Some of our clients occasionally rent a car and our useful sites page includes links to the best companies to use. We now include a link to the DVLA under this car hire section. Within 72 hours of picking up a vehicle, you must now register your driving licence number and National Insurance number together […]
read more »On Tuesday, 28th April, the Avios reward programme is changing. EARNING AVIOS: Rewards, for travel with British Airways are to be reduced significantly, for those clients that choose the lowest priced fares. The new rewards for the lowest fares will be just 25% of current levels! If you’re buying a low-priced fare, you should no […]
read more »Eurostar has unveiled their new fleet of trains. This provides a much-needed and overdue upgrade. Eurostar trains were beginning to look a little tired! They continue to offer three classes: Standard class Economy seating, low fares, no free refreshments, Fares: £69 – £309 return from 25th November: Paris: £69 – £347 Brussels £69 – £316 […]
read more »We’ve always recommended that you book Marriott hotels directly on the Marriott website because their rates match the online travel agents. And booking direct has other advantages: The hotel will have the guest name immediately Additional flexibility if there’s a problem as you’ll be able to deal direct with the hotel rather than via an […]
read more »Belgium – National Strike – Updated 7th November 2014 Due to a national strike in Belgium on Mondays 08 and 15 December, Eurostar services to Brussels are likely to be affected with trains only able to operate to and from Lille Europe. As a precautionary measure, Eurostar has closed sales on all Brussels services on […]
read more »It comes as no surprise that on Friday 24th October, shares in e-dreams were suspended after British Airways and Iberia said they would no longer supply their fares and availability to the agency All the links to travel suppliers on our site are genuine and are intended to save you time and money. We vet […]
read more »British Airways is still offering a free upgrade in one direction from Business Class to First Class. But the upgrade is now only available when booking the higher fare types, namely J and C class “published fare”. Previously, lower R class fares were included. For example, the J class return fare to Los Angeles is £9,936 […]
read more »The registration site was down when we checked on Friday 3rd October and a phone call to BA confirmed that they were “aware of the problem and working on it” with a suggestion that we try again on Monday. Today Thursday 9th October and this is still the “fail” response that greets us after submitting […]
read more »The first flight departs Friday 10th October from Heathrow to Doha and has proved to be very popular. At the time of writing there are only 7 economy seats left available for sale, business and first are sold out. And on Saturday there are just 2 seats remaining! And this is out of a total of […]
read more »The airline has now suspended flights to Freetown and Monrovia to the end of March due to the “public health” situation namely the spread of Ebola infections. The number of casualties is doubling every two weeks which, if sustained will result in over 1 million cases by January 2015 Outbreaks in Senegal and Nigeria are […]
read more »The airline currently operates 3 times a week from Gatwick but March 27 2015 is the last outward flight, and March 28 is the last inbound, following a “review” of services. Flights to Male, Maldives are also cancelled from the above dates for the duration of the summer and will commence October 25th I wonder […]
read more »Yes, Terminal 3 ! Not all BA flights leave from T5! Until now, flights departing from Terminal 3 needed a bus to ferry travelers from the terminal to the aircraft. This has meant lengthier boarding time and earlier gate closures too. This was always a pain. I always thought it to be expected of a budget […]
read more »One major drawback of booking flights online rather than via a travel agent has been the necessity to book and pay at the same time, all in one transaction. If only one seat is left, you’d have no alternative but to book it immediately. And many low fares are not refundable so you’d lose out […]
read more »Today, the hotel has officially started to accept room reservations from the opening date which is the 6th May But as of this morning, you can only book as follows Direct with the hotel at its own website online Direct by telephone on 020 7234 8000 Via a travel agent We searched on our recommended comparison site […]
read more »I checked the official website to find an answer to the question, “What date does the Shangri-La Hotel at the Shard open?” The hotel group does not appear to want to promote the answer online as I had to telephone the direct London-based number, 020 7234 8000 They advised that the opening date will be Tuesday 6th […]
read more »With immediate effect Duty Free liquids purchased from any airport (including non EU airports) may now be taken through UK security screening points, provided it is in a Security Tamper-proof Evidence Bag (STEB) with the receipt sealed inside the bag. This applies to both transfer and direct Passengers. Hence, customers are able to purchase Duty […]
read more »The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Hong Kong is quoting 160 HKD for 24 hours access. Thus a 5 night stay in a Harbour View Room with breakfast costing £2,500 will be subject to an additional £63 charge.
read more »With immediate effect, for travel from 1st March 2014, Emirates will cease to offer their Business and First Class complimentary chauffeur service. The airline blames the suspension on an un-manageable turnover of quality drivers in the local labour market.
read more »Since April of last year, Google has had a flight comparison facility called Google Flight Search (yes, very original) We’ve watched it since it was launched and decided that it is useless if you want a complete picture – which you should have, especially if you’re booking business travel. See my article here about the […]
read more »The British Airways On Business reward scheme is a generous programme of rewards for bookings made by small to medium sized companies. Points are earned for British Airways flights and can be spent on flights, upgrades and … Marriott hotels Marriott hotel rewards have been available for on business points in the form of prepaid […]
read more »At least the booking process is to be easier. The number of clicks required to make a reservation has been reduced from approx 17 to around 5! The recaptcha code requirement is to be scrapped for individual bookings and a 24-hour grace period to allow you to fix minor errors in bookings is to be […]
read more »Up until today, you could only redeem Avios by buying an Avios Ticket. You had to search for a flight with Avios availability. And if you were lucky enough to find the date and time that you wanted, you could then choose to pay more – and use less Avios. If you could not find […]
read more »This brilliant and concise article by the British Airports Authority explains the impact of fog on Heathrow’s operations. It answers the commonly asked questions such as: Why does fog cause delays (with all our technology)? Why can other airports cope when Heathrow cannot? Why cancel flights in advance? Who cancels flights? After reading this, I […]
read more »Anyone having tried to book flights on Ryanair will know how painful the process is! And the boss of Ryanair Michael O’leary has admitted that, “We have got to stop making it so difficult” Initially, the airline makes you type or guess what the code is before you can even get a quote. This is […]
read more »Back in 2011 I blogged about Google’s purchase of ITA, a company that develops flight and price search technology. Since that time, Google made the search engine available in the US and it has only featured domestic US flights. Google has been very slow to (at least publicly) do anything with the purchase, despite a […]
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