharge, however when I use it to book return flights from Dublin, meaning my price has to be in Euros, I get charged £1.50 on top by my bank everytime. Is there anyway around this at all? Especially as the flights I'm booking are only 2 euro in total. I…
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Flights to LA and car hire
Morning everyone, can anyone recommend any current offers for return flights to LA (from London) for June and July this year ? I then need to hire a car from LA to San Diego and wondered if any of you money savers knew of any good offes available at the moment for this too. I am going very last minute, but you get starterd…
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Car hire - Portugal. Expired points on driving licence
Hope anyone can help - have booked car hire from holidayautos.co.uk for car hire at Faro airport. I have 3 expired points for speeding on my driving licence from 2004 - holidayautos have said I should get my licence exchanged for a clean one - ie, no handwritten endorsments on it. Curious to know if this is necessary as…
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Xl.com
Does anyone have any news regarding the XL.Com failure. I have received all compensation regarding flights I booked on credit/debit cards from those cc companies. I also booked a holiday for my daughter using and atol / abta registered travel agent. I have filled in claim forms and about a month ago was told by atol ( in…
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Ryanair no show
Hi all,my wife and myself are flying with another couple to Tenerife at the end of the week.It looks like the other couple will be a no show due to a family bereavement.As we all booked on my credit card and are all checked in online will I be charged for their no show and secondly are they able to claim the taxes back and…
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BMI Baby - Change of person travelling
We recently booked a trip for 4 of us with BMI Baby to Spain. On the evening before the flight, someone had to drop out due to a last minute crisis at home - as the hotel etc was paid for, someone else came along in their place. However, as we had already checked-in online, BMI Baby said they could not alter the name on…
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Ryanair- Hand Luggage
my friends and I are flying with ryanair next week, we're just taking hand luggage and were planning to buy sun cream and other toillettries at the airport once we're through security but I've just had an email from Ryain air saying everything including airport purchases must be in the bag at the gate and they may…
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Inflation figures due this week in UK, US and Eurozone
15:20 15Jun09 EUROPE: Inflation numbers eyed this week 14:20 GMT - [INFLATION] data in the UK, US and the Eurozone are all released this week with only the UK safely away in positive territory. Both the Eurozone and UK report their figures on Tue, with consensus forecasting the former to confirm the prelim 0% inflation…
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Car Hire Scam -beware
We have been scammed at Faro Airport , Algarve. Car hire company 'discovered' marks on the car, on return, that they said had not been there at outset. As the car had a number of marks and scratches we had been careful before signing off but failed to notice this. It was very minor but they immediately said we were liable…
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Money in the USA
Hi I am off to the USA for the month of July and I was wondering would it be better to take sterling cash and have it exchanged into dollars when I get there?(as I checked the Bank of America and the exchange rate seems to be 1.73 to the £) Or As I have a nationwide Flexaccount and C/C should I just put the sterling into…
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Car hire in Adelaide Australia
We want to hire a small car for about 8 days next January from and returning to Adelaide. Anyone got any suggestions about which company to use and is it better to book in advance or turn up and see what offers are on?
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Car Hire in Croatia
Hey, Do any of you have any tips for cheap car hire in Croatia. I want to pick up in Split and drop off in Dubrovnic 3 days later. I've seen prices go from £70 to £260 for the same deal. Thanks!
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FairFX card -- acceptance problems
I have a Euro FairFX card. I took it on holiday last year, and generally found it to be a good and cheap way to get travel money. However, on the French motorways (Southwest, around Toulouse), the card wasn't accepted by the card readers in the motorway toll booths, even though they had Mastercard signs up. This could be…
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Using US Dollars In Canada
We're off on a coach tour of Eastern US and Canada shortly and without thinking I bought US dollars. About half the trip will be in Canada and we will need cash for meals,probably breakfast and lunch with the evening on a credit card. Having never been to Canada I wondered if US dollars are widely accepted, or do I need to…
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Air China - Do you recommend?
Hiya, For those who have flown with Air China what are your views? Any good for long haul or should I skip? Regards
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Booking reward flights with Skywards points
Hi, I didn't get any response to this yet on Flyertalk so I thought I'd try here I'm thinking of going to Japan again and visiting Korea at the same time since I've got enough Skywards points for a flight between Japan and Korea on JAL. I spotted the following Skywards T&Cs: 8. All reward tickets are subject to taxes…
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BA checked in baggage sizes restrictions..
... from http://www.britishairways.com/travel/flightops/public/en_gb "New - Special Bag Charges British Airways will introduce consistent maximum dimensions for checked baggage and a ‘special bag charge’ for certain items to cover the additional cost of handling these items, with effect from 1 April 2009. Changes are: ·…