Below is transcript from email sent last night. Think you might understand the problems especially based on the fact that they got the flight times and dates wrong therefore wont be able to make the connection to the yacht that I have spent months dreaming about sailing on. OK the flights cheap but the yacht wasn't. Can I hold On The Beach responsible legally to cover the cost of the cruise? And why don't Thomas Cook even have our name on the manifest?
Excerpt
On The 22nd of July I booked and paid for two return flights to Dalaman, Turkey with your company.
I received a confirmation email from you stating that the flight took off some 18 hours AFTER it had landed. Below is a copy of the details you sent me.
"Outgoing:
Departs Bristol at 2130, 13/09/2009
Arrives Dalaman at 0340, 13/09/2009
Reference: TCX268K"
Please look at the timings carefully.
I Subsequently received a phone call apologising for the confusion telling me that you had made a mistake and that the flight would leave, as I had booked, on the 12th of September at 21.30, arriving at Dalaman at 03.40 on 13th.
Based on that I booked my ongoing cruise from Fethiye.
Having still not received any tickets for the flight, I then contacted your office on Monday this week to alert you to this. Having been passed from pillar to post I then received a vague excuse about a postal strike and an assurance that the tickets had been dispatched on the 22nd of August. I then had an email telling me that the tickets would be available at the desk at Bristol Airport.
Still trying to confirm the flight details, I then contacted your office this evening. I spoke to an extremely rude female who advised me she couldn't help and that I wasn't allowed to hold to speak to someone who could help because, and I quote "IN CASE THERE WAS OTHER CUSTOMERS ON THE LINE". When I said I WAS a customer she cut me off.
This is not the sort of customer service I was led to expect. Still trying to confirm the details of the flight I contacted Thomas Cook with whom you told me that you have booked my flights.
They confirmed to me this evening that A, they don't fly from Bristol on a Saturday and B, they do not have a booking from yourselves, in my name, on the manifest for the Sunday flight.
OTB do post here on HT with permission of the mods. They have asked that any member who has a problem should send an email to - forums@otbeach.com - when they will try to sort things out. Please mention if you do so that you have been directed there from HT.
Whilst we may be sympathetic to your plight it can only be sorted by OTB. We can only express personal views and opinions. Hope you get it sorted and have a good holiday.
fwh
For customer service I rate them in the negative out of 10. Yes the postal strike hasnt helped but the management of the problem (and rudeness of the staff last night) ensures that I will never use them again or recommend them.
Thanks to the lady called Morgan (Mawgan) who did sort the problem out, but as for the rest of them...... Shambles
This is not the sort of customer service I was led to expect.
you obviously had not read this site then or even googled their name before booking as if you had you would have realised this is exactly the sort of customer service you could expect
Lesson Learnt
Can you drop me an email to forums@otbeach.com with your MYB reference number and we will take a look at this for you.
Many thanks
Hopefully the above poster will be able to sort you out. The postal strike seems to be a convenient excuse in view of what Thomas Cook have said. Just remember never to use them again.
So there are things that OTB offer in that one of their staff actually bothers to reach out in a personal capacity to try to help, for which s/he often gets scant if any thanks, and has to read a lot of negative criticism in the process.
I have no connections with OTB and simply am a member of this forum who loves travelling but am always grateful when help and advice are offered. Well done to our member OnTheBeachHolidays for his/her initiative and the time and effort s/he puts in on our members' behalf.
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