Another One Bites the Dust

You may have seen in the news that another holiday company has gone bust. This is awful news for UK holiday makers. The company knows as Low Cost Holidays were mostly an online based company. To give you a bit of background information they were quite highly regarded by travel agents a few years back. Then they did the unthinkable. They decided to move all operations to Palma in Majorca. They saved money or so they thought. They didnt have to offer the same level of package protection as UK based agencies.

Step one – Move offices out or  UK~
Step Two – Stop ATOL membership
Step Three – Stop ABTA membership
Step Four – This is the big one – Go bust, leave 27000 people stranded and 110000 forward bookings with no actual bookings.

So what really happens? Normally when a holiday company goes bust you would think you are protected, yes you are as long as the company you have booked with is ABTA & ATOL protected – Just like us here at www.cruise.co.uk. In which case, ABTA, ATOL, CAA they all take there place and get people home or re book holidays.

Now as Low Cost Holidays were based in Spain people need to contend with the Spanish government to try and get some money back, GOOD LUCK!!

If you paid on your credit card you may be able to claim some money back but maybe not all of it.

This is having a real knock on effect on the whole. We have people that though they had holidays booked that now haven’t, there is a huge demand for holidays and last minute prices are looking sky high. So what can you do to protect yourself?

Firstly – make sure you are booking through a fully ABTA & ATOL protected agency.

Found a bargain – Price too good to be true – Come on lest be honest it probably is.

Have you been caught up in the mess? Let us know how you have coped. I know a few people have been into their local travel agents for help.

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Hello from sunny Scotland!! My name is Charlene and I hope you enjoy reading my blog as much as I am enjoying writing it. I live with my husband Chris, our little boy Charlie and Ozzy the Shih Poo. We recently got married in St Lucia.   I have been working…

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