Holiday Company Sun4u Collapses Leaving 1,200 Stranded

By Sam Gooch

Travel company Sun4U is the most up-to-date firm to feel the pinch after it collapsed leaving around 1,200 clients stranded abroad.

According to the Birmingham-based firm's internet-site it had ceased syndication and was advising humans to contact assert handlers for Abta - The Travel Association.

The nearly all of the firm's stranded clients are in Spain.

Abta advised that any individual with Air Travel Operators' Licensing (Atol) packages ought to be fine to continue with their holidays as planned.

A spokesman said: "There are approximately 1,200 humans away at the moment and nearly all of them are in Spain.

"Anyone who has booked a package holiday will have to contact the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) or contact the provider named on their invoice."

It is still unclear as to how some holidaymakers stay abroad.

Some holiday manufacturers have been told they will have to compensate for their accommodation for a second time whether or not they wish to stay.

The BBC has already heard the accounts of galore of the affected holidaymakers.

Patricia Cambridge told the BBC: "[My daughter] was told that they will undeniably have to compensate 438 for the self-catering holiday, plus 10 euros a day whether or not they wanted half-board. They'd genuinely booked a half-board holiday and remunerated Sun4U for that holiday."

Kellie Bugby and 36 relatives had planned to travel to Majorca in two weeks with Sun4U. She said: "We've tried the internet-site, we've tried calling... we're still a bit lost in regards to whether we are or aren't going.

"It's something we've been planning for a whole year. It's over 12,000 of money."

Ms Bugby, from Leicester, said she was on the Sun4U internet-site just three days ago and the organisation gave am impression be running as normal and continuing to trade holidays.

"They have to have known that the ones they were still retail weren't going to go through. It's so unfair," she said.

According to the Sun4U internet-site, the firm offered a "dynamic packaging" service supplying a "much dandier choice and dandier flexibility" and a team of staff with "hundreds of years of experience" amongst them.

According to one reporter, a group of 20 Sun4U holidaymakers staying in the frequent Spanish resort of Lloret de Mar were called by tannoy as they were sunbathing to inform them that the all-inclusive holiday they had remunerated for was no longer valid.

One lady said her family of five was given a bill of 2,700 euros which was more than they had firstborn remunerated for the holiday and were told they would not be permitted any more feed or drink until it had been paid.

Card protection

Any traveller's that remunerated for their holiday by Visa debit or credit card have been advised that they’re likely to qualify for a refund by way of the card supplier. However, there’s no shelter below the Abta bond for bookings that were made by any other means.

Those that took out travel insurance before their holiday ought to contact their insurance company to determine what they’re eligible to.

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