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UK holidays, days out & entertainments

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There is now a new Covid-19 Coronavirus travel board for all related posts. Please use that forum for all coronavirus related posts whether it be holiday, flight or hotel cancellation queries, questions about getting refunds or anything else travel related to the coronavirus. Your question may have already been answered,…
considering taking my daughters to Flamingo Land - anyone been?
I haven't taken them on a holiday myself before, they're 15 and 12. Not sure whether to go for 2 nights or 3 nights in a caravan. Is it worth staying an extra day?
Phone number ticketmaster
All the phone number to speak to someone at UK ticket master are dead. They obviously don't want humans to phone 🙄. I have festival tickets. I've googled how to contact as the only way seems to be an online form on their website and 4 days later I'm still waiting for their response. I cant find an email. Does anyone know…
Sun Holidays from £9.50 pp Starts 6th January 2024
Only 5 codes including the bonus is needed for this promotion I'll post all codes in this first post to make it easy for access Bonus ........................SAND Saturday, January 6 ...GULL Sunday January 7th....WAVE Monday January 8th ...CASE Tuesday January 9th ....S4L7 Browse parks here https://club950.co.uk/parks See…
Unable to get a refund
I booked a property in Kingston Upon Thames for 1 night but upon arrival it was apparent that this was a scam. I paid £212.68 for the booking but was unable to contact the accommodation owner. I have e-mailed booking.com on 11 occasions plus contacted them via telephone 3 times but they just keep fobbing me off. They…
Splitting bills in restaurants / drinking rounds
My father and his girlfriend have an odd attitude to money, claiming to be skint while going on 5 holidays a year and buying a £400k house in cash. They are the tightest people I know. That's up to them, but they don't show the same respect for money in their dealings with others. This has come to be particularly annoying…
Money Moral Dilemma: Should we change the way we split holiday costs now my partner has passed away?
This week's MoneySaver who wants advice asks... My partner passed away last year. Before then, we regularly went away with friends and would split the cost of the holiday between us - for example, if a holiday home rental cost £500, we would split it £250 per couple. My friends and I are now looking at going away this…
ID Checks
I have a holiday booked with Parkdean which I do every year. No problems until this year. Apparently now they want to carry out ID checks. Not sure why a UK holiday requires this. Some people who book UK holidays don't think they don't need a passport that's probably why they holiday in the UK in the first place. Parkdean…
Airbnb refund to original payment method issue
Hi all- I’ll try to keep this concise… I booked a 4 night stay with airbnb in june, paid for in part by using gift cards and part by credit card- however I left after 1 night due to excessive road noise throughout the night. The host agreed to 75% refund, which airbnb took care of, however they refunded me the full 75% in…
11 year old beginner fisher
Hello everyone my 11 year old son would like to start fishing as it’s something his friends do. We have bought him a daiwa sensor spinning rod and a spinner bait hook im wondering if this hook is ok? Or if anyone can recommend a safe hook for him to use at this age please?
Scotland in July - bad idea or not ?
We were planning a family 6 day holiday in Scotland in the 2nd week of July. The idea was a day or two in loch ness and then 4 days in loch lomond area. We have 3 dogs so aiming for nice walks in the countryside, woods and by the various Lochs. We would try and get a place with lovely views and in the country or by a lake…
Money Moral Dilemma, should I pay for house/pet sitting?
We have a young family member and his girlfriend (not immediate family) coming to take care of the house, garden and pets while we are on holiday for 2 weeks later this month. They don't have their own home, they still live with parents. My son thinks we should pay them, I'm not sure. I planned for them to live rent free…
Warner Leisure Hotels
I'm hoping someone on this forum can help me. I am a regular visitor to Warner Leisure Hotels and have always enjoyed them, until now. There has always been a problem with their customer service centre (they never seem to know what they're doing). However after a recent visit which was dreadful, I have been trying to make…
Travelling on London Tube
I'm taking my daughter who is 11, to London for 2 days Friday and Saturday. I've only ever used the underground when she was free to travel, and we could use the larger turnstile together. I'm finding the TFL website a bit confusing. We're staying zone 1, but will need to travel into zone 3 on the Friday. Is it worth…
Forest Holidays
If you're staying with this company do take pictures as you leave your lodge otherwise you may get a hateful letter falsely claiming you left it in a terrible mess and demanding money for deep cleaning - otherwise they'd turn it over to a debt collection agency. If you haven't booked with them yet - I'd advise you to think…
Bunkfest - huge free festival in Oxfordshire 29.-31.8.2025
This is missing from the free festivals page although it has been going since about 2002, and is apparently the largest FREE festival in the UK (maybe Europe?). It's always the weekend after the August Bank Holiday weekend https://www.facebook.com/wallingfordbunkfest https://bunkfest.co.uk/
Free Museums and Galleries deals page discussion / Report top spots
For a full list of the UK's free museums and art galleries see the Regularly Updated: Free Museums & Galleries page If you've spotted or heard of a free museum or art gallery please tell us with as much detail as possible, including where it is and its full name. We'll then check out whether it's free for all and, if it…
Scottish island holiday, change of accommodation at short notice and now self catering
This is the detail of a holiday we booked some time ago, but 12 days before we were due here the organiser said he may not be able to make the holdiday due to a family emergency and that another couple were transferring their holiday to another trip. Having asked where that leaves us as we were already in Scotland (Orkney…
FREE Kids entry to 200+ UK attractions - Easy Hack
Found this easy hack to get free entry for Kids to 200+ UK attractions All you need is a Blue Peter badge. Any one aged 5-15 years can get this badge. Blue badges are awarded for sending in interesting letters, stories, makes, pictures, poems and good ideas for the show. You can check all the details at this useful post.
Bumped by P&O cruises
I booked a baltic cruise on 17th April with P&O cruises and on 1st of May I got a phone call from my travel agent to say that P&O had cancelled my cruise because of overbooking. They offered me an inside cabin which I refused as I had booked a sea view cabin and we must have a view. I have over 400 nights cruising with P&O…
Last minute hotels
If I were to rock up at a hotel in the evening and they have a room spare - it is possible that they would accept almost any amount of money to fill that room over nite - because some is better than none - right ??? Anybody found a way of doing this? Not convinced that lastminute.com etc would realistically exploit this…

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