Booking cheaper on a .com instead of .uk site

serenawell

I am currently looking at booking a holiday for November.


The company I want to book with has a .com and a .uk site. The .com site has the same holiday for over £400 cheaper. If I book on this site instead of the .uk site will they still honour my booking ??


Thanks in advance

Caz3121

It may depend on the site which you have not names. Many .com sites are the US versions. You may find they cannot process payment without a US billing address

serenawell

Apologies company is Sandals.

bagand96

I've done this before with hotels on foreign sites through Trivago. I've also booked BA flights on expedia.ca (Canada) for a significant saving (flights weren't even to Canada, they were to the US!). Had no issues, and with the flights it was BA that charged my credit card anyway.

One thing to bear in mind is travel insurance. Most policies will say something along the lines of "travel arrangements booked in the UK". I've never had to test this but I suspect it'd be a very easy get out clause if you needed to claim...

zagfles

bagand96 wrote: »

I've done this before with hotels on foreign sites through Trivago. I've also booked BA flights on expedia.ca (Canada) for a significant saving (flights weren't even to Canada, they were to the US!). Had no issues, and with the flights it was BA that charged my credit card anyway.

One thing to bear in mind is travel insurance. Most policies will say something along the lines of "travel arrangements booked in the UK". I've never had to test this but I suspect it'd be a very easy get out clause if you needed to claim...

But you're still booking it "in the UK" whatever web site you use.

zagfles

serenawell wrote: »

I am currently looking at booking a holiday for November.


The company I want to book with has a .com and a .uk site. The .com site has the same holiday for over £400 cheaper. If I book on this site instead of the .uk site will they still honour my booking ??


Thanks in advance

Have a look at the T&Cs, they might state that they only accept bookings from (eg) the US on the .com site. Though having said that, I once tried to get round this with a ferry crossing by giving the address of my friend in Denmark to book the crossing, it stated in the T&Cs bookings were only accepted from Danish addresses, but on talking to them they were more than happy to accept the booking with a UK address!

bagand96

zagfles wrote: »

But you're still booking it "in the UK" whatever web site you use.

True. I forget the wording of the policy I saw exactly but I felt the implication was booked and payed for in the UK. Like I said I've never had to test the theory, but insurance companies being insurance companies etc if they can find wriggle room to try and decline...

I've just very briefly read my current travel insurance documents and can't find anything in relation to this. But it was just a quick read through.

benjus

I've found plane tickets on cheaptickets.com in the past that were cheaper than UK websites, and bought them from there with no issues.

duchy

I'd book with the US site. I've used several US sites without issue.
Only one that won't accept a UK address. And card is expedia.com us for flights ....but is fine for just hotels. Other expedia sites like .au and .fr are fine.