Recent content by roryg

I've just cancelled both Citi and NAB. It wasn't until I got the NAB card that I realised that it was a Visa. (This was NOT a fault with NAB. Entirely my fault for overlooking where it was painly and often stated that the NAB would be a Visa.) Already having a couple of Visa cards, a minor...

And they have now deigned to offer me a refund of 70%. Grudgingly bearing in mind the above, practical, philosophy, I have deigned, grumpily (as befits a grumpy old fart), to accept their offer. It does pay to keep on asking, sometimes. Edit: refund offer was 70%, not 75% as I originally...

I've previously posted on this thread that we couldn't get a refund from the RACV for insurance for our cancelled May 2020 trip to the UK. Thanks to Finder.com.au, I've just come across an announcement from the ACCC (ACCC announcement) of 2 April 2020 that says, in part: I've written to the...

[Only just seen this thread...] Domestic UK flight for May 2020 was cancelled on 9 April 2020. We started ringing the advertised UK phone number on 21 April, at least twice a night. "It's a difficult time, we're very busy", disconnect. On 24 April we finally got through to a human, who did...

I asked RACV if we could get our money back on a one-off policy purchased in September 2019 for a trip that we should be on now. The answer was negative, as it was purchased before the coronavirus became an issue. However, we can change the dates, up to 18 months from the date of purchase...

After 4 weeks in the the UK, I'm going up to London for lunch with an old friend today - could be very quick, or very long. Pack - and last-minute shopping for essentials (marmalade and Jamaica ginger cake) - tomorrow, leave on Wednesday.

I tried the Qantas car insurance, but it didn't offer me the choice of market or agreed value. I stopped short of giving my name, so I don't know if the valuation came in later. Has anyone gone that far into the process? I prefer agreed value as I then know what we'll get if there is a write-off...

Item 106, I think. Prize 14, 15 or 16 (basically, L or M pyjamas) please. Thanks for doing this.

Yes, it's the itinerary. It's also the receipt and the e-ticket.

Effectively nothing. SYD-HKG isn't mentioned at all. All it says is: "Please note that you may be charged to take additional ... baggage on sectors ... that are not operated by Virgin Atlantic." I see that as a possibility. Not a possibility that is desirable, and which I would decline if...

Thanks for all the advice and suggestions. I'll hope to get the baggage checked all the way through from MEL, but expect to have to lug it from domestic to international at Sydney. I've booked a domestic flight that gets into SYD at 09:55, giving me 4 hours. I expect to be in the international...

While you were posting, I was talking to a lovely lady at CX, who confirmed that. As I said originally, I'll live with paying the excess on the domestic sectors. On the way back, I'll be able to drop my bags with QF at the international terminal, so I won't have to lug them over to domestic...

One PNR for MEL-SYD, another PNR for SYD-LHR. I have asked QF about getting bags checked through, and they don't do it as it's a VS ticket. CX and VS are on the same VS ticket with a single PNR. QF will be a completely different (as yet unbooked) ticket.

Later this year, I'm going to London on a Tuesday. Going from Melbourne to Sydney with Qantas (QC member). Then I'm on a different ticket through to London: Cathay from Sydney to Hong Kong and Virgin Atlantic from Hong Kong to London. The return trip is the reverse. As VS have such an insane...

As someone has already said, 3 days is just not enough, even to get a taste of London. I've done the Tower of London twice: once when I was 8; and once when I was 48. I loved it both times. Took my daughter (then 16) on the second visit and despite her not-so-silent misgivings - "I'm only going...