Hi

I booked a holiday not so long ago to go to Tenerfie on 23rd March for a week half board.  Due to work commitments we can no longer go.  i contacted the travel agent to see if I could cancel it however they said I would loose every penny.  Someone suggested selling it on Ebay however not sure if I would trust it for selling it?  Has anyone else been in this situation or got any ideas on what I could do with it?

I would say that if you're going to lose everything if you cancel, you don't have a lot to lose on E-bay. Never used E-bay myself, so this is just a suggestion :)

liberty :)

About 4 years ago 8 of us (4 adults and 4 children) were booked on a holiday to Tunisia.  We changed our minds about going when we were told a story about a young girl being kissed by a man in an alleyway.  The girl had wandered from her parents and he had taken a 'shine' to her blond hair and was attempting to kiss her!  My daughter was about 5 years old at the time and I freaked out!!  Thomas Cook allowed us to 'alter' our holiday, my family went later in the year to Tenerife and my sisters family went later to somewhere aels.  Thomas Cook charged us for changing the details of the holiday - £15 each.  I was amazed that we didn't lose everything.  We didn't tell Thomas Cook why we wanted the change.

Why not see if the Travel Agent will allow you to 'change' your holiday, after all they still want your business, it might be better than losing the money completely.

Worth a try
Steph

Direct holidays changed our holiday from December to May had to pay an administration charge only to change it over

Jean :-)

Trouble is where taking over a new business so dont realy wana go away in the first year especially when we still have to find staff and get them trained etc.  Along with relocating to the other end of the country.  It has all come at once  ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh IM stressed lol

Make a friend's day - give it to them (they will have to pay the fee to change the documentation names).

Steph

i'll go ! for free that is :D

sarah
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Hi,
When we couldn't go on our cottage holiday last Oct (which I'd booked a year before), we put it on Ebay - didn't have any problems, though only one person put a bid in at the reserve price we put on it.  I'm pretty sure it's quite a safe way of selling your holiday and you get the buyer's cheque before you give them the tickets.
  Hilda

Asked a few friends nobody can get the time of work.  going to put it on Ebay then and would just take 200 for it just to get a little bit back... personaly that aint alot for half board holday for a weeks is it ;-)  or if you know anyone who would be interested please pm me cheers and thanks for your help ;-)

One thing you may find that the transfer of tickets may be a problem as it is so close.

You cannot obviously hand you tickets over.

You would need to ask if at this late a date can you change ticket names. 

Pam

We paid for our holiday a year in advance, I found out christmas I was 20 weeks pregnant!!  Unfortunately my baby was born 10 weeks early, and spent 8 weeks in the special care baby unit............she came home 2 weeks before we were due to travel.  There was no way I was taking a prem baby abroad only 10 days after bringing her home from hospital.  We explained this to the travel agents and all they said was if we cancelled we would lose all our money because 'the baby was well enough to come home from hospital, so no reason not to go!!!!!!!'  to cut a long story short we lost all our money and never used them again, they wouldn't let us transfer the holiday to another family as we had offers like a child goes free which isn't transferable, they would let us change it to another holiday as long as it was taken that same year.........which wasn't an option!  So the travel agents got away with £1600 and re-sold our holiday :-(

yep your right for changing your mind steph , we booked to go to tunisa thought it would be different the night before we were due to leave what came on tv ,............ hoildays from hell with out hotel :P yes it was a hoilday from hell so bad 90 customers took them to court i should have done too really . this was a family hoilday my 18 year old brother at the time saved a 14 yr old girl from being raped , 4 waiters took her off to a nightclub her freinds and family looked for her no where to be found then he saw shadows coming from a window and jumpted in draged her out . i heard of so many of the same things happeneing while i was there i dident feel safe anywhere in this country , sorry for hijaking your post just want to warn other people about this place while were on the sub :)

Hmmmmm the exact same things that occured in Tunisia happen here and in every other country around the world.  Tunisia is a country with the same mixture of lovely and somewhat less than lovely people as everywhere else!

Plenty of holidays, restaurants, hotels and shops from hell right here in the good old UK. No need to go abroad to find them!

no i dont think it happens the same amount and with such young girls , i was there just two weeks and heard so of so many. i dont hear about it everyday where i live i know that much , i dont know many hotels that let there customers get collara , typhoid

You obviously don't watch much TV or read many newspapers then!  One notices the defects of others much more than ourselves I have found :(

Many thousands of people go on holiday to Tunisia safely every year and far fewer get into trouble than those who go to the Greek Islands etc!

As for contracting illnesses such as cholera and typhoid, if one is vaccinated against these things the risk is reduced, but not eliminated, and I am afraid one generally gets what one pays for.  So many people expect 5 star hotels and service for a couple of hundred quid!

Think if you cast your mind back you may remember some very extreme cases of food poisoning in the UK over the last few years; particularly one in Scotland.  Salmonella, e-coli, legionnaires disease.................... the list goes on.  One does not have to go abroad to catch things!

thats the whole of the uk , not one tiny place , if you like ill get the website theres a whole site devoted to it :) its been in the newspapers 7 times on tv 4 . we paid alot of money for the hotel not just a couple of hundred quid , we genraly have 4 /5star this hotel has now gone down in its stars but it should be knocked down! and the service was so bad ,the things people were catching there is no jabs. it came from drains and they hadent cleaned there hands , its not just the hotel its the resort im afraid :( hoildaysfrom hell have the whole story on the resort if anyone wants to look , i have another link saved somewhere :) im just sayin ive exsp this place so i know
anyway enough of that :) lets get back on track with the ticket situation ... if you cant the only thing you could do is ebay :( but i dont know how long you have to change the names

Thanks everyone for your advice I have placed it on ebay as its worth a try and the travel agent have give me a week to change then names

Not doubting your intelligence but mind you dont change the names before you get the money
good luck

Jean

i really hope you get some cash back . with ebay they can pay by pal thingi or  cheque you recive money first then you send it make sure the cheque clears . then sort it out :) good luck eddie ,