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Sunshineholidays.com are part of Hays Travel the largest independent Travel Agent in England.
If you have booked with Sunshine it may be they booked the hotel/apartment with On Holiday group who have gone bust but they will find another bed booker as no moneys will have been handed over yet.
They are also ABTA members so your money should be safe.
Only the accommodation part of the bookings are affected.Flights and transfers are OK.
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Hi jay,
Thanks for this, I read it on another forum, some are mixing up with http://www.sunshine.co.uk so no one seems to know what is going on or who is who, one person has had a call to say they cant go due to the company going into Adminastration
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If anyone has ON holiday as their bed provider on their invoice from any travel company they should get in touch on Monday when they open but Sunshine should be OK.
Its Holiday nights and On Holiday that it affected.
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Just to clear up the confusion

It is NOT http://www.sunshine.co.uk or any bookings relating to this company, the company in administration is this totally separate company who operate under a similar name sunshineholidays ltd

http://www.sunshine.co.uk are operating normally and your bookings via them are secure :tup
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It's OHG Accommodation Ltd that have gone into administration. The rest of On Holiday Group eg Fresh Holidays, 118 Travel, FlightandHotel etc are trading normally.
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It's OHG Accommodation Ltd that have gone into administration. The rest of On Holiday Group eg Fresh Holidays, 118 Travel, FlightandHotel etc are trading normally

It is the WHOLE of the On Holiday Group that has been placed in administration, yes some parts of the group are still trading while a buyer is sought to keep it as a going concern - would I purchase anything from them with the very real threat of liqudation and closure hanging over them :think

http://abta.com/news-and-views/news/the-on-holiday-group

http://www.business-sale.com/news/article/on-holiday-group-in-administration-37556.html[

http://www.travelweekly.co.uk/Articles/Details/47191
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Sadly it looks like Onholidaygroup has gone to the wall. Their last tweet was:

Message to customers with bookings yet to depart:

• OHG Accommodation Ltd a major hotel wholesaler supplying our sites has ceased trading as of 07th March 2014 and is entering administration.

• On Holiday Group was a supplier to Fresh Holidays, Holidaynights, Last Check, flightandhotel, 118 Travel, PortAventura Holidays, Pierre Vacances Holidays, Kayak Holidays and as such we are now experiencing some technical difficulties.

• All Holidays are covered by the Mid Counties Cooperative Limited and are financially protected.

• Hotel Accommodation is being re-protected with other bed banks currently and this will be confirmed to you shortly.

• All flight bookings are already paid for and confirmed

Customers in Resort:

• Unfortunately hotels may require you to pay for your accommodation directly however you will be able to reclaim this money upon return by showing a receipt for payment. We apologies for any convenience and are contacting hotels currently to try to avoid this situation.

• All flight bookings are already paid for and confirmed
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Hi All,

Just to add if the supplier of a hotel that you booked through a travel agency is "Holiday Brokers" Or "Euro Rooms" Then your travel agent will be ensuring that you still have a hotel booked, they will either change your booking to another supplier, which will mean you will get a new ATOL Certificate or try and deal directly with the hotel.

If I'm not mistaken they will have to refund your holiday in full if they cannot change it and they cannot charge you more for the privilege.

Some companies will have thousands of bookings to deal with so it may take some time before they get in touch.

But just to reiterate neither sunshine.co.uk or sunshineholidaysltd.co.uk has gone into administration. :)
Cheers, Phil
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