News this week that WH Smith has signed an exclusive deal with Penguin travel guides in their 460+ shops, including most airports and train stations has disgusted me. On the rare occasion I do purchase a guide book I want choice not restricted to a ...

I have received a number of emails from worried consumers regarding the news that the main shareholder, of Thomas Cook, Arcandor, has gone into administration. Please do not panic as far as I am aware your holiday is safe. The information I have at the moment ...

According to the Travel Trade Gazette online travel company Freedom Direct Holidays has ceased trading as from today. Apparently the company have had difficult renewing their ATOL licence, a topic previously discussed here on Travel Rants. The Times, suggest that an estimated 100,000 10,000 holidaymakers could ...

This afternoon I received a comment on a post I wrote about passenger’s wheelchair damage at airports and it’s made me livid. It is disgusting that airport handlers are so careless with essential and expensive items such as wheelchairs. Lack of care by airport handlers Read the ...

Whilst catching up with my travel reading on Sunday I found a rather bizarre news article in the Times regarding a consumer who planned to go on holiday to Costa Rica but the travel agent had booked the holiday 1,300 miles away in Puerto Rico. Human ...