With the seemingly better summer weather here in the UK year after year, more of us are taking short breaks and even the family annual holiday here in good old blighty. In fact over 35 million of us take a holiday in the UK each year. So I thought I had better give it a whirl!
Last year my wife finally persuaded me that we needed to make the 3 hour drive to Wales to visit her welsh family. I agreed as long as we could find a suitable hotel that had a swimming pool so that we could entertain our 18 month old son when we weren’t out visiting relatives.
January 22, 2007 at 8:30 am
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I wrote last week about with an update regarding APD (Air Passenger Duty) and how it affects those already booked on flights traveling after the 1st Feb.
I have just read that Thomsonfly, Thomson Holidays low cost flight airline, is to offset the hike in APD against it’s accommodation bookings by offering the equivalent amount as a discount off holiday accommodation booked on it’s website. The arrangement applies to travelers with pre-booked flights on or after February 1 who will be required to pay the additional £5 APD before they travel.
January 22, 2007 at 8:20 am
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Looks like another fun filled few days are coming next week as BA Cabin Crew plan a three day walk out over sickness pay and staffing issues.
In addition to the three days planned on the 29th, 30th & 31st Jan, two further three day strikes are also threatened. These being the 5th, 6th & 7th of Feb and the 12th, 13th & 14th Feb. Joy.
January 16, 2007 at 8:49 pm
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I have just been watching the BBC Watchdog program and they had a feature about Oxford based MAS Travel. The company was taking money for flight reservations that it was making with the airlines and not passing the payments on to the airlines concerned, thus invalidating the tickets issued. Many customers did not know they had been scammed until they arrived at the airport. With airlines turning passengers and their ‘invalid’ tickets away unless the paid up more cash to cover the cost of the flights.
January 14, 2007 at 12:01 am
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On the 1st February 2007 Gordon Brown’s new Air Passenger Duty rates come into effect. This means that even if you booked you flight before the new rates were annouced and are flying on or after the 1st Feb you still have to pay the new rates.
How much is it?:
Economy class flights in Europe, including internal UK flights, £10
November 12, 2006 at 6:18 pm
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One of the most frequently asked question I get from my friends is “Can you find me a cheap holiday too x”. Bearing in mind I haven’t been a ‘Travel Agent’ for about 4 years. It’s like asking a pilot where you can book cheap flights.
So I thought I would write down what I tell them whenever they ask, to save me repeating myself over and over when it gets to holiday booking time.
November 11, 2006 at 6:00 pm
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What stresses you out when you go on holiday? The accommodation? The flight? Apparently, we are all tearing our hair out about the smaller things such as, car hire, visas, car parking… you get the picture. This is according to Galileo the global travel distribution system company.
Not surprisingly with the increase in DIY holidays – booking your accommodation and flights separately – the most stressful single item to emerge from the research was Transfers.
