You can't just cancel your trip to Thailand

Many tourists are shocked by the images Thailand. They worry whether a booked holiday can go ahead. Some even consider staying home.

As long as the Calamity Fund does not issue a limitation of coverage, you cannot cancel free of charge for a package holiday. If you have only booked a flight ticket, cancellation is also not possible. You can of course decide not to go, but then you will lose your money.

There is some useful information on the Consuwijzer website information for tourists:

Can you one travel cancel because you are afraid for your safety?

• You can always cancel. But you don't always get your money back. Below you can read what your rights are with a package holiday and with a separate flight ticket. And what you can do right now.

Have you booked a package holiday to Thailand?

• A package holiday is a flight with accommodation or a flight with a round trip. The following applies to a package holiday:
• Please contact your travel organization. They decide whether there is still travel. Perhaps the travel organization changes your trip or offers you another trip. Talk about that.
• Another trip must be equivalent to your booking. Otherwise, you can ask for part of your money back or cancel at no cost.

Will your booked trip still go ahead? And you don't want to go?

• Then you can only cancel free of charge if it is too unsafe for everyone to travel in the area where you are going. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs provides information about security in all countries. Or the Calamity Fund determines a (imminent) calamity. That can help you to show that the situation is really too unsafe.

Has the Calamity Fund set a coverage limit for your holiday area? And is your travel organization affiliated? And you leave within 30 days?

• Then you can always cancel without costs.

Have you bought a separate flight ticket to Thailand?

• You can try to cancel or change your ticket. Do you want to know what that costs? Then look in the conditions of the airline. The airline is only obliged to reimburse your ticket if your flight is cancelled.

Additional information:

Calamity fund

When the Calamity Fund issues a coverage limitation (also known as negative travel advice), travelers can cancel their trip free of charge from 30 days before departure. The travel organization must then be affiliated with the Calamity Fund.

Cancellation

You can only use the cancellation insurance under one of the cancellation conditions. The cancellation conditions concern personal circumstances, such as illness of yourself or a family member. The situation in Thailand is not covered by the cancellation insurance, so there is no solution in this case.

Rebooking insurance

A handy solution in such cases is the rebooking insurance. Travel insurers Unigarant and De Europeesche offer rebooking insurance through tour operators and travel agencies. You can use this to rebook your trip free of charge up to two weeks before departure if there is a changed situation on site compared to the time of booking.

Source: www. Consuwijzer.nl en www.reisverzekeringblog.nl