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Thread #164828 Message #3948931
Posted By: DMcG
08-Sep-18 - 04:39 AM
Thread Name: BS: Silly Official Requirements
Subject: RE: BS: SIlly Official Requirements
One of the other ones I came across a few months back was when I was reading the Terms and Conditions for a cruise I was going on. It sometimes arises people need to alter the booking, so there are clauses for this. Here it the one that caught my eye:
If a Guest wishes to transfer to another Package, this will generally be treated as a cancellation under clause 38. P&O Cruises will allow the transfer without treating it as a cancellation if the P&O Cruises holiday to which the transfer is to be made departs within 12 months (within 6 months in the case of transfer from a World Cruise, Classic Southern
Hemisphere Journey, Grand Tour or Exotic Fly-cruise) of the original and is for a higher price.
Hang on: 6 months for a world cruise? (Not that my cruise was a world one, but the incongruity leapt out at me)
World cruises run annually in January, so a higher price alternative within 6 months does not exist. And why are they harder on world cruises than anything else? To me, it has a whiff that they originally wrote 36 months, a typo has been introduced and they have run with this absurd rule ever since, probably for decades.