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Expedia Not Providing What Booked
Booked a specific room type in a hotel through Expedia. Got there, different room and wasn't even with the hotel. It was up a hill, down a hill and stairs. Wasn't mentioned that the rooms might not be at the actual site of hotel. Our room type was at the hotel itself, but they said they had none of those rooms available…
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Travel Insurance - Medical Question
Would welcome any advice please. We have our travel insurance through our Lloyds bank account - both have declared pre existing medical conditions we had to pay extra for. My wife had a pacemaker fitted last week. I phoned the insurance to declare this as we already had a holiday booked in the Uk in 2 weeks time, and a…
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Layover requirements
Hi I booked my daughters first major overseas holiday in July to travel last week. Using booking.com we booked flights to Singapore and then from there to Australia from Heathrow. The first leg was with Air India which went via Mumbai with a 12 hour layover before going onto Singapore. We were not able to check in until 48…
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Belgium: Museumpass for EUR59 pp, valid for a whole year
(Not sure whether this is the best board... move if required.) Just returned from a couple weeks in Belgium. We've made v good use of the Belgian Museumpass, has saved us loads of money and allowed us to visit some of the more quirky museums (of which there are quite a few in the country) we would not normally had on our…
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How to avoid roaming charges
I'm travelling outside the EU next month. I haven't been abroad with a mobile phone for a long time and have no idea how to avoid incurring charges. I will only need my phone for social media, calls using WhatsApp etc. I don't plan on making calls or texting. Is it as simple as just connecting to WiFi in places?
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eSim for Japan
I am visiting Japan for 2 weeks with my wife in SeptemberThere are a lot of differing recomendations on eSims for Japan.ubigi uses NTT DoCoMo as its carrier and was my first choice Airalo and Nomad are also mentioned.Without better information I was planning to use ubigi on my iPhone 11 and Airalo on my wife's to spread…
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Proof of travel (boarder control)
I’ve been I’ve been asked by my GP to provide my travel history to the tropics (Barbados) I need this because of an Illness I’m suffering from Because I traveled more than 5 years ago there is no way of me viewing just the dates of when I traveled from the UK ( Gatwick to Grantley Adams International Airport) I travelled…
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Travel insurance for father and adult daughter advice needed
Looking at holiday insurance for my self and daughter (She's 21 so adult) when I do a comparison search it won't let me choose family as she's over 18, can I select couple or do I have to select group? If I select group the price of the insurance is considerably higher than for couple.
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LHR and December travel
Hi, Looking to take a long haul holiday in December. Best flight options are via a domestic BA flight into Heathrow and catching a BA international (Egypt). Flight checkers coming up with just 1hr 30min layover time. Is this too tight a layover time. I am not sure if all BA flights use the same terminal. Also I appreciate…
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GHIC Application
My wife applied on line today for a GHIC and also applied for a GHIC for myself all on one application, within minutes we had a reply and It said mine was completed and didn’t require further information. Then another E-Mail was sent saying We have been unable to confirm your entitlement to a UK GHIC and require further…
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Travel insurance query
My wife and l are going abroad next week and so l went on go compare to get Travel insurance as l did last year, but my wife has arthritis in both knees and in the last few months had injections in the knees to see if this relived the pain which it doesnt so he had referred her for a X-Ray which is after our hoildays. So…
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EDreams help
I used sky scanner to book flights recently and they sent me over to EDreams. Haven’t flown in a while so I guess i was a bit of a noob. On their site they said “add check in bags to your flight or you will be charged more by the airline”. So I was doing a multi city flight London>Athens>Malta>London and the check in bag…
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Bank card cashback, flights and hotel sites.
Lots of debit and credit cards now offer regular cashback promotions on hotel booking sites. Lots of these sites also offer flights. I'm wondering if you can get the cashback on booking flights with the hotel booking sites? Looking for instance at my Halifax promotion with booking.com it says "Earn 4% Cashback on your…
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Worldwide Annual Insurance Rules
We will be taking out insurance as a group (son is now 18) but as its so expensive and OH and I have another holiday booked the question is can we still use the same insurance even though son will not be travelling? Money wise looks to be the better option as its about the same price for annual as it is for the trip to the…
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Barcelona. Pick pockets in Las Ramblas
Barcelona is probably the Pick pocket capital of Europe. I am aware of numerous people who have suffered this fate here. So take out the minimum with you, gents do not put anything in your back pockets .do not leave anything like cameras phones on your table when dining outside. Keep a note of your credit card number and…
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Travel insurance
I have an annual multi travel insurance policy which doesn’t include cruises. I have now booked a cruise and stay holiday (7 days cruise / 7 days hotel stay). My current insurer wants to charge me for annual cover which is quite an increase in premium. I’ve looked online and found single trip policies which are a lot…
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Ryanair not honouring flights booked via Lastminute.com
My elderly parents were on a big trip which involved a Ryanair flight between Ireland and England. They booked through Lastminute.com. 24hrs before the flight they got the email to check in with the disclaimer that they MUST check in online. However they could not access the booking. They went to the airport early and was…
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Air traffic control strike- airline obligations?
Hello all. Currently in Zante and Greek air traffic control is joining tomorrow’s strike. Our flight is due to leave at 10 pm after the strike ends, but am anticipating some potential knock on effects. The flight was booked directly with Jet2. Please can I check their obligations towards us if the flight is cancelled -…
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Spirit's How much is each adult allowed to bring back Duty Free from Spain
Can anyone please tell me in 2023 how much duty free spirits each allowed to bring backt o the UK from Spain.Is it 1 or 2 litres per adult.Thank You
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Can I claim back money
Just back from benidorm booked a package holiday with Easyjet. Upon arriving at the hotel was kept waiting as rooms weren't ready for 6 hours, when we got into the room my young son naturally went to see the view out the window and upon doing so cut his hand on the aircon unit, it mounted below the window and the fins on…
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