Overpaid for holiday

Is it possible the price you saw advertised in big writing was for one room and when you paid it it calculated it for the total of all your rooms?

Have you checked the invoice what you have been billed for exactly?

I think people are more meaning it’s the OPs fault that it wasn’t picked up before everyone went on the trip. If it was noticed before it likely could have been cancelled. But I do agree with others that you can’t really “eat the food” then complain want your money back after.

It's your fault OP.

What did you do immediate after paying? Did you discuss with your friends before the holiday.

I would not be willing or happy to pay double price because my fri Nd made an error at booking. No way. And I definitely would not be paying double AFTER having gone on the holiday already 🤷

Everyone saying it's the OPs fault, surely the company aren't allowed to double the price at the final stage of booking? So everything is in the basket at one price then doubles just before you click pay? That can't be legal!
I do agree it should have been queried before you went on the trip though

Sorry, but it's entirely on you, not the vendor/platform nor your friends. You'll need to cover the extra. The price would have been shown before you clicked the final 'pay', you'd have potentially got a OTP with the total from your credit card, you would have got an email confirmation with the amount, and you could see the amount on your credit card bill.

I think it would be entirely fair to mention the sudden price hike in your review though, to alert other bookers.

This is so obviously your fault and you've already been on the trip so why you feel entitled to a refund is baffling.

Everyone else also went on the trip, so they should pay their share of what the accommodation cost and if they're not happy, they can arrange it next time.

I would be tempted to contact your bank if it’s on credit card you might have some protection if you can show original price and what you paid. Not sure if will work but worth a go.

This.

What? You can’t expect people to pay for your fuck up. If you pressed confirm without looking at the price that’s on you.

I usually don’t agree with this approach, but I’m these circumstances I think it’s fair to go back to the provider and get them to confirm that this is the case, and point out that if it is then each member of the group will leave a review thy reflects this pricing policy and their disappointment in it. If it was a system quirk and they don’t intend to double the price when groups look at bookings then they’ll maybe refund a portion and such reviews wouldn’t be appropriate.

Oh no 😱 I do think the accommodation provider is being unfair about this. I think you should push back again and ask them to explain why tr day rate is so different. But if they won’t give you a refund then it’s for you to suck up, not your friends

This is on you. I don’t know how you can justify with the company after you’ve used the service that you now want it at half the price you paid when there was no issue with the accommodation. You really should have checked.

You've been on the holiday, it's a bit late to decide you want it cheaper now.
Prices do go up when you look at holidays/flights so having everyone clicking it at the same time you're booking probably wasn't the best idea.
This is 100% on you for not looking at what you paid. Do you never check your bank statement? You say it was significantly higher.

This is completely on you unfortunately. You would have seen the price when you booked it and you'd have to query or cancel ahead of time, not after.

Unfortunately it’s still on you, you should have raised it when you noticed before the trip not after the trip.

You had the opportunity to see the price when you paid and ok let’s say you didn’t notice the change (weird because I always look at the final amount before I click pay so this is hard to understand), you also got an email confirmation and had the opportunity to see the expense on your credit card account/statement so you can’t now ask for a refund after the trip claiming you didn’t realized they charged a different rate.

Next time you should also share the confirmation email for the booking with the travel group so they all have a record and to avoid confusion. That way someone could have noticed and brought it up to your attention and you can all be on the same page about who is paying what.

Waiting until after the trip to bring this up, I don’t see any vendor taking you seriously. Your focus should be figuring out how to get your travel group to agree to split the expenses.

Can you check all invoices and all confirmations. Are the prices correct?
I would google the company and see if anyone else has had issues with them. Do you have screenshots of the bookings prices that you sent to the group at all?
I think go to citizens advice aswell.
I would think that as youve actually been on the trip that you might not have a leg to stand on but its worth a dig around and some advice.

I think you should raise a complaint with the company. Totally not normal for it to double like that.

TBF I'd probably mention it in a review. It's very shitty to double the day rate like that at the last minute.

Sorry this is your mistake, you didn’t check before you clicked confirm or before you went on holiday. You won’t get a refund or partial refund, if your friends are able it would be nice for them to offer to pay some of the extra cost but they don’t have to.

Can you give more detail on the trip to see if doubling of price makes sense? Was it over a bank holiday? Around a popular event in the area like a concert or sports game? Prices don’t randomly double unless there’s a reason. If there genuinely doesn’t seem to be one, it might be worth exploring whether there was some sort of glitch.

Are you sure they didn’t put the payment through twice?

Yikes this is very unfortunate. I think this one is on you to be honest. Assuming it's all already paid for, can you afford to take the hit of not getting paid back?

Sorry op but you booked it and dropped the ball by not checking the price after you had booked. This would have been in your confirmation email which you could have then cancelled the booking.
What's fair is you pay the difference unfortunately. You said they don't want to pay the double price so there isn't much you can do

This one is on you. You knew the price - or had the opportunity and didn’t read it properly to check. You can’t eat the steak and get money off after. You might have been able to negotiate beforehand.