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  1. mayhemdiva

    VISA Waiver Program to USA

    Sorry I misread..you already have mentioned it...oh well you will have to go thru the process..we made our trip and my partner had drink drive..had to see a doctor to state he wasnt a drunk etc ..u should be fine
  2. mayhemdiva

    VISA Waiver Program to USA

    No this doesnt count so dont even mention it...it is for people with convictions or pending cases. Yours was merely an investigation that went nowhere and was dropped essentially. DONT mention it as they really have no way of finding out your story..enjoy your trip. Retired police office and...
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    Happy to be back, thanks for the invite/poke

    Regular overseas traveller, single female traveller, everywhere mainly Middle East travel for two months at least twice a year organises all flights and itinerary online with no issues. Been everywhere except China...that one maybe next year. Off again after tax time not sure where. I have no...
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    Malaysia Airlines Delays/Cancellations

    Re: General Malaysia Airlines Delays/Cancellations/etc. Discussion Tried to stay loyal but with only two days notice they cancelled my return flight 18th May purchased two months prior offered me a full refund but I was then forced to buy the replacement flight at much higher price. Enrich...
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    Anyone know what standard markup is on tickets

    The holiday from hell continues thanks to Flight centre.. Paid cash 8 june $5066 for two tickets, Mel-Ist, Lhr-Mel flying 11/12/2009, told I had to pay cash within 24 hours to get price. Done. Today malaysian airlines sent me my receipt for cash of 2048 (thats with all taxes..total) per...
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    VISA Waiver Program to USA

    Yes you must apply for a visa..and don't wait..it can be lengthy and costly so get cracking...you have to book over the internet or phone and there is no human contact until the day you have to go in for you appointment. If you lie and our found out, you can kiss you ticket goodbye..they will...
  7. mayhemdiva

    Is their Word ever their Bond???

    I get no pleasure from seeing someone else bent over as I have been by them...they refuse to give me a breakdown of my ticket cost ie tax component and their fee and I have managed to recoup $600 back from $1306..the rest has gone in 'fees and charges"..I never got the specifics on my type of...
  8. mayhemdiva

    Need a maths expert please

    Paid for BA IST_LON flight and side trip IST _CAI_IST. Side trip was inadequate for needs. Agent was told the dates were not right. They were not changed. When queried and asked to have new dates was told the tickets had been issued (for December 2009) and were non transf/changeable/no refund...
  9. mayhemdiva

    Need a maths expert please

    Thank you for your answer, but I did not book inflexible tickets, they were changeable but my travel agent who booked them told me that they were not. Despite my repeated requests that the tickets I had purchased were flexible they told me unequivocally in writing they were non refundable etc...
  10. mayhemdiva

    Need a maths expert please

    Further to my earlier posting regarding travel agent disaster I took advice and proceeded to lodge a formal complaint. I got a reply that befuddles me..so here goes I paid 408 and 898 for a BA and EgyptAIr flights total of 1306. I wanted to change some times/dates was told repeatedly by agent...
  11. mayhemdiva

    Travel Agent disaster

    Dont know protocol on naming/shaming however this is the first time I have used them and I wont be centering my flights ;) or my cash on them again. If this was the first time I had travelled I would probably not feel so stupid but its not..I go away every year overseas..maybe I just got lulled...
  12. mayhemdiva

    Travel Agent disaster

    The tickets were $400 more than I had found them on an internet site which was not in Aus or AUD and its conditions where garbled, so took the safer(I thought ) option of letting an agent check it out. The change came about because the agent used the last flight of the day arrive/ first flight...
  13. mayhemdiva

    Travel insurance - pre existing condition

    I have a pre existing condition that knocks me out from any insurance policy in existence should I have a problem o/s. I am unable to find any policy that will cover me, however in all my years travelling any disaster that has befallen me had nothing to do with it as I had taken every...
  14. mayhemdiva

    Travel Agent disaster

    In an effort to save myself time this year went to a well know travel agency and having done some research told them what when and where and left it with them. What i got back was almost exactly what I had found except instead of going MEL-IST-LONDON-MEL. Simple ticketing I got MEL-IST.LONDON...
  15. mayhemdiva

    VISA Waiver Program to USA

    :DStrangely enough I posted on this thread when about to head off to the US in October 2008. Immigration could not have been more disinterested in the US, but it still cost us dearly to get my travel partners visa through. i still wonder how all these so called celebrities and rock stars get in...
  16. mayhemdiva

    VISA Waiver Program to USA

    i have just been through the humiliating process with a friend who is applying for a us visa...(watching 60 year old men come out from the consulate crying having been refused a visa for offences committed when they were 18 is not amusing)..after my friend had to take all his belt, shoe laces...
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