 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi all,
I'm in a bit of a pickle of my own making, and I was hoping I could ask your advice as to what I should to.
Basically I booked a holiday for ten people to Val Thorens from London on 21st of March this year, quite a few months ago. The booking included flights / fully catered accommodation & ski hire so wasn't too cheap -- £750 each.. For various reasons which I won't go into, the group broke up and we won't be going. However it's no close close to the holiday date that there's a 55% charge to cancel now, which goes up to 70% ! in a couple of days. Obviously this would be very painful, but I'm not having much luck finding anyone to take over even part of the trip.. I have advertised here a couple of time now, with no interest. http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=61425&highlight=
Do you think I'm likely to get more interest as we get closer to the date, and people look to book something last minute, or am I better off just cancelling now rather than throwing good money after bad? Any other suggestions - a third party who might sell it on, a better place to advertise etc are also welcome. You can also tell me I'm an idiot if you like, I probably am, but constructive critisism is most useful at this point!
Thanks!
Darren
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Thu 18-02-10 11:06; edited 2 times in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I'm not surprised you haven't had any reply
1. In your first ad you say fully catered. This post you say self catering
2. 21 - 27 march is a wierd time to go, not many operators do sun - sat (maybe wrong)
3. For 'self catering', as described above, £750 pp is expensive
Plus you offer no reason for not going.
(PS. *hoping, *quite, *accommodation, *criticism, *sentence construction might help)
Not to be rude, but this seems wierd
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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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Hi Snowgirl,
Thank's for that. Sorry about the spelling errors / self catering error, I was writing this late last night and didn't proof read properly. I can confirm it's a fully catered Chaltet as in the link. You're right as well, the flight back is on the 28th.
The reason I'm not going has nothing to do with the holiday itself, I'd love to be still going, but basically a few of the people I had confirmed can now not make it, and all of the maybes became no. I know I should have got everyone confirmed and deposits from everyone before booking, but I had so many maybe's I thought I was safe, and could find one or two extra if need be.. I was dumb I know.
Hope that clears it up.
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Sorry for being pedantic about the spelling, was a little bored.
Someone else advertised a holiday on here recently that he couldn't go on, I think he ended up selling it through ebay in the end. Might be worth a try if you don't get any takers on Snowheads.
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