Expedia - holiday cancellation

[cinders29]

Hello,

My partner booked a holiday a few months ago, against my will with expedia.co.uk

It was a package deal for the pair of us to Disneyland Florida for 2 weeks.

The holiday isnt until February 2008 but I do not want to go! I am too afraid to fly, especially for 8+ hours.

He paid £1,050 in total for the flights and hotel stay.

 

After reading about the route of cancellation being a no go without losing all the money apart from a refund of airline taxes, I was wondering if the fact he paid by credit card have any advantage on obtaining a refund from the card company? (i.e initiate a chargeback if the holiday was to be cancelled = no services received..) Nothing has been signed, it was all done online.

 

When he emailed Expedia about cancelling they said the only refund would be approx £300 taxes.

We even considered changing the name so someone else could go in my place, but expedia continued to say not possible unless you want to lose your money.

 

Please help!

[GlasweJen]

The credit card route is a no go as expedia are still going to provide with the service your partner ordered.

 

You should not let your fear of flying hold you back, speak to your doctor and he will be able to refer you to have therapy to over come this. I have taken a flight from UK to USA before with a very nervous passenger (my dad) and he managed because they have lots of radio stations to listen to, you could choose what TV programme you wanted to watch, he slept some with the sedative the GP gave him and the actual holiday more than made up for it.