Orchid Hotel Wedding Bookings 25th July 09

Since the fiasco of the Orchid hotel going into administration I've been holding out for the deposit money to come through on the Wedding Insurance, but they've recently confirmed that those deposits are not covered in our policy...

To make matters worse, my parents had an email from the Orchid saying that if guests who have rooms booked do not arrive for the night of the reservation, they will be charged at the full rate. They've given us a list of the people that booked for the wedding and those are:

Mr M Simmonds - 25/07/09 - 1 x Double room - £40.00 deposit paid

Mr S Rossiter - 25/07/09 - 1 x Single room - £20.00 deposit paid

Mr C Walker - 25/07/09 - 1 x Double room - £40.00 deposit paid

I know there were rumours of people going down to Bournemouth on the 25th July to make use of their booking and enjoy giving drew a slap.

My only concern is if you haven't cancelled your booking, and you're not planning on coming down then I suggest you cancel ASAP.

Also, I dont know who else booked a room but I think Jonnyboy did - and he's not on the above list. I suggest you just make sure that if you booked at the Orchid, and are not planning a trip down in July, then cancel it well in advance so they dont find any other reasons to screw us over!

Sorry for all this grief...

Hopefully the 30th of May will make up for it!

Peace out...

I have cancelled and received a confirmation of that cancellation. As I previously stated in this thread, the hotel is NOT giving us our deposits back. I assumed from that thread also that Tart and Rosie have already cancelled, but given above would advise definitely checking that!

Thank you chaps, I did email them but did not hear back, so i assume they did not take note of the email. We'll call.
See you all soon!