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BT's Free Flights Offer Hits Turbulence
Talkback Daily Express £10 Cruise Offer/Rise Travel (also trading as "Hidden Retreats") Today (29 January 2005) we received a telephone call from a quite impolite female employee of Rise Travel's call centre informing us that, should my partner wish to go...
[January 29, 2005, 16:13]
BT Hoovers Up Broadband Punters With 'free' Flights
Talkback Daily Express £10 Cruise Offer/Rise Travel (also trading as "Hidden Retreats") Today (29 January 2005) we received a telephone call from a quite impolite female employee of Rise Travel's call centre informing us that, should my partner wish to go...
[January 29, 2005, 15:40]
BT Hoovers Up Broadband Punters With 'free' Flights
Talkback RISE TRAVEL FREE 10 CRUISE! I bought 37 copies of the daily express to get my free cruise and still havent recieved anything. Please also can anyone tell me if the free flight from Daily mail to USA is connected to Rise travel same as BT as I wont...
[January 6, 2005, 8:33]
BT's Free Flights Offer Hits Turbulence
Talkback In due time I received a letter from Rise Travel dated 27.10.04.stating "following your application for the Daily Express Cruise offer we are pleased to advised you that you have been allocated the following £10 cruise holiday.etc.
[February 10, 2005, 12:19]
BT's Free Flights Offer Hits Turbulence
Talkback Same here,I got confirmation from Rise travel before end last year to a caribbean cruise for a week this coming 9 of october 2005.I made a holiday booking from my work already. Last friday 28-01-05 I got a phone call from Rise travel that the...
[February 3, 2005, 19:38]
BT's Free Flights Offer Hits Turbulence
Talkback I have also been contacted by Rise Travel of Timperly Cheshire telling me that a cruise previously offered from Galviston on Sept 5th was no longer an option and offering various alternatives none of which were acceptable.
[January 29, 2005, 11:25]
BT's Free Flights Offer Hits Turbulence
Talkback As far as Louis Cruise Lines is concerned we did intend some customers to travel on certain itineraries, however we decided to move some customers to different cruise lines. Please remember this is a promotion not a cruise you can book through a...
[February 7, 2005, 12:27]
BT's Free Flights Offer Hits Turbulence
Talkback Today I recieve a phonecall from Rebecca who is based in the Express offices but who works for Rise telling me that they are negotiating for further single cabins to be released to them, and that I can expect a call within 21 days from a travel...
[February 14, 2005, 11:19]
BT's Free Flights Offer Hits Turbulence
Talkback I was allocated a cruise on 12 March round the Med on 26/10/04 and received a phone call last night 31/01/05 at 21.00 to say there was no availibilty and was offered the brochure with vouchers in it or a cruise in 2006 which of course may not be...
[February 1, 2005, 16:52]
BT's Free Flights Offer Hits Turbulence
Talkback This fantastic offer gave readers the chance to claim a cruise for only £10! MKM use a variety of reputable Cruise operators including Royal Caribbean, Norwegian Cruise Lines and Thomson Cruise Lines.
[February 1, 2005, 9:04]
BT's Free Flights Offer Hits Turbulence
Talkback Rise Travels stance was to quote the small print and shift the vouchers or put Kay on a waiting list for a cruise in late 2006 which might never get off the ground. The cabin upgrade for £799 was also turned down as the Express/MKM ad was for a £10...
[February 14, 2005, 19:04]
BT's Free Flights Offer Hits Turbulence
Talkback I am also one of the hundreds of people who are having trouble with the £10 cruise offer. I have opted to wait until 2006 for my caribbean cruise but then it is still by random computer selection so we might still be unlucky.
[March 29, 2005, 14:56]
BT's Free Flights Offer Hits Turbulence
Talkback I have just returned from my £10 cruise with Rise Travel and everything was superb with the last week spent aboard a 5 star ship with All the trimmings, so keep on trying, thedream is there, anon
[May 15, 2005, 22:24]
BT Hoovers Up Broadband Punters With 'free' Flights
Talkback Daily Express/Rise Travel cruise offer. I had a letter asking me not to contact the cruise operator when I had no intention of doing so! Anything to worry about? Things aren't looking particularly straightforward, all I wanted was a holiday.
[December 4, 2004, 12:23]
BT's Free Flights Offer Hits Turbulence
Talkback The Daily Express have now taken over from Rise Travel the job of running the cruise promotion. There are still over 2,000 people waiting to have a cruise allocated. From the statement issued by the Express, it appears that some people could be...
[July 9, 2005, 16:16]
BT's Free Flights Offer Hits Turbulence
Talkback Like many of the above I collected tokens for the Express £10 cruise offer. Then on 15th January I was jilted and told my 'allocated' cruise to the Canaries in April (I even knew the date, the liner and the itinerary) was off and I could have a...
[February 5, 2005, 13:57]
BT's Free Flights Offer Hits Turbulence
Talkback My friend has managed to get a cruise booked on the Daily Express £10 Cruise Offer with Rise Travel. The cost is £90 which includes: London Gatwick/Milan return flights, 1 night in a 3* hotel in Milan, transfers to/from Genoa, sole use of an inside...
[February 22, 2005, 8:41]
BT's Free Flights Offer Hits Turbulence
Talkback I too was SKANKED I was offered a Caribbean cruise via Daily Express and Rise Travel. After many months passed I was offered an alternative date for the Caribbean cruise which I which I accepted. But just last month I was called told that the...
[February 16, 2005, 19:14]
BT's Free Flights Offer Hits Turbulence
Talkback Seeing on the holiday truths website that this cruise is cancelled, I phoned Rise Travel, explaining that I cannot change my holiday dates at short notice. I was allocated a cruise from Marseilles (yes, the Libya one!
[April 3, 2005, 23:05]
BT's Free Flights Offer Hits Turbulence
Talkback As expected the ASA have come down hard on Rise Travel over the Daily Express cruise offer. So that is now three in a row ( BT , Gallo Wine and Express) for Rise, who always seem to blame everyone but themselves for not being able to deliver what...
[April 6, 2005, 16:40]
