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  • Will Travel: First-time buyers (FTBs) widen their horizons to seek out their dream home

    New Post Office Money research shows FTBs travelling to new areas to find the home for them Southampton, Norwich and Nottingham are the UK’s most affordable cities for FTBs Despite nerves and financial pressure, FTBs still see home-buying as an exciting and joyful step towards independence Futurologists’ insights can help identify potential hotspots of tomorrow

  • Post Office statement: Travel Money Cards

    You may have seen some media reporting around fees related to using pre-paid cards while on your travels abroad. Here's the Post Office's advice on how to best use our Travel Money Card to avoid charges.

  • Parents to spend £468 entertaining their children this summer

    UK parents set to spend £6.2 billion entertaining their children over the summer break Over half of parents (52 per cent) are worried about covering the cost of entertaining their children during the school holidays A third (33 per cent) of parents spent more than they had budgeted for last summer One in three (33 per cent) used a credit card to cover their increased spend last year
    With

  • 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

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