Re: O/T The Chat Thread : Mon Oct 04, 2010 10:33 pm  

Well after watching my team of failures this season I booked myself a holiday to the states to take my mind off Wakey so I purchased $1300 spending money from a company in Cornwall and they went belly up today so I have lost my money

So to anyone that knows me your tyres will be going up from today

What a sh!!!!!!!!!te year so far As the song goes " Things can only get better"

Re: O/T The Chat Thread : Mon Oct 04, 2010 11:37 pm  

Disney cat wrote:

so I purchased $1300 spending money from a company in Cornwall and they went belly up today so I have lost my money

This wasn't crown currency exchange by any chance?
if so dodged a bullett myself, got my cash - but the theme park ticket company went bust with £1200 of my money

Re: O/T The Chat Thread : Tue Oct 05, 2010 7:59 am  

1873 wrote:

This wasn't crown currency exchange by any chance?
if so dodged a bullett myself, got my cash - but the theme park ticket company went bust with £1200 of my money

I think you maybe ought to name the name here - seeing as others have been looking at ways to do the Orlando thing!

Re: O/T The Chat Thread : Tue Oct 05, 2010 10:54 am  

1873 wrote:

This wasn't crown currency exchange by any chance?
if so dodged a bullett myself, got my cash - but the theme park ticket company went bust with £1200 of my money

Yes it was crown
Sorry to here about the ticket company what a bummer.
I buy from Mapleleaf on the 192.

Re: O/T The Chat Thread : Tue Oct 05, 2010 12:16 pm  

Sh*tter about Crown they are regularly the best rates when I go abroad. I'll use credit card to pay in future

Re: O/T The Chat Thread : Tue Oct 05, 2010 12:18 pm  

We just used Crown a few months ago for our FL Dinney Land trip, we only got $800 and wanted £250 more but decided on a credit card instead, phew.

Re: O/T The Chat Thread : Tue Oct 05, 2010 4:41 pm  

TRB wrote: I think you maybe ought to name the name here - seeing as others have been looking at ways to do the Orlando thing! It was Theme Park Tickets Direct, they were still appearing to sell after I had the email about non-delivery, but the website is down now. Both the tickets and the money were links I had taken from Money Saving Expert -not a good track record there!! Paid with Credit Card and MBNA say I will should get my money back just waiting for confirmation before I celebrate. In the end got a better deal and a great service for the tickets from http://www.orlandoattractions.com

TRB wrote: I think you maybe ought to name the name here - seeing as others have been looking at ways to do the Orlando thing! It was Theme Park Tickets Direct, they were still appearing to sell after I had the email about non-delivery, but the website is down now. Both the tickets and the money were links I had taken from Money Saving Expert -not a good track record there!! Paid with Credit Card and MBNA say I will should get my money back just waiting for confirmation before I celebrate. In the end got a better deal and a great service for the tickets from http://www.orlandoattractions.com

Re: O/T The Chat Thread : Tue Oct 05, 2010 5:10 pm  

1873 wrote: It was Theme Park Tickets Direct, they were still appearing to sell after I had the email about non-delivery, but the website is down now. Both the tickets and the money were links I had taken from Money Saving Expert -not a good track record there!! Paid with Credit Card and MBNA say I will should get my money back just waiting for confirmation before I celebrate. In the end got a better deal and a great service for the tickets from http://www.orlandoattractions.com Bloomin' 'eck - I got my Orlando Flex tickets through them!!! No wonder I only got the tickets after chasing them about 10 days before we left! They did, to all intent, look like a solid company! Scary times!!!!

1873 wrote: It was Theme Park Tickets Direct, they were still appearing to sell after I had the email about non-delivery, but the website is down now. Both the tickets and the money were links I had taken from Money Saving Expert -not a good track record there!! Paid with Credit Card and MBNA say I will should get my money back just waiting for confirmation before I celebrate. In the end got a better deal and a great service for the tickets from http://www.orlandoattractions.com Bloomin' 'eck - I got my Orlando Flex tickets through them!!! No wonder I only got the tickets after chasing them about 10 days before we left! They did, to all intent, look like a solid company! Scary times!!!!

Re: O/T The Chat Thread : Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:30 am  

1873 wrote: It was Theme Park Tickets Direct, they were still appearing to sell after I had the email about non-delivery, but the website is down now. Both the tickets and the money were links I had taken from Money Saving Expert -not a good track record there!! Paid with Credit Card and MBNA say I will should get my money back just waiting for confirmation before I celebrate. In the end got a better deal and a great service for the tickets from http://www.orlandoattractions.com how reliable are orlando attractions? (ok a partially stupid question as you probably don't know, but what was the experience like? we have always bought from attraction tickets direct, but we can save £130 with orlando attractions. do they send tickets or a voucher?

1873 wrote: It was Theme Park Tickets Direct, they were still appearing to sell after I had the email about non-delivery, but the website is down now. Both the tickets and the money were links I had taken from Money Saving Expert -not a good track record there!! Paid with Credit Card and MBNA say I will should get my money back just waiting for confirmation before I celebrate. In the end got a better deal and a great service for the tickets from http://www.orlandoattractions.com how reliable are orlando attractions? (ok a partially stupid question as you probably don't know, but what was the experience like? we have always bought from attraction tickets direct, but we can save £130 with orlando attractions. do they send tickets or a voucher?

Re: O/T The Chat Thread : Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:34 am  

miamivice wrote:

how reliable are orlando attractions? (ok a partially stupid question as you probably don't know, but what was the experience like?

we have always bought from attraction tickets direct, but we can save £130 with orlando attractions.

do they send tickets or a voucher?

I can't answer that question, but FTR, I would recommend you buy at least the Disney tickets direct from Disney. They will send you an e-mail with a bar-code - you take that the first time you go and they issue the relevant tickets there and then - no worries and no hassle.

The Flex tickets are a little more complex as, depending on which parks you intend to visit, they can be owned by different companies, meaning to buy direct would probably mean buying several rather than the 1. Good luck!