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Airbnb vouchers
just a few lines to explain our recent issues trying to use vouchers on a recent booking. We identified a property for June next year with the option to pay 50% (£1200) now and the balance 50% (also £1200) next June, 7 days before arrival. My wife's company has a scheme that sells Airbnb vouchers at a small discount to…
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Paying for holiday villa...safest way
Hi, we have just found a holiday villa we would like to book for our Summer holiday. After finding the villa on AirBnB and seeing the crazy booking fee's I decided to do some investigating and managed to find the Villa owners personal website for his property. Booking through his website saved us £500 but we are now left…
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Holiday
Hi I booked a holiday to the Dominican Republic I checked the inoculations list prior to booking and there was no mention of anti malarial tablets. I am without spleen so unable to use anti malarial tablets. However after further investigation there is malaria in the Dominican Republic all be it low risk, but because of my…
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Pre- Existing Medical Conditions
Just a question, my wife had breast cancer 6 years ago, been clear for 5 years, is this still a existing condition? Why am I being asked to pay an extra premium?
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Seeking Monthly Payment Travel Insurance
We have a few pre-existing medical issues and are looking for travel insurance policy which can be paid monthly, to avoid a large payment. Do any companies out there offer this, or is it too much of a risk?
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Flight Cancellation due to aircraft with broken window
Would a broken window in a plane be classed as exceptional circumstances to not pay compensation or would this be a maintenance failure. We initially had an email from TUI that the flight was cancelled because a part had to be flown in and was not due to arrive until the following morning. Our flight was initially 10.50am…
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Travel insurance
Just looking for some advice really! I recently tried to claim on my travel insurance for expenses occurred due to a cancelled flight (the airline would not cover these) and my insurance company has denied this claim as my flight was not a direct flight?! I have never heard of this but it seems ridiculous? Has anyone else…
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ESTA for US
I have just obtained an ESTA which I know is normally valid for 2 years. However, my passport runs out 24/4, therefore my ESTA is valid until the same date. I will have to renew my passport as we are travelling to the US/Caribbean in April 24. Do I need to apply for a new ESTA or would I be able to bring my old passport…
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Loveholidays
I had to make a change a passenger name in July. The flight is with Emirates who have advised that a refund less cancellation fee is available but Loveholidays have to request it within 15 days - flight due 17th Oct. Loveholidays consistently says the flight was non refundable and even if it was they will not refund me!!!…
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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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