{"id":23683,"date":"2016-08-23T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T06:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/zika-grounded-our-dream-holiday-now-virgin-atlantic-wont-refund-us\/"},"modified":"2016-08-23T13:10:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T06:10:00","slug":"zika-grounded-our-dream-holiday-now-virgin-atlantic-wont-refund-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/zika-grounded-our-dream-holiday-now-virgin-atlantic-wont-refund-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Zika grounded our dream holiday, now Virgin Atlantic won\u2019t refund us"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe airline wasn\u2019t the cheapest but it usually offers excellent service \u2013 not this timeIn January we booked a holiday \u2013 a fortnight in Florida in August \u2013 for my wife and I, our daughter and her partner and our two-year-old grandson. The total cost was \u00a32,700. In March our daughter told us she was pregnant again. When we heard towards the end of July that pregnant women were being advised not to travel to Florida due to the Zika virus, we checked on the Public Health England government website and found that although the risk in Florida was deemed \u201cmoderate\u201d it nevertheless advised pregnant women to postpone all \u201cnon-essential\u201d travel there. We decided to cancel our holiday rather than take any risks. We had booked to Orlando through Ebookers with Virgin Atlantic, so we thought there would be no problem. However, Ebookers and Virgin Atlantic kept passing the buck between them, and Virgin Atlantic then insisted it would make refunds only for travel to Miami. So Virgin Atlantic has taken all our money and won\u2019t give it back. Virgin wasn\u2019t the cheapest option but we\u2019ve used it many times for its reliability and excellent service for families. RK, Liverpool Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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