Email from property owner - room cancelled for refugees

[DuvetHugger]

I booked holiday accommodation last year for this coming June in Scotland. They allow pets so this was the main pull for us. We have booked tickets for a big gig taking place there and are travelling from south of the UK.

I just received this email from them:

"We have applied to use the barn for Ukranian refugees. if it's not a problem for you can you please cancel free of charge"

I replied saying we have booked some activities etc and is she sure the place wont be available at that time, we booked 8 months ago and her response was:

"No you need to book something else sorry".

AIBU in thinking this is rude?? Obviously, I have nothing against them housing refugees but I am a bit taken aback.

AIBU to be pissed off or AIBU for my first world problems when there are families to house?

Surely she would see a diary of full bookings and think "I am not yet in a position to use the barn to house others, but will stop taking bookings now to enable myself to do so at a later date"?

Can someone remind me how many hundreds of thousands of visas have the British government issued for Ugandan refugees? And how many hundreds of thousands of people have actually arrived to take up this scheme?

*not Ugandan - Ukrainian damn autocorrect

@FuckeryOmbudsman

Interesting to see the contrast in views between this thread, and the one that proclaimed that all holiday homes should be made available for Ukrainian refugees, and that itnwas Selfish of owners to want to,p keep their businesses running normally

It would be more interesting if this particular owner weren't clearly bullshitting.

As of April 7th it was 43600 applications to the HFU scam, sorry, scheme, 12500 visas issued and 1200 arrived.

@FuckeryOmbudsman

Interesting to see the contrast in views between this thread, and the one that proclaimed that all holiday homes should be made available for Ukrainian refugees, and that itnwas Selfish of owners to want to,p keep their businesses running normally

If the owner was really taking in refugees, they'd have stopped taking new bookings and cancelled the existing ones themselves (rather than protect their rating by asking customers to cancel).