I booked a holiday for 2023 this weekend. It’s our first “proper” holiday as a family and a huge amount of money to us. When I first booked it I was very excited and I did the usual things of checking trip advisor and google for reviews of the resort and overwhelmingly the reviews were really positive so went ahead and booked it all.
Since then I’ve joined a few Facebook groups related to Tui and the hotel itself (also Tui) and I’m starting to panic a bit because there are so many complaints - people being left stranded at airports for hours (literally 10 plus hours) without any communication, whole holidays being cancelled at the last minute etc etc. The actual Tui Facebook page itself it’s flooded with complaints and people being unable to contact anyone.
I’ve only paid the deposit so far and given the holiday isn’t till 2023 I’ve got time to work out what to do.
Several of the comments on Facebook suggest Tui is £600m in debt and owned by a Russian whose funds have been severed by the war sanctions…. No idea if that’s true or not?!
Do people still trust Tui? Are they as bad as they seem now? Would I be better to cancel or is this just a case of things being all a bit of a shit show after covid and it will get back to normal by the time we go do you think?
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Are Tui about to go bust?
Afterfire · 26/05/2022 09:08
MrsRobinsonsHandprints · 26/05/2022 10:43
Make sure you have decent travel insurance. This will cover you if they do go bust.
Aposterhasnoname · 26/05/2022 11:21
Tui are abta and atol protected, so I wouldn’t spend a single second worrying about it. If they went bust (which I very much doubt) you’d get your money back.
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