{"id":57510,"date":"2017-06-11T13:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T06:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/booking-com-refused-us-any-wriggle-room-despite-its-cancellation-promise\/"},"modified":"2017-06-11T13:09:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T06:09:13","slug":"booking-com-refused-us-any-wriggle-room-despite-its-cancellation-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/booking-com-refused-us-any-wriggle-room-despite-its-cancellation-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"Booking.com refused us any wriggle room despite its cancellation promise"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nI was planning a family party and was not sure how many hotel rooms we would needI have been charged with planning a family gathering for my father-in-law\u2019s 80th birthday. As a result I used Booking.com to reserve seven refundable rooms at the Copthorne Hotel in Slough, with a view to cancelling any we would not need when the final guest list was confirmed. With this in mind, I was only searching for hotels that offered \u201cfree cancellation\u201d, which these clearly did.The next morning I was shocked to find that \u00a31,209 had been taken from my account \u2013 the full amount for all seven rooms. I contacted Booking.com and the Copthorne, and both said the booking did not have free cancellation. I have since learned we only need four rooms, but both companies are refusing to refund me for the other three. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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