Travel & holidays

With the summer holidays just around the corner, one job you can’t afford to ignore is organising your travel insurance, writes journalist Esther Shaw.

What is it about flying that reduces some of us to pushing, shoving and practically fighting our fellow passengers in an attempt to get our luggage stowed and be sat in our seats first, asks Sue Hayward.  

Are you confident your travel insurance will pay out if the worst happens? Even the most savvy of us can fail to check all the small print, as Confused.com’s head of travel Mhairi Edwards can testify.

Stag and hen parties are a staple of wedding festivities, with many couples inviting their friends of the same sex to let loose for a night or weekend before the impending nuptials.

It can be tough for credit card virgins to get a top deal on their plastic. However, three great credit building cards from Barclaycard look set to buck the trend.

Spend the weekend researching your next trip, but when it comes to booking hold off until Tuesday morning to save money, says journalist Sue Hayward.

British holidaymakers will find their spending money goes furthest in Spain and Portugal this year, according to a new Post Office survey.

With holiday season almost upon us, we look at some of the best credit cards to take abroad with you this year.

Samoa Air has become the first carrier to charge passengers by the pound. Writer Chris Torney looks at whether this policy could catch on in Europe.

With 16 per cent of Brits heading abroad for stag and hen parties this year, many booze-fuelled party-goers are likely to end up in trouble with the local law, research by Confused.com shows.