Booked Saturday - but now £350 cheaper!

Incapuppy

melb wrote: »

I've booked ryanair flights a few weeks in advance with the the thought of "they can only go up" nearer the time and in fact they've gone down. I wasn't happy with the price but didn't want to risk it going up. I feel sorry for anyone in the situation above and it'd eat away at me

All the more reason not to check then

DrScotsman

bikerchik wrote: »

I have spoken to the travel company and the saving we would make by cancelling and re-booking would be out weighed by the cancellation fee and the admin charges, so we will stay with what we've got.

Can I just say :eek:. £350 in cancellation and admin charges!? Even if it's a holiday for 6 people that's over £50 per person!

I don't mean to drag this on if you've made your peace with the price you paid for it, but personally I'd double check the T&C online - just in case they're trying it on.

Incapuppy

DrScotsman wrote: »

Can I just say :eek:. £350 in cancellation and admin charges!? Even if it's a holiday for 6 people that's over £50 per person!

I take it you are not up to speed with the cost of non-refundable holiday deposits then?

dmg24

Incapuppy wrote: »

I take it you are not up to speed with the cost of non-refundable holiday deposits then?

But surely you can claim everything back, and maybe some compensation for distress ... this is MSE after all?

McAzrael

dmg24 wrote: »

But surely you can claim everything back, and maybe some compensation for distress ... this is MSE after all?

I think OP should sue M&S.

Pollycat

melb wrote: »

it isn't always a matter of "booking at a price you're happy with" - sometimes it's just gambling that the price won't go down and hoping you've booked at the right price. I've booked ryanair flights a few weeks in advance with the the thought of "they can only go up" nearer the time and in fact they've gone down. I wasn't happy with the price but didn't want to risk it going up. I feel sorry for anyone in the situation above and it'd eat away at me

If you're not happy with the price, then don't book.

At some stage, regardless of what you're buying (PC, TV, holiday), you've got to bite the bullet and pay the advertised price.
Of course nobody likes to think they've paid more than they had to - but Hey! that's life.
If you let things like that eat away at you, it'll spoil the holiday.

DrScotsman wrote: »

Can I just say :eek:. £350 in cancellation and admin charges!? Even if it's a holiday for 6 people that's over £50 per person!

I don't mean to drag this on if you've made your peace with the price you paid for it, but personally I'd double check the T&C online - just in case they're trying it on.

As Incapuppy has already pointed out, if the OP cancels with a view to rebooking at the lower price they'll lose the deposit they've paid on the original holiday.

luci

And depending how close it is to the holiday then the cancellation charges can be as much as 100%.

Bob_the_Saver

bikerchik wrote: »

Can anyone advise where I stand.

I booked a holiday through a teletext travel agent (ATOL registered) on Saturday.

I looked at the prices again last night (flights and hotel) and found that the price had dropped by over £350 in one day! :mad:

As you can imagine I'm not best pleased.

Is there anything I can do?

I have e mailed the travel agent, but they haven't responded.[/QU

C'est La Vie

melb

you are such a smug sanctimonious lot aren't you. You all thank each other for your trite little comments it's always the same people thanking the same other people and it's all rather tedious. i do a mental checklist of who will jump on the bandwagon and quite often add a comment waiting for the floodgates to open and they always do. do you have any other interests?

Incapuppy

Assuming that I'm included in the smug sanctimonious lot, I have plenty of other interests thank you!

TBH, I think you perhaps need some other interests if you can get that worked up about who says what on a public forum. If you don't want some people to disagree with you then perhaps you ought not to post your opinion