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Do you use private browsing when searching for holiday deals online?
I'm keen to hear from anyone who uses incognito/private tabs to research holiday deals. 🏖️ * Do you find prices appear differently depending on whether you use incognito/private or not? * Do you find new discounts appear for you depending on whether you use incognito/private or not? * Do you have any successes you can…
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Flights, Currency & Car Hire Sticky
✈️ Forum threads on this topic: * Cheap travel money discussion area * Cheap car hire discussion area * Travel credit cards discussion area * Prepaid travel cards discussion area * Easyjet tricks discussion area 🚙 Useful content from MoneySavingExpert.com: * Coronavirus travel rights * TravelMoneyMax - compare travel money…
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How late can we book a Ryanair flight?
We were going to book Ryanair flights (*) to Paphos, Cyprus, where we have a 'holiday home' last week but waited. (* ten days at the end of April/beginning of May) Now WW3 is underway we would still like to go but are waiting for the dust to hopefully settle. If we wanted to fly on a Sunday, how long before can we leave it…
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Pay florida villa now or in April .
Pound has dropped in last few days due to iran war . Need to pay my villa by April 9th . Not sure if i should pay now or see what happens in the next few weeks . What would you do .
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Alicante Car Rental - RecordGo
Having just returned from Spain and handed back a hire car to RecordGo in Alicante airport, I was charged a €50 fine for a missing V16 Beacon Light. The fine was issued by email and has been deducted from the fuel refund that I was due when I returned the car full of petrol. The company had my credit card details from the…
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Taxi to airport
Her Maj and I are flying off to sunny climes in the spring 2026 to celebrate our retirement. Flights and hotel booked, but for the UK transfer I'm thinking of booking a taxi to get us to airport. I did consider meet and greet among other options, but I didn't want the faff and taxi works out a bit cheaper - plus we travel…
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Europcar Gozen charges
Does anyone have any experience in being charged a Go zen charge by Europcar? We hired a car at Nice airport and the rental agent led me to believe I was signing for a security deposit and no money would be taken from my credit card however I was actually signing for a 'Gozen' charge and the money was taken from my credit…
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EasyJet changed my seats
Just before Christmas, I received an email from EasyJet as follows: "We're sorry to say that the flight times for your flight to Barcelona on EZYXXXX have changed. Your new flight times are below. You'll also be flying on a different aircraft." "As the seat configuration on this aircraft is different your seat number(s)…
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LastMinute.com complaints process, clear and accessible?
A recent interaction which started with Booking.com and ended up at LastMinute.com, had me searching for LastMinute.com's complaint process. I searched the Website. I failed. I listened to the IVR. I failed. I tried the online chat feature. I failed. Spectacularly. The latter because whilst I got through to an actual human…
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Car Hire - Total Loss Claim
Hello, I hope someone can advise me. In July 2025 my family and I flew to Calgary in Canada and hired a car from Budget, paid for on a Credit Car. I also bought a Vehicle Hire Excess Insurance policy from LeisureGuard before leaving. I didn't take out any additional insurance at the Budget counter when picking up the car.…
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BA App on iPhone
Booked to fly with BA over Easter. Went to check on the App to look for any news. App said I needed to update. However, the update button in the App Store was not present - only 'open'. Pressing this resulted in a vicious circle of 'please update' and 'open'. Got online with the BA Webchat and it turns out that the BA App…
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Flying to South America in October - buy now or later?
I am flying to South America in October and the flights have recently increased in price. (I didn't buy because I had to wait for something). However I think it might come down again - what do people think?
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Post Office currency puchase
Off on holiday next week so popped into my local post Office to buy some Euros. €200 was £192. Thought about this today and checked the rate 1.04. Went to the Post Office online and put in €200 Euros price was £178. £14 cheaper. Popped back to post office and chatted to the lady and she explained yes that's correct and…
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My Experience with The Currency Club
I just wanted top post this as a heads up to others. If you are after some foreign currency and use the MSE comparison tool, The Currency Club often come out towards the top of the list or providers. I have used them a number of times in the past and been happy. However, I ordered currency from them last week, it has not…
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Car Parking Refund from Ryanair after they have cancelled a flight
I made a car parking booking via Ryanair at the same time that I booked my flights with them from Manchester Airport. A couple of weeks later Ryanair cancelled the return flight, so we had to rebook our return flights for a day earlier, as they had no seat availability on the original return date. Because the initial car…
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Recommendations for a Ryanair-sized Underseat Backpack
Please? Preferably one that can be expanded slightly to the more generous Easyjet size.
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Planning a trip to NYC. First long haul flight questions
Hello I fly frequently but so far I've only done Europe. I often go for a few days but sometimes a week and I've managed with a small backpack (north face) I wear one pair of shoes... I imagine I might need a larger bag for NYC but I don't want to have checked luggage. I'm looking at a travel bag as I hate roller bags. Any…
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Hire Car Breakdown Cover (Europe)
What is the general recommendation about obtaining breakdown cover for a rental car abroad? Last summer, breakdown cover was provided with the so-called "gold" or "silver" insurance add on offered by the hire car company. This was around €15/day and included things like excess cover (i.e. no excess - similar to what I…
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Air Passenger Duty from Turkish Airlines
My son booked a flight with Turkish Airlines from London to Kathmandu (via a stop off in Istanbul). He had to cancel the flight due to an accident a couple of weeks before the trip. Part of the cost is obviously Airport Duty Tax. Our insurance covered the actual flight but not the Airport Duty Tax. A call to Turkish…
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Avoid non sterling transaction fee
All I want is a way to pay for online purchases in Euros and avoid a non sterling transaction fee, bad exchange rates or any other fees. I've read the travel spending article but most of the solutions presented have various issues for me: - Credit cards or full credit checks aren't viable for me - I can't use banking apps…
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Abysmal service from JL/Waitrose
I used MSE on Monday 12/1 to order Euros from the above, enticed by the rate and the 'promise' that the money would be at my local Waitose store after 2pm on Tuesday. I'm abroad from 4am tomorrow. Sillly me. I know they say you should wait for a confirmatrion e-mail but without one I visited the store on Tues evening. They…
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Wizz Air EU261 Claim Advice
I Booked Wizz Air flights (LGW-AGP, 18-26 Dec) for 4 with
Barclaycard in January. Between April-December, I got 12 Wizz schedule change
emails as most of which were minor few minutes schedule changes, so I stopped
reading them properly Then: * 10 Oct: They moved outbound to one full day earlier to 17 Dec (didn't notice,…
