点评:For just over $500 US we booked a half day morning deep sea fishing trip for four. The morning of the trip we awoke to unexpected rain. I messaged the tour company, saying that with the rain it looked like we should cancel. They responded with,"If you want to cancel, there's no problem." (But he apparently meant, it would be no problem for them to keep the money and offer nothing in return. Which feels like a problem to me.) I reached out later about a refund and they told me he could no nothing for me. He wished he could but Viator had policies. I quoted to him the Viator cancellation policy for our excursion. It says the excursion is weather dependent and bad weather would make a refund available. I reached out to Viator, who reached out to Tony Tours. To summarize, Viator said, You could get a refund, if the tour provider agreed. But he didn't.
My takeaway is that Tony Tours could have responded the morning of our tour with, If you cancel there is no refund, if they didn't have any intention of giving one, instead of - "no problem". Furthermore, Tony Tours could have provided a refund, when I asked or when Viator asked them.
翻译:我们只花了500多美元,就为四个人预订了半天的近海垂钓之旅。出发当天早上,我们醒来时发现下起了意料之外的雨。于是我给旅行社发消息,说鉴于下雨情况,我们似乎应该取消行程。他们回复道:“如果你们想取消,也没问题。”(不过他的本意显然是:他们留下钱却什么都不提供也毫无问题。可在我看来,这显然是个问题。)后来我联系他们询问退款事宜,他们告诉我他无能为力。他也很希望能帮忙,但Viator有相应的政策限制。我向他出示了Viator关于我们这次旅行的取消政策,上面写明该旅行受天气影响,天气恶劣时可以退款。我随后联系了Viator,他们又联系了Tony Tours。简而言之,Viator表示:“只要旅游供应商同意,您就能获得退款。”但对方并不同意。我的看法是:如果Tony Tours根本不打算退款,他们本可以在我们出发当天早上回应说“如果取消预订则不予退款”,而不是说“没问题”。此外,当我提出请求或Viator向他们提出要求时,Tony Tours也本可以安排退款。