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Haggle Down Your Holiday Costs Discussion Area
Hi all, we've written a Cheap Package Holiday guide to help you haggle down holiday prices. If you've tried the techniques mentioned in the guide, were you successful? How much did you save? (It would be fab if you could include as many details about the holiday as possible, eg, brochure price, savings, location, stars…
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Jet2Holidays offering to change hotel, destination & even duration due to construction in our hotel
Jet 2 holidays have contacted me yesterday with the attached email offering to allow us to change our hotel, travel dates, duration and even destination of travel due to maintenance / construction work ongoing in our hotel. the only caveat is that we pay the difference in cost, or will be refunded the difference. We cannot…
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Tui Reviews
More a comment than a question. Tui use Trip Advisor on their website as examples of reviews on their hotels. A recent booking of ours has recently shown a number of poor reviews. When asking Tui to look into it they said the hotel meets Tui standards and not to rely on Trip Advisor as their reviews are misleading. Why do…
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Airport security
Husband has a total knee replacement and worried about being held up going through security at airport if he sets off the alarm and all his belongings such as passport wallet etc sitting at end of conveyor belt unattended while he is being checked. Has anyone got any tips or experience of how to deal with this
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Massive passport problems.
Bit of an odd one for me so apologies for the long post. I am 36 and was currently trying to apply for my first adult passport. I was born in the uk and adopted and lost contact with my parents about 17 years ago, I'm am only child with no family that I know of, I don't even know my dads details and my mother was Irish…
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Delayed flight, will miss connection. Help please!
Hi, We have noticed online the FCO - CDG leg seems to be delayed by 2 hours 10 and is now operated by Amelia International. I have looked online, and understand from MSE we are entitled to compensation and free overnight stay, free rebooking, free meals etc. but would really appreciate some guidance into how we go about…
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Child passport application
Hello, I'm struggling with knowing if my birth certificates will be accepted. The online application is stating that I need for both myself and son; full birth or adoption certificate (showing both the child’s and parents’ details) His birth certificate shows all this information whereas mine does not. These are like the…
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Vrbo, E Bookers, Expedia
Buyer beware have just returned from a holiday in Thailand that I first booked in December 2023. I remember reading in the past about some other people who were left stranded by the booking platform that they used and this has now happened to my wife and myself. We were to fend for ourselves as they cancelled the booked…
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VRBO
I'm looking to book a holiday to Dubai for next Christmas (fingers crossed). Has anyone used VRBO, I've found an apartment on their site but the reviews for the company don't look too good. Thanks
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Should I stay or should I go?
Hey guys So I'm planning a trip to Barcelona for 5 nights. I last travelled by plane in 2004 but I was with my family. I'll be going alone and I am on the spectrum and have anxiety. I know no one can make the decision for me but any advice or tips? I'm a bit wary of local thieves targeting tourists. Has anyone been…
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Tokyo E-Sim
Hi there. I’m looking for advise on phone usage when travelling to Tokyo. EE don’t have any plans available so I’ll need to get an e-sim but even after reading guides, I’m still unsure how it works. The plan I’ve seen is data only. 50GB for £50 which is OK. Once I’ve activated it I understand data will work as normal ie…
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I've messed up!! Couldn't go on holiday due to children's passports
Hi I am after some guidance if I may? Thought we were off on holiday today only to get to the airport and be told the children's passports are going to run out in less than 3 months and we are not allowed to go. I know it's a foolish and costly mistake to make, I have been hospitalised recently so just completley didn't…
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Bidding for flight upgrade.
Hello fellow MSE friends. Just wondering has anyone got any tips on bidding for flight upgrades? (In particular Lufthansa long haul). Any success and was it worth the money? Arkers x
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Last Minute Multi Centre Holiday
Hi, My wife and I are trying to get the best holiday we can for are budget £1500PP (£3000 total). We are looking to see if a multi centre holiday is an option for the budget. Its almost last minute (It is for us) we would need to go on weekend of 29th June and need to be back for work by Monday 15th July. We have…
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Best European breakdown policy( France)
Any recommendations for above please - 13 year old Jazz
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FHR PARKING North Terminal Gatwick Airport contact details required
As a result of MSE recommendation I booked 9 days meet and greet parking through FHR in April. I fly out tomorrow morning at 6am. I cannot find the confirmation email...so I do not have a mobile number to contact FHR and I do not know where to meet to get my greet.... Has anybody got knowledge of FHR mobile no and where to…
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Ticket/passport first names
A flight from the UK to Munich has been booked for me under 'Mike' whereas my passport says 'Michael'. Will it be a problem; should I ask the company that booked it if the ticket can be amended?
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Passport renewal - current wait times? Old Passport sent but still not tracking?
The last time I sorted a renewal for a relative, the old passport was sent by Special Delivery and ended up at the destination the following day and online passport tracking reflected same day of receipt. On this occasion, the tracking hasn't updated two full days following day of receipt by HMPO (again, Special Delivery…
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Gatwick - pick-up parking
need to need to pick up someone from Gatwick north on Saturday morning, have checked the Gatwick airport site and it says my options are basically £37 for long stay off site using a shuttle bus, or £51 for short stay! aside from the absolute ripoff-ness of these charges the website is confusing in that it says you can have…
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Travel Insurance
I am trying to claim on my travel insurance. I missed my flight home from Crete because the ferry I was supposed to get from Gavdos was cancelled for 5 days after a freak accident. They are refusing to pay because I didn't have a ticket for the ferry. I have explained that as a foot passenger you cannot buy a ticket in…
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