Tui free amendments, what are people doing?

clt1979

We had just paid the last of our £6500 for a holiday to Mexico on 24th August. Tui then sent an email stating holidays can now be moved to next year for free. Problem is, the same holidays costs hundreds more. This can be changed up until the end of June. Personally, I wish I could just get my money back but obviously can’t. What are others doing in this situation or what would others do? Wait it out and hope they cancel but if not you could end up been told the holiday could go ahead or pay a lot more to move the holiday not knowing what it could be like next year anyway plus the insurance to sort? Thanks 

SevenOfNine

Just as a first step, have you checked that your hotel/resort is, or planning to be, open on 24 August?

clt1979

SevenOfNine said:

Just as a first step, have you checked that your hotel/resort is, or planning to be, open on 24 August?

I’ve found June 1st stated on one of their pages. To be fair the hotel ‘moon palace’ had a video of what they are doing to clean and maintain the place at the moment and I’ve never seen anything like it. I would probably feel safer there than here. But, it’s the getting there, things that are closed/different plus other reasons that obviously make me want to cancel if I could. Looks like Mexico haven’t even peaked yet either.

Life__Goes__On

clt1979 said:

SevenOfNine said:

Just as a first step, have you checked that your hotel/resort is, or planning to be, open on 24 August?

I’ve found June 1st stated on one of their pages. To be fair the hotel ‘moon palace’ had a video of what they are doing to clean and maintain the place at the moment and I’ve never seen anything like it. I would probably feel safer there than here. But, it’s the getting there, things that are closed/different plus other reasons that obviously make me want to cancel if I could. Looks like Mexico haven’t even peaked yet either.

I personal doubt the Moon (best banana daiquiris I've ever had) will still be closed then.
Does your travel insurance cover for FCO advice?

clt1979

Yes, I believe so, cover for you (Axa) say as long as it was done before advice was put in place, which it was.

Life__Goes__On

Good  that covers you in the unlikely event that TUI  start holidays against FCO advice.
It's all guesswork ATM but the sounds coming out from the Gov that that they don't expect overseas holidays this summer season.
If that is a the case, then the current FCO might stay in place for a while yet.

clt1979

Guess I just leave it and wait to see what happens. Don’t really want to move it to next year because (as I said) don’t want to pay hundreds more and have no insurance in place/have to sort again.

louby40

We have had a refund for our holiday that should have gone ahead on 4th April, also to Mexico. Decided not to move it to next year - too expensive to move it to the Easter hols  for 2021 (I'm a teacher)
We have a holiday for 31st July to Turkey and doubt that will happen, particularly with the  new quarantine rules and I also don't really want to travel abroad this year so we have amended it for next August. We've opted for Kos as Turkey was coming up very expensive with ridiculous night flights which I hate. It's also slightly cheaper.

Mazzle

We also have a holiday to Mexico booked for August.  The same holiday next year is much more expensive so I am not going to amend it.

clt1979

Mazzle said:

We also have a holiday to Mexico booked for August.  The same holiday next year is much more expensive so I am not going to amend it.

so will you go if they allow or are you hoping they cancel and refund you?

Mazzle

clt1979 said:

Mazzle said:

We also have a holiday to Mexico booked for August.  The same holiday next year is much more expensive so I am not going to amend it.

so will you go if they allow or are you hoping they cancel and refund you?

Well I assume they will only allow travel if the FCO advice has changed and Mexico are accepting travelers which I doubt will happen by August?  If they cancel then I will hold out for a refund or I'll accept the credit voucher if it's protected.