- Forty seven per cent travelled without the vaccinations required - One in five (20 per cent) fell ill whilst abroad, with a further ten per cent suffering injury - One in seven (15 per cent) did not have travel insurance - Recent gap year claims include £100,000 Air Ambulance from USA
- Strong World Cup appeal has made the Brazilian real Post Office® Travel Money’s Fastest Growing Currency for summer 2014 - Vietnam comes of age as holiday destination: summer currency sales have quadrupled within three years - Powerful pound drives demand for Eastern Europe: Hungarian forint registers Europe’s top summer growth while Croatian kuna is a Post Office bestseller
- Almost half of UK holidaymakers call themselves culture vultures - Warsaw is Europe’s cheapest city for culture with prices under a third of those in Vienna, Amsterdam, Barcelona and Paris - Eurozone culture comes with lowest price tag in Dublin and Rome - London is the most expensive cultural capital despite price falls of over 20 per cent in the past five years
- Twice as many children under five (52 per cent) have travelled abroad compared to their parents (26 per cent) when they were that age - Over a quarter (26 per cent) of children had travelled abroad three times or more by the age of five – yet seven in ten (69 per cent) of their parents hadn’t even left the country by this age
- Powerful pound helps prices plunge in most top European family resorts - Sunny Beach, Bulgaria and Costa del Sol are again cheapest for families - Biggest falls of over 26 per cent come where restaurants have cut meal costs says new Family Holiday Report (www.postoffice.co.uk/familyholidays2014) - Resort spending rises 16.5 per cent and two-in-five bust the budget by £242
- Holiday car hire costs least in Cyprus, Malta and Turkey
- Majorca is most expensive in the eurozone – costing £200 more than Cyprus
- Under half of UK holidaymakers cover themselves against high excess charges for car damage; over three-quarters fail to insure against tyre or window damage
- Failure to do so could cost over £1,000 in excess charges
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- Almost one-third of All Inclusive tourists paid extra for spa treatments costing £253m
- But fewer holidaymakers on European trips will pay extra for food, drinks and web access
- Post Office® All Inclusive Holiday Report found that at least 80 per cent of European All Inclusive resorts excluded branded drinks, bottles of wine, mini-bars and a la carte dining
- B&B pac
- As resort prices fall across Europe, Scots slash holiday spending by 30 per cent
- Scots rate Turkey and Portugal best value - but Bulgaria is cheaper
- Prices are down in 11 of 12 resorts surveyed – by 32 per cent in Sorrento, Italy
As Scotland’s schools break up for the summer, the Post Office Travel Money® Scottish Family Holiday Report reveals that European reso
- Over the six week period, parents will spend £492 entertaining their children – a 26 per cent increase on last year
- On top of this, an average £119 will be spent on petrol and a further £106 on childcare
- Summer worries: almost two thirds (58 per cent) of parents worry about the cost of entertaining their children
- One in 10 would miss bill payments in order to cover cos
- Pump prices have fallen by up to 24p per litre year-on-year in European motoring holiday destinations(www.postoffice.co.uk/holidaymotoring2014)
- Biggest falls in France: 1,000 miles costs £45 less for unleaded, £47 less for diesel
- Fuel costs least in Andorra and Luxembourg – both sub £1 litre for diesel
- Diesel costs up to 27p per litre less than unleaded in Europe – b
- Only one-third of holidaymakers stick to their spending budget on overseas trips
- On a holiday spending budget of £552 the average overspend is £242
- But perceived value remains key to destination choice: Turkey and Spain score but France, Dubai and Italy get the thumbs down
Value for money may be the key factor in deciding on a destination for an overseas trip but
1.63m tourists waste over £21 million a year buying currency at UK airports
Families changing money at the airport lose an average of almost £13 – enough to buy three round of drinks in the Algarve or a snack lunch in the Costa del Sol
Airports in the South West, Midlands and North of England offer the worst deals
Things are looking sunny for UK tourists planning summer holidays abro
