Different Strokes For Different Folks and Your Mileage May VaryEnglish, please.
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Different Strokes For Different Folks and Your Mileage May VaryEnglish, please.
About vaccines - something that appears to me that many people do not think about is that there are vaccines and then there are vaccines. With smallpox and polio the vaccines developed against them were silver bullets; once the vaccines were applied to the world's population the diseases were effectively eradicated.That was a very good thing, to be sure, but then there are the influenza vaccines, which are nowhere nearly as effective or long lasting. Even with the strains which are specifically targeted by the vaccines, lots of people who have been vaccinated still get the disease and what protection there is only lasts months.Slightly off topic, but I think there is going to be so much pent up travel demand if/when safe& effective vaccine is widely available that I am trying to look into locking in future travel now as long as I am comfortable that the provider will be around (or I am using air travel credits that can still be changed again.
So before they got your money they gave you their cancellation policy. The moment they got your money they changed it? That's terrible.
About vaccines - something that appears to me that many people do not think about is that there are vaccines and then there are vaccines. With smallpox and polio the vaccines developed against them were silver bullets; once the vaccines were applied to the world's population the diseases were effectively eradicated.That was a very good thing, to be sure, but then there are the influenza vaccines, which are nowhere nearly as effective or long lasting. Even with the strains which are specifically targeted by the vaccines, lots of people who have been vaccinated still get the disease and what protection there is only lasts months.
I am not a healthcare professional, but it seems to me that since COVID-19 is much more like flu than it is like polio, a vaccine developed to combat it is more likely to be like flu vaccine than polio vaccine, i.e., not the silver bullet that many are assuming it will be.
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I was talking about Blue Angel. I'm not sure what/who scc is.You talking about BA or SCC? That's not what happened with BA. It sounded like it at first but OP clarified that he emailed about reservations and they replied with the new cancellation policy before he gave them any money. He crossed them off and never gave them any money. Not sure about P-dog and SCC or what their policy was at time he paid.
I guess it's too bad the original post hasn't been updated if it is inaccurate.They want a 40% deposit plus a 4% Paypal fee, with the remaining balance to be paid on site at arrival. After getting the booking process going, they changed the policy to:
"The deposit for your current reservation is not refundable under any circumstances, but transferable dates up to two years (until 2022) from original reservation date, subject to restrictions with change with no previous notice. For further information contact us to help you."
Edit: I just re-read the whole thread. I don't see a post where @living4experiences changed his statement. Looks like folks got off topic talking about other resorts/dive operations/airlines in this thread. Either @living4experiences changed their statement in one of the posts that got deleted by a mod or you are mistaken and they really did get screwed over by blue angel. If he did get screwed over as the OP makes it sound, then it's important to have the information about it out there so that other people don't put down a deposit with BA under false pretenses.