Wouldn't know, aren't you busy being a grand wizard?
Lowcostholidays has gone bust
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Wouldn't know, aren't you busy being a grand wizard?
Nah I was gonna do some Heavy Squats but I'm not really in the mood. Maybe you could try holding a barbell for me and going for a walk towards the France
It seems, like lastminute.com, they are based in Spain, and as such have to have financial security protection as an AVBAL number. I've been at work all evening so have not glad chance to research any of this yet. I've escalated a claim with PayPal so far and I'll check my travel insurance when I get home too. The very worst case though it seems we've lost about £380 for the hotel as the flights are paid for and sorted. I'll keep you updated on my progress anyway after I make some phone calls and send emails tomorrow for anybody else that may be affected. I'd like to ask that this thread stay on topic though please so any progress / advice is easy to find.
I'm in the same boat. I tried to claim a charge back on my Debit Mastercard but my bank says I have to wait for disputes to open Monday morning, along with my travel insurance funnily enough.
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It's sad though as lots of people will have lost money because many shop on price and price alone. Sadly most will have used a debit card instead of a credit card to avoid the fees on the credit card, too.
Always book things like this by credit card - even if the fees are higher.
The thing is though, they used to be based in the UK and are quite widely used, you might naively as I, and a lot other people did, assume they were reasonably safe. I used them for about 4 years and never had any problems previously. They were one of the top UK holiday companies on Google. The error was not using a creditcard to book, but I've always avoided creditcards as I like to just save up and pay for things, but again, lesson learned.
Should be protected by section 75 on creditcard yes
The flights are booked and paid for but the hotels are not - usually hotels invoice the supplier post checkout.
My flights are apparently still valid but I'll have to pay for the accommodation again and my airport transfers (about £800 in total) and then try and claim it all back.
Just come off the phone to the Post Office Credit Card people and it seems I have to put everything in writing and send it in a letter over to Dublin. Looks like this is going a very slow process, so bye bye holiday in October.
No the holiday is brokered through the company so the booking is with them.
I've used love holidays for a long time now over booking hotel and flight separately only due to when your paying for something 1500-2000 I rather pay for it in monthly payments.
I've used love holidays for a long time now over booking hotel and flight separately only due to when your paying for something 1500-2000 I rather pay for it in monthly payments.
Trouble with this advice is most holiday companies will charge you a 2-3% fee for using a credit card so it significantly increases the cost of your trip! What your Granny should have said was make sure the travel agent is ABTA/ATOL registered but then she clearly spent to much time trying to be down with the kids to offer sensible advice!
Which is worth every penny.
wOW SO EVERY HOLIDAY BOOKED THROUGH LASTMINUTE.COM IS AFFECTED TOO?
That's going to be a lot of holidays
So do we, but even if we have the money in savings/current account we always pay by credit card for the protection, even its its just a part payment.
A few years ago we bought £4k of flooring and paid £100 on CC (to keep fees down) and £3900 on debit card.
Flooring company went bust before they delivered but got the full £4k back from the CC no problem.
What? No, it's nothing to do with Lastminute.com.
He's simply highlighting a section of the T&C's from a competitor which indicates there may be some sort of comeback from former Spanish registered firms.
It would be, had you not just made it up
