Hi. My sister-in-law was in a bit of a situation last week. She managed to change a name on a booking (not sure if she had the person's consent) but it cost her £65.00. They did this on the day of travel . Get in touch with Thomas Cook and see what they can do. Perhaps the person who is taking the other one's place could give them some money to take their place to smooth things over a bit? Not sure this has happened with the sister in laws booking .

Thank you for the reply, pargaluvva!
My friend called Thomas Cook and they confirmed she'd have to be the one to cancel the holiday as the lead traveller and that it would have to be in person and not over the phone, that's one weight off my shoulders!

We're not going away until the end of August so I should imagine the name change would be a little cheaper, a few have quoted between £35-£40 on another forum I asked on. I'm not sure how much he'd get back if he cancelled his place. Apparently the closer to the holiday the less you get back when cancelling.
I think the only way we're going to be able to do it is by finding out how much he'd get back through cancelling and try to offer him an equal amount. I can't think of any other way!

Sephs

do you no what i think!
i think me you hannah and anu, will have a amazing time!!!!

I think you have the right idea,find out how much,if any he would get back then offer him that amount,it's a very fair way to do it,imo.T.

LAnsboro wrote:

do you no what i think!
i think me you hannah and anu, will have a amazing time!!!!

I definitely agree with you on that one!

OSCARBEN wrote:

I think you have the right idea,find out how much,if any he would get back then offer him that amount,it's a very fair way to do it,imo.T.

I think so, too. Thanks for replying!

We were just talking about it and after a quick search on the TC website, I found out that this is their policy on cancellations:

If we receive notice of your cancellation more than 70 days before departure you will lose your deposit, if we receive notice of your cancellation 70 days or fewer before departure you will lose 100% of the cost of your holiday.

We have 79 days before we go so worked out that if our friend offers to cover the deposit he'd get back that should suffice. It would also avoid him incurring any additional cancellation fees AFAIK as our other friend would just change the name over to hers.

What's the accomodation? If this is one unit there may be under-occupancy charges for everyone else if you take one person off the booking in which it would be better to change him for the other person.

steve8482 wrote:

What's the accomodation? If this is one unit there may be under-occupancy charges for everyone else if you take one person off the booking in which it would be better to change him for the other person.

It's an apartment complex. We have one room which sleeps 4, I have skimmed over under-occupancy charges and this is just another reason on top of many others why it would be easier for us to change the name than cancel his place completely.

Thanks for replying!

Sephs

I'd say it's a much simpler solution to just do the name change. The person who's taking his place should reimburse what your friend has paid minus name change fee (as it's his fault he's not going & would loose a lot more if he were to cancel completely)

Definitely so,

The friend who's willing to take his place can find out on Tuesday whether she can get the week off that we're due to leave. Everything firmly crossed she can because it would solve everything, will update with how it's all sorted incase anyone finds themselves in a similar situation!

Thanks for all the replies!

Turns out our friend can't come after all, she can't get the time off work. Her own fault for booking the time off then cancelling it, though.
Looks like more thinking time is in order!

Well if the orginal person has paid the holiday in full the TO won't give them the money back just because they aren't going so you shouldn't need to worry about under occupancy Just go without them.

I was hoping so, Glynis! We can hopefully go in and see our TO some time through the week and see what we can do. Thanks for all the replies, they're really appreciated!

Has the person concerned mentioned money back?

He's deleted me from Facebook after suggesting we cancel the holiday, I told him we weren't prepared to and he hasn't mentioned anything since. What he doesn't realise is that he has 2 days before the TO won't give him anything back.
It's not my problem, you know? He was the one who didn't want to come. He won't get any money back unless he gets in touch in the next 48hrs (he'd get £75 returned) and that's looking unlikely.

Sounds like you had a close call getting out of going on holiday with him if he's going to be like that!

Rachels79 wrote:

Sounds like you had a close call getting out of going on holiday with him if he's going to be like that!

I think you're right. I'm still going to be sunning it up come late August, with or without him, not my problem.

Good riddance!

Hi all, said I'd update on what was happening!

Hadn't spoke to my friend for over a week and the three of us were set to go without him, or so we thought! I got a call from him on Sunday night but I was out with my dad for Father's Day so ignored the call. We'd been wondering and discussing what we thought he was going to say, I should of just called him back but I guess I couldn't be a*sed with the arguing.
Anyway, 2 days ago, someone came over and mentioned they'd spoken to our friend and how he'd been saying how 'excited he was to go on holiday with the girls'. Cue alarm bells ringing, we didn't know what to think! So we made our friend ring him to find out what the score was and it seems he tried to ring me on Sunday to say sorry. He said that he's still going on holiday because it's paid for (despite suggesting we all cancel...) and that he is going, even if he has to walk around on his own. (He knows full well we wouldn't let him be alone, woe is him! ;))

Going for something to eat and a drink on Saturday night to talk things over, hopefully it works out and we go on holiday happy as planned.

Thanks again for all the replies!

It's his round.........

...... all week!!!

And some!

Just how old is this man? Presumably he is older than the toddler he's behaved like or his Mum wouldn't let him out on his own!

I'm sorry if that sounds harsh but you could have all lost out on your holiday if you hadn't have stood firm. He's d**n lucky that your other friend couldn't get the time off from work in order to take his place and even more to the point that the rest of you are so forgiving and willing to agree to let him still go. It would have served him right if you'd already just cancelled his place.

SM