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Travel => General Travel => Topic started by: Bulldog on April 28, 2009, 01:54:04 AM

Title: Sunquest offering free RainChecks
Post by: Bulldog on April 28, 2009, 01:54:04 AM

For a limited time, Sunquest is offering free RainChecks on all new bookings to the Caribbean and Mexico. Available on all Sunquest packages to the Caribbean and Mexico (some exceptions apply), with RainCheck if it rains half an inch or more in a 24-hour period for at least half of the total number days of your clients’ vacation, if they “took a RainCheck”, Sunquest will give them a replacement vacation in the form of a travel voucher that they can use towards their next vacation. The special free RainCheck offer is applicable for travel between May 4 and Oct. 31. RainCheck is usually sold for $39.95, plus tax, p.p. The travel voucher can be used on any new booking made by Dec. 31. Run and monitored by WeatherBill, an independent third-party weather risk management firm, the rain measurements are taken at all entry airports or, in the case of some destinations, from the closest official weather station to the customer’s hotel. (http://www.sunquestagent.ca)

http://www.travelpress.com/PHP/news.php?sid=7884

Title: Re: Sunquest offering free RainChecks
Post by: LindaBT on April 28, 2009, 11:14:05 AM

I can understand wanting the best vacation possible.  Now some tour operators offer a reimbursement in case of hurricane.  Now you can get a voucher if it rains too much during your vacation.  What about, you pay your money, you take your chances.  Anything can happen anytime, anywhere.  Does there always have to be compensation???  Thanks for the link BD.

Title: Re: Sunquest offering free RainChecks
Post by: Gambitt on April 28, 2009, 11:45:46 AM

Wow... I would have loved this deal the year we stayed at the GPT..

It Poured rain every night we were there...  It always stopped by 7-8 in the morning, and everything was dry and sunny by 10 am.

We got a great week; and with this deal, we would have gotten another week too.!  :ROFL: :ROFL:

Title: Re: Sunquest offering free RainChecks
Post by: Milli on April 28, 2009, 02:48:37 PM

Quote from: LindaBT on April 28, 2009, 11:14:05 AM

What about, you pay your money, you take your chances.  Anything can happen anytime, anywhere.  Does there always have to be compensation???  Thanks for the link BD.

 :icon_thumright: Linda!!


I think this is probably just a sales gimmick not as much to guarantee you a nice vacation (since it is only a limited offer) but to boost bookings in low season and in hard economic times for the tourist industry.  I was also reading on one of the other boards and I did go back to try to find the topic but can't :tard: that Thomas Cook (which Sunquest is a part of) had  issued a news release guaranteeing potential clients that they can book without fear of them folding as Conquest did.  I think perhaps the travel companies are scrambling for business and to regain consumer confidence.  IMO :grin:

Title: Re: Sunquest offering free RainChecks
Post by: Bulldog on April 28, 2009, 02:51:12 PM

Milli, you may have read that here  :dontknow:

http://www.7daysinparadise.com/smf/index.php?topic=7825.0

 :icon_thumright:

Title: Re: Sunquest offering free RainChecks
Post by: Milli on April 28, 2009, 03:02:14 PM

 :ROFL: Thanks BD.  I thought I must have been dreaming!!  I checked out 4 other forums but not this one!! :roleyes:

Title: Re: Sunquest offering free RainChecks
Post by: Bulldog on April 28, 2009, 03:06:10 PM

Your Welcome Milli, sometimes I forget even if I was the origianl poster  :ROFL: