{"id":62569,"date":"2017-08-02T12:59:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T05:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/first-choice-compensation-for-holiday-horror-was-the-last-thing-on-its-mind\/"},"modified":"2017-08-02T13:09:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T06:09:08","slug":"first-choice-compensation-for-holiday-horror-was-the-last-thing-on-its-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/first-choice-compensation-for-holiday-horror-was-the-last-thing-on-its-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"First Choice compensation for holiday horror was the last thing on its mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nIt promised \u00a31,000 but seems uninterested in sending it outIn January four of us were booked on a week\u2019s holiday at the Rubicon Palace in Lanzarote. Four days before departure I received an email from the travel operator, First Choice, informing me there was upgrade work at the hotel and assuring me that this would not affect our stay. When we arrived, however, parts of the complex resembled a construction site. One of our party was a builder who said that in Britain nobody would be allowed within 100 metres of this type of work.  Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2017\/aug\/02\/first-choice-compensation-holiday-horror\" target=\"_blank\">First Choice compensation for holiday horror was the last thing on its mind<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; It promised \u00a31,000 but seems uninterested in sending it outIn January four of us were&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-ghb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128522,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/stock-horror-as-lost-oxo-cubes-ruin-camping-trip-brief-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":62569,"position":0},"title":"Stock horror as lost Oxo cubes ruin camping trip | Brief letters","date":"August 7, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Washed away on holiday | Bleeding radiators | Beth Chatto\u2019s dry garden | Rightwing jokesYour article (\u2018We always bring a teapot\u2019: readers share the unusual items they take on holiday, 5 August) brought to mind a camping trip through France many years ago. 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