Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad. » Travel news – plus latest travel industry advice

Portugal flights do check first

Brian Evans — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:21:24 +0000

Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.Portugal potential flight disruption: Is this the most stupid thing the Portuguese trade unions could do… Air passengers are being warned flights to and from Portugal could be affected by a strike in protest at austerity measures. Workers in the Portugal’s largest union, the CGTP, are looking to bring the country to a standstill as [...]

Stansted beware lazy baggage handlers

Brian Evans — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:05:38 +0000

Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.In this economic climate you have to wonder if Baggage handlers at Stansted Are on the same planet as the rest of us. Baggage handlers are balloting on strike action that could see a sad pathetic walk out over the Easter bank holiday. The 150 staff, members of the much maligned GMB union, have begun [...]

UK holidays expensive by comparison

Brian Evans — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:13:47 +0000

Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.UK holidays are more expensive than a week in Spain, with all the uncertainties of weather, traffic problems and reliance on public transport. Throw in transport costs and the overall cost of a UK break is expensive. Yet more than two-thirds of UK families plan a UK holiday in 2012, according to consumer research in [...]

Cruising has the damage been done?

Brian Evans — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:47:54 +0000

Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.Update: Four experts have been assigned by an Italian judge to analyse the Costa Concordia’s data recorder in a pre-trial hearing. Allegra passengers now ashore. Costa cruises are in the news again, after another of their boats the Costa Allegra, has been drifting for the past 12 hours in the Indian ocean with no power. [...]

Cheap travel offers – latest

Brian Evans — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:51:05 +0000

Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.Latest low cost cheap travel offers of the Week: with Lowcost holidays. 3* Hotel HTOP Olympic, Costa Brava. All Inclusive, Flights from London Gatwick, 07.03.2012, 2 share, £169 Top Of the Beach: 3* Don Paco Castilla Apartments, Lanzarote. Self Catering, Flights from Birmingham, 21/02/2012, 2 share. £225 4* Riviera Beachotel, Costa Blanca. Full Board, Flights [...]

Facebook stop them selling you.

Brian Evans — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:38:45 +0000

Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.Facebook is allowing advertisers to target your information and bombard you with at times some rather tacky dubious ads in the sidebar. At the moment they facebook, allow advertisers to accurately push ads – for example: Single Women over 30 who live in London and like dogs and surfing and so on… If like many [...]

Tweeting about America be careful

Brian Evans — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:42:23 +0000

Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.After what appears to be a wrong interpretation, you say tomato we say Tomato – UK Holidaymakers have been warned to watch their words after two friends were refused entry to the US on security grounds after a tweet. Before his trip, Leigh Van Bryan wrote a rather silly tweet, that he was going to [...]

Something to make you smile

Brian Evans — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:45:58 +0000

Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.With all the doom and gloom in the travel world have a good old fashioned laugh on us… Pocket Tazer Stun Gun, a great gift for the wife. A guy who purchased his lovely wife a pocket Tazer for their anniversary. Last weekend I saw something at Larry’s Pistol & Pawn Shop that sparked my [...]

Travel news round up.

Brian Evans — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:42:48 +0000

Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.It will come as no surprise that Costa Cruises’ parent Carnival Corporation is to undertake a “comprehensive review” (horse, door, bolted.) of all safety and emergency response procedures across its nine cruise lines which run 101 ships worldwide. They the cruise industry should employ less clumsy and cowardly Captains who Trip and fall overboard into [...]

Atol holiday protection in Brief

Brian Evans — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:10:49 +0000

Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.Foreign travel consumer advice cheap holiday deals abroad.I know we keep banging on about this, but an ATOL protected holiday is more than just a logo on a piece of paper, – ask anyone who booked with Holidays4u. Those yet to travel were refunded in full and those abroad allowed to continue their holiday and then flown home. Which is more than [...]