Best Bits: Holiday money plus passport, car hire and EHIC tips.

The Martin Lewis Podcast

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4.2 • 789 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Martin’s off air for the next few weeks so it’s a chance to revisit some of the best bits of the year so far. He explains to Nick Eardley the smart way to spend abroad plus tips on making sure you’re on top of passports, car hire, EHIC’s and GHIC’s.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. Hello, I'm Martin Lewis and this is the cunningly named
0:07.1	The Martin Lewis Podcast. I do wonder what that's going to be about. Now, we decided that what you
0:13.0	really wanted during the summer was a whole host of Best of Podcasts. Subtext, I'm taking a few weeks
0:19.2	off and we didn't want to leave you without a podcast, so we've decided to pick a few of the best bits to show you, well, I'm taking a few weeks off and we didn't want to leave you without a podcast,
0:21.3	so we've decided to pick a few of the best bits to show you,
0:24.1	well, I'm taking a little bit of a break and resting these vocal chords.
0:27.1	When you talk as quickly as I do, that's quite important.
0:29.9	In this week's Lookback podcast, the cheapest ways to spend money abroad
0:34.7	and lots of other travel money tips.
0:36.7	Let's get on with it, shall we?
1:03.8	Britain's took 55.5 million trips abroad abroad. I've got to be. Britain's took 55 and a million trips abroad last year alone, and this year an estimated 60% of people said they want to go away.
1:10.2	Yet, with many people's incomes still squeezed, cost control is as crucial as ever.
1:13.7	And the real key to saving time and money when you go away is pre-preparation. If you leave it to the last minute, you will usually pay more. So I want to
1:20.7	go through today a huge list of things you should do now to slash the costs when you go away. Let's start with an easy one and probably the
1:29.7	most important one, because if you're going to go on holiday, you want to be allowed into the country.
1:34.2	And the passport rules for many people in the UK have changed over the last few years,
1:39.0	partially because of Brexit, also because of people being tighter on what counts as an acceptable
1:43.3	passport. So this is what you want to do.
1:46.1	You want to go and get your passport and the passport of every member of your family now. You want to
1:51.2	open it up and you want to go and have a look at the expiry date. The questions to ask yourself are,
1:58.1	will there be over six months left on my passport on the day I enter the country?
2:04.1	If you're going to the European Union, then it's just three months left. If that's a tick, good.
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