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Unfair? One location 8.2 million people passing through, with tens of thousands wanting to rent a car, and the other doesn't. That location which has a lot of demand has far lower overhead costs, as well as a lot of competition. Can you get a taxi to the airport and pick up a hire car there - sure you can, they won't care you have walked off the street rather than arrived on an aircraft. Is it worth it? At 20 euro each way in a taxi, probably not, plus the airport collection and drop off can be very busy, so you could easily spend an hour or more picking the car up and the same dropping off. And if you are hiring a car anywhere on the Canary Islands I recommend Cicar, as they have a 'no messing around, everything is included' price and are not the sharks who add on this and that or charge you for pre-existing damage. If you only have a short amount of time and want to see other parts of the island as well, then instead go to Caldera de Los Cuervos (https://maps.app.goo.gl/F2eVuuyffbhGn8aX8) and you can just park in the nearby carpark for free and walk up to it (turn right at the end of the path to get to the blown out entrance to the caldera).

Sorry, not with the sort of food you are looking for, as that isn't the type of food I would be choosing when I eat out.

It hasn't gone away as people still want compensation but P&O are still saying 'speak to Maleth Aero as it is not our problem' and I really cannot see that ever changing. And the legal action referred to in the headline is P&O getting their money back and nothing at all to do with the compensation the delayed passengers want.

Can you do a 10 day trip with just a 50x35x20 'cabin bag' - sure you can, and I have done it many times - and by packing sensibly that doesn't involve any laundry whilst away. Would I do a 10 day cruise using just such a cabin bag - only if it was a bargain basement fly cruise involving non-cruise line flights where they charge an arm and a leg for checked luggage. Would I do a 10 day cruise sailing out of Southampton using just such a cabin bag even if I was using a train to get there - not a chance. A suitcase isn't an issue on a train if you are sensible about it.

Yes, its the lip-service keep us out of court 'tell the cabin steward you have watched the video, and scanned your card at the location you can't remember as you boarded' drill.

And do take a walk up to Parque García Sanabria, its a lovely place for a stroll in the shade and drink at the bar at the top end of the park near Rbla. de Sta. Cruz, not the one on the south near C. Méndez Núñez - I spent an awful lot of time there last year when I wintered in Tenerife, and will be back again shortly for a few months this year.

Just to mention, the mercado is a reasonable walk from the cruise port and there isn't an awful lot else to see in that area. In the more central areas of the town there are streets full of tapas places that will serve what you are looking for, for example C. Teobaldo Power or Pl. de Ireneo Gonzalez, and the latter certainly has a better ambiance for a meal than the market area.

It is an interesting situation with these changes. The pay restaurants are obviously money earners for P&O and they would have to be completely crazy not to do everything necessary to keep them full all of the time making the tills go 'brrrr'. And from my recent trips on P&O ships they have been fully booked for the most part, although whether that is fully booked because all seats are taken or fully booked because they don't have enough staff to service the restaurant is rather debatable. So if the restaurants are full despite the quality of offering declining then what does that say about the customers and P&O. To me it says that P&O are being smart because they know that they can cut their costs and deliver any old tut and still people will pay for it - kerching! more profit for the company. Until people stop buying then the decline in quality and service will continue - but from what I have seen and heard, then people have their holiday budget (or 'free' OBC) and want to spend it.

The UK government stated it would be - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/eu-entryexit-system Various EU country governments said it would be, for example - https://www.government.nl/topics/holidays-and-travels/ees And the EU Commisioner, Ylva Johansson, said it would be - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/advice/new-eu-entry-exit-visa-system-rules/

In that case I would be doing a Google maps search around the Catedral Metropolitana de Santa Ana de Canarias area - https://maps.app.goo.gl/BFUPx2eSegmCwewKA and seeing what sort of places take your interest. And if you do fancy heading towards the beach (it is very pleasant late in the evening to stroll along and taking a stop at one of the many bars and ice cream places along there), then then are buses that run frequently from the old town down to there.

In Las Palmas you have two choices of area, the old town around the cathedral or the area near Las Canteras beach and they are 5km / 3 miles apart, so it depends which you prefer - walking around the old town or walking along the beach front.

And that would have been a very bad idea. Far more sensible is to use a password manager (Apple, Google/Android, and Microsoft all have free versions, as well as commercial versions) with access secured by biometric access (face ID or fingerprint) AND the database backed up securely (and that happens automatically with Apple, Google/Android, and Microsoft). Doing that means - - Only you get access to your passwords - Using complex and different passwords for every website (as you should be doing) is easy - If you lose your phone, laptop, whatever, then the passwords are safe and can be restored Plus if a website offers two factor authentication (2FA) with an authenticator then use that in preference to text/sms authentication as it is far more secure (and again Apple, Google/Android, and Microsoft all have free authenticator apps).

Up to the 10th November the count of time spent in the EU relies upon the border guard checking the stamps in you passport and doing some complex calculations - as you already know it is a rolling 90 in 180, so that isn't straightforward to work out at all. And because of that most border guards simply don't have have the time to do that. However on the 10th November when EES (Entry Exit System) is turned on then a Schengen wide computer system will track your entry and exit into and out of the Schengen area, and undoubtably if you have overstayed then it will simply flag up to the border guard that you have breached the rules - no work for them, and realistically no excuse for them not to deal with those rule breakers. Lots of people with second homes in Europe are going to get caught out by this. Fortunately my heritage gave me the right to an EU passport and EU laws mean that my spouse also benefits as it would be an infringement of my EU citizen rights if they were limited from travelling with me.

Packing cubes are a waste of time for a single a 'single unpack' trip - i.e. pack suitcase, go to cruise ship, then unpack everything. However at the opposite end of the scale where you are doing a multi-stop tour and staying in multiple different locations, then packing cubes are worth their weight in gold. On those multi-stop tours you can pack each stops clothes into a separate cube and then only open that cube at that stop - surprisingly those clothes that remain packed in cubes stay pretty crease free (particularly if you roll the items), and they stay far more crease free than if they had remained in the suitcase whilst you rummaged in their for that stop's clothes.

Phone payments are fine if the person has turned on 'Express travel' for that card so it doesn't need authorisation, then it is as quick as using a normal card. Correct - one card per person.

Or just use the Uber app when that obviously will take a card.

Each person will need to use a different card - there is no mechanism for two people to use the same card, other than buying paper tickets which I really don't recommend as they are a lot more expensive. Theoretically you can use a card and the same card on Apple Wallet as the card in Apple Wallet has a different card number so the system see them as different cards - that's one of the reasons why you can't tap in with a card and out with your phone, as you would end up with two incomplete journeys. If you do intend to use Apple Wallet on the tube then do set the card up for express travel (in the Wallet setting on the phone) as you then don't have to authenticate it when you tap in or out - don't worry it is safe as it is only for certain heavily regulated travel operators that it works like that and every other purchase needs authentication. However, realistically I would just get another card (an additional card holder card is absolutely fine) or just get an Oyster card for the other person.

Yes it will happen to you - EES is a system that records your entry and exit to and from the Schengen Area, it isn't something you apply for. The fingerprinting and photo on first entry of non-EU and other Schengen country citizens is to ensure that the person travelling with the passport is the actual holder of the passport. And never will do because it is not part of the Schengen Area and whilst it remains in a Common Travel Area with the UK it cannot become part of the Schengen Area, and whilst Northern Ireland is part of the UK then that isn't going to change. And you will show your passport there because you are neither an Irish citizen or a UK citizen, as they can travel between Ireland and the UK without passports because of the Common Travel Area. It is an inter-EU flight, but it is also a flight into the Schengen Area so you will show your passport again, be fingerprinted and photographed if it is your first entry into Schengen, and your entry recorded into EES. And then when you leave the Schengen Area your exit will also be recorded onto EES.

As before, someone being overcharged for an ice-cream makes the headlines around the world, but a tourist fined for not carrying a passport does not. Google News shows not a single report of a tourist being fined for not carrying a passport in Italy.

Italians or non-Italian tourists?

Yes it is, and that location is Victoria coach station but you dismissed that option because of the "crowds". Possible and economically viable are two entirely different things. Of course it is possible to have a service picking passengers up from lots of different hotels to take them to the ship, but is it economically viable - probably not. That service would be competing against the train and coach service on cost, and it is pretty unlikely that it would be a cheaper option. Then it would be competing against taxi / private hire services, which although are likely to be more expensive than a multi-pickup coach service, are likely to be much much quicker because they don't have to navigate the horrible London traffic to go round all those hotels picking people up. At the end of the day if it did make sense to offer such a multi-pickup coach service then someone would have done it, and they haven't.

Driving it does, walking around the streets it doesn't. Didn't your stats professors mention probability and impact? The probability of being stopped whilst walking around and being asked for your passport is infinitesimally small (and then the probability of the police officer doing anything more than waive you on your way and accepting any old document or photo scan when they realise you are a tourist and they don't want the hassle of dealing with you is smaller again), but the impact of losing your passport whilst carrying around is incredibly high. I know of a number of people who lost or had their passport stolen whilst carrying it, and yet I know (and have heard of not a single person) who was stopped by the police and action taken because they were not carrying a passport.

Whilst the UK and Ireland are in a Common Travel Area, Ireland can never be part of Schengen. The Schengen Area agreement requires border checks on non-Schengen Area citizens entering the Schengen Area, but the CTA allows UK and Irish citizens to travel, live, and work freely between the countries - you don't even need a passport to travel between Ireland and the UK and there are no border checks on the land border between Ireland and Northern Ireland. Thus it is completely incompatible for Ireland to be part of both the CTA and Schengen, and realistically with Northern Ireland (or the North of Ireland depending on your political viewpoint) then the CTA is more important than Schengen. As an aside, a lot of people (even British people) don't realise that those born in Northern Ireland can choose to have either (or both) a UK or an Irish passport (and that right passes down to their children and potentially their grandchildren). That Ireland isn't part of Schengen isn't an issue for Irish citizens as they have the right to a freedom of movement within the EU as they are EU citizens, and as such Irish citizens will not have to apply for ETIAS. As for the ETA, that isn't an issue for Irish citizens because again the CTA gives that freedom to travel to the UK. With regard to those tourists like yourself who transit through Ireland before heading to the UK, then you will need an ETA whether you fly onwards to London from Dublin or travel to Belfast from Dublin and take a UK domestic flight to London from there. Will Ireland introduce its own travel authorisation scheme similar to the ETA and ETIAS - possibly, but there has been no indication they are thinking of doing so.

ETIAS does not have a launch date yet, but the indications are that applications will be accepted from May 2025, note applications, because the indication is that the requirement to actually have an ETIAS will not be implemented until six months later in November 2025 in order to allow for an easy start. Once the requirement for travellers having an ETIAS has started then it will be needed for cruises that have stops in the Schengen Area, even if they start and end at non-Schengen Area ports. Thus at the moment it does not seem likely that you will actually need one for June 2025 - although that is not to say that lots of people including travel agents are not going to get confused between the being able to apply for one and actually needing one. The other system being introduced in November this year is EES, but that doesn't apply to cruises that start and end at non-Schengen Area ports, even if they do have stops in the Schengen Area.

It is a risky gamble because Saga are ignoring the knowledge they have that the passenger does have a mobility issue, because if the passenger doesn't have a mobility issue then why have they got a mobility aid! Now that doesn't mean that every passenger with a mobility aid will need an evac chair, but it would be a damn sensible idea for Saga to specifically ask each of those passengers that question and not pass the responsibility over to them to fill in a mobility form if they fancy it to determine if they need an evac chair A sensible risk assessment uses all the knowledge you have, and doesn't completely rely on a separate declaration. Whereas the Saga process (as it has been described) seems very much like they really don't want to hear the truth of the situation (could they deal with all the passengers if the passengers actually needing an evac chair told the truth?) so have designed a process with built in deniability of responsibility when things go wrong.