car hire (23)

Nien Smokey Nien.

yeah, that's kinda what i figured, but isn't it just swings and roundabouts really if they open themselves to credit card fraud, which I guess is more common than people making off with a car? Also, would a card company cover the cost of a car anyway? If someone nicks the car, I bet the card is a fraud.

Correct Lago. Also if you cause damage to the car they can take the money for repairs with your card !

Yes Q man the cc company will pay for the whole car, I was told.

I not sure if the credit card company will pay for the rental car, but it sure does pay for that exorbedently expensive insurance they charge you.

It is hard to book, anything without a credit card these days, I like Austria for the simple reason they are cash people, only in the cities do many places take plastic.

Small hotels, they take your name and a telephone number, email if you have one, you can pay in cash when you leave, but the honour system is still in place and here you can hire a car with a smaller hire company with cash.

I flipped at Ryanair, I dislike them with a vengeance, it was stupid of me, I booked a flight, had excess luggage which they charged me to a tune of £700, Ryanair are great if you are doing a short hop flight with just hand luggage, anyway, so I went to their desk, and I have a credit card, but I wanted to pay with my Maestro card, so I pushed my card across the counter, they said we do not accept debit cards, only credit cards or cash.

Sommer quietly with her customary coolness, decided to become decidely frosty and ask, what if a person does not have a credit card? The woman shrugged her shoulders. Time for this girl to ask for her extra large luggage to be brought off the plane.

Insisted that they brought back my luggage to me, I went to Air Berlin and was allowed to use my debit card, the whole thing was £200 pounds cheaper.

It appears that people are treated with mistrust if they do not have one, and that really pisses me off.

Sommer said:

"I flipped at Ryanair, I dislike them with a vengeance, it was stupid of me, I booked a flight, had excess luggage which they charged me to a tune of £700, Ryanair are great if you are doing a short hop flight with just hand luggage, anyway, so I went to their desk, and I have a credit card, but I wanted to pay with my Maestro card, so I pushed my card across the counter, they said we do not accept debit cards, only credit cards or cash."


Hmmmm......... £700 excess luggage! How much lipstick is that?

I pay my Ryanair tickets online with a debit card and have a zero charge (they charge extra for using a credit card)...... I refuse to take out insurance and I check-in online to avoid yet another 5 euro charge......... with Ryanair you can only check-in online four days in advance but with Eastjet I think you can check in weeks ahead o9nline and even if you have luggage that is to go in the hold!

What makes me laugh is the number of people prepared to pay extra for 'priority boarding' - Ryanair would be happy if 100% of passengers did so and then they'd be no better off than if they hadn't paid the extra cost - as it is, it seems over 50% do the 'priority boarding' thingy (and they still have to queue!) while I have a little nap and stroll on the plane once everybody else has scrambled to get a seat!..... I normally manage to get myself a seat with extra legroom by pure luck even though I'm almost the last to board the plane!

Ryanair are shocking.

They do take debit cards online.

Never again, only if I was doing a quickie to the UK and I did not have luggage.

And all that ghastly advertising on those planes, it is shocking.

but £700 of excess baggage - did you pack a spare nightie or two?

Let me just explain Rusty,

I was 43 kilos, overweight, then they slapped on a charge for being overweight, which was another 16 pounds, it was 15 pounds per kilo, I should have known better, really, to book with them in the first place, they have had my 84 pounds that they had off me for the flight, of course that is non refundable and I was bringing extra lipsticks and nighties back from the UK as I needed more clothes over here.