We booked a holiday through First Choice last August. We booked to go to Bulgaria. March this year we recieved a letter informing us that our flight times had changed. We always book holidays well in advance and always book day flights as we use public transport to get to and from the airport and have three children.
Our flight times are now during the early hours of the morning which means we will be stranded at the airport.
I called First Choice was kept hanging on the phone for almost 2 hours only to be told that there was nothing they could do as there were no other flights available even on different dates and different airports.
The only suggestion the really rude young man at customer services could make was to book a hotel at the airport. This seems so unfair we have done nothing wrong to incure extra cost.
We would not have booked the holiday in the first place with these flight times. They state that night flights commence at 12pm we depart at 11.50pm - ten minutes difference Crafty!!
I wrote a letter complaining about the customer service representative's attiude and the way in which my call was handled. we waited almost three weeks for a reply and when it came was disgusted. It was inaccurate (quoting the wrong flight times) was very poorly written and very dismissive in it's tone.
This morning I have had a charming courtesy letter informing us that there is considerable building work underway at our resort.
I am at my wits end.
I actually did all my communications by email as I get receipts.
I wrote to First Choice customer services and whilst I have always been treated well, the response was not what I wanted to hear, so I rewrote the complaint quoting the response and why it didn't coincide with my complaint etc.
I then heard nothing until I emailed them saying that it had been rather a long time was there a problem with my initial contact.
I then received further communications taking the matter further along hopefully soon to a conclusion.
Not sure how far you are from the airport but we found that the local "airport services" were very competitive and were not to fussy about times so it may be worth checking that out. Phone a few.
We had to get an 8 seater and all the luggage. About 140 miles to the airport and I think it was at most about £150 each way and they were waiting for us when we arrived. they even kept the baby seat while we were on holiday. Mind you we don't have public transport down here.
Bridd
Whilst you may have emailed them you are running into the same problem that others do. It seems to be common practice now for people to rely on email. This means they are getting thousands every day.
Consider that if for some reason they have a problem with the server - as with HT over the last 24 hours then they are going to have a backlog. This will delay things.
I would suggest that you also follow up by registered post. It can be tracked, so you have no worry of it being lost in the system.
Not defending the TO but these things do happen.
Your other problem is again something that many people are having. Book one year for the next and flight times that were once attractive no longer are.
Hope you are able to resolve it soon
fwh
They should have at least offered you the option to cancel your holiday re the building work.
Very annoying,especially when you book so far in advance,but the small print covers it in that flight times are always advisory and not mandatory until you actually get the tickets...This is one condition that they should be forced to bring to travellers attention but they dont...Good luck
Didn't First choice give you this option (we could of even changed the country we going to)though I appreciate what with children and work it can't be feasable for everyone
first choice changed our flights from cardiff to bristol also form sunday to maonday we were offered a full refund or we could change our holiday we were happy with where we were going so accepted the bristol flight however the price on the ibternet was a lot cheaper tan we had paid so they took the differenc off our balance this more than covers the cost of getting to bristol
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