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Dubai Visa Requirements for UK Visitors

Dubai Visa Requirements for UK Visitors

Travel Rights
Dubai visa requirements for British citizens: yes you need a visa but there’s no prior application required and it’s free. What Visa You Actually Get British citizens will be issued with a tourist visa on arrival in Dubai and this is usually valid for 30 days for stay. The visitor visa does not need to be applied for in advance…
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Package Holiday Regulations Explained: ATOL, ABTA and Your Rights When Things Go Wrong

Package Holidays, Travel Rights
Two people travel to Crete on the same date to the same hotel. One booked a package holiday with a tour operator. The other found a cheap flight and then independently found a hotel offer in a different window. A week before departure the airline or hotel goes bust. The two people’s next weeks are about to be very different.…
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The £12,000 Promise You Cannot Hold

Luxury Holidays, Travel Rights
Pay enough for a luxury holiday and a strange thing happens. The marketing language starts to tip over into the vocabulary of ownership. Your villa. Your butler. Your private pool, your view, your week. The Maldives resort doesn't advertise "a temporary contractual arrangement over a structure built on a sandbank." It advertises a home above the water. And yet English…
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Five Places You Should Probably Read the Small Print On

Destinations, Travel Rights
When you type a destination into a booking site, you're not searching for a place. You're searching for a category. The site knows this. The tourism board knows this. The travel journalist who spent four nights in a sponsored hotel knows this too. The words they use – city break, beach holiday, adventure destination, cultural trip, off the beaten track…
How Long Your Passport Needs to Be Valid

How Long Your Passport Needs to Be Valid

Travel Rights
There is no single rule for how long your passport must be valid for. The length of time your passport will be valid for will depend on your destination, and even when you travel to different countries within one region your passport could be accepted for some of them but not others. Why There’s No Single Rule Each country has…