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Travel

UK sites comparing travel (flights, hotels, car hire and holidays) and sites offering travel insurance, currency and traveller's cheques.

• UK Travel Comparisons

  Expedia.co.uk - flight, hotel, car hire and holiday comparisons, also allows flight with car hire comparisons.
  

  links to Ebookers, Expedia, Holiday Autos, Opodo and Lastminute on this page include advert links

  Opodo.co.uk - flight, hotel and car hire comparisons.
  Ebookers.com - comparisons of flight, hotel and car hire.
  Travelocity.co.uk - holiday and flight comparisons.
  Farebuster.co.uk - flight comparisons.
  Kayak.co.uk - flight, hotel and car comparisons.
  Lastminute.com - includes a sophisticated Eurostar break and hotel finder.
  Priceline UK - users can make offers on flights, hotels and car hire. Having found the flight or hotel the user desires, the user can then make an offer on the site which can then be accepted or declined by the site's airline, hotel and car hire partners.
  Kelkoo.co.uk - comparisons of flights, car hire and holidays
  Skyscanner.net - the Guardian's Sept 2005 flight comparison favourite.
  Travelsupermarket.com - comparisons of hotels, flights and car hire.
  Traveljungle.co.uk - comparisons of hotels, flights and car hire.
  Mobissimo.co.uk - flights, hotels and car hire comparison.
  Cheapflights.co.uk - flight comparisons
  Cheapestflights.co.uk - flight comparisons
  Dialaflight.com - flight comparisons
  Flightline.co.uk - flight comparisons
  Lowcostbeds.com - hotel comparisons

   

• Car Hire

  Holidayautos.co.uk - car hire comparisons (part of lastminute.com).
  Carhiresearch.co.uk - car hire comparison

  You may save some money by booking your car hire separately from your flight.

  The international price comparison page lists more international travel comparison sites. US sites can be very useful when booking US hotels.

   

• Cheapest Travel Insurance

  Moneysupermarket

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  Moneysupermarket.com has very good travel insurance comparisons - just don't forget the Which? minimums mentioned below (£2m treatment, £1m liability cover etc.).

  A Guardian article on "Choosing a travel insurance policy" lists the Consumer Association (Which?) recommended minimums (e.g £2m treatment, £1m liability cover etc.) from April 2003.

  After eliminating those that didn't meet their cover minimums, their cheapest insurers were (contact them for quotes):

  www.atlasdirect.net, citybond.co.uk, direct-travel.co.uk, egg.com, Family Care (no web site, tel 08705 561 224), flexicover.net, jameshampden.co.uk, leadedge.co.uk, nationwide.co.uk, worldcover.com.

  Cheapest for Family cover - Direct Travel, James Hampden, Leading Edge and Worldwide travel.

  Cheapest for Adult (18-64) - Direct Travel, Family Care, James Hampden, Leading Edge.

   

• Travel Currency

  Travelex.co.uk allows you to order currency in advance commission free and with a guaranteed best rate.  You can pick your currency and traveller's cheques up from most major air terminals.

  Currency-express.com is an alternative that can sent currency and traveller's cheques by post to you.  They also offer pick-up points at some rail terminals and airports.

  Other reasonable providers include:

  Marksandspencer.com - their larger branches offer currency at 0% commission.
  Postoffice.co.uk - again, the larger branches offer currency over the counter.

  Some credit cards (such as the Nationwide) offer cheaper purchases.

Moneysavingexpert.com has advice on travel currency, travel insurance and bargaining with travel companies.