Holidays

[Casino]

I feel a bit for those due to go later than me

They might be able to go, but for what

Lockdowns in resort and 2 weeks lockdown when you get home

And the airlines will be flying,  i guess, so no reason for them to refund

At least it looks like my flights will be cancelled

 

If theyre not, im going

[radcliffe white]

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-package-holidays-could-be-back-by-july-but-tui-plans-to-reinvent-them-11987686

[Casino]

9 minutes ago, radcliffewhite1 said:

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-package-holidays-could-be-back-by-july-but-tui-plans-to-reinvent-them-11987686

So, if this happens, TUI will say the holiday is available, so no refunds

Then their customers decide firstly if they want to go and secondly if they can do the 14 day quarantine on return

 

[Leyther_Matt]

Email from Jet2 saying you can extend the final payment deadline by 4 weeks. Hopefully that will be enough time for them to bin my August holiday and we get our deposit back. 

[L/H White]

horrible feeling my cruise to norway will be off next year

can see cruises being the last type of holiday back on the market

[Traf]

1 hour ago, Blondi said:

How do I book a holiday with you? I don't mind helping a fellow Trotter out.

You can PM here, email me at natsammia@gmail.com or via my Faceache page at https://www.facebook.com/natsammiatravel/

[royal white]

Mother in law booked 10 nights all inclusive in Belek Turkey next year, 6 adults 3 kids and 2 x babies. Cost £6250 last month. Same holiday is just short of £9500 now 

[Blondi]

49 minutes ago, Traf said:

You can PM here, email me at natsammia@gmail.com or via my Faceache page at https://www.facebook.com/natsammiatravel/

Cheers pal.

[Duck Egg]

We were due to go to Norway in June.  Flights there, internal flights and a camper van all booked independently. We got most of the camper van money back but I've no idea what to do with the flights.  Bizarrely, they haven't been officially cancelled yet although one airline has offered us vouchers by way of a refund.  Do we claim from the airline, via the travel insurance or the credit card company? 

[Casino]

Id guess credit card is number 3

Insurance will say go to the airline, so start with the airline, save time

But id be waiting til the flights are cancelled

[Traf]

1 hour ago, Casino said:

Id guess credit card is number 3

Insurance will say go to the airline, so start with the airline, save time

But id be waiting til the flights are cancelled

Correct.

Wait until airline cancel and hen ask them to reimburse you.
If they say no, go to your travel insurance
If they also say no, then go to your card provider.

[Burndens Bogs]

11 hours ago, Leyther_Matt said:

Email from Jet2 saying you can extend the final payment deadline by 4 weeks. Hopefully that will be enough time for them to bin my August holiday and we get our deposit back. 

Tui and Jet2 are still maintaining that they will commence holidays by mid June, they know that there's not a hope in hell that will happen, but they are still raking in thousands of balance payments from folk, even though they know there will be no travel by mid June.Once they've got your money they try and fob you off with vouchers.

I was in this position with Jet2 for a July holiday which will not happen, so i decided to just forfeit my deposit when the balance was due, rather than pay them lots of money.

[Leyther_Matt]

16 minutes ago, Burndens Bogs said:

I was in this position with Jet2 for a July holiday which will not happen, so i decided to just forfeit my deposit when the balance was due, rather than pay them lots of money.

That’s what our plan is to be honest. Just hoping this new initiative will kick the can far enough down the road that we’ll be able to get our deposit back as well. 

[L/H White]

are greece opening up, or is it all bollocks?

[Traf]

1 hour ago, Burndens Bogs said:

Tui and Jet2 ... are still raking in thousands of balance payments from folk, even though they know there will be no travel by mid June.Once they've got your money they try and fob you off with vouchers.

This simply isn't the case or the reason behind what's going on.
TUI, I wouldn't touch with a bargepole and I only sell TUI if the customer insists on using them.
Jet2 have been absolutely brilliant to us travel agents and customers alike throughout the crisis.

13 minutes ago, L/H White said:

are greece opening up, or is it all bollocks?

Greece is opening up, as are parts of Portugal, Spain, Italy etc etc etc

[Blondi]

Tried about 30 times since yesterday tea time and this morning to speak to TUI over the phone for a refund, no bloody chance.

[farnworth white]

1 hour ago, Leyther_Matt said:

That’s what our plan is to be honest. Just hoping this new initiative will kick the can far enough down the road that we’ll be able to get our deposit back as well. 

Be careful with this. If you wait until the new 6 week deadline offering and then you decide you don't want to go you will have to pay 70% of the holiday overall as the usual terms and conditions still stand regarding cancellations.

 

 

[Burndens Bogs]

1 hour ago, farnworth white said:

Be careful with this. If you wait until the new 6 week deadline offering and then you decide you don't want to go you will have to pay 70% of the holiday overall as the usual terms and conditions still stand regarding cancellations.

 

 

Exactly. Also, Jet2’s policy is to automatically take the balance from the card from which you paid the deposit with. I’m not having it that they’re not still taking balances for holidays they know won’t be happening.

When i cancelled my July holiday with Jet 2 the other week, i noticed that you can no longer cancel  holidays yourself through the "My booking" section of the website, they removed this privilege at the start of the corona crisis.

At present you have to email the company to request a cancellation and in my case it took them a couple of weeks to respond.

Edited May 14, 2020 by Burndens Bogs

[Duck Egg]

10 hours ago, Traf said:

Correct.

Wait until airline cancel and hen ask them to reimburse you.
If they say no, go to your travel insurance
If they also say no, then go to your card provider.

Cheers Gents.

I've 'liked' your fb page Traf.  Hoping to be another to send some business your way when we're allowed out again.

[Rudy]

@Traf are your deals just on Facebook luv? I’m not on it you see 

[Sweep]

14 minutes ago, Rudy’s Message said:

@Traf are your deals just on Facebook luv? I’m not on it you see 

they can also be found on bummervacations.net as well, apparently.

[Escobarp]

19 minutes ago, Sweep said:

they can also be found on bummervacations.net as well, apparently.

There is a link from the fistmaster website as well who have recently become an affiliate of trafs tours 

[jayjayoghani]

17 minutes ago, Sweep said:

they can also be found on bummervacations.net as well, apparently.

Got chatting to a fella on walk in NZ. As well detecting a whiff of lavender, he mentioned he ran a B&B, told me the name of it. Googled it after, top search result was on "gaystays.com". 

[Leyther_Matt]

2 hours ago, farnworth white said:

Be careful with this. If you wait until the new 6 week deadline offering and then you decide you don't want to go you will have to pay 70% of the holiday overall as the usual terms and conditions still stand regarding cancellations.

Wish I'd read this before I've literally just extended it. Whoops. Stiil, we've pushed it back to 22nd June and you'd have to expect early August holidays will be cancelled by then.

[Sweep]

38 minutes ago, jayjayoghani said:

Got chatting to a fella on walk in NZ. As well detecting a whiff of lavender, he mentioned he ran a B&B, told me the name of it. Googled it after, top search result was on "gaystays.com". 

How long have you booked in for?