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Cathay Pacific Luggage sizing - any thoughts?
Good Morning, I'm heading off to Australia next week - flying with Cathay Pacific from Heathrow. My son lives there and he wants me to take out a few of his possessions that are bulky but light. My best suitcase, that fits everything, is 3 linear cm over size Cathay Pacific L+W+H = 158 cm 23kg x 2 My bag is L+W+H = 161 cm…
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Prepaid travel money card
I'm thinking of getting a prepaid travel money card for my upcoming trip to Canada. Does anyone have any recomendations for which card to get please? Ideally I'd like to have two cards on the same account if that is at all possible as there will be two of us travelling. Any tips will be greatly apreciated.
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Ryanair Flash Sale
Hi, Ryanair have a flash sale on today - 15% off flights Sept - Nov. I need to book two flights back from Alicante mid October and can see when you click on the offer banner and hit book now the flight we want is showing as £32 but it is wanting you to book an outbound flight which I don't need and the £32 price is greyed…
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Opodo Prime Membership - warning
I want to warn people about what I can only describe as the cash cow that is Opodo Prime Membership, a heavily pushed £80 per year travel benefits scheme that offers... "Opodo Prime is exclusive savings on flights, hotels and cars. Find a cheaper flight or hotel and we’ll pay you 2x the difference. That’s our best price…
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Transfer pick up time
Heading home tomorrow after a lovely break in Corfu. With the homeward flight being 1pm the earliest I was expecting to get picked up by the TUI provided transfer was 9am however the pick up is 8am, 5 hours before the flight! Is this usual for TUI?
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P&O Pride of Hull
I’m reading rumours on Bookface that P&O Hull-Rotterdam route will be changing to freight-only. Can anyone add any details to - or quash - the rumour?
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Daughter going Austalia for 12 months working, which Insurance to look at?
Daughter is moving to Oz for work for 12 months. What type of insurance is best for her from travel to health (if any), she mentioned medicaid (I think that was the name). She will be working as a nurse, so would backpackers insurance cover that for the length of time or one way insurance for flight and then sort it over…
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Japan Rail Pass & Private Transfers
Hello not sure if anyone can help going to speak to the booking agent tomorrow but wanted to see if anyone could help. Received paper rail pass yesterday and there appears to be 2 vouchers for each traveller. One looks to be exchangeable and I'm assuming we can hand this in and this would be replaced with an actual rail…
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Coop Bank Worldwide Travel Insurance price hike
I recently had the letter from Rock Insurance Services to renew our Medical Assessment for the Coop Worldwide Travel Insurance (with AXA). Last year my husband's extra for his medical assessment was zero and mine was £36, this year with everything the same except we are both a year older (71 and 74) the cost has risen to…
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TUI - costs of booking seats query
Hi Could anyone advise me if TUI reduce the costs of their seats the closer you get to departure date? I've not flown TUI before - I checked the seat costs last week and standard seats were £17 each way. I checked again yesterday and it was £16.50 outbound, £16 inbound. I usually fly with Jet2 and don't pay for the seats…
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Zika virus risk and our rights?
Good afternoon. We booked our late honeymoon in Jan 2025, for December 2025 - travelling to Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. We unexpectedly found out we are pregnant, and I would be around 19-21 weeks when the travel should occur. We have travel insurance (only taken out last week, before we found out we were pregnant). We…
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Birmingham Airport new 2l liquid limit
Has anyone flown from BHX since they increased the allowance for liquids in hand luggage? Has it caused much longer queues @ Security? We’re flying to Stockholm on Friday. Won’t take advantage of it as we connect @ AMS but would like to be forewarned if likely to be even longer queues.
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Ryanair - Delayed Luggage Claim
I'm at a bit of a loss, and impasse with our good friends at Ryanair. See, we flew with them to Eindhoven a while back and whilst we arrived in good spirits, our luggage unfortunately did not. It was a bit of a farcical situation at the airport with no real guidance or support provided but vowing not to let it ruin our…
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Travel insurance/ refundable flights
I’m looking at booking a trip to Costa Rica with a company called Females Flying Solo. It is a tour but international flights I would need to book myself. I would like to cover myself for all circumstances, so for example, if the tour should be cancelled, then it would be preferable to have refundable flights. Is this…
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Package Holiday - return flight cancelled
I booked an all inclusive package holiday to Mauritius in November with TravelUp/Holiday Genie. We've just been informed by the agent that the return flight has been changed by Air Mauritius. They have moved the return flight to the 18th November (it was originally on the 16th), as the flight on the 16th has been…
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Short Trip Rewards
Good afternoon everyone, just a quick question! Can anyone tell me travel companies that offer rewards based on bookings? I’ll put the short version in bold but here’s the longer version. I do a lot of short trips for watching my football team play abroad; Spain, Germany, France ect. I am quite a frequent flyer but it’s…
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Package holiday cancelled while at airport
Hi, I was unlucky enough to have family holiday cancelled while waiting at airport. TUI holiday, booked via travel agent. TUI has said we'll get a full refund. I've now had to try and find replacement package at short notice. Have found one costing £400 more, and have booked it (not with TUI). If (when) I get full refund…
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Beware Hallucinating emails from the Passport Office (preumably written by AI)
Just a warning (based on my own bitter experience) not to rely on emails you receive from the customer service team at the Passport Office. I recently received a number of emails from help@customerservice.hmpo.gov.uk which can only be described as hallucinations, since they contained information which is not true, has…
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ESTA - Price Increase is imminent
Just a heads up to advise that the cost of an ESTA for travel to the USA will be going up from USD 21 to USD 40 in the near future. If you are planning to go there then don't delay in applying as they say the price increase is imminent. Just to add that I had problems applying using the Firefox browser (it wouldn't let me…
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Bed Bugs claim- Jet2
We stayed in a villa in Portugal this July via Jet2 and had bed bugs in our room! Complaint made to Villa Select who were providing the rep out in Portugal who arranged for new mattresses but the bugs were in the bed frame, all the soft furnishings in the bedroom. Both my husband and I were bitten all over our face, arms,…
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