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Aideen Finnegan

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691 total appearances

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Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

Well, you've actually, you've raised something there.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

You should use a credit card for that, shouldn't you?

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

Because if you use your, a lot of people have their debit card and they might pay for things on Google Pay, you know, in their digital wallet and all that kind of thing.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

But you're snookered then if they take it off your debit card.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

It's so hard to get that money back.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

Oh, I really hate car hire companies.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

When I went to Spain once before, I had paid for the car and this operator said, when you get there and they tell you you need insurance, you don't.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

So I went and said this, but of course, like, there's a language barrier as well.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

And they're saying, well, you can leave here today, but we'll be putting this block on your car.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

You know, so they have you by the ghoulies.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

You wrote in the Irish Times last week about 28 ways that you can add hours to your life in the context of holidays.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

And one of the things that I thought was very interesting is that you should always drop your baggage when there's a human being doing the check-in.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

Why?

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

OK.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

Do you rock up like Joey from Friends when he wore all of Chandler's clothes?

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

Okay.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

All right.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

You're talking about not going mad in the airport shopping when you get there.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

Okay.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

I have to say Dublin Airport is particularly good at it because I often find on the return leg back from somewhere the airport in the other country is pretty brutal.