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Holiday Extras Travel Insurance: is a landslide a catastrophe that justifies non-payment?
My husband booked us on a train back from Italy and we were planning to travel via Paris and spend a night in a hotel and then back to London via Eurostar. We were trying to not to fly to be eco friendly. There was a land slide in Savoy and our train was cancelled. After contacting the Insurance company (Holiday Extras) we…
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Confirmed Salmonella from Resort in Dominican Republic
Hi All, I am really just looking some advice, my wife and I went on a 9 night, 10 day holiday to Dominican Republic , and on the second morning I had 2 x eggs which in my opinion were under done, and when I woke up the next day I had really bad Diahoroea, which got. extremely bad, to the point I had to get the local…
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Internal Flights USA
What the best website for book cheap internal flights in the USA please?
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Easyjet online check in not working
As the heading, trying to log in to check in and the website just sends us back to the home page. Even the TA is having the same issue. Been happening since last week. Excuse is the websites busy (Easyjets CS excuse)
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Long Delay in getting Refund from Wowcher
Lond delay ingetting full refund for some wine ordered on 21 October which the supplier failed to deliver. I emailed the supplier Jaoyeh on 2 November and at first they were unable to check their system. They requested confirmation of redemption three times. I was then asked for the original order which I sent to them…
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Insurance claim from NATS meltdown
Hi First time on the forum, so apologies in advance if I have missed anything. I can't find any other threads that specifically relate to this, but happy if anyone can point me towards them, My family was on holiday in Italy in August, and got hit by the NATS meltdown. We were stuck at a crappy airport hotel outside of…
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Paris Olympics - Metro Tickets
Now that they have announced that the metro ticket prices are to double during the Olympics what are the best ways to purchase tickets - is there a way of buying tickets now that can be used in July/Aug24? We are a family of 4 so a doubling of metro tickets would be quite expensive.
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Holidays
A couple of months ago I paid a deposit to travel to Egypt next August on holidays with TUI, flying from Newcastle International airport. It is now coming to light that TUI has cancelled all flights from Newcastle International airport to Egypt between May and September 2024. We are now being told that we will have to fly…
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Best travel insurance for this scenario?
Sorry if this is a silly question. I used to have a package with annual travel insurance pre-Covid and I have never ever had to claim anything, so I have no idea... I booked a low cost flight to a smallish European city in ca 2 weeks I also have a hotel booked there for a few nights (free cancellation until 48 hours before…
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4 vacations abroad in a year. Is it excessive?
Booked Turkey in April with my personal assistant, Booked a Shearings coach trip to Italy for May with a friend, also going to Morocco with same personal assistant in November. Going to Spend Christmas and new years in Sri Lanka in December. Is going on 4 holidays excessive.
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Price trends for flights going back years
Does anyone know if there is a online historic flight tracker so I can identify what the typical price trends are for particular times of the year. Ideally it would go back years. Prices seem to fluctuate even when coming up to busy times like Christmas. They don't just seem to go up steadily. I'm trying to book a flight…
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Booked with On The Beach
We booked a holiday to Rhodes for next Easter half term with On The Beach departing from Luton airport. A few day later we have had an email from On The Beach saying that the flight times had changed (for the better for us) so we accepted them A couple of days ago we got an email to say there had been a flight change again…
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EU261 and Ryanair re-routing
Dear gurus, I'm struggling with Ryanair customer service and an issue with re-routing. My outbound flight was cancelled by Ryanair "cancelled due to commercial
reasons" The email also stated "You are entitled to be
re-routed to your final destination, under comparable transport conditions" Simple enough you would have…
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Cruise help if parent is critically ill
Hello I booked a cruise in January for my boyfriends 30th birthday, we are due to go on 8th December everything has been paid for in full on a credit card. Unfortunately his fathers health has deteriorated really quickly the past week and Drs have been told they can only make him comfortable and for the family to start…
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Travel card for Australia and Far East
In February I am travelling with my two adult daughters to Australia for a month, via Singapore on the way there and Hong Kong on the way back. I am looking for the best way to take money for all three places with a card whereby the three of us can use our pooled finances with a card for each of us. Am very confused.…
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Travel Insurance for medical only
I wonder if anyone knows of an insurance company that can cover a couple in their 60's for up to 90 days. We only need medical cover (both very healthy) and repatriation for Europe. Not flying, no baggage and nothing pre-booked as travelling in our campervan which is fully covered. Insurance quotes very expensive and cover…
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Wowcher trouble
Hi. A plea for some advice please. (I'm not sure if this is the right category of forum but as it was holiday related, I posted here. Admin Please move to correct forum if needed. Thanks) My wife and I recently bought a Wowcher short break which we paid on credit card. When the details of the redeemable ‘wowcher’ came…
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Cheap Eurostar Tix
Does anyone know a way to get discounted Eurostar tickets? I am travelling to Paris on 4th January, returning on 7th.
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Barclaycard Reward
I am getting conflicting messages about the cost of Barclaycard Reward use abroad. It seem to be touted in many places (including MSE) as free to use abroad for purchase and ATM cash, but when I log into my Barclaycard account and check (through HELP) it seems I would be charged 2.99% on each purchase/withdrawal. I have…
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Travel Insurance - Medical Condition that occurs after Insurance booked
First time post - I am sure this question has been asked before, but can’t find a thread. We have booked a holiday and an annual travel policy. A medical condition has now occurred, after the policy was booked, but before our holiday. The doctors say we are able to travel, however the insurance company want a significant…
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