{"id":80981,"date":"2018-02-26T14:49:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T07:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/goldcar-refuses-car-or-refund-after-late-flight-arrival\/"},"modified":"2018-02-26T15:02:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T08:02:53","slug":"goldcar-refuses-car-or-refund-after-late-flight-arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/goldcar-refuses-car-or-refund-after-late-flight-arrival\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldcar refuses car or refund after late flight arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nWe couldn\u2019t even get our insurance cover back and had to make a new booking for \u00a3108We hired a car from Goldcar for collection at Malaga airport. The flight was more than an hour late and we were told the booking was no longer valid as we had arrived more than 15 minutes late, that it was non-refundable and, incredibly, so was our insurance cover. In effect, our whole booking was worthless. We had to pay \u00a3108 to hire another car with the firm. RC, London Cancelling pre-paid car hire bookings after a customer is delayed can be lucrative for car hire firms. However, Goldcar says its reservations normally remain active for six hours after the pick-up time. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2018\/feb\/26\/goldcar-car-hire-cancelled-booking-non-refundable\" target=\"_blank\">Goldcar refuses car or refund after late flight arrival<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; We couldn\u2019t even get our insurance cover back and had to make a new booking&#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-80981","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-l49","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25743,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/goldcar-sells-hirers-cover-they-dont-need-or-want\/","url_meta":{"origin":80981,"position":0},"title":"Goldcar sells hirers cover they don\u2019t need, or want","date":"September 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Angry customers face \u2018hidden\u2019 charges for insurance policies they didn\u2019t ask forJJ-K from London booked a hire car through the website Rentalcars.com.\u201cA week was \u00a3139.91 and included collision damage waiver, third-party liability and theft protection. 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