The practice of adding credit & debit card surcharges on travel purchases has become epidemic in the UK over the past few years, and now the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has concluded the activity is unfair to consumers.

Saving money abroad can be a lot simpler than the usual advice. Rather than obsess over the right season to go, which country is the cheapest right now, and so on, simply change how you get and manage your cash for some real travel savings