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The official web site is https://sagradafamilia.org/ If you are on the correct website it sounds like a call centre worker making stuff up because they don't know the right answer. If you are on the correct website then just use card from a different bank (if you have one).

There are not that many hotels in the centre of Santa Cruz as it isn't a place where tourists tend to stay, just visitors off cruise ships. Hotel NH Tenerife, AC Hotel Tenerife, and INNSiDE are in the lower part of the town a short walk from the port, and then the Iberostar Heritage Grand Mencey, Occidental Santa Cruz Contemporaneo, and Colon Rambla about 20 minutes walk from the port near Parque Garcia Sanabria (Hotel Taburiente is closed for refurbishment). You will find the better quality restaurants up towards the park, as those down towards the port and Plaza de Espana are aimed at the cruise ship visitors who don't stray too far from the ship... As for tours, there are few companies offering tours from Santa Cruz, as again it isn't a place where tourists tend to stay, just visitors off cruise ships. In place of tours you could hire a car (I would recommend Cicar from their Muelle Ribera office, as they are cheap if you book early and offer fully inclusive rates, with none of the nonsense about extras for CDW and arguments about damage (https://maps.app.goo.gl/i9iLtgF5kGrytzXw5) and that way you can drive to the locations you want to see. However parking in Santa Cruz, like any city, can be tricky. And don't discount the local public transport, as it is incredibly easy to get the bus to the lovely Las Teresitas beach or the tram to the interesting capital of San Cristóbal de La Laguna (the tourist office does good free walking tours of the town on certain days in English, but you need to book in advance).

And the guidance from The Man in Seat 61 is very useful - https://www.seat61.com/train-travel-in-italy.htm#how-to-use-trenitalia.com

November or March. January wouldn't be bad but it is noticeably cooler - and if you are sitting outside with a drink it can be that odd situation when it can be too warm to sit in the sun but if you are sitting in the shade then it can be a bit too cool as things haven't warmed up! And that's based on my experience of spending months in the Canary Isles every winter - January is a 'perhaps I might need a jacket, perhaps I won't' month, but November and March are 'shorts and T shirts' months.

Yes, but you were linking the fact someone was not in an accessible cabin to not requiring an evac chair. Really? If someone needs assistance on the stairs when the ship isn't sinking or on fire, then they almost certainly will do when it is! It seems an awful lot of people seem to overlook/forget about the situations when an evac chair is required - if the ship is being evacuated because it is sinking or on fire then the ship is unlikely to be in the same state as normal. It will likely be tilted and with only emergency lights to be able to see - not exactly the same situation when someone merely needs an arm of assistance to navigate the stairs. And that's before you get the issue that someone might need to make their way up or down multiple flights of stairs.

The easiest way to find out is Google Flights - https://www.google.com/travel/flights or if you want more control then ITA Matrix - https://matrix.itasoftware.com/search

That's a big assumption. There any many situations where an accessible cabin would not be required but P&O would have determined that an evac chair would be needed.

With these scams they pass your details through to the official website so you do actually end up with whatever it is you were seeking to obtain. If you got nothing then you could do a chargeback to the card company and the scammers lose out. However by actually getting what you wanted you have fewer grounds for complaint, particularly as the scammers will argue that you agreed to pay the additional 'assistance fee' which was detailed in the T&Cs that nobody reads.

Two things - 1. NEVER EVER chose a 'sponsored' link from Google (or other search engines) that is on the top of the page because that is where the scammers live - yes Google and the others are quite happy to take the advertising money so you can be ripped off. 2. Install an ad-blocker that removes those 'sponsored' links and then you will never even see them, so can't make the mistake of clicking on them.

Yes. We took the train to the winery for a look around, and then onto the beach, and I can't recall that the train didn't turn up when it was supposed to - it is just doing that loop around the three locations of port, winery, and beach, so nowhere to get lost!

I would agree (having just spent a couple of weeks in the city). Las Palmas has two main 'areas' - the Vegueta (the old town) https://maps.app.goo.gl/VxNyyqRLhac5yiVN9 and Las Canteras beach https://maps.app.goo.gl/v8QYtqR8wPgCmqGi7 and that hotel is nowhere near either. Travelling between the two areas is easy (a €10 taxi or €1ish on the bus) but I would suggest staying in one or the other.

To misquote the old Irish joke - If you want to get to Paris I wouldn't start from here (Dover). The quickest and sensible way is by train, but if you want to do that then you would have to go all the way back to London to St Pancras and then catch the Eurostar to Paris from there - going past where you started! Theoretically you could go over to France on a ferry as a foot passenger and then catch a train from Calais, but P&O Ferries (nothing to do with P&O Cruise ships...) is the only ferry company that accepts foot passengers these days and even then out of the dozens of ferry crossing every day, they only have three crossings a day that allow them. And then even when you got to Calais there are very few fast trains to Paris from there.

To add to what others have said confirming that you can catch a direct train from Victoria to Dover Priory, you might also want to look at buying 'Advance' tickets for your journey. These can be as little as £13.20 for an Advance compared to £34.90 for an off-peak ticket, or £50.50 for an anytime ticket which you would buy on the day at the station. These tickets go on sale 16 weeks before the date of travel and are limited in numbers - but the most important thing with them is that with an Advance ticket you can ONLY travel on the train you have booked a ticket for, not any other train such as earlier or later trains (unless the booked train is cancelled and then there is flexibility).

It is newsworthy because 1% of the people at work, at school, on the train, in every local supermarket, at leisure events, in any given hotel etc do not have noro! Thus for people who have paid a substantial amount of money to have a nice holiday, but then to find themselves in a confined area where a substantial number of crew and passengers does have noro - and that noro is spreading so fast the captain needs to make an announcement - well that is newsworthy.

So it was just an assumption that the driver had taken another job, rather than simply encountering traffic. The app is the benefit with Uber, when you have ordered you get a live view of where the car is, what the registration number of the car is, the make and model, and the driver's name and photo. Then when you are in the car you can share your location with a family member or friend so they know exactly where you are, and the details of the car you are in. Yes they do, and you can book up to 90 days in advance and cancel up to an hour in advance, and the price is given depending on the day and time of the booking. At the end of the day an awful lot of Ubers are nothing more than normal mini-cabs just with the Uber app. Sure, but parking when you are staying in Malaga city centre isn't that easy!

Fair enough, but you are missing out. I used Uber a couple of times recently to get from Malaga airport into the centre of the city. On the ride in a nice BMW 5 series and on the way back a Lexus saloon - far nicer than any of the city taxis, and only €15 each way. And how long would it have taken to get a taxi or mini-cab at that time - if Uber is busy, likely everyone is busy. Seriously? The Uber app shows an ETA and the live route of the car from the point they accept the request until it arrives with you and every single Uber I have ever used (and that's a lot) has made a direct route to me, so them picking up a fare on the way and heading off route would be damn obvious.

Isn't it? When I checked on Uber they were charging £20 to £25 each way.

Does it? From that link it appears they are doing virtually nothing other than changing carpets and curtains.

If you haven't seen from that website, the cheap Noddy train will take you to Agios Andreas beach (as well as a nearby winery), and the same as the other beach mentioned, when I was last there the sunbed and umbrellas were free if you bought something from the beach bar.

Very very few Premier Inns have the twin beds in the photo below, and the majority of standard rooms have the double bed with a sofa bed that can be made up as a single bed. However the sofa bed is a very much a second best to the main bed as it is pretty damn firm and frankly I wouldn't want to use it - at best it is a fallback for a young child. The 'premier rooms' that they sell (photo below) don't have the sofa bed but have an armchair instead.

Correct guess, but also an unused British one that is gathering dust now.

Sure, but the mention of "soon" was pretty optimistic! Realistically if they can get EES working this year (2025) they will be doing well. All the information released so far is is that applications for ETIAS won't be offered until six months after EES has been in operation, with the actual requirement to have an ETIAS not required until 12 months after EES has been in operation (and even then the information is that there will be a six month grace period for a single entry if you don't have one). And so realistically it is likely to be 2026 at the earliest people will require an ETIAS and more likely 2027 or later. Fortunately for myself it isn't something which will trouble me as I am entitled to one of those nice burgundy passports that lets you go through the short queue...

Soon to be introduced! That's a good joke. On the official site they are now only saying when it won't start rather than even hazard a guess as to which year it might - https://travel-europe.europa.eu/etias_en

The older and bottom end Samsung phones may not, but most models do -https://www.samsung.com/uk/support/mobile-devices/galaxy-esim-and-supported-network-carriers/ Galaxy devices that support eSIM Galaxy S24 / S24+ / S24 Ultra, Galaxy S23 / S23+ / S23 Ultra, Galaxy S22 / S22+ / S22 Ultra, Galaxy S21 / S21+ / S21 Ultra, Galaxy S20 / S20+ / S20 Ultra Galaxy Z Fold6 / Flip6, Galaxy Z Fold5 / Flip5, Galaxy Z Fold4 / Flip4, Galaxy Z Fold3 / Flip3, Galaxy Z Fold2, Galaxy Z Flip 5G, Galaxy Z Flip, Galaxy FoldGalaxy S23 FE, A54 (Only Europe, North America, Korea, Japan), A55 (All region), A35 (Only Europe, North America, Korea), Xcover7 (All region) Galaxy Note20 / Note20 Ultra Galaxy S23 FE, A54 (Only Europe, North America, Korea, Japan), A55 (All region), A35 (Only Europe, North America, Korea), Xcover7 (All region) Galaxy Tab S10+ / S10 Ultra, Galaxy Tab S9 / S9+ / S9 Ultra, Galaxy Tab S9 FE / S9 FE+, Galaxy Tab Active5

I assume you are aware that you can download shows on the BBC Sounds app so you can listen to them offline - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/help/questions/downloading/app-download however it needs to be done before you leave the UK - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/help/questions/listening-outside-the-uk/download-overseas As you are sight impaired, if you are not aware, the RNIB offers a free digital download talking book service - https://www.rnib.org.uk/living-with-sight-loss/independent-living/reading-and-books/talking-books/ (some council libraries offer similar but the book choice can be more limited). Lastly, for documentaries then I would recommend taking a look at the massive number of podcasts that are on offer, and again which can be downloaded onto your phone before you leave the UK. Yes there is an awful lot of tosh out there, with everyone and their dog having a podcast, but there are some excellent 'documentary' style ones out there.