I've done something completely stupid, please help

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I can't believe what I've done today.

I've gone and booked a holiday to Florida with no way of paying for it.

Basically I have wanted to take the kids for years and DH being the miserable sod he is has always refused...sayings its expensive, he doesn't like americans, he doesn't like theme parks etc etc and it has always really annoyed me because I felt that the kids were missing out because he was too miserable to go.

Anyway today I was talking about my wish of going to Florida with a family member who then burst out laughing and said "the only way you'd be able to save up that kind of money is by working the streets!" I was hurt, embarrassed and annoyed by this and it just made me all the more determined to go...add that to a general feeling of depression I have lately and I basically just walked straight into a travel agents afterwards and booked a 2 week holiday to Florida for next year.. I just told myself we'd find the money "somehow".

So I got home, told my husband who didn't kick off like I expected him to but just said "ok, you want to go, you work out how we're going to pay for it" so I went on the PC to work it out really excited and he's right...unless we litrally save up every penny we have from now until then we'll never make it.

I feel so stupid, thing is I havn't put ANY money down yet, I'm supposed to be paying the deposit of £100 tomorow but I have signed a form saying I agree to the price and will be paying for it etc and they have taken a swipe of my card as "confirmation" or something.

What do I do? should I just go all out to save up for it since we've wanted to go for so long or beg the travel agents to cancel and never show my face in there again?

Do I have a legal leg to stand on since I've not yet exchanged any money?

have you been to travel agenst yet?

what did they say

I think you should be able to cancel or transfer the deposit onto something else instead , so you still have a holiday to look forward too but not on that scale. It isn't only the basic cost to go to Florida but all the associated passes, meals etc which could add significantly. If you can't fund the basics now you could well struggle more later on and lose it anyway.

I think you would be liable for the £800. We booked last year to go to Kos in August, deposit was around £700, then DS2 got a semi-serious health problem, and we were worried about going to such a hot place, and thought somewhere in Spain would be a touch cooler, plus Spain is more 'English-fied' so if he got poorly out there we had a fighting chance of understanding what they were doing to help him.

Rang Thomas Cook who we'd booked with, asked them if we could change the holiday, but they wouldn't let us without taking the £700, so they ended up losing our custom, and although they did keep the (already paid) £700 we booked the new holiday with First Choice.

I hope you manage to get it sorted out one way or the other.