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Julie and Joy

We’ve booked our family holiday with Barrhead travel. This is my first time using this travel agent. Julie and Joy from Burnley branch were fantastic, they were so helpful, everything was sorted with no stress and they had amazing recommendations. We didn’t feel rushed. They were patient and helped us find the right holiday for our group. Thank you both, ladies. We can’t wait for our holiday!

Date of experience : January 22, 2024

We’ve Just booked our honeymoon with…

We’ve Just booked our honeymoon with Barrhead travel! I use this travel agent a lot as Joy is fantastic, she’s booked so many holidays for us and is so helpful, everything is sorted with no stress and she has amazing recommendations! I couldn’t recommend her enough she’s been amazing and we can’t wait for our holiday!’ Thank you again and we will be booking more with Joy in the future!!

Date of experience : January 20, 2024

Avoid at all costs

Avoid at all costs. Cancel your booking...blaming their online booking sytem (stating not a live system) unless willing to pay hundreds more (blamed suppliers). Quick to take money out account but not actually book the suppliers The need to wait week to return your money for a service that wasn't booked

Date of experience : November 22, 2023

Julie Atkins

Julie Atkins, Barrhead Travel Burnley. We were both very pleased with the service from Julie. We were in there for well over an hour and nothing was to much trouble. Julie asked where we wanted to travel to and which hotels but she also suggested different places which was really useful. The paperwork was sent through not long after we booked and was all correct. Big thanks to Julie and will always book through Barrhead Travel

Date of experience : October 23, 2023

No pressure

Informative staff. No pushyness Julie was lovely. Gave us information needed and we weren’t rushed in making our decision. Usually book our own holidays but will certainly consider using your agent again

Date of experience : September 08, 2023

If there was an option for no stars or…

If there was an option for no stars or minus stars then that's the one I would have chosen. Our transfer refused to take us from the airport and back again. We phoned Barrhead who were helpful on the phone and asked us to get a taxi and the would re-imburse us on our return if we provided the receipts. We did that and they are now not returning our money even though they assured us they would and none of this was anything to do with us. They are insisting on putting a claim in to their supplier which is nothing to do with us. I will NEVER book with Barrhead Travel again, the customer service is appalling and the emergency number went to voicemail. It's so bad, I have lodged a complaint with ABTA

Date of experience : October 09, 2023

Not received any refund from Baarhead travel

Hi We have booked our ( 6 senior citizens) Rocky mountaineer and Alaska cruise , Canada holiday in October 2019 with £650 each deposit. Further full payment done in February 2020 to go on holiday in May 2020. Because COVID-19 we can’t travel for restrictions by both governments. So many phone calls and e-mails still no refunds yet . Baarhead travel asked us for credit cards details in August 2020 , we provided but no refund or any sort of advice from them . We are now worried about our money . Very bed experience with company , we want be book any future holiday with Baarhead travel. Vin Patel , Telford

Date of experience : November 29, 2020

Caribbean cruise

I have never been on a cruise Julie took us through the choices and we have booked a cruise to the Carribbean, she also sorted out parking and holiday insurance. Top service thank you 😁

Date of experience : October 26, 2023

Brilliant Staff

We booked a complicated holiday with Barrhead to Canada with an Alaskan cruise at the end. Every detail worked perfectly -Flights, transfers and organised trips. Unfortunately, I tested positive for Covid the day before the cruise and could not board the Cruise Ship. Barrhead staff could not have been more supportive and helpful in this difficult situation. We will definitely book through them again. Thank you to both Lauras (Elliot and Straker) and Gyle

Date of experience : September 16, 2022

Yet again great service from Anne…

Yet again great service from Anne Macaldowie in usually in Glasgow branch but working from home currently. We have had to cancel, rearrange then cancel again on a cruise scheduled originally for 1st August last year, then rescheduled for 31st July this year. Now all booked up for same cruise next year, deposits and cruise credits all honoured, quick and efficient as always with Anne. Thanks!

Date of experience : September 03, 2021

Barrhead travel agents at the shires…great team work

Barrhead travel agents at the shires Leicester .the young ladies who work there are the best .always smiling helpful nothing to much trouble like talking to friends sort out your holiday destination with as much detail as possible. .we book 2 holidays a years with these people brilliant

Date of experience : September 30, 2019

Used Barrhead travel in Halifax to book holidayoday…

Used Barrhead travel in Halifax today after learning that Vicky was working there, have dealt with her in the past at another company. How lovely to alk in store to be greeted by the staff, lovely clean premises. Didn't expect to find a holiday so quickly but she was brilliant. Both my husband and I well impressed and will certainly recommend Barrhead to friends and family. Welcome to Halifax Barrhead

Date of experience : October 17, 2022

Barrhead Travel at the Fort, let me down …

Contacted Barrhead Travel at the Fort (Kyle) and asked him to cost me a cruise package and stay, contacted them twice and left 2 voicemail. Eventually got an e mail from Jackie who passed my enquiry onto another adviser. Again I was promised a costing, nothing received . A week later I booked with another company who sent me a costing the same day. Totally disappointed in their customer service, shop elsewhere.

Date of experience : October 27, 2021

Wonderful Cruise

Just home from a wonderful cruise which I booked through Barrhead Travel Cameron Toll Edinburgh. Pamela Tulloch booked it all for me and she was excellent to deal with. Pamela is very knowledgable and her suggestion for us was perfect based on our requirements. I will definitely use Pamela again. First class experience.

Date of experience : October 16, 2022

EXCELLENT - DON'T BOOK ANYWHERE ELSE

Barrhead Isle of Wight were truly excellent. I hadn't traveled for a long time & have health issues which brought up lots of anxieties around travelling with my sons. Saffie took my booking and took all those worries away and I left the shop excited and looking forward to our holiday. In her words she said "Happy to help, its what we do here, we love it", I was met with the same helpful happy attitude anytime I rang or popped in from all the staff. I must thank Hays Travel for treating me like I was wasting their time from the first phone call as it led me to Barrhead and from this point I wont go anywhere else to book my holidays and have already been recommending them to friends and family, truly outstanding standards.

Date of experience : July 20, 2022

Finally got my refund after 12 weeks

Finally got my refund after 12 weeks. Emails were returned no contact till about week 10 . appalling customer service. I think I only got their attention because I lodged a complaint with resolver.com I will Never use them again !

Date of experience : July 11, 2020

Disgusting way to treat a disabled…

Disgusting way to treat a disabled woman and her dead son My son told me he was taking me away for a wee break he took my name of without me knowing and when I played I thought it was for me and him he ended up in hospital and I could not use even though I played as my name had been removed

Date of experience : April 18, 2021

Great service Kieran O’Donnell !!!! 🏆…

We have just rebooked our cancelled trip to Hawaii . Kieran O’Donnell ( Belfast Barrhead ) rang us to tell us our trip in September was cancelled and gave us some options . We decided to rebook next year . I would like to thank Kieran for the excellent service he gave us and helped us in making our decision . He is a really good guy and is an asset to Barrhead travel . He went the extra mile with us ensuring we were happy with the rescheduling of our trip to Canada /Hawaii contacting us on numerous occasions and keeping us up to date on the progress of the booking. Thanx Kieran 👍 Sharon & Mark

Date of experience : July 09, 2020

Forget the internet and deal with professionals

Went into their Stockport office and was seen by travel consultant Kerry. So helpful and was able to find the holiday that I wanted at a price I could afford, nothing was too much trouble. Forget the internet and deal with professionals to get your holiday

Date of experience : August 11, 2021

SUSPECT THEY ARE GOING UNDER

SUSPECT THEY ARE GOING UNDER Have booked many many holidays with them and no communication on email, phone or on their website. No refunds for cancelled holidays. Been waiting since 14th May. SUSPECT THEY ARE GOING UNDER !!!!!!

Date of experience : June 29, 2020

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Barrhead Travel

Stores / barrhead travel, barrhead travel is your local award-winning travel agent.

They’re the UK’s leading travel agent, so no matter what kind of holiday you’re planning – a cruise, a sunshine break, the trip of a lifetime, or a UK short break – Barrhead Travel will find your perfect getaway.

Because they’re totally independent of any tour operator, you’ll find a much wider range of options with us, along with the best prices and the best advice.

They also offer great exchange rates on foreign currency, with zero commission, so challenge us to find the best rate today.

Our array of recent awards is a testament to the quality and expertise we provide. Why not drop into their Edinburgh Gyle branch to talk to one of our friendly travel consultants about planning your next getaway?

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The centre is home to three GP practices and two dental practices as well as physiotherapy and podiatry services, health visitor and district nursing teams along with social work and home care services. There will be a day care centre for older people with its own entrance and garden.

Mental health services for the whole of East Renfrewshire will be offered out of the new centre.

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We operate a Single Point of Access in Renfrewshire and all referrals previously made to Older Adults Community Mental Health Team (OACMHT), Multi Agency for Care at Home Team (M.A.T.C.H), Specialist Nursing Service, Domiciliary Physiotherapy, Adult Speech and Language and Community Physical Disability Service are made through this number 0141 207 7878 .

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We operate a Single Point of Access in East Renfrewshire. All referrals previously made to the Community Older Person’s Team based in Clarkston or to Levern Valley Older People’s Team based in Barrhead should now be made using the contact details below.

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Midwest tornadoes cause severe damage in Omaha suburbs

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Gopala Penmetsa walks past his house after it was leveled by a tornado near Omaha, Neb., on Friday. Chris Machian/Omaha World-Herald via AP hide caption

Gopala Penmetsa walks past his house after it was leveled by a tornado near Omaha, Neb., on Friday.

OMAHA, Neb. — A tornado plowed through suburban Omaha, Nebraska, on Friday afternoon, damaging hundreds of homes and other structures as the twister tore for miles along farmland and into subdivisions. Injuries were reported but it wasn't yet clear if anyone was killed in the storm.

Multiple tornadoes were reported in Nebraska but the most destructive storm moved from a largely rural area into suburbs northwest of Omaha, a city of 485,000 people.

Photos on social media showed heavily damaged homes and shredded trees. Video showed homes with roofs stripped of shingles, in a rural area near Omaha. Law enforcement were blocking off roads in the area.

Hundreds of houses sustained damage in Omaha, mostly in the Elkhorn area in the western part of the city, police Lt. Neal Bonacci said.

Police and firefighters are now going door-to-door helping people who are trapped.

Omaha Fire Chief Kathy Bossman said crews had gone to the "hardest hit area" and had a plan to search anywhere someone could be trapped.

"They're going to be putting together a strategic plan for a detailed search of the area, starting with the properties with most damage," Bossman said. "We'll be looking throughout properties in debris piles, we'll be looking in basements, trying to find any victims and make sure everybody is rescued who needs assistance."

Damaged houses are seen after a tornado passed through the area near Omaha, Neb., on Friday. Chris Machian/Omaha World-Herald via AP hide caption

Damaged houses are seen after a tornado passed through the area near Omaha, Neb., on Friday.

Omaha police Lt. Neal Bonacci said many homes were destroyed or severely damaged.

"You definitely see the path of the tornado," Bonacci said.

In one area of Elkhorn, dozens of newly built, large homes were damaged. At least six were destroyed, including one that was leveled, while others had the top half ripped off.

There were dozens of emergency vehicles in the area.

"We watched it touch down like 200 yards over there and then we took shelter," said Pat Woods, who lives in Elkhorn. "We could hear it coming through. When we came up our fence was gone and we looked to the northwest and the whole neighborhood's gone."

His wife, Kim Woods added, "The whole neighborhood just to the north of us is pretty flattened."

Dhaval Naik, who said he works with the man whose house was demolished, said three people, including a child, were in the basement when the tornado hit. They got out safely.

KETV-TV video showed one woman being removed from a demolished home on a stretcher in Blair, a city just north of Omaha.

Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer said there appeared to be few serious injuries, in part because people had plenty of warning that storms were likely.

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"We not upon by a sudden storm," Schmaderer said. "People had warnings of this and that saved lives."

The tornado warning was issued in the Omaha area on Friday afternoon just as children were due to be released from school. Many schools had students shelter in place until the storm passed. Hours later, buses were still transporting students home.

Another tornado hit an area on the eastern edge of Omaha, passing directly through parts of Eppley Airfield, the city's airport. Officials closed the airport to aircraft operations to access damage but then reopened the facility, Omaha Airport Authority Chief Strategy Officer Steve McCoy said.

Severe weather damage to Eppley Airfield in Omaha, Neb., can be seen from the Lewis and Clark Monument in Council Bluffs, Iowa on Friday Anna Reed/Omaha World-Herald via AP hide caption

Severe weather damage to Eppley Airfield in Omaha, Neb., can be seen from the Lewis and Clark Monument in Council Bluffs, Iowa on Friday

The passenger terminal wasn't hit by the tornado but people rushed to storm shelters until the twister passed, McCoy said.

Flight delays are expected Friday evening.

After passing through the airport, the tornado crossed the Missouri River and into Iowa, north of Council Bluffs.

Nebraska Emergency Management Agency spokesperson Katrina Sperl said damage is just now being reported. Taylor Wilson, a spokesperson for the University of Nebraska Medical Center, said they hadn't seen any injuries yet.

Before the tornado hit the Omaha area, three workers in an industrial plant were injured Friday afternoon when a tornado struck an industrial plant in Lancaster County, sheriff's officials said in an update on the damage.

The building just northeast of the state capital of Lincoln had collapsed with about 70 employees inside and several people trapped, sheriff's officials said. Everyone was evacuated, and three people had injuries that were considered not life-threatening, authorities said.

Sheriff's officials say they also had reports of a tipped-over train near Waverly, also in Lancaster County.

Two people who were injured when the tornado passed through Lancaster County were being treated at the trauma center at Bryan Medical Center West Campus in Lincoln, the facility said in a news release. It said the patients were in triage and no details were released on their condition.

The Omaha Public Power District reported that nearly 10,000 customers were without power in the Omaha area.

Daniel Fienhold, manager of the Pink Poodle Steakhouse in Crescent, Iowa, said he was outside watching the weather with his daughter and restaurant employees. He said "it looked like a pretty big tornado was forming" northeast of town.

"It started raining, and then it started hailing, and then all the clouds started to kind of swirl and come together, and as soon as the wind started to pick up, that's when I headed for the basement, but we never saw it," Fienhold said.

The Weather Service also issued tornado watches across parts of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. And forecasters warned that large hail and damaging wind gusts were possible.

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