Category: Travel & Holidays
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Thursday, February 28, 2019
The European Health Insurance Card: The Facts that Matter / Personal_Finance / Travel & Holidays
By: Dylan_Moran
Good quality healthcare is still a huge issue being tackled by many countries around the world. But for residents in European Union member countries, quality healthcare is now made more accessible through the European Health Insurance Card. This card is granted to citizens either free of charge or at a reduced cost where card holders will get access to medical treatment in 31 EU and EEA countries during a temporary stay. The card replaced the E111 card after it was discontinued in 2005.
The EHIC, however, is taking the spotlight again but this time, due to concerns over its validity after the UK exits the EU. This means that the EHIC will only work for UK citizens until March 29, 2019. But while the decision whether EU health card holders from the UK can continue to use its privileges or not, let’s take a closer look at all the facts that matter when it comes to the European Health Insurance Card:
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Saturday, February 16, 2019
Olympus TG-5 Tough Camera Under SEA Water Test / Personal_Finance / Travel & Holidays
By: HGR
The ultimate test for the Olympus TG-5 waterproof camera is if it survives being take into the sea. So lets see if the TG-5 survives being plunged under sea water in our latest TG-5 series of videos as we test to see if the camera lives up to its primary sales pitch of being waterproof.
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Thursday, January 31, 2019
Holiday Travel Warning - Test Your Digital Luggage Scales for Accuracy Before Travelling / Personal_Finance / Travel & Holidays
By: HGR
Planning your summer holidays for 2019? We'll here's what you need to know about cheap digital luggage scales that can be bought from the likes of Amazon for £10 or less, as we see how accurate and consistent typical digital luggage scales tend to be by using a variety of weight lifting plates to test a number of digital luggage scales.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Turk Telecom Turkey Holiday Resorts and Hotels Wifi Speed Test / Personal_Finance / Travel & Holidays
By: HGR
FREE WIFI is what virtually every decent hotel and holiday resort in Turkey offers but the quality of service varies greatly, for instance some wifi services only work in the reception area and not in any of the rooms. so for those planning a trip to the Dalaman / Fethiye area of Turkey during 2019, this is a test of what to expect in terms of wifi service at a major resort such as Letoonia Club situated about 40 miles south of Dalaman and across the bay from the city of Fethiye. As we check out what broadband signal, download and upload speeds are like so you know if you need to make alternative roaming broadband arrangements before traveling.
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Saturday, January 19, 2019
Digital Luggage Scales Accuracy Tests - Top Tips for Holidays 2019 / Personal_Finance / Travel & Holidays
By: HGR
Planning your summer holidays for 2019? We'll here's what you need to know about cheap digital luggage scales that can be bought from the likes of Amazon for £10 or less, as we see how accurate and consistent typical digital luggage scales tend to be by using a variety of weight lifting plates to test a number of digital luggage scales.
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Friday, January 18, 2019
Getting Stuffed in Turkey - Go for All Inclusive Hotel Holidays 2019 / Personal_Finance / Travel & Holidays
By: Anika_Walayat
Planning your holidays abroad for Summer 2019 and wondering whether to go all inclusive or not? We'll our experience is that it is definitely better to go for inclusive buffets if at a good hotel that offers good choice of dishes as it saves on money and a lot of time hunting for restaurants, waiting for the dishes to be cooked and then whether they live up to expectations as our experience of Letoonia Club and Hotel Resort's Lykia restaurant situated about 40 miles south of Dalaman and across the bay from the city of Fethiye illustrates.
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Sunday, January 13, 2019
Turkey Holidays 2019 - Checking In at Letoonia Club Hotel Resort Fethiye Dalaman / Personal_Finance / Travel & Holidays
By: Anika_Walayat
Planning a trip to the Dalaman / Fethiye area of Turkey during 2019? Well here's what it's like to arrive and check in at the popular Letoonia Club Hotel Resort, situated about 40 miles south of Dalaman and across the bay from the city of Fethiye. Check in followed by what to expect in terms of your first meal at the Mariner À la carte Restaurant.
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Thursday, January 03, 2019
Britain's Tortured Commuters Hit With Rail Fare Hikes / ConsumerWatch / Travel & Holidays
By: Adnaan_Walayat
Britain's tortured commuters have been hit with their annual new year rail fare price hikes of typically 3.2% as an automatic reward for the rail companies for delivering another year of anxiety inducing bad rail services, one of daily delays and cancellations with the rail companies ready with a string of worthless excuses as they play pass the parcel between themselves and network rail.
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Friday, December 21, 2018
Top Tips for Flying EasyJet Budget Airlines, Cabin Bags Check Rules... / Personal_Finance / Travel & Holidays
By: HGR
Gatwick airport drone chaos aside, here are our top tips for making your flights with the budget airline EasyJet an easier and less stressful experience, covering baggage allowances, bag drop, hold luggage, and how likely are easyjet to enforce their baggage rules. Whether to book seats in advance or not, and if booked which area of the planes to sit in. What to do to board your plane with your cabin bags as they will likely get rough treatment if thrown into the hold.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Landing at Dalaman Airport Turkey, Flying EasyJet Airbus A320 / Personal_Finance / Travel & Holidays
By: Anika_Walayat
Thinking of spending a the Christmas Holidays in Turkey? Well here's what to expect when flying a budget airline such as EasyJet Landing at a Turkish airport such as at Dalaman, where the airport runway borders the beach so it's an over sea landing on what looks like a single air strip runway. The airport itself is small but looks like a fairly new build. So find out what it's like to land and exit your plain at Dalaman Airport.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Flying EasyJet - What to Expect - Manchester Airport to Dalaman, Turkey / Personal_Finance / Travel & Holidays
By: Anika_Walayat
Here's what to expect when flying the budget airline EasyJet, from Manchester Airport, including bag drop, check in, duty free, take off and then the 4 1/2 hours on board to our destination, Dalaman, Turkey, on board an Airbus A320, the mainstay of many budget airlines operating short to medium range routes such as Ryan Air and EasyJet.
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Friday, November 23, 2018
RedSpottedHanky.com Unreliable Train Travel Evouchers Bookings for Tesco Club Card Customers / Personal_Finance / Travel & Holidays
By: N_Walayat
Unfortunately it's not just Britain's network rail services that are proving unreliable for Britain's long suffering train passengers, now even booking agents such as Red Spotted Hanky are letting down travelers, leaving them in the lurch for those who use their evouchers system such as Tesco Club Card customers, many of whom had come to rely on this service as a means of utilising their tesco club card points.
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Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Rail Chaos Transpennine Express Cancels Services to Manchester Airport Whilst on the Train! / ConsumerWatch / Travel & Holidays
By: HGR
Strikes and power failures have become the norm for Britain's increasingly unreliable railway network as illustrated on a grand scale just yesterday when virtually the whole of the South East rail network being brought to a shuddering halt for over 6 hours for the second time in a month, leaving passengers scrambling once more for alternatives to reach their destinations on time, especially stressful for time critical appointments such as catching a flight.
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Monday, November 19, 2018
Getting Your Cabin Bags on Board Budget Airlines - EasyJet, Manchester Airport / ConsumerWatch / Travel & Holidays
By: Anika_Walayat
Budget airlines such as Ryan Air and EasyJet have become notorious for hitting their passengers with extra baggage fees as they try to board their flights at the Gate. Worse still is for those passengers who are forced to have their cabin bags literally thrown into the aircrafts hold because we all know that baggage handlers could not careless about what happens to the contents of peoples bags, thus resulting damage or worse.
So here is our comprehensive guide of what you should do to ensure you get ALL of your cabin bags on board with your on your flight, as well as a few hold luggage tips as we managed to get 6 cabin bags onto full flights to and from Turkey from Manchester Airport on board easyjet planes.
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Thursday, November 15, 2018
EasyJet Cabin Bags and Hold Luggage Top Tips to Board with Your Bags! / Personal_Finance / Travel & Holidays
By: HGR
Here we make flying with easyjet even easier by giving the passengers perspective of what you need to know about easyjet's baggage allowances for cabin bags and hold luggage such as what to do to ensure you board your flights WITH your cabin bags else face the consequences of your bags being literally thrown into hold, and then on landing thrown off the plane and thrown onto the arrivals conveyor belt, you get the gist? Cabin bags contents are unlikely to survive the rough treatment meted out by airport baggage handlers so do watch our video to avoid easyjet luggage grief.
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Wednesday, November 07, 2018
Britain's Unreliable Railways - Transpennine Express to Manchester Airport / ConsumerWatch / Travel & Holidays
By: Anika_Walayat
Strikes and power failures have become the norm for Britain's increasingly unreliable failing rail network as illustrated on a grand scale recently which saw the whole of the South East rail network being brought to a shuddering halt for over 6 hours leaving passengers scrambling for alternatives to reach their destinations on time, especially stressful for time critical appointments such as catching an airplane.
Therefore we were playing russian roulette in our choice to go by train from Sheffield to Manchester Airport to catch our easyjet flight to start our 10 day holiday in Turkey. We allowed plenty of time for the Transpennine Express to screw up, so what could go possible wrong? Find out in our latest video.
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Saturday, October 20, 2018
Waterproof Camera - Olympus Tough TG-5 Setup and First Use / Personal_Finance / Travel & Holidays
By: HGR
If you have been looking for a rugged compact camera that you can go swimming with then you undoubtedly will have come across the Olympus Tough TG-5 that is priced towards the top of the range these cameras between £320 and £400, against an average price of about £200 for the range for waterproof cameras. So in this comprehensive series of videos we put the Olympus Tough TG-camera through it's paces to see if it actually delivers all that it promises. In this our 2nd video in this series we set-up and use a TG-5 Camera for the first time.
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Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Best Merlin UK Theme Park Summer Holiday 2018 - Thorpe, Alton Towers, LegoLand or Chessington? / Personal_Finance / Travel & Holidays
By: Anika_Walayat
We are now well into the UK school summer holidays so families are busy planning where to go next, which usually includes trips to Britain's Theme parks where the king of UK attractions is Merlin with it's 32 theme parks spread out across the UK. And so with so much choice many are asking which is Britians' best theme park as this video after multiple visits to Merlin's largest and most popular theme parks i.e. Alton Towers, Thorpe Park, Chessington World of Adventures and of course probably the best known LegoLand Windsor.
Thursday, July 26, 2018
Keeping Cool in Summer Heat with a BRIGENIUS Mini Necklace Fan - Review / Personal_Finance / Travel & Holidays
By: Anika_Walayat
We are having one of the hottest summers in decades, so the hunt was on, on how best to keep cool. Whilst portable hand fans are great we thought we would take it to the next level by going hands free with a portable necklace fan made by BRIGENIUS (bought from amazon), so take a look at our review and if useful click the like button.
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Thursday, July 26, 2018
Hoseasons Cayton Bay Holiday Caravan Park Entertainment Centre / Personal_Finance / Travel & Holidays
By: Anika_Walayat
Thinking of booking a caravan park holiday for summer 2018? Then look no further than our series of videos of what it's like to holiday at a UK caravan park. This is at the Hoseasons Caravan Park at Cayton Bay, North East England, not 10 miles from Scarborough.
In our sixth video in this series we show what the onsite entertainment centre is like, arcade machines and the ticket dispensing chance game machines.
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