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Hilton Honours points - letting partner use some of them ?
Hi all,Quick question, i have a decent stash of HH points, my wife is planning a 2 night break with our daughter for a birthday / girlie weekend etc. ( in UK ) I obviously wont be there, but could i book the hotel for them with my points ? Presumably booking would have to be in my name, and i dont want them having grief if…
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Travelodge
Hi, I'm trying to book two double rooms at the no-cancel rate. The old system used to let me book Room 1 then go back and book Room 2 but the new system doesn't allow me to do this. I don't want to book & pay for Room 1 to then find they have no more rooms and I can't get my money back. I could phone them but I see their…
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Holiday rental damage dispute
Hi all, looking for advice on below. My boyfriend and I checked into a lodge with a hot tub on Sunday evening. We spent 30 minutes in the hot tub but had to leave due to the swarm of midges making it unbearable. The morning after, we were out on an excursion with no mobile signal. During that time we received a message…
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National holidays
I have just received a letter from National holidays stating they are back in business and do you want to book your holiday for 2021. How can this be when they cancelled thousands of holidays only weeks ago and customers are still trying to get their money back. Surely this is dodgy and should not be allowed !!
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Official MSE discussion thread: Have your rented out your campervan, caravan or motorhome?
Hello there forumites, We're looking at doing a blog on making extra cash by renting out your campervan, caravan or motorhome if you own one by using websites like Camplify, Camptoo and Goboony. If you've done this, it'd really help us if you could take a couple of minutes to answer the following questions: * What did you…
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Flamingo Land
please help me .. me and my family went to flamingo land and stayed in the fire tree it cost us £1400 for 4 nights 5 days, on arrival the lodge was infested with dead flys, the decking was full of bird poo and cobwebs and the brick work on the floor was unsafe witch resulted in my child ripping her toe nail off . The…
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Group Trip Alton Towers
Hi I’m looking at arranging a group coach trip to Alton Towers for families, looking at Halloween scare fest. Can anyone help me on the best/ easiest/ pocket friendly way to do this please? Any help gratefully accepted!
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Money Saving tips and general advice for a Road Trip to Scotland
Hi, I live in England and am considering a road trip around Scotland in the fourth week of September. * Is there anything I need to do or prepare in advance when crossing the border into Scotland? * Are there any schemes to help subsidise the cost (as an incentive) to visit Scotland instead of going on holiday overseas? *…
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Camping - When did it become so expensive?
Stayed at a campsite in the Lake District recently 1 car 2 adults, 2 tents works out at £15 per night per person. The campsite itself was good, amazing views but no hot water for the showers in the morning. So £75pp for 5 nights but not including travel there or around the lakes or cost of food and activities etc. Now I…
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StayCation advice North West
I’m looking for somewhere to stay for 4 people in the Manchester / Liverpool area next month and would love to support small independent businesses for the trip where possible, Including somewhere to stay, eating out and shopping / things to do etc. Any recommendations or websites please drop them so we can support the…
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Self catering accommodation in Shetland
We booked self catering accommodation on Shetland from 26th September for two weeks but due to the covid19 have cancelled - the main reason for going was to attend The Shetland Wool Week which was cancelled in April. We asked the property owner to transfer our booking to next year, he was happy to do that but would keep…
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Advice on compensation ....
Basically we booked a 5 * child & dog friendly self catering cottage. Things in the description of the place that we read on the website of the company didn’t exist such as “claw footed baths & rain showers” or “Molton Brown Toiletries” and in fact our bath & shower were so small my husband couldn’t stand up straight in…
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Haven holidays
Can anyone help or advise please? And apologies if I'm doing this all wrong it's my first time posting anything. I booked a holiday with Haven, 4 nights 25th -28th May 2020 at Casitr-on-Sea. Cost me almost £800. Due to COVID the holiday was cancelled. I was sent an mail giving me 2 options: to get a refund or rebook. I…
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Cottages.com AWOL
How on earth do you contact Cottages.com at the moment ? E.mails not being answered and they are not taking any calls. Not just a delay in answering calls, actually not taking them at all according to a recorded message. All we want to know is if our booking for the 26th September is intact or not so we can make plans…
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Party house
Hi I'm celebrating my 60th next August and one idea I've had is to rent a property for 2nights that the family can get together and share the celebration....I live in Lancashire, so want something northern and can accommodation 20 adults and 4 children.
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Furious !!!!!!!
We are in the car with two children on our way to our holiday lodge in Durham when Hoseasons telephone to say ‘ooh we are very sorry but we’ve double booked your accommodation so please do not travel as we have no alternative to offer you’ !!! We booked on 13th July, why could they not of discovered this sooner before we…
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Property Bond
So last week we were on holiday in an apartment rented from an acquaintance. We paid a £200 bond to make sure everything was ok and in case we damaged anything. I was extremely careful whilst there but my youngest got some banana on a bedsheet. I washed it and it didn’t come out so I messaged her a picture and apology and…
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Reduction in VAT to 5%
I have booked to go in my touring caravan for 10 days to UK Holiday Park. But the company are not reducing the VAT as they say its to complicated. Can they continue to charge 20% VAT
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Cottage owner claims we damaged property when we didnt
Hi we recently returned from a week away in a cottage booked through Homeaway .We were never fully happy with the property for a number of reasons some of which the owner was aware of and partially fixed whilst we were there.However after returning we received a message from the owner saying that we had damaged their sofa…
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booked London easy hotel when I turned up it was closed
We booked a London easy hotel but when we turned up it was closed. There was a note on the door to ring some numbers. None of which ever picked up. So we were stuck in London with nowhere to stay. We rang another London easy hotel which is open but they claimed not to know about other hotels. We've contacted our credit…
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