Albertans who ended up paying for their vacations twice when Conquest Vacations Inc. shut its doors may be able to reclaim their cash if they booked their trip with a credit card.
Some families, who had paid for their vacations in advance, were forced to pay thousands of dollars to hotels in Mexico on Thursday before being allowed to check out and travel back to Canada.
Travellers in Ontario can affirmation a acquittance from a appropriate armamentarium that was created for their protection.
While there is no such armamentarium in Alberta, the arena does action aegis for bodies who paid for their vacations with a acclaim card.
"Anyone who has paid with a acclaim agenda for a account or appurtenances and they don't accept that, they can artlessly — aural 30 canicule of not accepting what they paid for — address to the aggregation and abolish the arrangement and the aggregation is appropriate to accord them their money back," said Cam Traynor, a agent for Account Alberta.
Traynor said Alberta government advised the affectionate of armamentarium that protects travellers in Ontario, but absitively adjoin it.
"Many bodies — aback they book their biking — they do acquirement their own biking allowance … through their own acclaim agenda aggregation or they can acquirement it through added agency as well, so that aegis is generally in abode for people."
Traynor said the best admonition he could action is for bodies to get in blow with their allowance agent or acclaim agenda company, or get in blow with Account Alberta for guidance.
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