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Travel duty free allowances EU and outside

Brian Evans — Thu, 03 May 2012 08:18:37 +0000

Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.First the good news: There are no longer any duty-free allowances for journeys within the European Union (EU). Instead, you can bring back an unlimited amount of goods from travel in any EU country, as long as it is for your personal use or as a gift. However in practice if you are over 17 [...]

Would you pay for travel agent advice?

Brian Evans — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:49:30 +0000

Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.It seems that high st and Telephone agents want to charge for their advice, as a refundable deposit but only if you book with them. So would you pay say £50 for travel advice, when making a travel enquiry from an agent? After all this puts you under pressure to book with that agent when [...]

Atol reform no atol no book

Brian Evans — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:09:47 +0000

Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.With Atol reform, holiday bookings will be even better protected than they are now, because the The Civil Aviation Authority has at last updated the Atol regulations. This is good news for UK holidaymakers. Just remember “NO ATOL NO BOOK.” All the holiday and travel offers we promote offer Atol and Abta protection, so booking [...]

Package holiday protection – ATOL

Brian Evans — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:04:06 +0000

Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.New Package holiday protection legislation by the Government, comes into force shortly. Which will increase the umbrella financial protection, offered to travel consumers who book package holidays by the CAA. These ATOL regulations should come into force by January 1st 2012. The new regulations are there to protect Holidaymakers and travel consumers, who are vulnerable [...]

Consumer rights – pre-ticked boxes banned

Brian Evans — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:51:36 +0000

Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.Consumer rights update: Some good news from the EU regarding the practice of pre ticked boxed on websites. So to start, their is now a massive Europe-wide ban on the practice of “pre-ticked” boxes, which is now included in new consumer rights protection. Proposals approved by EU ministers in Luxembourg will remove the requirement on [...]

Confused about ATOL protection?

Brian Evans — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:16:51 +0000

Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.ATOL confusion: lets correct this. A recent survey has found that – Just 5 out of 10 people claim to ask whether a tour operator offers any form of financial protection with ATOL when booking a holiday. This lax attitude could leave you seriously out of pocket when things go wrong. So what does the [...]

We – gills wecruise which is which

Brian Evans — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 14:00:55 +0000

Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.Its good to see that some 34 staff who were previously employed by failed cruise company Gill’s Cruises, have been re-hired by wecruise or wegills which is which???. But why oh why Employ the former Gill’s finance director Aiden Treacy to run the buisness. If you want to book cheap cruises, book cruise deals direct [...]

Atol protection don’t leave home without it

Brian Evans — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 07:35:51 +0000

Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.If the demise of holidays 4u has a silver lining, it is the ATOL protection that has enabled those on holiday abroad to continue their holiday and then be flown home at no extra cost and those yet to fly a full refund. But if this had happened to travel republic, those on holiday abroad [...]

On the beach holidays warning

Brian Evans — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:13:48 +0000

Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.We get so many complaints from disgruntled holidaymakers about “on the beach holidays”. That you should think of this as a warning. Take a moment if you will and browse the dreadful – reviews of on the beach – written by holidaymakers like yourself. Holidays from on the beach, are similar to one of those [...]

Dream holidays shut down

Brian Evans — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 06:13:20 +0000

Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.The idiot who drove Dream Holidays to the wall, set up last year by former Libra Holidays boss Akis Kyprianou, has ceased trading. Libra also went bust. The Barnet-based operator, which marked its first birthday on April 1 2011, specialised in Greece and Cyprus. Holidays are protected under the operator’s Atol licence and the CAA [...]