Holiday advice

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Blue Maverick said:
April mine was cancelled and I did a charge back with my credit card, still waiting, I will be ringing today to force them to refund my cash now as theyve had 8 weeks now.
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I did a chargeback and was ignored by the CC company until I downloaded the deadlock letter template from money saving expert.
You send it to the CC company. Basically it says they’ve ignored you so you are asking for a letter of deadlock to forward to the ombudsman. They have to Comply and once the ombudsman gets involved the CC company have to pay the costs of the ombudsman looking in to it.
Within four days the money was refunded to my credit card and I got an unexpected letter of apology and a cheque for £25 as an apology!
 
m7mcfc said:
So with today's rumours of air bridges to be confirmed tomorrow or Monday.
Who will be booking a holiday?
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People are under the illusion that the FCO will be relaxing the no travel anywhere advice.
There has been no mention of it.
If it stays all insurance is invalid.
So no, I won’t be booking anything until the FCO change their position regardless of air bridges.
 
denislawsbackheel said:
People are under the illusion that the FCO will be relaxing the no travel anywhere advice.
There has been no mention of it.
If it stays all insurance is invalid.
So no, I won’t be booking anything until the FCO change their position regardless of air bridges.
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Relaxation by the Foreign Office of the no travel IS part of the new traffic light system being announced tomorrow, it was mentioned and confirmed.
 
JASR said:
I think the quote 'What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas' might be rather apt, looking at their current numbers.

Unless trump actually decides to rub his 2 brain cells together, I can't see Europe/UK flying to the US until April - 3 months of Biden with science led anti-Covid measures.
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I think you might be right, I'm a member of some Vegas forums and the amount of people who are refusing to wear masks calling it media hysteria is frightening.
 
denislawsbackheel said:
I did a chargeback and was ignored by the CC company until I downloaded the deadlock letter template from money saving expert.
You send it to the CC company. Basically it says they’ve ignored you so you are asking for a letter of deadlock to forward to the ombudsman. They have to Comply and once the ombudsman gets involved the CC company have to pay the costs of the ombudsman looking in to it.
Within four days the money was refunded to my credit card and I got an unexpected letter of apology and a cheque for £25 as an apology!
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thanks for that will look into it
 
mackenzie said:
We booked for Nerja in September, back in January (seems a lifetime ago now). We will definitely be going, we need the break.
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sky tot said:
My favourite place . Have you been before ?
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We have been going out to Nerja for nigh on 20 years now and we are lucky as Mrs Balls parents have a big share in an apartment over there.
We were due out on the 11th July flying with Jet 2 but we were cancelled as they do not resume until the 15th.
We have weighed it all up and have this morning booked Ryan Air to Malaga for a week on Friday. Obviously we are a little bit at risk here but they are offering free rebooking ( November is another option we have) and fingers crossed we get the government green light this week.
Demand is there and the last thing we wanted to do was to miss out in the clamour to get away once this hopefully becomes official.

Nerja feels like home to us and fingers crossed we will be there next week.
 
toffee balls said:
We have been going out to Nerja for nigh on 20 years now and we are lucky as Mrs Balls parents have a big share in an apartment over there.
We were due out on the 11th July flying with Jet 2 but we were cancelled as they do not resume until the 15th.
We have weighed it all up and have this morning booked Ryan Air to Malaga for a week on Friday. Obviously we are a little bit at risk here but they are offering free rebooking ( November is another option we have) and fingers crossed we get the government green light this week.
Demand is there and the last thing we wanted to do was to miss out in the clamour to get away once this hopefully becomes official.

Nerja feels like home to us and fingers crossed we will be there next week.
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Be interesting to see what bars & restaurants Are open . A lot of the tapas bars have outside seating but I love being inside the busy bar at lunch time we all the locals . Places like La Puntilla & Puguilla will lose its appeal if you can’t prop the bar up .
 
Maccblue said:
Should be in Paphos right now!
Had Benidorm weekend cancelled back in March
Lanzarote Xmas and new should be ok

All refunded tbf to Jet2 and the cc company
Just took a punt on a week in Kefalonia at the end of August for a week
Anyone been to Skala?
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We went a couple of times around 2009/2010 & probably would have gone again but the prices went crazy so we found somewhere similar in Rhodes at much better value. . Stayed 35 mins walk from the centre in a Hotel called Pelagos Bay or something similar, had it's own private beach across the road, was a nice pretty quiet place and if still there there's a Taverna which is a 'ship' called Captain or similar halfway between our hotel & the village...I'd recommend for the experience although the food was great when we went.
 
toffee balls said:
We have been going out to Nerja for nigh on 20 years now and we are lucky as Mrs Balls parents have a big share in an apartment over there.
We were due out on the 11th July flying with Jet 2 but we were cancelled as they do not resume until the 15th.
We have weighed it all up and have this morning booked Ryan Air to Malaga for a week on Friday. Obviously we are a little bit at risk here but they are offering free rebooking ( November is another option we have) and fingers crossed we get the government green light this week.
Demand is there and the last thing we wanted to do was to miss out in the clamour to get away once this hopefully becomes official.

Nerja feels like home to us and fingers crossed we will be there next week.
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We are looking at doing a day trip to Alhambra as well this time. Have you been, and is it worth it? I love history and am aware Katherine of Aragon had connections to it; just wondering if it's good value.
And have a great holiday ;-)
 
mackenzie said:
We are looking at doing a day trip to Alhambra as well this time. Have you been, and is it worth it? I love history and am aware Katherine of Aragon had connections to it; just wondering if it's good value.
And have a great holiday ;-)
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Funnily enough, we had Granada booked for a 1 night mini break this year.
We have cancelled that one for now but it’s supposed to be magnificent.
 
mackenzie said:
We are looking at doing a day trip to Alhambra as well this time. Have you been, and is it worth it? I love history and am aware Katherine of Aragon had connections to it; just wondering if it's good value.
And have a great holiday ;-)
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Yea we went to Alhambra one year , we loved it , amazing place . Make sure you book or get there really really early and queue up .
 
sky tot said:
Be interesting to see what bars & restaurants Are open . A lot of the tapas bars have outside seating but I love being inside the busy bar at lunch time we all the locals . Places like La Puntilla & Puguilla will lose its appeal if you can’t prop the bar up .
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Hopefully, I will let you know.
 
blue b4 the moon said:
We went a couple of times around 2009/2010 & probably would have gone again but the prices went crazy so we found somewhere similar in Rhodes at much better value. . Stayed 35 mins walk from the centre in a Hotel called Pelagos Bay or something similar, had it's own private beach across the road, was a nice pretty quiet place and if still there there's a Taverna which is a 'ship' called Captain or similar halfway between our hotel & the village...I'd recommend for the experience although the food was great when we went.
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Thanks
yes been googling and that’s still there
 
toffee balls said:
We have been going out to Nerja for nigh on 20 years now and we are lucky as Mrs Balls parents have a big share in an apartment over there.
We were due out on the 11th July flying with Jet 2 but we were cancelled as they do not resume until the 15th.
We have weighed it all up and have this morning booked Ryan Air to Malaga for a week on Friday. Obviously we are a little bit at risk here but they are offering free rebooking ( November is another option we have) and fingers crossed we get the government green light this week.
Demand is there and the last thing we wanted to do was to miss out in the clamour to get away once this hopefully becomes official.

Nerja feels like home to us and fingers crossed we will be there next week.
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I always said I wouldnt go to the same place more than twice but a bit like yourself I have been going to Nerja regularly more or less every year since 2008 - including a couple of times for new years eve - at one point we were seriously thinking of buying a place and retiring there but to be honest what I like and what I can afford are miles apart

we are due to go 25th July for 3 weeks and as of this minute its looking reasonably good - hopefully you should get away ok
 
uncle fester said:
I always said I wouldnt go to the same place more than twice but a bit like yourself I have been going to Nerja regularly more or less every year since 2008 - including a couple of times for new years eve - at one point we were seriously thinking of buying a place and retiring there but to be honest what I like and what I can afford are miles apart

we are due to go 25th July for 3 weeks and as of this minute its looking reasonably good - hopefully you should get away ok
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Cheers fella.

We are up on Oasis De Capistrano which , if you know it , is on the road towards Maro.
The views are wonderful and we keep fit by doing lots of walking.

The family own 16 of the 52 weeks and we are looking forward to spending more time there over the next 10 - 15 years and maybe even remote office working Andalucian style.

fingers and toes crossed.
 
mackenzie said:
We are looking at doing a day trip to Alhambra as well this time. Have you been, and is it worth it? I love history and am aware Katherine of Aragon had connections to it; just wondering if it's good value.
And have a great holiday ;-)
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Alhambra is amazing but massive. Book your ticket in advance, and turn up at your allotted time, saves queuing on the day
 
shemnel said:
Alhambra is amazing but massive. Book your ticket in advance, and turn up at your allotted time, saves queuing on the day
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We went during the day for a general wander around but also went on a night tour which I found was much better due to far fewer people.
 
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