Holiday Links

Travel Insurance

Travel insurance is a holiday essential, but you don't have to pay through the nose for it. If you're travelling from the UK and looking for cheap travel insurance then you will find good quality (as recommended by Which?) travel insurance at:

Options insurance

Direct Travel insurance

Insure & go and

Primary Direct

Which is the cheapest depends on whether you're single, a couple or a family travelling to Europe or worldwide, want a single trip policy for 7 or 14 days or an annual policy! Rather than click on all 4 to find out for yourself (some require you to give personal details and will write to you even if you don't buy) click on this link to visit the 1st Holiday Store travel insurance page. They've done all the clicking around for you.

Foreign Currency

You can buy your currency online via a number of foreign exchange companies. When we checked the rates, including commission and delivery charges, we found Onlinefx, Travelex and The Post Office online to be the most competitive.

Travel & City Guide Books

Four of the best travel guides are Lonely Planet, Time Out, Frommers and Rough Guides. Want most of the information from their guides for free?

All four publishers have great websites (click on the links to visit them), very generously giving you free access to much of the information in their guides.

They don't give you all of the information and you won't want to print it out to take with you on holiday, so you'll still need to buy a guide (so see the 1st Holiday Store.co.uk buy a guide page), but you can get a great deal of information about the country and the resort by combining the free information from these four sites.

Holiday Car Hire

Holiday Autos is usually the cheapest. They also offer a price match. However, in order to ensure you get the cheapest price we recommend that you check three other consolidators first - on airport car hire, Auto-Europe, Opodo and then check with Holiday Autos.

If Holiday Autos are the cheapest book with them. If not either go back to the other car hire company or take advantage of Holidays Autos price match promise. Bottom line, you get the cheapest price.

Autos-europe - owned by MyTravel (the renamed Airtours)
On airport car hire - owned by First Choice
Holiday Autos - usually cheapest
Expedia - the UK's leading online travel portal uses it's buying power to offer cheap car hire.
Airport Car Rental - airport car rental around the world. Excellent rates, online booking available.

Flights, last minute holidays and cruises

For cheap flights, last minute deals and cruises try 1st Holiday Store.co.uk. You'll find great advice and links to help you find cheaper travel.