Rip Off Britain: Holidays

How sickness or injury on holiday can be devastating, even if you have insurance.

Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville hear from people who found themselves grounded and out of pocket when their airlines let them down.

The team look into the disturbing cases of people whose holidays were left in tatters when almost imperceptible damage to their passports meant they weren't allowed to fly.

How life's milestones, both happy and sad, can interfere with our travel plans, including shocking accounts of travellers being turned away from cruises because they are pregnant.

Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville look at the perils of flying and why it is still so challenging for disabled travellers.

Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville hear about a villa rental fraud so sophisticated that even a former police detective fell for it. At our pop-up shop in Manchester, our experts help the victims of fake flight websites and overpriced American visas. And the people being chased for thousands of pounds by solicitors after their no win, no fee claims for holiday sickness turned sour.

Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville hear from the travellers with allergies who risk their lives each time they fly. Are travel companies doing enough to make sure they’re safe? Plus the shocking story of a mum who says she was turned away from a flight with her twin babies because the airline couldn’t cope. And how do you see the world when you’re blind? Guest presenter Amar Latif shows us how new technologies and old-fashioned manners can open up the world to anybody.

Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville continue their investigations into your consumer woes. Today, it's the collapse of Britain’s oldest tour company, Thomas Cook, and what it might mean for our future travel planning. Will the boom in online bookings spell the end of the high street travel agent and the traditional package holiday? Plus the shocking story of the online travel agent whose cut-price trips to Disneyland Paris turned out to be too good to be true, leaving dozens of customers in the lurch and their dream trips in tatters. And a host of travel hints and tips you won't want to miss.

Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville reveal the crazy case of the £99 mystery weekend break that wasn't quite the bargain customers were hoping for, and the flights to Nigeria that turned out to be trips to nowhere. And visitors to our pop-up shop tell us about their dodgy holiday digs, including the five-star hotel with stunning views of the neighbouring building site.

Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville focus on those little add-ons that are supposed to make our travel smoother and our conscience clearer, but which sometimes turn out to have unexpectedly negative consequences for travellers. They hear from the drivers left stranded abroad despite having paid for what they thought was comprehensive foreign car breakdown insurance, and from the cruise passengers hit by a drinks bill that was ten times higher than they’d bargained for. And carbon offsetting of flights - is it a great way of saving the planet or just a load of old greenwashing?