BRITS are being forced to pay for their holidays again and are even being locked out of their hotel rooms due to a huge tour operator going under. Earlier this week, tour operator FTI - one of the biggest in Europe - went bust , despite a recent investment of €125million. Whilst the company is based in Germany, it has had a knock on affect to British travellers , primarily those who have holidays booked with loveholidays.
This is because of UK travel agents such as loveholidays have been using UK-based bed bank youtravel.com - an FTI subsidiary - to book holidays. FTI owns around 50 resorts in eight countries, including Labranda, Design Plus and Kairaba hotels.
And Youtravel.com has confirmed that all bookings up to June 14 have been cancelled, extended from June 11. They said that the "unprecedented" situation was "challenging" but were "diligently working to keep all partners informed.
" And fuming holidaymakers have been forced to shelf out thousands when staying at their hotels - despite having already paid. Many have taken to social media to complain. One wrote: "Currently part of a group of 30 people in my hotel.
We’re all being told we will be asked to leave unless we pay £1000 of our own money to stay. "They’re now blocking our key cards and not allowing us access to our room/belongings until we ‘pay our bill’. Also in Morocco, a holidaymaker said: "We are stuck in Morocco at Labranda Targa Aquapark and are being forced to pay money to stay and are withholdi.
