Holiday advice

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I have 4 trips booked this year.
I don’t think I’ll be going on the first two.Maybe the third in September...
 
RobMCFC said:
Hope you’re wrong - we live for our holidays. Obviously, won’t be going until case numbers come down, but still hope to go on some from June onwards.
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I've booked gran canaria with my GF for October but we dont expect to go sadly.
 
BLUEMATT23 said:
I've booked gran canaria with my GF for October but we dont expect to go sadly.
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i'd say you have a chance with that, you would think by then all vaccinations would be complete although the virus isnt going anywhere,,they must be desperate to get these hotels back up and running over there, by october the economics simply wont be in a possition to hold out any longer, you have probably done the right thing in booking because you can push it back to the following April if its a no go,was thinking of booking Miami flights with BA for October its only £440 with a car, that price will double when things get back and we can travel,so booking now and pushing back will save you money because with most companys its free to move it to a later date
 
Got away 7 times last year.
Hoping for a similar number this year, though likely nothing until April at the absolute earliest, and that feels ambitious.

Supposed to be going Ireland end of March but mentally written that one off already.
 
Tenerife at the end of September hopefully only just booked the flights, Im hoping we get to go, if not I’ll push the flights to next year, if we can.
 
Plans for camping, skiing and lake activities this summer - but all within Switzerland. Like to see if we can manage Europa Park in Fall but dependent on how things play out in Germany
 
Sadly I've just cancelled Bulgaria for late May/early June. Decided that even if the UK is returning to normal by then there's no saying they will. I'd be bad enough stuck in Greece but over there it's not worth the risk.

It was a great deal booked originally around Xmas '19 & re-arranged for '21, just cost me my £100 deposit which I won't feel having paid it so long ago.
 
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We should have gone to Majorca in August last year but obviously that got pulled. We were with Jet2 and I have to say they were brilliant. No messing around with vouchers or anything like that. They said we'd get a full refund within 48 hours and we did.
Then in that short, glorious gap of a few days positivity in December between the first vaccines being rolled out and then the new strain kicking off we decided to book for Tenerife at Easter. Going to be interesting to see if Jet2 are as accommodating with the refunds this time.
 
blue b4 the moon said:
Sadly I've just cancelled Bulgaria for late May/early June. Decided that even if the UK is returning to normal by then there's no saying they will. I'd be bad enough stuck in Greece but over there it's not worth the risk.

It was a great deal booked originally around Xmas '19 & re-arranged for '21, just cost me my £100 deposit which I won't feel having paid it so long ago.
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Just as an aside here, there's no real point or benefit to cancelling until the balance is due.
I'm guessing that would be around March time in this case?
There's a decent chance the tour op (whomever it was, Tui? Balkan?) might have cancelled the holiday due to all the ongoing uncertainty.

If people find themselves in this position, don't cancel until the last minute or close enough.
That at least gives the tour operator the chance to cancel you rather than the other way around, and would entitle anyone to a refund on their deposit.

If you cancel 100 days or 1 day before the balance is due, the liability to the customer is still the same, so as mentioned no real benefit to cancel early.
 
feedthegoat27 said:
Just as an aside here, there's no real point or benefit to cancelling until the balance is due.
I'm guessing that would be around March time in this case?
There's a decent chance the tour op (whomever it was, Tui? Balkan?) might have cancelled the holiday due to all the ongoing uncertainty.

If people find themselves in this position, don't cancel until the last minute or close enough.
That at least gives the tour operator the chance to cancel you rather than the other way around, and would entitle anyone to a refund on their deposit.

If you cancel 100 days or 1 day before the balance is due, the liability to the customer is still the same, so as mentioned no real benefit to cancel early.
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I take your points fully on board but as per my post we'd decided not to go so just took the hit from Balkan.

Had it been for example a Greek holiday we'd have let it run.
 
blue b4 the moon said:
I take your points fully on board but as per my post we'd decided not to go so just took the hit from Balkan.

Had it been for example a Greek holiday we'd have let it run.
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Yeah even if you are 100% not going, there's still no point cancelling until you have to.
By not cancelling until the last minute, you give the tour operator every opportunity to cancel you instead (especially with everything going on at the moment)
If the customer cancels ahead of time, you don't give yourself that opportunity.

If your balance was due on 15th March for example, it makes zero financial difference to you if you cancelled today or 14th March (assuming no interim payment required, which would be unusual).
But by not cancelling until 14th March you give the tour operator a 2 month window to cancel/announce a schedule change/hotel closure etc etc which could then get you your deposit back.
 
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