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Hire car additional charges
Hi Has anyone else experienced unexpected "additional Charges" after they have returned the hire car? We had previously booked a manual on site at Gatwick airport but on arrival, decided to take the hit and upgraded to an automatic. We were told it would cost an extra £20 p.d for our 9 day hire. (Totaling £180) . On…
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Tesco Clubcard Credit card abroad
Do the figures for the relative cost of using a Tesco Clubcard Credit card abroad take into account the Clubcard points that would be earned compared to cards that do not charge an exchange load? Is it worth getting one of the ‘top travel cards’ and losing out on the Clubcard points that can be used for 2 x face value on…
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Spanish Car Hire Insurance Excess
Hello new to the forum, I was wondering if you could help, I saw an article on car hire excess insurance. We had a bit of a nightmare on holiday when we got to the car hire desk. Whilst waiting I contacted the insurance company through booking.com whom we had arranged the hire and paid for fully comp insurance. As expected…
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Refund for flight
Our 16yr old grandson holds a South African passport and to enter the EU he needs a visa. To get the visa he needs to show proof of flights and accommodation. His school are arranging a trip to Spain and he paid in full upfront for the trip and applied for a visa. The school were aware that he had a foreign passport and…
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How to complain to British Airways about their dishonest AVIOS policy
Not for the first time, I had to redeem the smallest amount of AVIOS on a long haul flight because the more you redeem, the less they are worth. For instance, I redeemed 30 pounds at 113 avios each. Although I do not remember the exact figures, any amount above that would have been more expensive. For instance 70 pounds…
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Issue with Expedia/Goldcar
Hello everyone, I recently had a negative experience with a holiday car rental involving Expedia as the broker and Goldcar as the car rental company, which is the low-cost subsidiary of Europcar. Goldcar refused to provide me with the car, citing the reason that my Business Visa credit card (with my name printed on it),…
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Issues with Expedia/Goldcar
Hello everyone, I recently had a negative experience with a holiday car rental involving Expedia as the broker and Goldcar as the car rental company, which is the low-cost subsidiary of Europcar. Goldcar refused to provide me with the car, citing the reason that my Business Visa credit card (with my name printed on it),…
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Easyjet website crash?
Just tried to spend my remaining Easyjet vouchers before the deadline of midnight on 31 Jan. The website kept giving error messages, and finally froze. Might that be due to lots of others trying to do the same? Anyone else had the same problem? A bit gutted as I'd already checked out loads of destinations, and had almost…
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Email offering refund from Trip*com following cancelled flights in 2020 - possible SCAM?
Hello So back at the end of 2019 I booked a multicity trip around southeast Asia for May 2020, which of course got completely scuppered by COVID. I received all refunds for flights and hotels which had been booked directly within a month of them being cancelled, however never received one for the return flight Hanoi -…
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Italian ATMs
Last year I needed to withdraw cash in Italy and I was surprised not to be charged any fees. Using a Chase debit card, this seems to be the cheapest way to buy Euros. There are old posts from 2014 and 2019 suggesting that all Italian ATMs are fee free.Is that still the case?
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Ice lolly.com different airlines
Hi, has anyone experience with icelolly.com packages? And using one airline outward and a different inward? Tia
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Missed flight - now £1,000 down!
We booked return flights from Glasgow to London far in advance in order to make a pre-Christmas trip affordable for my family. A last minute issue meant we had to make our way to London at a different time but planned to get our return flight home. Tried to change it on the app but wouldn't let us. Never in a million years…
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Emirates Skywards Miles
I see several closed threads about these air miles so I may have missed a useful tip. For those who don't know just some advice - don't buy any expecting to get back the value. That may be well known but not to me. I bought £400 worth which I tried to use towards a flight. The discount for my £400 was around £100 even…
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Cheap car hire article discussion
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Booking a hotel in Greece using credit card
I am planning to book direct with a hotel in Greece. They offer room prices in pound sterling but there is the option to change to pay in euros. If i pay using a credit card is it better to pay in euros or sterling. I did ask my bank but bank couldnt advise me on this so just wondered if anyone else had any advice. Thanks.
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Hired a car from SIXT for the weekend. No damage sustained. Over 800 pounds removed from my account.
I live in Vienna. On 23 September I flew to the UK for the weekend to attend a college reunion. I hired a car with SIXT, who I've used many times. The next day I returned the car, undamaged, to a member of staff. Nearly a week later I received an email from a no-reply address with an 'SXT Damage number' and a request that…
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How long to clear US Customs at Dublin using Aer Lingus?
Hi Planning to fly to LAX from Manchester via Dublin using Aer Lingus. Has anybody used this route recently and give me an idea of how long it should take to clear US Customs in Dublin? I am looking at flights with a 2h 10m layover. Is that realistic? Never used this route before. My sister (who lives in the USA) uses it…
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Has your Fairfx card arrived yet?
Got a message from Fairfx at the beginning of December, that they were moving to a new online platform (web site, I think they mean!) and my existing prepaid currency card will close in January 2024. So I ordered a new card online pretty soon after that. But no sign of the new (physical) card. You can create a virtual card…
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Independently Booked Flights have Become Useless Because of Cruise Port Change
Hello We had a cruise booked for October and booked our flights & the cruise separately (cruise was booked by a travel agent, I booked the flights on the Jet2 website). The cruise was due to go out of Barcelona and return to Barcelona so we booked flights with Jet2 once we'd booked our cruise - paid a deposit for the…
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Cancelled flight booked through travel agent
We booked a return ticket to India through Sothall travels(BA). The return leg of the flight was cancelled and with no alternate provided, we had to book another flight(stupidly again with Southall) at a much higher rate. Multiple delays and chargeback rejection later, would it be worth submitted a section 75? Paid through…