Overseas holidays & travel planning

Hi All, I am trying to book parking for Gatwick long term for March 2027, however the discount code, which comes up when on the site is not working. Has everyone got a solution to this problem. The code which is on their site is TODAY15OFF. Any help would be appreciated. HammerTime

Hi all, Hoping for some guidance or experience from others. My wife and I had a return flight booked from Manchester to Shanghai on 15 May 2025 with Hainan Airlines, booked via Trip.com. A few days ago, Trip.com told us the flight was cancelled. They offered to rebook, but only with Hainan Airlines — which no longer offers…

Our holiday flights to Thailand in April with Emirates were cancelled owing to the war. We received a prompt refund for the original tickets and further requested a refund to some upgrades we had purchased. £640 in total, paid for in two £320 transactions financed via PayPal pay in 3 facility. Eventually we received one…

Last week I was informed that at the beginning of September I will be going to Germany on a work trip and it has made me really nervous. Basically the itinerary is fly to Germany early on the Monday morning, have meetings etc on that day, then the next day is doing a site visit before flying home in the evening. I have…

It’s probably a bit late to be complaining about the ripoff abilities of UK airports to charge us ever increasing fees to drop passengers off. A quick scan of ParisCdeG, Frankfurt, Brussels and Milan airports all show free drop off facility, often up to 10minutes. Why on earth do we put up with this rampant abuse of ‘free…

You'll need to earn MORE points to claim the same Eurostar rewards under the train operator's loyalty scheme from 29 October. So if you have a stash of points, redeem them ahead of the shake-up if you can. A 'free' standard one-way, off-peak ticket to or from London, for example, will now require 100 more points… Read the…

Holiday Extras are asking for payment before I have added any details I E name or Car Reg, is this normal? Thanks M99

My wife and I are planning to be away for more than 60 days this winter I had my house insurance renewal through today and after reading the standard questions (will the property be unoccupied for 30 days which in the past I answered no - I rang to find out what teh definition of unoccupied was as I could arrange to have…

Santander have announced a deal with a £240 carrot. Switch your current account to their Everyday Current Account to qualify. If you take the debit card to a Banco Santander branch based ATM in Spain or Canaries you can withdraw Euros fee free. That's approximately € 280 at today's rate if you decide to maximise the offer…

I have already booked via Booking.Com with free cancellation on this hotel in Hamburg. It is a similar price to Hotels. Com and the official hotel site, around £130. However, the link below is the official hotel website according to Google, but they only want £88 for my three day stay. Bettenburg Hotel - Availability…

I have a UK PP issue date 22 Dec 2016 & Expiry 22 July 27. Looking at both Europe & Caribbean holidays before Dec 26. ill my PP be valid 100% or not?

Hi, I booked accommodation through booking.com in France a couple of months ago, my partner broke his leg the day before travel in June so we had to cancel. We got insurance through booking.com, they will cover ferries so not problem with those, however I need a cancellation notice from the France accommodation and…

Hi Looking into travel insurance atm and with several pre-plan trips, I assume the Annual travel insurance would be more reasonable to get. However I would like to understand a bit more in regards to the cancellation coverage. Supposedly if I have 2-3 separate trips plan and due to unexpected incident had to cancel 2 of 3…

I travel a fair bit and have always found BA to be one of the worst airlines - and now I am having issues after deciding to give them another try. I have booked my flights, no problem at all using my PC. However it suggests having the BA app on the phone so I can check in on my return journey. The issue is the app won't…

Hi all. I probably know the answer to this, but thought I'd check… We have recently adopted a son (13 months old), with the adoption order process ongoing. The quirk of this means that the relevant local authority are required to apply for a passport. They are doing so as we speak, but the timeframes are a little opaque……

I have a Ryanair flight booked for 30 August which I now know I won't be taking. The fare was only £20, so I'm not looking for a refund and I'm quite happy to write the £20 off. What I find strange is that there doesn't seem to be any way to simply cancel/surrender the booking so that Ryanair can make the seat available to…

Pre-existing medical conditions you need to tell us about This travel insurance is designed to cover the costs of cancellation, emergency medical treatment abroad and getting home, if any insured person becomes suddenly and unexpectedly ill or injured, due to a new illness, injury or disease. Medical conditions that an…

My doctor has indicated that I should not take a planned trip (see the Lyon airport thread) because the extremely and unusually high temperatures are likely to make my (declared pre-existing) health issues worse. But I suppose that the travel insurers are likely to regard that as unwillingness to travel, and so not…

I would like and really need a passport. Due to ill health I haven't been able to travel so haven't ever had an adult one (only child one was when I was on my mother's old passport) but I have a chance to go away this year. The thing is, I have nobody to sign my photos. I looked at it before and gave up as I had nobody but…

Flew out on Saturday to Paphos. Landed 10.30pm and a load of passengers Inc us have missing suitcases (40 cases as we find out later) Airport staff took our details and we were told it'll be investigated TUI rep came to our hotel yesterday and took more details and comped us £100 per missing suitcase to buy essentials.…