Holiday refunds

Harrymicheals

Holiday to dubai cancelled and offered a full refund, 2 weeks on from this they are now saying it could be 6 till 8 weeks before I get refund. This would now be after my return date. As only get set holidays without refund can't book another holiday, how do you get your refund back quicker

Alderbank

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6670104/holiday-refunds

Welcome to the forum.

Unfortunately you can't get your refund back quicker.

You can have a legal right to the money, and often you have a legal entitlement to get it within a set number of days, but there is no practical mechanism to enforce that. Your only recourse is to take them to court which will take far longer than 8 weeks (8 months is more likely).

This is one of those circumstances where you need to draw on your emergency fund.

All money advisers including Martin Lewis, MSE and every major bank, strongly urge everyone to have an 'emergency fund' of at least 3-6 months normal outgoings in easy access savings for exactly such unexpected and unplanned events as this.

If you don't yet have an emergency fund, then with respect some people might question whether you can really afford to holiday in Dubai?

Isthisforreal99

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82014714#Comment_82014714

A terrible piece of advice. And we don't need to read that sign off to see you are no expert.

QrizB

A terrible piece of advice. And we don't need to read that sign off to see you are no expert.

The post seems AI-written, to me. I've reported it per MSE's policy on such things.