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  • Holiday motorists face fuel price hikes in Europe

    • Fuel prices rise by up to 40 per cent year-on-year for unleaded petrol and 51 per cent for diesel in European motoring holiday destinations • Filling the tank costs least in Andorra and Austria while diesel is still sub-£1 in Spain • Diesel remains cheaper than unleaded petrol in all barring Switzerland and UK – with the biggest saving of 32p a litre in the Netherlands

  • Latest currency index provides evidence of buoyant demand for holidays abroad as sterling recovers from 2016 low point

    In its latest Holiday Money Index measuring exchange rate movements and currency sales, Post Office Travel Money, which accounts for one-in-four of all UK transactions, says that strong currency sales in the first three months of 2017 provide encouraging evidence of a continuing appetite for overseas holidays.
    Announcing year-on-year increases of 55 per cent increase in currency sales made onli

  • Bulgaria slashes resort costs to beat eurozone on price

    11th annual Post Office Travel Money Holiday Costs Barometer reveals
    best value European hotspots (www.postoffice.co.uk/holidayco... plunge to make Sunny Beach, Bulgaria best value for the fourth year in a row
    Algarve is runner up and cheapest in the eurozone – under half the price of Ibiza
    Resort swapping within Spain, Greece and Croatia can cut holiday spending costs
    Tourist prices a

  • Sunshine city beats off challenge from Eastern Europe to top annual City Costs Barometer

    10 best value cities: Paphos, Vilnius, Riga, Warsaw, Budapest, Krakow,
    Lisbon, Prague, Athens and Palma

    Paphos, 2017’s joint European City of Culture, is cheapest of 36 European cities surveyed for the annual City Costs Barometer (www.postoffice.co.uk/citycosts)
    Lisbon retains its position as Western Europe’s cheapest capital city
    Prices for UK visitors are up across Europe but ye

  • Best bargains for a family half term holiday abroad

    Cyprus beats the Canaries to rate as the best value Half Term holiday bargain Cancun is the survey’s lowest-priced long haul resort and the only destination where sterling will stretch further than a year ago
    Families hoping to swap the UK winter for a sunshine break abroad during half term will find the best bargains in Cyprus and the Canary Islands, according to new research by Post Offi

  • Post Office appoints Royal London to grow its Life offering

    New agreement will give customers more choice and accessibility

    New product range will be launching throughout 2017

    Access to new products across additional digital channels

    Post Office Money has taken a major step in growing its life business by appointing Royal London as its new life insurance partner.
    Working with Royal London will enable Post Office Mon

  • Post Office Money launches market-leading BTL mortgage deals

    Post Office Money will launch a new range of competitive buy-to-let (BTL) mortgages on Friday, including four market leading deals designed to offer great rates and keep initial expenses down for the cost-conscious property investor.
    Post Office Money’s new BTL mortgage products are designed for those buying their first BTL property, or someone who aspires to own one or two investment propertie

  • Post Office and UK Banks’ partnership secure access to local banking services

    Unrivalled access to banking through the Post Office’s 11,600 branches offering longer hours and Sunday opening 99 per cent of UK personal bank customers and over 75 per cent of business customers can do their day-to-day banking at the Post Office 110 million banking transactions carried out last year - a six per cent increase on the previous year and more than 200 every minute New deal builds u

  • Destinations where the holiday purse will stretch furthest

    Portugal’s Algarve is cheapest for UK tourists from 44 destinations surveyed Tokyo powers past Cape Town and Bali to become best value long haul destination Local prices pegged or lower than a year ago will lessen the impact of the weaker pound in 40 per cent of resorts or cities Sterling is now stronger against 60 per cent of bestselling currencies five years ago
    Value for money will be

  • Post Office confirms further plans to safeguard high street branches

    Post Office today confirmed that it would be seeking partners for 37 of its directly managed branches as part of its efforts to secure its services in communities around the UK for the long term. This is in addition to 93 previously announced during the course of the last calendar year, nearly half of which have now successfully relocated into retail stores

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