![]() Don’t be silly, but it will still be nice to be away with the family in the sunshine, eating stuff and not working. Am I as excited about going away on this trip as I would be for a WDW trip. Having read the reviews for the place we have booked I am very hopeful of better this time around. We did an All Inclusive to Alcudia, I would guess around 2002 and the experience was so average we’ve done Florida for every holiday since. Whilst we have done some time at a beach on several occasions over the years in Florida, we haven’t been on a non US beach type holiday for over twenty years. Louise and I are of course going, joined by Rebecca, Tom and Freddie (who are traveling out a few days earlier than everyone else), Emily and her boyfriend Mikey and my Mum and Dad. Our travelling party is quite a large one for this trip. as I have several perfectly acceptable pairs that I have only had for 20 years. In the flush of post booking excitement I went crazy and bought some new shorts. The latter should be fun on a mobile phone with “free” WiFi in the hotel. We have to fill out what looks like a Spanish ESTA, but cannot complete it until we are 48 hours from departure, arrange tests of course and then before returning to the UK, complete a passenger locator form, but not until 48 hours before our return. Leaving it any later would add to the not inconsiderable stress that booking it actually was. We had to get stuff booked as the admin to actually have a holiday now is similar to buying a house and you all know how much we enjoyed that experience. So having flexed my credit facilities to book the thing, I was hopeful that this time Aer Lingus would be true to their word. If I see a penny before day 59 I will be truly gobsmacked. Sigh.Īt least Floridatix were brazenly upfront in telling me it will be “up to” 60 days before I see any of my money back. Having worked in banking a million years ago, even then funds did not get sent by steam packet. When I paid for these holidays they got their money the moment I clicked the button on their website. I can never fathom how and why refunds take over a week to make it through the banking system. It’s a familiar story, and I admire their consistency. They confirmed the refunds had been processed and should be in my account in 5-7 days. ![]() The second Aer Lingus promise of “about a week” did not happen and I was still waiting for the funds to hit my account after a third chase of them this time via their Twitter account. That refund only hit my account yesterday. Well yes, I have now, from Aer Lingus at least, but when we booked last Monday I had not. We are booked for an overseas holiday and surely with just two weeks to go, not even the raging incompetence of our government can scupper those plans now? I mean, according to their latest “dead cat” nonsense leak to the press, I may have to convert my GBP to Pounds, Shillings and Pence before then paying for some Euros if they have their way, but by hook or by crook (and they are all that) we should be on that plane.
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