Travel Ban and hotel booking

JC1012

Hi everyone! We were due to go to Amsterdam during Summer 2020. This was rescheduled to Easter 2021. I had booked a stay in an Ibis hotel in Amsterdam. With current government guidance in NI I am not allowed to travel. I have contacted booking.com and hotel and they say it can only be rescheduled until end of year. It was a non-refundable room. Am I able to claim a refund via booking.com for this stay, due to gov advice? I have no travel insurance (lesson learned)! Any advice? 

Westin

The offer of a travel waiver and credit for a future stay is likely the best offer you will have.  There is no right to a refund if the hotel is open and has a room held for you.

[Deleted User]

+ 1 Re above advice.  Rebook as late as you can and see what the situation is then.  (Possibility they may agree to an extension if things no further forward). 

mattyprice4004

If it's non-refundable, you're getting what you booked - travel bans etc aren't the concern of a hotel in another country, that's a 'you' issue not a 'them' issue. 
I'd do as above, book later in the year and enjoy the break. 

CKhalvashi

There is no package, so your rights will be contractual rather than obligatory.

You have a room booked at a (presumably) open hotel in Amsterdam, how you get there is your problem, not that of the hotel.