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Flights, currency & car hire

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Currency for Brazil
Planning a holiday to Rio de Janeiro and I’m wondering about travel money. We usually just use credit card and withdraw a bit of local dosh from an airport or hotel ATM, but I’m entirely unfamiliar with South America and have read a bit about fraud etc being common. Am I better ordering currency before travel or taking USD…
Emirates & On the beach - Happy to put my sons life in danger
We have recently booked a short trip with on the beach with my wife and three children (for a special birthday). My eldest son has a number of medical conditions one of which is a severe nut allergy which is so intense it closes his airways. If you are not aware of this form of anaphylaxis it happens very quickly. Our son…
Flights advice
Bit of a long shot. Following the collapse of Thomas Cook, I book 4 flights to New York for my family (to try to beat the inevitable price rise) Unfortunately, since booking I've found out that my son has A level exams whilst we're away. After checking with airline, they advise me that due to the nature of the tickets, no…
Money for Cancun Mexico
Hi all my son is off to Cancun shortly he's taking £2000 he wants £1500 in pesos and £500 in USD. He is quite hopeless and loses nearly everything lol, is there anyway of taking money on a prepaid card to withdraw out there that doesn't cost the earth. He is traveling with tui if they do anything? I asked on TripAdvisor…
Sixt car hire
I rented a car from Sixt for a week. Didn’t take out the extra insurance. When I handed the car back I was told there was a tiny chip in the windscreen he said it was new. I asked how he new and he said because it was white. He told me it shouldn’t be a problem because it was out of the drivers view. I then got an email…
Moved: Transfer from France to UK of house sale proceeds.
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e-rewards to collect Avios
I’ve been using e-rewards as a means to collect Avios for a number of years and without a massive amount of effort can generally collect 2,000 a month. I’ve just noticed that the last three redemptions are now shown as failed and the points have been recredited to my e-rewards account. I’m pretty sure that this occurred…
online purchase difficulty.
needing to purchase euros for upcoming journey I find that Tesco/Sainsbury sites both say unable to use at the moment. Cannot find what the problem is so does anyone have any info on what is happening ??. TIA
Why is flight booking such a PITA nowadays?!
I've read around the forum and I'm still really mystified. I've not booked flight only trips for some years now, but am trying to book a trip to see family in the States over the Easter break. I know I'm going to pay a premium for travelling in school holidays. I get it. But what I don't get is why all the comparison sites…
anyone successfully rented a car in Palermo?
We are planning to hire a car for a week in May , from Palermo city or the airport. All i can find is horror stories of various companies ripping customers off. Has anyone recently had a car hire in Palermo which you can recommend?thanks
Ordering small denomination dollars
Hi. I’m wanting to exchange some sterling to dollars from either supermarket/post office but how do I get some of it in small denomination notes?
Connecting flights in America
Me and five others are due to fly out soon to Orlando for a week holiday. We are having to go from Manchester to Orlando via Philadelphia with American Airlines. As anyone taken a similar type of flight ( doesn't have to be flights to Philly or Orlando)? Do you have to collect your luggage from the first plane? Or do they…
Car Hire USA San Francisco to Las Vegas
Hi, We are looking to hire a car in September for part of our USA trip. We would be picking up in San Francisco and dropping off as Las Vegas airport. From reading around I understand we are best to book using a UK site to ensure all insurance is included. Not sure if we would be best off getting a quote direct from a few…
Ryanair Value and Regular fare
Further to MSE’s recent post about this I checked the ticket prices having already booked Regular seats to Berlin, in order to choose a seat and take on two bags as a priority customer. After reading the article I looked into booking as a Value fare and adding the seat and luggage as extras and discovered it was £17…
Paper Driving License abroad
Hi, I'm over 65 and I still have the old style (valid) paper driving license. Last year we went to Crete and I booked a car through Ryanair and arranged to pick up the car at Green Motion (BIG MISTAKE). At the time of pick up the woman behind the desk was VERY reluctant to accept the paper license as valid; stating that we…
How do you sue Ryanair?
After having sold me a ticket, Ryanair then prevented me from printing a boarding pass (ie, prevented me from flying) until I paid the "outstanding" amount of a previous fare. The only problem is, this amount had been refunded to me by MasterCard, so strictly speaking, they should have taken the matter up with MasterCard.…
Car hire 3rd party cover
Hi, I am hiring a car for 5 days in portugal next week. I have bought excess insurance cover from another company rather than pay the £150 charged by alamo, but I can't figure out what happens to 3rd party if I was to crash into someone else? The excess insurance says it covers the excess which would be taken in the event…
Jet2.com date alteration
Can you defer a flight from this 23rd of month till mid September and how much would it cost to defer a flight for this length of time
Iberia flights cannot manage booking online
I wonder if anyone could help please. We have booked with Iberia flights (british airways on tickets) from London City to Ibiza leaving this friday When I booked I thought we'd save money by just taking hand luggage but now realise we need to take a suitcase! Have tried managing booking online but there's no way to add…
Delayed flight compensation post EU membership
Do delayed flight compensation rules still apply now that the UK has left the EU ?

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