UK parents set to spend £6.2 billion entertaining their children over the summer break
Over half of parents (52 per cent) are worried about covering the cost of entertaining their children during the school holidays
A third (33 per cent) of parents spent more than they had budgeted for last summer
One in three (33 per cent) used a credit card to cover their increased spend last year
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• Post Office Network Transformation Programme awarded Customer Service Award at the World Post and Parcel Awards • Programme has delivered an extra 200,000 opening hours, over 4000 branches open seven days a week
• Fuel prices rise by up to 40 per cent year-on-year for unleaded petrol and 51 per cent for diesel in European motoring holiday destinations • Filling the tank costs least in Andorra and Austria while diesel is still sub-£1 in Spain • Diesel remains cheaper than unleaded petrol in all barring Switzerland and UK – with the biggest saving of 32p a litre in the Netherlands
In its latest Holiday Money Index measuring exchange rate movements and currency sales, Post Office Travel Money, which accounts for one-in-four of all UK transactions, says that strong currency sales in the first three months of 2017 provide encouraging evidence of a continuing appetite for overseas holidays.
Announcing year-on-year increases of 55 per cent increase in currency sales made onli
11th annual Post Office Travel Money Holiday Costs Barometer reveals
best value European hotspots (www.postoffice.co.uk/holidayco... plunge to make Sunny Beach, Bulgaria best value for the fourth year in a row
Algarve is runner up and cheapest in the eurozone – under half the price of Ibiza
Resort swapping within Spain, Greece and Croatia can cut holiday spending costs
Tourist prices a
10 best value cities: Paphos, Vilnius, Riga, Warsaw, Budapest, Krakow,
Lisbon, Prague, Athens and Palma
Paphos, 2017’s joint European City of Culture, is cheapest of 36 European cities surveyed for the annual City Costs Barometer (www.postoffice.co.uk/citycosts)
Lisbon retains its position as Western Europe’s cheapest capital city
Prices for UK visitors are up across Europe but ye
Cyprus beats the Canaries to rate as the best value Half Term holiday bargain
Cancun is the survey’s lowest-priced long haul resort and the only destination where sterling will stretch further than a year ago
Families hoping to swap the UK winter for a sunshine break abroad during half term will find the best bargains in Cyprus and the Canary Islands, according to new research by Post Offi
New agreement will give customers more choice and accessibility
New product range will be launching throughout 2017
Access to new products across additional digital channels
Post Office Money has taken a major step in growing its life business by appointing Royal London as its new life insurance partner.
Working with Royal London will enable Post Office Mon
Post Office Money will launch a new range of competitive buy-to-let (BTL) mortgages on Friday, including four market leading deals designed to offer great rates and keep initial expenses down for the cost-conscious property investor.
Post Office Money’s new BTL mortgage products are designed for those buying their first BTL property, or someone who aspires to own one or two investment propertie
Unrivalled access to banking through the Post Office’s 11,600 branches offering longer hours and Sunday opening 99 per cent of UK personal bank customers and over 75 per cent of business customers can do their day-to-day banking at the Post Office 110 million banking transactions carried out last year - a six per cent increase on the previous year and more than 200 every minute New deal builds u
Portugal’s Algarve is cheapest for UK tourists from 44 destinations surveyed
Tokyo powers past Cape Town and Bali to become best value long haul destination
Local prices pegged or lower than a year ago will lessen the impact of the weaker pound in 40 per cent of resorts or cities
Sterling is now stronger against 60 per cent of bestselling currencies five years ago
Value for money will be
