HotelBeds USA
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Won't refund our hotel $ even though we are still in a pandemic and our passports didn't come in time for our trip. We searched for a month to celebrate my 50th birthday since I've never really gone anywhere. We found a trip package to Aruba thru***(trip #***) I've never used anything online to book a trip-but this looked like an amazing deal/place. Little did we know that a pandemic would shut the world down after booking. We had to gather all paperwork to apply for passports-where all local facilities were closed to getting birth certificates,etc. When we could finally gather all our papers and get to our passport appointment-we were told it was indefinitely closing to doing all applications. We proceeded to send it out & hope for the best. I called*** and told them what happens if they don't come in & they said to call the week before to cancel & get a refund for the trip. I called on 8/8 and cancelled our trip since we still hadn't received our passports & it was super close to our date(leaving 8/14)but we would still need covid tests and insurance to go to Aruba. The airline refunded their portion no problem. They contacted the hotel(which I thought was the Aruba one-but found out from Aruba it was hotelbeds & they didn't cancel it). I waited 2 weeks for the refund & contacted*** to see what happens as they said I was all set. They replied " hotelbeds said no because we booked a no refundable trip just before covid." I told them-" how could we predict a worldwide pandemic & things shutting dow?". There was almost 2 million waiting for passports & ours still didn't get here. I've tried several #'s I found online, only to be out of service, or no answer after selecting #. We worked all year to save for my trip-$1700 is a lot to not get back from them. I have sent an email with my phone #, and no response. My sister found out just before our trip she is battling stage 2/3 cancer and we need that money to help pay her bills and take care of her children while she is in treatments before her major surgery. I will never book another trip online since this has been such a big hassle to get our $ back through this whole pandemic. I just want our hotel portion back since they never cancelled it with the Aruba hotel. The Aruba hotel told me it was still active when I contacted them after our stated dates above.