Travellers Choice Direct

Advantages: Helpful, amendable, good prices
Disadvantages: No Tranfers included

...Having my Stepdaughter getting married on 30th August and my Stepson deciding to have his wedding the very next weekend, my husband John and I decided we would have to forget our holiday this year and just have breaks away in our caravan (YUK!) One day I will write an opinion on caravanning if I dare! Having been through quite a traumatic time lately and feeling really low, I decided to start looking around for a cheap deal somewhere, ANYWHERE!! I need it! I had given myself a headache searching every place I could think of for a deal later in the year, as most of the bargain sites wanted you to travel in the next 12 weeks. I vaguely remember seeing this address on teletext, although I can’t be certain. www.tcdirect.net THE SITE The home page was nothing fancy, no dancing pictures and not too frilly! (I can’t stand...

jewels 24.05.2002 · Read review
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Avoid Direct Travel Insurance

Advantages: V. Cheap
Disadvantages: You get what you pay for

...Direct Travel Insurance - Avoid! My wife, Jill, was diagnosed with breast cancer on August 29, 2008. We had our holiday booked for September 8 so I asked Direct Travel Insurance for a claim form. The form arrived from AIG around September 3. AIG are the company Direct Travel Use to process their claims. It had four pages of A4. Three to be filled in by me and one by Jill's doctor. OK so far. After lot's of ink and £25 for the doctor, I returned the forms a couple of days later. The form signed by the doctor stated that Jill had a hospital appointment for the day we were due to fly. Despite this, AIG continued to turn awful into horror. After about three weeks a letter arrived from AIG asking for the tickets. They knew we were flying with JET2.com, which is a ticketless airline but AIG appeared to have forgotten. I reminded...

Shornoff 29.11.2008 · Read review
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The Incompetence of Travel City Direct

Advantages: None spring to mind now
Disadvantages: Ruined family holiday

...11pm, but we would be updated at 1pm. Oh well, the hurricane, can't be helped. We eventually check our luggage in and settled down to a day at gatwick airport. At 1pm we waited but no update and no Travel City Direct reps to be found, in fact we had to wait until 5pm for an announcement for passengers on our flight to go down to the check in desk. We were then told that our flight had only just left Sanford airport on its way back and we would not now be going until the early hours of Sunday morning, but another update would come at 7pm. At 7pm we were told we would be updated at 8pm. At 8pm there were no reps around and by now approx 450 passengers were looking for information. Eventually the police arrived and wanted to know what all these people were doing there, this resulted in calls for Travel City Direct reps being called...

barney3 12.09.2004 · Read review
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Travel City Direct

Advantages: First Class cabin
Disadvantages: Hurricanes may delay take-off from UK

...We have travelled with Travel City Direct twice now, and I have not had any problems that stick in my mind. Although we did travel 1st class for better service and easier check-in etc, there were no delays and the flights were fine. I would recommend utilising their pre flight bag check in: basically you check your bags in with TCD in the morning of your last day away and you don't see them again until you arrive back. Unfortunatley our summer holiday time does coinside with Florida's hurricane season but have only had two minor ones when over there. The planes were the ones featured on their website and the food was better than any other airline I have been on, would definately go with them again...

tcdtraveller 25.06.2008 · Read review
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Travel City Direct

Advantages: efficient, pleasant staff
Disadvantages: smelly flight seats

...I had booked with Travel City Direct before reading reviews on other sites. After reading many many complaints I was very apprenhensive on my forthcoming holiday. 14 night for 8 people at Florida. However I can honestly say it was one of the best holidays I have had. Arrived at Sandford airport, no delays. Picked up car - lovely spacious had a little trouble finding accomodation but that was due to the fact my husband wouldn't take a little time in studying route - just jumped in and went. Key pad number provided for door to beautiful villa. Spotlessly clean plenty of towels, crockery etc. Brilliantly sized bedrooms. Very clean and safe jacuzzi and pool. At meeting following day rep helpful and informative. Only complaint - plane seats were very close to toilets and every so often horrendous smells!!!!!!***** Overall good...

holidaybuff 22.08.2006 · Read review
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TRAVEL CITY SCAM!

Advantages: NONE AT ALL!
Disadvantages: IF YOU VALUE YOUR LIFE AND BANK BALANCE DONT BOOK WITH TRAVEL CITY DIRECT EVER!

...Seriously if you value your health you will not book your holiday through travel city, whom are now part of the xl leisure group plc, and use xl as their airline carriers! My family and i, two adults and three kids youngest aged 6 thought we had a reasonable deal when we booked our recent holiday to orlando. It was our fourth visit and the first time we had booked with T.C.D, we also purchased sunshine first seats aswell as house and car hire as a package. When we first boarded the xl boeing 767 on the 1st feb 07 our first impression was reasonable seat pitch and that im afraid to say is the only positive thing to say. There was no meal choice for 1st class passengers and all my daughter and i was offered was salmon? 8 hrs into the 10 hr flight my daughter aged 6 violently vomitted and my husband and i started feeling very unwell...

sammie71 21.03.2007 · Read review
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Great value travel insurance

Advantages: Very competitive price, underwritten by Axa
Disadvantages: I haven't found any

...Travel insurance is one of those things to which most of us give little or any thought. A former colleague flew to America without travel insurance and contracted gastro-enteritis. He didn't seek medical assistance because it is so expensive in America and it really spoiled his holiday. Compared to some he was lucky. A heart attack in the USA could set you back tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in treatment costs. If you're too young to think about heart attacks, how about a car accident? If you go on a package they'll insist you have insurance and you can just take their standard package. This is adequate for most people, but it's not a cheap option. I'm taking a self drive trip to Germany for 5 days shortly and the package operators standard package was over £50. By selecting the right levels of cover with Direct-Travel...

tsr2 19.07.2003 (17.01.2004) · Read review
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Travel Insurance- Don't leave home without some!

Advantages: Good Value, Quick and Professional
Disadvantages: None that I could find!

...,500 baggage and belongings cover - and watch out for policies which limit the amount you can claim for any one item. Check that the total covers you for what you?re actually taking abroad. * Personal liability of at least £1m, to cover you if you cause injury or damage * Compensation for trips which may be cancelled or curtailed ? and the costs of getting you home in an emergency A 24-hour emergency line, and cover for your legal costs In the end we settled with Direct Travel Insurance Services that can be found at www.direct-travel.co.uk. This excellent value, award winning travel insurance has several types of premiums to choose from. Some examples are: Single Trip Premiums for 11-17 days Premier Plus Cover in the UK for a family is £22, Europe is £29, Worldwide excluding USA, Canada and the Caribbean is £66 and Worldwide...

ukusa 31.03.2005 · Read review
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Direct cover

Advantages: cost, good cover
Disadvantages: previous experiences, see review

...Is everyone sitting comfortably? Then I?ll begin ? I have always been a named driver on my mum?s insurance via Direct Line. Whilst on her insurance I managed a number of interesting manoeuvres and yet somehow 5 years later she still had a couple years no claims bonus! I bought my new (second-hand) car and then set about insuring it. After all the hundred of comparison adverts on the television I began my search there. I was 25 years old at the time and everywhere was quoting higher then my budget would allow or barely covered me for anything. I was on the phone with my mum when she told me to call Direct Line for a quote as they?ve always been good to her. It did dawn on me that I hadn?t seen them on any of the compare websites. I had a look on their website and entered all my details. The quote was really good so I phoned...

znh3ra54 04.08.2009 · Read review
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First Direct - Banking Heaven

Advantages: Excellent customer service
Disadvantages: Low interest rate

..., move money between accounts, set up and manage text message banking, request PINs, replacement cards and paying in books, view, set up, cancel and amend standing orders and direct debits, access rates and charges, order travel money online, apply for a personal loan, apply for a first direct credit card, get an Agreement in Principle for an offset Mortgage, check credit card balances, check offset Mortgage balances and repayments, apply for a savings account, check savings account balances, view and print up to 27 months' transactions (up to a maximum of 200), access ISA balances and transfer funds into your account. **Telephone Banking** To operate your account by telephone you just need to call 08456100100. You will be asked some security questions that include your post code, some memorable data and 2 or 3 characters of your...

Krazikas 14.06.2009 · Read review
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