So, you may have seen me mention on Twitter that the holiday to Prestatyn has fallen through, here’s the shiznit. We were going to go to a Haven holiday park because Walkers have a promotion at the moment where you collect Brit Trips which can then be redeemed against certain things…one of the things you can get is ‘50% off selected Haven Holidays’ for 50 points - so after 2 recommendations for the Rhyl area, and a bit of research we decided that’s where we were going to go - Presthaven Sands Holiday Park in Prestatyn.
To make sure there wasn’t going to be any catch or hidden charges, I read the terms and conditions several times - only on Superior or Superior plus vans, OK. Only for 4 day trips that are Mon - Thurs, OK. Only between certain dates and excluding any bank holidays, OK - yup that all seems fine. So I head to the Haven site to check the prices - hurrah they have the dates we want available for £169 - now maths was never my strong area, but even I can work out that £169 with 50% off is about £85…right..right….riiiight?
So we login to the Walkers site and select the holiday, say yes we are sure, use our points on this…it says OK redirecting you to the Haven site now so you can get that baby booked - we refind it there, select our date, enter all our details, get to the payment part and…
…errrrrr? £169 - £85 = £164?? Wait accommodation £328.50? £164.50 saving? What?
I went through the process twice more and had Gav do it once just to make sure we’d done every thing right, we had….and after much head scratching I spotted something…two words….’Brochure Price’. No where on the walkers site does it say that the 50% is off brochure price and no where on the Haven site does it say anything about the web prices not being the same as the brochure prices, not until after you have committed to spending your points and half booked the holiday do you see those two little words, brochure price. So even though you have to book online, and no where on the Haven site does it tell you anything about the brochure price being twice as much, that’s what you get your 50% off of…a whopping saving of £5 off what you would otherwise have to pay without Brit Trips. Err, pass thanks.
Complete scam and rip off imho, they probably expect after spending so long looking it all up and deciding that’s where you want to go, most people will think ‘Stuff it’ and book any way, as Gav wanted to, well no chance - it’s misleading and they aren’t getting a penny of my money. I’d send an email of complaint if I thought it’d achieve any thing, but they blatantly already know it’s misleading. Bastards.
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In fact the whole day in general was a bit of a disaster area. As well as the holiday thing not working out, I got my girly time of the month and was suffering badly with it, we decided to go to the cinema after the holiday thing - otherwise we’d have just stayed home and been all miserable - but that means we had to pay for it, paying for the cinema is a foreign concept to us now we are so used to going to the free screenings and on the way there we almost got into a really bad car crash…thanks in part to a stupid twat of a woman clearly not knowing where she was going who switched lanes at the last second, stalled and then didn’t go when the green light said go bitch, go and thanks in part to this turning Gav into a road rageish twat who pulled out in front of another car in order to go past her - it missed us by approximately 0.00003 of a second.
If I’d died, I would have had to share my haunting time equally between both twat woman and twat Gav!
Ok that is all.
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May 19, 2008
