We all love a bargain and it is easy to save money by using the internet to put together our holiday. However, when things go wrong, we have no agent to step in and sort things out and a lot of us are finding that our travel policies are not up to the job either. With two thirds of households having a fast broadband connection, it is no wonder that we net-savvy Brits are turning our ba...

Thousands of Chelsea and Manchester United fans will be travelling to Moscow next week to watch their teams fight it out in the Champions League Final. However, in amidst all the nail biting and excitement, many will forget to take out travel insurance for the event. It may seem strange that you should need to take out insurance to travel to a nearby country for a couple of day...

As a nation we do like a drink or two on holiday. Whether it’s the climate that makes us crave a nice glass of chilled white wine or the fact that alcohol is often as cheap as soft drinks but, either way, Brits abroad drink a startling £4.5 billion of alcohol a year. Those from the South West of England are the most abstemious, spending £55 per head on booze per holiday, whilst those from Nort...

If you are due to fly out of Heathrow’s new Terminal 5, the thought of the chaos that awaits you is probably enough to take the edge off your excitement. However, just as we thought that the situation could not get any worse, we were told a few days ago that some of the major insurance companies were refusing to cover Terminal 5 travellers for delays or lost baggage. As we all saw on ...

Two out of three people in the over 55 age group are failing to take out travel insurance and yet they are the group recently highlighted by the Foreign Office as a cause for concern. They eat and drink more than at home and try out adrenalin fuelled activities such as bungee jumping, all of which put them at risk. In recent research carried out by the Foreign Office, 1 in 5 of the so ...