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Beat My Quote! Travel Agents Thread
What’s this about? This is a special thread where you can ask all the Travel Agents and MoneySavers who frequent this board to beat a holiday quote you have and get personalised replies. The idea is to see if someone can beat a quote for a specific holiday; not just a general price. So you need an exact quote. E.g. "I've…
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Travel Agent Code Of Conduct
MoneySavingExpert.com Travel Board Travel Agent Code of Conduct Many travel agents and advisers use this forum and voluntarily give up their time to help other MoneySavers. However as these are professional people who make their living out of deals; to ensure there’s no conflict of interest, I’ve drawn up the following…
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Overseas Holidays & Travel Planning Stickies - Please check before posting
Official MSE fully researched guides: Holidays and Flights 50+ Overseas Holiday Tips Cheap Package Holidays Cheap Flights Cheap Hotels Travel Credit Cards Cheap Airport Parking Travel Money Maximiser From the Forum: Welcome to Overseas Holidays and Travel Planning Orlando/Disneyworld Thread Las Vegas guide and MSE thread…
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EasyJet reimbursement shortfall
My girlfriend and I were due to travel back from Milan to Gatwick and the flight was cancelled a few minutes before we were due to board due to diversion of the incoming flight from a lightning storm (therefore crew changeover could not take place). The ground staff simply asked us to make our own arrangements and left us…
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Free GHIC discussion
This thread is specifically to discuss the free GHIC (Global Health Insurance Card). Reply below to discuss. If you haven’t already, join the forum to reply.
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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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UK mobile phone use while in America
Hi all, I am a UK citizen, and will be in America (east side), for 3 weeks next month, on part holiday, part business. I need to use my UK mobile phone number while in America, for calling and receiving. What would be the cheapest way for me to call UK mobile numbers from America, using my UK mobile number while in America…
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Halifax Clarity card - additional charges DK
I have had this card for years as a best travel card. For the first time ever I have had to pay additional charges when settling the bill. The merchant said it was because UK was outside EU. Is there anything I can do in future to avoid this situation?
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Holiday illness- am I entitled to compensation?
Unfortunately, our entire family became severely unwell during what was meant to be a relaxing holiday between 20th-27th August 2025. The illness began on day two, with my husband experiencing violent vomiting and diarrhoea, while myself and our two children suffered from stomach cramps and persistent diarrhoea. The…
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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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What's available on Tui flights?
OK so I suspected that you have to pay for your food on TUI flights and have just realised that they say you should prebook your meal. So that's not happening as there isn't enough time. But do they give you water for free?? I know there is bottled available at a cost. Or should I buy some or fill up before boarding? Also…
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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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Manchester Airport liquid rules?
We flew from T2 in late April and IIRC we were able to leave all our liquids and electronics in our hand luggage. We will be using T1 and T3 later this year, does anyone know if they have similar rules?
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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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