By Darren Cronian    Saturday, February 27th, 2010
The ‘ask Mr Rants’ feature has been incredibly popular and in the last couple of months I have published a number of travel consumer guides based on the number of emails that I receive from consumers. I wanted to share a few of those guides ...


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By Darren Cronian    Sunday, February 21st, 2010
Today I decided I would get my act together and start to research the prices for my flight to New York in June, so I fired up the browser and started to use a number of comparison sites including Kayak, Travel Supermarket and newcomer Zugu ...


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By Darren Cronian    Sunday, February 21st, 2010
The airlines are having a laugh at our expense. Last week I booked a flight from Leeds & Bradford airport to Paris and was charged by the airline, Jet2, a rip off free of £2.00 to check-in online. My other alternative was to pay £6.00 ...


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By Darren Cronian    Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Over the weekend online travel agency, Expedia received some rather negative attention by one of the writers on high profile technology site, TechCrunch. To cut a long story short, the hotel he had booked had not received his reservation from Expedia and was fully booked ...


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By Darren Cronian    Sunday, February 14th, 2010
The second episode of the Travel Rants Podcast is now available. Podcasting is a whole new platform for me to get to grips with, but I am enjoying expressing my views on consumer issues in audio, it’s a change from writing a blog post. I ...


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