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Conor Pope

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
985 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

It's fine value, but you don't need it.

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

No, you don't need it.

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

And if you did need it, you'd have bought it at home.

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

So, you know, one of the reasons we do is, as I say, we're bored.

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

So one of the tricks is to keep yourself entertained.

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

So bring a book.

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

I know it's really revolutionary, but an old school paperback book.

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

Then you can sit on a chair and read the book.

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

Just bring colouring for your kids, iPads, whatever it might be, just to keep yourself distracted and away from spending money.

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

And the other thing that airports do, and I always think it's really sneaky, is, you know, you arrive in Gatwick Airport, for example, and you're there 90 minutes beforehand or...

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

two hours beforehand and you say, I'll go to my gate now because, you know, I'll get out of the shops.

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

They don't tell you what your gate is.

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

They say gate announcement in 60 minutes.

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

There's a reason for that.

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

Oh, that's what that's for.

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

Ryanair knows two years in advance what gate they're going to be at.

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

Oh my God.

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

In Gatwick Airport at 7 o'clock on a Tuesday evening.

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

The airport doesn't tell you because they know that if they tell you what gate you're at, you're going to go to the gate.

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

But that means if you go to the gate, you're not in the airport shopping hall spending money.