Holiday Options enters administration

Specialist operator Holiday Options has gone into administration after 16 years in business.

Forward bookings have been taken over by Cambridge-based travel company Light Blue Travel securing holiday payments.

No clients have been left stranded, according to a message on the Holiday Options answer phone.

The ABTA member operator was ATOL protected and ran holidays to a range of Mediterranean destinations plus Cape Verde and the Azores.

Light Blue Travel managing director Rupert Thomson said bookings accounting for around 1,100 people due to travel with Holiday Options ths winter and next summer had been taken over in agreement with the Civil Aviation Authority.

The company is in the process of writing to travel agents explaining the situation.

With permission from Travelmole