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@sparklies, thanks for posting, I got the same too, and thought it was very reasonable.
I was intrigued by option 1 though - surely an insurer would say the value lost was only 50% in that case?
I will also probably go with option 2, like you I feel it’s important to support companies financially where we’re able to. Plus I don’t want to take a hit on the insurance unless I have to, I’d lose half the money I got back in the increased premiums (still feeling the pain on a rental car fender-bender in Mexico three years ago ...)
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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anyone know if you can claim the cost of 8 days of Carre Neige bought last Saturday? For 4 people it all adds up. I suspect very unlikely. Pass was bought through tour op but I paid at the window for CN.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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The hotel I was booked into is privately run by someone I know and like. It’s taken a heavy hit. I was offered a refund excluding the deposit, or a full credit note for next season. I am happy to help them survive by helping their cash flow, and went for the credit note. All my transport costs have been recovered - less a tiny admin fee from Ben’s Bus. I have been very lucky.
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I had s BA cancelled, and subsequently offered a voucher rather than refund, which is not much use to me. But I discovered the following link via twitter that aides in getting a refund rather than a voucher
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/32209950-post666.html
I've not had the money back as yet but have had an email saying flight cancelled and refund will be paid. Hope so.
Maybe of use to done of you...?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| ringingmaster wrote: |
| Has anyone tried to contact CGH for refund / re-booking? We have a booking from 4th April. There on nothing on https://www.cgh-residences.co.uk/ |
I googled it "CGH residences coronavirus" a week or so ago. I got https://www.cgh-residences.co.uk/coronavirus-news-3281
It says:
If you have a booking in progress for the next few weeks (from 16 March 2020 to 15 April 2020): your stay is being cancelled.
We will soon send you a «postponement voucher» for an amount equivalent to your unused stay. It will be usable for a future stay to be carried out before 30 April 2021.
I would like my money back - I have no idea if they legally allowed to just give us a voucher - and one that expires in just a year
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https://www.instructor-academy.com/index.php?page=andorra full refund including bus fare hotel and course. Have left course money with them as they offered priority to people who leave either a small deposit or the full money ( so you don't have to pay any extra) but I could of had a full refund. Excellent service in impossibly difficult times.
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www.belvilla.com wants to give a voucher for full amount, that would expire sometime in 2021, so I could use it next winter season, will try to get money back.
Last edited by After all it is free  on Sun 29-03-20 11:04; edited 1 time in total
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Big shout out to Snowberry in Val D'Isere, refunded without being asked or contacted 4x hires for my wife and the kids for our trip due 4th April.
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I've given SkiWorld benefit of the doubt, website says they're extremely busy (I get that) and to wait to be contacted...but thought I might have been by now as travel would have been first week of April. I will be expecting a full refund as per the terms and conditions. I don't want vouchers as I don't know what my plans will be next year...
Holiday Extras awful - no flexibility on the hotel/parking at Stansted Airport. Was met with a flat refusal to move/credit/refund etc. Guess who I will be doing all I can to avoid booking with in the future!
El Pro Ski School in La Plagne (the smallest component of the whole booking) called the next morning to offer a full refund. I will make sure I will try and use them again, and will recommend them to anyone I know.
I do think a company needs to be careful in these testing times. People are going to remember who the 'bad guys' were during this difficult time for everyone, and I'm sure they'll pay the price in the future.
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@rutlandchris, and as a broker Holiday Extras have taken your money. I bet they don't pay the actual supplier until after the service has been provided......?
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@chocksaway, @rutlandchris, this is my take with SkiFrance (UK arm of Madame Vacances) too - they are flatly refusing anything other "you sort it out with your insurers." No refund, no offer of a reschedule to next season (which I would have been more than happy to try and arrange) just "we cannot deviate from our position" no further help from us. So basically they have taken my money (plus countless others) and are refusing to budge, yet they now do not have the operating costs of providing the accommodation to me. I hope they are paying their staff until the end of the season, but I wouldn't bet on it!!!
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I like to support the smaller companies if I can, but then it's soooo annoying when you see Crystal etc (who I've used before and agree are really good) just doing the right thing and issuing refunds straight to customers. Sadly, next year and for many years after I'll book with those who react well to this scenario, as who knows whether we'll find ourselves back in similar situation again
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You know it makes sense.
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@rutlandchris, I'm currently trying to get a refund from Skiworld for my son - was due to travel last Saturday - not getting anywhere - credit notes / holiday deferral of no use to him.
Looks likely will claim from insurance.
I will let you know how we get on.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Thanks @Dippy, likewise. I've not yet been in contact as was not due to depart until 4 April, and figure they're busy. But will update 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Huge shout out for Ski Independence. When things started to go pear shaped in the US, these guys were on it. Returning to the office at 11pm on Friday night to get flights held, all teams in over the weekend - I know some were still there at 1am as I spoke to someone. Dealt with BA on our behalf, (who, BTW, made every aspect of the process as difficult as they possibly could, from re-booking to the airport staff at both Denver and LHR, the flight crew were great and the baggage reclaim people in Terminal 3. Other than that, hostile and horrible. Enough about that).
Ski Independence were nothing short of heroic. Exactly what you need in a crisis. I have been humbled by their support in a really testing situation.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Not ski-related but I had a Premier Inn booked for the night before a very early flight to Spain in early May, which is now most unlikely to happen. Unbidden, Premier Inn contacted me last week, offering full cancellation and refund, which I accepted. Excellent customer service. I’m still waiting to see what EJ do about the flights.
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@Montana, +1 had the same experience with Holiday Inn near Gatwick
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| Montana wrote: |
| Not ski-related but I had a Premier Inn booked for the night before a very early flight to Spain in early May, which is now most unlikely to happen. Unbidden, Premier Inn contacted me last week, offering full cancellation and refund, which I accepted. Excellent customer service. I’m still waiting to see what EJ do about the flights. |
Same here but with Crown Plaza park/stay/go for the Easter trip, they called me just as I was about to ring them. I didn't get the follow up eail they promised but I checked online and they did cancel the booking.
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I am still waiting to hear from ESF Tignes Le Lac. I e-mailed on the Sunday that they shut so it has been over a week now. I appreciate that they must be very busy so I am not moaning. I have just come on here to say it in case anyone else knows of ESF replying so I know it is coming or whether I need to contact again. Once again, I am happy to wait my turn patiently however the not-knowing is making me a little twitchy.
On a very positive note, Booking.com wrote and refunded, as did Tignes Car Park and Ski Hire from Republic. The family that we were travelling to Tignes with got an immediate e-mail and refund from Evolution2 at Tignes.
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@rutlandchris, I agree - this would be acceptable, as long as it is guaranteed against insolvency.
I have a claim all completed and ready to file through insurance - now wondering what direction to go in.
I think this is why Skiworld has been delaying responding to email requests for a refund.
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@Dougie, the last person I spoke to in Tignes a week last Sunday (At a respectful distance) works in the ESF office. She said she had at least 2 weeks work to process the cancellations
and refunds. So I'd hang on in there. An ever filling in box must be hard. Not sure if she can remote work, so that may now be an issue.
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Have booked accommodation with ski-planet in Tignes Lac from 4th April for 2 weeks. Not been contacted yet. Sent an email and received a generic response. Any one else had any contact with them?
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Prosneige Ski School in Val Thorens - been great. sent 1 email to them about our Easter booking for 6 kids lessons. they asked if we could defer the payment back to us until December, we said no, they said no problem and have refunded our booking onto our credit card.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@chocksaway, Thanks very much.
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Trying to get my breakage deposit back from Village Montana in Val D. It's been on hold on the card now for 9 days, and we were only there a night! Don't even know if they have anyone working at all,
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I wouldn't say easyjet have been very good. Email says amend or get refund but the there is no way of getting refund and no contact us option, very frustrating.
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You know it makes sense.
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I and two friends were due to have a week in Wengen from 28th March. Jungfraubahn have refunded me the full cost of the two 6 day skipasses I ordered on line for my friends (including the CHF5 postage, which surprised me). Also SBB have refunded the full cost of the 6 Saver Day Pass train tickets I'd ordered online (which are normally non refundable). With the fall in the vallue of the £ since I ordered both these items, and the repayment being in CHF, I've actually gained in £ through the unintended currency dealings! 
Still waiting for the refund to come through from Hotels.com for the accommodation, I've claimed for it (the hotel actually closed on 16th March) but they say it could take up to 30 days for the refund to take place. Finally I'm waiting to contact BA over the flights, I know they are offering vouchers valid for 12 months from the original date of travel, however my two friends would be unable to use vouchers as their holiday leave (one of them is a teacher) is already planned out. The outgoing flight is still shown as operational while the return flight has been cancelled, so we should be eligible for a refund on the return flight element at least, might have to accept vouchers for the outgoing flight. BA say please don't try phoning unless your flight is within 72 hours, so I'll try speaking to them tomorrow.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I'd like to give a big thumbs up to Ben's Bus. They emailed me this morning about applying for a refund (which I did). Within the hour, they've emailed again to say that the refund is on it's way. Will definitely book with them again.
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Poster: A snowHead
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@Dougie,
ESF are refunding all payments but its taking a while. Pm me your details and booking ref abbd I will chase up for you
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| rousehouse wrote: |
| I'd like to give a big thumbs up to Ben's Bus. They emailed me this morning about applying for a refund (which I did). Within the hour, they've emailed again to say that the refund is on it's way. Will definitely book with them again. |
Yes, they were very good for me, too.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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ESI Flaine - definitely good guys.
We were leaving it a while to contact them and were going to ask for a credit for next season for our kids' lessons, but they refunded us the whole cost a couple of days ago, completely unbidden.
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I see those offering refunds in two categories:
1) Those who are agents for others, and are basically passing on the pain. I suspect most of the online ski hire operations as well as booking.com etc. are like this; their contract won't require them to pay for unused services so although they lose their profit margin, it doesn't kill them.
2) Those who are prepared to wear the pain themselves, either because of how they are run (i.e. financially conservatively), or because of insurance, or potentially because of state aid.
To me, it's the second group that we want to try and really support next year, but it is important to differentiate them from the first group.
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@snowdave, right, a lot of people bigging up AirBnB on here, but it's important to note that it's not their money that they're refunding, it's the property owner's! The decision to refund was made centrally and unilaterally, with no discussion, warning or options for property owners.
Equally, for many (most!) ski schools, most of the money would have been going to the instructors, who are not getting paid as they're independent workers, not salaried staff, so there is relatively little pain for the ski school.
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We had a 2 week trip by car booked for France in April. We cancelled the overnight journey hotels OK with booking.com as they were reservations only. The 2 apartments we booked, one each week, had been fully paid and had no cancellation option. I was impressed that I got full refunds from booking.com in the circumstances. I am taking a credit note for 1 year from P&O for my ferry booking as we will definitely go at some point next winter - assuming this is all over by then.
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We had a 2 week trip by car booked for France in April. We cancelled the overnight journey hotels OK with booking.com as they were reservations only. The 2 apartments we booked, one each week, had been fully paid and had no cancellation option. I was impressed that I got full refunds from booking.com in the circumstances. I am taking a credit note for 1 year from P&O for my ferry booking as we will definitely go at some point next winter - assuming this is all over by then.
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Computer glitch and resubmitted comment - sorry.
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@mogulski, see my comment above for Booking.com - again, it's not their money they're refunding, so it's easy for them to be the "good guys". They're a tech company, not an accommodation provider.
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