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Travel insurance for a holiday over a year away
Hello all. I am a new to the forum and I'm sorry if this particular subject has been covered. I could not find what I needed. I have booked a holiday now (January 2025) to go abroad in May 2026. Over a year away. I know I need to buy travel insurance as soon as possible. The questions I have are Do I have to buy multi trip…
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Global Health Card
We are a couple in our late 70s and visit our holiday apartment in Mallorca usually five times a year always with travel insurance. A friend of ours suffered a stroke at 3 in the morning in Tenerife, called an ambulance and was taken to nearest hospital where he stayed for five days. Their insurers refused to pay the 7,500…
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Agoda complaints procedure - Taking Things Further.
Hey all, When I look for a place to stay on holiday or travelling, I don't go for the cheapest or the most expensive. As long as the bed, shower, toilet are fine and there's a place to charge my phone then I am happy. I hardly stay in any hotel/hostel room I stay except to sleep at night. I booked a 3-night stay at a hotel…
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Changing Travel Insurers
I currently have an annual travel insurance policy for Europe. I have already booked and paid deposits on a number of overseas trips for 2025. My policy expires in February and the premium has gone up a lot, so I'm thinking of changing insurer. What happens if I need to make a claim later in the year - will it be through…
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Single Insurance or Family Insurance
I am going on holiday with my daughter and family to the Canary Islands. I was just about to take out a single person holiday insurance. ....when I thought......if my daughter and partner have to cancel for any reason on their travel insurance would I be able to cancel on my single person insurance because of this...would…
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Best country to migrate to instead of staying in the UK?
An 18-year-old was asking me what the best country to migrate to, out of the UK, is. She is thinking of giving up on this country because it's not what it was, but she doesn't know where to go instead. I have no information about this. Has anyone got a relative or relatives who have migrated out of the UK; if so, to where,…
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Cruise
Hi not done this before so here goes .can anyone advise me on recently coming back from a dream of a life time carabein cruise. I admit I'm a nightmare of going to the store asking questions do I need this have I got this !! This holiday cost nearly £6000 so I wanted to make sure I'd done everything.so the final week I got…
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Potential Problems Verifying Identity for New Passport Application
The last passport I had expired in 2008 and I've had years of headaches when I've tried to apply for things that require one of the main two forms of identification of a passport or driving licence as I have neither, and I decided to finally bite the bullet over the weekend and apply for a passport online. While I can…
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Advice needed on cancelling holiday
My partner's grandad has terminal cancer. We are due to pay the rest of our holiday by 19th Feb. Her mum can no longer go and we would prefer to cancel the holiday as it will not be much of a holiday worrying about her grandad. Insurance will not cover loss of deposit until we sadly lose him. Can we move the date of the…
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Brittany Ferries coupons (merged)
Hi there, does anyone have any spare club voyage coupons for use with Brittany Ferries? thanks :)
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1 hour 45 minute lay over in Miami
I am looking at flights in the summer and I found one with this stopover in Miami. Does anyone think that this is possible?
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Travel insurance cancelled
We have an annual multi trip travel insurance policy with Admiral. We had provided all our previous medical details and my wife has a new condition and has an operation booked. I thought I was doing the right thing and telling Admiral about the new condition and the fact we are waiting for the operation date. Admiral…
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Travel Insurance question
Hi, I have just booked our family summer holiday for July 2025. My current travel insurance policy is valid until 22nd February 2025. I am assuming therefore, that if anything changes before that date I will be covered. However, if I choose a new provider after that date (because it cheaper or better coverage) will my…
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Marrakech private guide and day trips
My husband and I are celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary this year and have decided to leave our children at home (don't worry, they're old enough to look after themselves!) and have our first short break without them. We haven't flown since our honeymoon in 2000 so its quite daunting for us!! We have chosen to go to…
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Cheap Hotels guide discussion
Hi folks, We'd like to hear your feedback on our Cheap Hotels guide. If you've tried the tips mentioned in the guide, were you successful? Are there any tips or hotel booking sites you'd add, or if you work for a hotel, have you any insider tips? Please let us know by poisting below. Thanks for your help! MSE Sally
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No Hotel on arrival when booking through Loveholidays
Hello In June 2024, I booked a 12-night stay in Hurghada, Egpyt departing on 22nd December 2024. My friend was staying at the same hotel and arrived 2 weeks before my arrival date and checked with the hotel's reservation team that my room booking was confirmed. He told me that the hotel advised they had not received a…
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Travel insurance- Any reason accommodation cancellation
Is anyone aware of any travel insurance that will compensate for missed hotel accommodation regardless of reason? We travelled to California in early January 2025 when the wild fires started to take hold of LA. We initially stayed in Anaheim. We were due to travel to a hotel in the Miracle Mile. Whilst there we became…
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issue logging in to Booking.com
I'm trying to login to my booking.com account. When i enter my email address it says a verification code has been sent to my email....but i am not receiving these codes.......so i cant log in. I can't contact them to see what the problem is as i have to login first to message them. I tried their UK phone number but it only…
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Car hire with licence expirying
Hi, travelling to Australia in October & hoping to book car hire, but my current licence expires in September. I'm trying to renew my licence on gov website, but there is no option. Can I hire the car with a licence that's due to expire before the hire period takes place, obviously I will be renewing as soon as I can.…
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Unable to contact British Airways
Over a month ago I wanted to book two return fights to Warsaw. I used the website and got to the point of payment. I had £30 of Avios points to use and so the flights were £203. I paid but the website came up with an Error message. I tried again. Suddenly the price changed to £207 so I assumed the Error message was due to…