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I have found that there is very little difference between the Duty Free in Dublin and UK airports so for convenience it is probably better to wait until you get to London.

I was in Rome last year and booked a tour of the Vatican Museum and St Peters Basicilla, it cost €37, costs €32 without St Peters if I remember correctly. If you want to do a self-guided tour it costs €16, St Peters is free to enter; you only pay if you want to access the dome (which is really...

I was there about 9 years ago and at the time US$ was the currency of use but from what I hear, it was banned since. I came across the convertible Pesos once and never once seen the local currency. I got my visa from the Cuban consulate on Adelaide Road; just turned up, filled in a form and...

I have been in Vegas a few times and here's my take on hotels there. It all depends on what you want out of a hotel. You will pay a fortune for the top luxury hotels like the Venetian, Caesars Palace, Bellagio and Aria. You will still get a very good hotel in the mid-price range like MGM...

I have never had to remove my Kindle from my hand-luggage in Dublin Airport, however, I have had to do so in other airports including Heathrow and Schipol I guess it will the norm in all airports before long

Hi I am pretty annoyed with Bank of Ireland hiking up their fees and free-banking non-existent and now want to make the switch to Permanent TSB thus saving an approximate €18 per quarter. Thing is that I want to keep my Bank of Ireland credit card; I won't go into the reasons here but I...

Simplest thing to do is to go to the self-service kiosk in Dublin and it will print your boarding cards for both fights and when you drop off the bags, these will be checked the whole way through to Orlando. Two things to keep in mind. You will not be able to select your seats for the BA...

I was in Sharm a few weeks ago, you can get the visa on arrival if you are on an Irish passport

Have to agree, you should ideally have 90mins at CDG. I flew out to Amman a few years back, ok going out as 3 hour connection but on the way home, I had only a 60 minute connection and the first flight was delayed and I missed the connection. As stated above, coming back is not so bad...

I live in an area where the Vodafone signal is very intermittent at best and I have come over this box called Vodafone Sure Signal which apparently will give a full 5 bar 3G signal to mobile phones when hooked up to the broadband router. It will cost me €99 as I am not a Vodafone...

I am thinking of heading to Turkey around the end of July - beginning of August; however I have just learnt that this will be during Ramadan this year. As I will be planning to stay in a resort as opposed to somewhere like Istanbul, will this have any major impact on my holiday as I will be...

Not a chance No travel insurance would cover the above eventuallity and even if they did you couldn't insure yourself after it happened; in fact it would be verging on Insurance fraud

I ended up buying a Freeview HD tv from Amazon; it picks up all the Irish digital channels no problems but can only pick up the BBC channels from the north (including News, Parliament, 3, 4), no ITV or Channel 4. The signal from the north is quite intermittent depending on the weather, but...

I am looking for a new tv and with the digital switchover looming, I want to get one with a tuner, which will pick up Saorview, built into it. As I live in the border region, I can pick up the analogue signal from the North, but as they are also switching over to digital by the end of the...

I stayed in Furama City Centre Hotel a few years ago; cost about €70/night which is ok if you are only staying 2-3 days which is enough time to spend in Singapore anyway Singapore is a really nice city, very clean, people very friendly. It is totally unlike any other asian city you will ever...

There is no real bad time to visit SE Asia but if you want to avoid the monsoon, don't go from July through to October. Even if you go during the monsoon season, it is not that bad, the rain does pour but only for 2-3 hours a day and dries up very quickly.

Haven't gone with Kumuka; only came across it a couple of months ago myself. Quite interested in booking a trip with them myself if anybody has any knowledge of them. I was in Vietnam a couple of years back and it was a great trip. Make sure that you visit the Chu Chi tunnels, Ho Chi Minh...

I am looking to buy a new laptop as an x-mas present to myself. I am getting one with an i3 processor (or an i5 if I can get one at a good price) but there seems to be a huge range of different processors within these families. For example the i3 has 370M, 380M and 2310M to name a few...

The law states that the company must allow each employee an unbroken two weeks off if the employee so wishes; this can include public holidays. It is not complusory to take two weeks off in one go but if you want to, the company has to allow you to do so. Bear in mind though, you still have...

I have done it both ways. I have flown DUB-LHR-LAX with British Airways and it was a great experience. The BA staff really know how to look after their passengers and you got most of the journey done in one go. I have also flown to the West Coast a couple of times with Delta via JFK or...