Foreign
Office
This is the Official Foreign Office site with country by country
advice for travellers from the U.K.
We strongly recommend that you check the information in this site
out when planning your trip.
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Visas
For Australian visas click here.
Visas for other countries such as India, Vietnam, China, Thailand,
Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania can be obtained via this site.
CIBT is the world's largest visa provider.
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Vaccinations
/ Health
Excellent site from the Scottish NHS.
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Need to renew your passport?
Then this is the place to go. Please note that most countries outside
of the EU will expect you to have at least 6 months validity remaining
in your current passport. And try to get a more flattering photo
this time!
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MyOnlineSafe
20% discount off My Online Safe Gold Account
Foreign Office statistics state 25% of Gap Year Travellers report
bad experiences including theft, illness and loss of personal
travel documents. Requests for UK Consular assistance average
over 1700 cases a week, 90,000 a year! They advise taking copies
of travel documents and details of valuables etc in case of theft
or emergency, but where do we then keep these safe?
MyOnlineSafe offers a personal online safe with levels of security,
encryption and additional benefits exceeding typical email based
accounts to store copies of your vital travel documents.
You can also: send ‘free’ SMS Texts in times of emergency,
create multilingual police/insurance reports of lost or stolen
items, keep an inventory of your belongings and use helpful links
to connect to: Embassies, Passport Office, Foreign Office, emergency
credit card contact numbers and ATM finders etc all from within
the facility.
Gold Account costs £25 on the my online safe website,
but is available for £20 from Travel Nation. Call 0845 3444
240 to book or purchase online here.
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Airport Hotels
If you have a morning departure or a long trip to get to the airport,
staying at a hotel near the airport the night before can make everything
much less stressful. Hotels in or close to all major U.K. airports
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Climate
Info on what the weather is normally like in 85,000 places around
the world.
If you are planning on being away for a longish time, you will find
that it is virtually impossible be everywhere at the 'best' time.
Don't forget that climate change often means that weather doesn't
behave as it should, that you may well end up changing your dates,
and that if you are somewhere in low season, things will be cheaper
and
if the locals more receptive to you..
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Anglo Pacific
Send anything home with Anglo Pacific!
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Go-Sim
Travel Nation has teamed up with go-sim™ to provide a range
of low cost solutions designed to significantly reduce the cost
of staying in touch using your own mobile phone while in abroad.
As many thousands of travelers discover each year, the cost of using
a mobile phone abroad can be over ten times the rate you would normally
pay at home!
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Tourist
Information Offices
Apologies for the American bias, but this is a great site has links
to 100's of tourist information sites.
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Contacting
airlines
If you need to get in touch with an airline while you are travelling,
e.g. to re-confirm flights or change dates, the best source of
up to date contact information for an airline's offices around
the world is via their websites. We have compiled a list here
of airline websites
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