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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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Holiday Questions - Parking/Currency
I have just booked a weeks trip to Antalya, Turkey all inclusive. I'm looking for some parking and overnight stay near Luton airport as our flight is very early morning, Where am I best looking for this as the prices i've just googled are ridiculous just for 1 night on the 6th July. As our holiday is all inclusive how much…
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Easyjet on board duty free cigarettes
I am travelling from Gibraltar to Manchester and have heard you can buy 600 cigarettes on board the flight. Is this true as I understood that I was only allowed a 200 limit?
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Documents needed to travel to Poland
Hello, I am visiting a friend in Poland soon and just want to check what documents I would need to pass through the border. I've tried searching but various websites keep giving slightly different information. Was wondering if anyone had any experience of this. For the accommodation, I'm spending some time at my friend's…
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Schengen area question
Will be coming back from Lisbon in a couple of weeks, flying with TAP, after a special occasion trip - and they let you pay to access their lounges even if you are flying economy/don't have status. Given that the airport lounge is closed for refurbishment, I'm thinking it might be worth it. The question is that there are…
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Orlando/Disney Land
Hi all hope all is well sorry for the long post in advance Looking to take my son to Florida but he's 5 at the moment so I doubt he'll be able to go on much rides I'm guessing a 1.4m minuim for the big rides? Does anyone have any suggestions for an ideal age to take him (will probally do a visit to the Paris one 1st to see…
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Traveling in to and around Paris
I have tried looking on Google but the info seemed disjoined so thought I ask here. We will be going to Paris for three nights soon. We are a family of 4. Two adults and two kids(6yo and 9yo). Kids have UK recognised disability (ASD). We will be flying to and from Orly airport and staying in Novotel St Denis. Can anyone…
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European Villas
hi all What are your go to websites for booking villas in Europe these days? Any recommendations?
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Help planning a trip to milan
Hi all, I'm planning on taking my wife to Milan for her 60th but wanted help with regards to how much things might cost over there, best time to go, best time to book flights and hotels etc Kind regards Mark
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Will Tui/first choice cancel the holiday if 30mins late to pay?
Hi i have a holiday full payment due on the 13th June i get paid on the 14th where I’ll be able to make a full payment. I have booked with first choice which is Tui, they won’t offer extensions due to the balance being 4 weeks til departure date. And they are saying they can’t guarantee my booking won’t be cancelled. I…
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Weather Phuket
Wondering if anyone is in Phuket at the minute? Is weather sunny? Booked for silver wedding and was told it would be nice thereby travel agent. On BBC weather it looks awful. Do I need summer or winter clothes? thanks in advance
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Is my passport still valid for travel
Hello I am hoping someone can help and to put my mind to rest. I am due to travel to Egypt on the 5th of July and my passport says date of issue 04 November 2014 and date of expiry 04 August 2025. I am second guessing myself but is this ok and I wont need to get a new passport sorted as I know that they no longer add on…
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Yet another question….
Arriving on night prior to Thanksgiving so trying to organise a grocery delivery as it appears Walmart will close at 11pm through 5am on Black Friday. Cannot open a Walmart account with non USA mobile so having to find a work around. Assuming this is doable Walmarts do not accept Applepay and you have to download their…
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Luton Airport Parking
Has anyone parked at Luton airport Parkway station to get to Luton airport? How easy is it to get a space there in early morning? How easy is it to get to the airport is there any shuttle bus etc.. Is it reasonably priced? is it safe to leave my car?
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August Beach holiday-Short flight and not too hot
Hi, we don't do many holidays so would appreciate some feedback please. Looking for beach holiday in August for a family of 4. Don't want to travel more than 4 hours maximum, ideally closer to 3. So probably Spain or Portugal? I know weather is unpredictable but is there anywhere where it won't super hot? Thanks for…
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Haggle Down Your Holiday Costs Discussion Area
Hi all, we've written a Cheap Package Holiday guide to help you haggle down holiday prices. If you've tried the techniques mentioned in the guide, were you successful? How much did you save? (It would be fab if you could include as many details about the holiday as possible, eg, brochure price, savings, location, stars…
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Jet2Holidays offering to change hotel, destination & even duration due to construction in our hotel
Jet 2 holidays have contacted me yesterday with the attached email offering to allow us to change our hotel, travel dates, duration and even destination of travel due to maintenance / construction work ongoing in our hotel. the only caveat is that we pay the difference in cost, or will be refunded the difference. We cannot…
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Tui Reviews
More a comment than a question. Tui use Trip Advisor on their website as examples of reviews on their hotels. A recent booking of ours has recently shown a number of poor reviews. When asking Tui to look into it they said the hotel meets Tui standards and not to rely on Trip Advisor as their reviews are misleading. Why do…
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Airport security
Husband has a total knee replacement and worried about being held up going through security at airport if he sets off the alarm and all his belongings such as passport wallet etc sitting at end of conveyor belt unattended while he is being checked. Has anyone got any tips or experience of how to deal with this
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Terrible recent reviews but can't cancel now
After some advice please... This weekend we have a few days away booked in Crete, flight and hotel booked with Secret escapes. As always I did my research on the hotel looking at reviews before we booked in April. For some reason I had another look yesterday and found some pretty horrendous stuff from the last month since…
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Massive passport problems.
Bit of an odd one for me so apologies for the long post. I am 36 and was currently trying to apply for my first adult passport. I was born in the uk and adopted and lost contact with my parents about 17 years ago, I'm am only child with no family that I know of, I don't even know my dads details and my mother was Irish…