My Thomas Cook holiday price now reduced by over £330 any comeback?

gillybean129

We booked a holiday about 2 weeks ago with Thomas Cook and paid £2330 for it.

The same holiday on their website today is £1990 a difference of £332 and a reduction of 15%.

I 'chatted' with an agent who stated the price can do down as well as up and it was the same a buying a dress in a shop! Hardly!

Anyhow I'm inexperienced where holidays are concerned, it's just a massive difference and would be our spending money!

Anyone else experienced this and is there any chance of a refund do you think?

luci

Little to no chance. You saw a price you must have been happy with and booked it. The price of holidays can go up and down depending on demand.

As is often quoted on here, if the price had gone up would you be volunteering to pay the difference?

delwynshd

Unfortunately you cant have anything back once booked you shouldnt look again

Del

photome

I am with the others

Dont look after you have booked.

If you looked and the price had been higher would you have offered to pay more?

gillybean129

Like I said I am new to this.....I only wanted to know if others had the same experience, don't have a go at me!

photome

gillybean129 wrote: »

Like I said I am new to this.....I only wanted to know if others had the same experience, don't have a go at me!

I dont think anyone was having a go, just offering advice, ie dont look after booking

angel81

How much deposit have you paid? Sometimes it's cheaper to cancel the original holiday and lose the deposit then rebook at the cheaper price

gillybean129

angel81 wrote: »

How much deposit have you paid? Sometimes it's cheaper to cancel the original holiday and lose the deposit then rebook at the cheaper price

We paid in full as it was less than 6 weeks, I also thought about cancelling but I think there will be clauses so I don't think it possible or worth it...

misgrace

Sorry, but you havent a hope in hell in getting reduced.
If it makes you feel any better the same has happened to me for the first time :eek:
Our holiday has gone down £165 PP, and I am gutted, as I have booked into the same hotel as I usually go to, and never have seen it go for any less, infact I struggled last year to get booked at the same hotel, but now, the price has dropped big time.

Yes, there are restrictions on getting your money back with TC, depends when your going, I think if you cancel under 90 days, you lose 90%, or it could be 80%, but if its over, you lose your deposit.
I know cause I was trying to cancel another holiday I was going with them, when I looked at the small print, I would only get 10% back. :eek:

If you look on the holiday website, there is something there that will tell you, thats where I found it, it might be under T&C, or you could put 'cancel holiday' into thier search button, and loads of things comes up.

thommy

unfortunately all the above is right. the agent telling you it's like buying a dress seems to trivialise it, because a dress is a relatively small outlay, but she's right. think of it in terms of a buying a car. unless a retailer offers a like-for-like lowest price guarantee against another retailer, you won't get the difference back if the retailer you bought from decides to drop the price in order to shift more units.
good advice not to look after booking. i learnt the hard way too. twice a year i have to book long distance flights. twice a year it's a lottery trying to read the price patterns of the tickets!:eek:

cubegame

thommy wrote: »

twice a year i have to book long distance flights. twice a year it's a lottery trying to read the price patterns of the tickets!:eek:

Most airlines will actually give you a refund if ticket prices do drop. These will come in the form of airline vouchers but nonetheless worth it.