Fall out - ex friends won't cancel one friends share

[Getmyfrownupsidedown]

Five friends booked a fairly expensive holiday. No need for details but think mean girls mentality - four against one.

All four unfriended Friend 1. Fair enough, everyone is adult enough to decide who they want to be friends with.

However, Friend 1 - understandably - does not want to now go on holiday with four girls that are mean to her. She is not entitled to full refund but will get a % back if she cancels. This would mean four friends have to pay a nominal increase. All can comfortably afford it.

Four friends refusing to cancel Friend 1 booking.

@oldmum22 @reallybadidea
Love it. We should so do that haha.

My dd was in a similar situation a few years ago, booked holiday with 2 friends had a falling out so she decided not to go. She could do nothing about getting any money back as she was not the one that booked the holiday. The friends even posted on twitter about how another girl who was a right cow to dd as well was going on holiday with them, turns out she wasn’t, they were just trying to get to her as there would be nothing she could do about getting any money back.

In the end a mutual friend went in her place, she couldn’t afford to give my dd the full amount for the holiday but at least she ended up getting some money back.

this is awful OP, your poor friend

Hey @Shellary what is PITA? Thanks.

I'd call the holiday company again and pretend to be the friend who booked it and then cancel all of them. They'll probably ask for name, date of birth, address etc which I assume she knows anyway

Oh DEFINITELY, this is what I would do.

Even if she cancels the company will likely refund the ‘booker’ as they likely collected the money and paid the company. In reality, if the refund amount is roughly the same as the total increase due to occupancy changes, they won’t even do this.

I'm with @reallybadidea

Your friend needs to pretend she is the booker. I actually don't see a problem with this based on how awful they have been.

Another option is to contact travel agent and advise they booked her without her consent. This actually did happen to me with a weird ex - the travel agent cancelled my ticket to the Maldives!!

All she needs is the lead persons name date of birth and address /postcode
Thats all I’ve been asked for when I’ve rang up to make changes to a holiday although they might ask for email address as well
I would also change the email address to girl no 1 so that everything is sent to me and not the others
I would also ring up a day later and ask to put a password on the booking as there is a crazy ex boyfriend who might try to sabotage the booking 😂

PITA pain in the ass

hahaha I love how all your minds' are working!

I just don't get it. Neither if them want to go on holiday with each other, just cancel it like adults and everyone sucks up their losses.

It's just as baffling as their fall out.

@irunlikeahippo ahhhhhhh hahaha

Tell the mean girls that the friend has paid for the tickets and wants them if they refuse to cancel her place. At least that way they can’t give another friend a free place. If they refuse that then take them to small claims court and do all communication via text or email.

In reality, if the refund amount is roughly the same as the total increase due to occupancy changes, they won’t even do this.

Bugger. This is a good point. I'd love to just mess with them in this situation then, by moving the booking forward by 24 hours so that they turn up at the airport a day early. In reality I'd bottle it though

I’d threaten to go if they won’t give her a refund. If they refused to let me in a room, and tell them if they physically did anything to prevent me from being in the room I paid for, I would book a separate hotel room then take them to small claims court in UK for the difference. So they can 1/ refund me 30% of my holiday or 2/ share the room as planned or 3/ get taken to small claims and pay for my holiday. Which option would they prefer? Because the option where friend loses money and they enjoy their holiday isn’t on the table.

I think they would respond to a solicitor's letter. They are basically not letting her go on the holiday and not letting her cancel, either.

I don't suppose your friend paid on her credit card, did she?

Is there a photo story for this one? With speech bubbles.

I would cancel it, even if they refund the mean girl and she doesn't get her money back!

If the friend cancels the whole lot, won't it just go back onto the mean girl's bank account? Or did everyone pay separately?

These women should be ashamed of themselves. Yes your friend definitely needs to get her tickets. However the only way to ensure it isn’t used if it’s a print out, which they more often are than not these days is to physically go to the airport and check in. Otherwise the lead passenger could change the name to friend 2 for example if she decides to take your friends place.

Your problem is that it has nothing to do with the company that the holiday has been booked through.

It is all down to the friendship group breaking up. Also they are not saying that she can't go, so I am not sure where she would be legally if she went through small claims

I would cancel it about 8 Or 10 weeks before they are due to go that way there is no refund at all as it’s within the no refund period
But I’m a evil cow and I wouldn’t rest until I felt I had screwed them over

If she really wants to mess she should say that’s fine I’m going and let the mean girls sort out which of them needs to share with her and they might then reconsider a refund !!!

I have no legal background but would be possible to make claim through small claims court? If it was I'd get friend to send email telling then to supply her tickets or cancel her place or she's taking them to small claims