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stivi said:
it's no surprise they tell you that - calculated optimism. and if all goes really well, it might as well happen. but right now no one knows. it's clear that the longer this goes on for, the bigger the economic pressure will get and it'll become untenable to keep businesses shut. but then again, getting married wearing masks and gloves...hmmm, you guys very kinky?
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just re-read my reply and realise it might have come across as insensible - sorry if so, it wasn't meant that way.

I'd wait and see, I think in a few weeks we'll see things clearer. and while no one I know is banking on may and hardly anyone on june, july is a month I do hear from people when they believe things might be up and running again.

in a few months time we can go back to this and see how right or wrong we all were with our assumptions...
 
stivi said:
it's no surprise they tell you that - calculated optimism. and if all goes really well, it might as well happen. but right now no one knows. it's clear that the longer this goes on for, the bigger the economic pressure will get and it'll become untenable to keep businesses shut. but then again, getting married wearing masks and gloves...hmmm, you guys very kinky?
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Haha!

If it was a small family holiday i'd take the hit or it would be easier to re-arrange. We have a family villa booked for 2 weeks and the wedding is the middle Saturday. We have another 40 people booked at various hotels and flying from around the UK so it's going to be complicated trying to get them over to the island if we can't do it on the date we have booked.

I realise that companies aren't going to just hand us money back and will try to re-book at a later date if July doesn't happen but that means everything needs to be changed for everyone. Just from a purely financial point of view, we had a minimum person/spend in place and it's thousands of Euros.... if we get 15 people turning up instead of the minimum 35 then i still have to pay for 35. What's the point in that?

I've also been told by everyone (venue, villa, photographer) that any postponement and carrying over of deposits lasts for this calendar year only. If we can't do it in July as normal and aren't able to re-arrange for later in the summer then we lose everything (about 9,000 Euros so far)
 
The realist in us all knows that future summer fun is highly in jeopardy but to cancel things for July onwards is certainly not good for everyone’s morale! Optimism is healthy but brace for disappointment!
 
DelMarSunset said:
Haha!

If it was a small family holiday i'd take the hit or it would be easier to re-arrange. We have a family villa booked for 2 weeks and the wedding is the middle Saturday. We have another 40 people booked at various hotels and flying from around the UK so it's going to be complicated trying to get them over to the island if we can't do it on the date we have booked.

I realise that companies aren't going to just hand us money back and will try to re-book at a later date if July doesn't happen but that means everything needs to be changed for everyone. Just from a purely financial point of view, we had a minimum person/spend in place and it's thousands of Euros.... if we get 15 people turning up instead of the minimum 35 then i still have to pay for 35. What's the point in that?

I've also been told by everyone (venue, villa, photographer) that any postponement and carrying over of deposits lasts for this calendar year only. If we can't do it in July as normal and aren't able to re-arrange for later in the summer then we lose everything (about 9,000 Euros so far)
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I understand it's a big thing a wedding. I remember ours and imagining to move the date and everything connected to that does sound like a nightmare.

as for the people you work with, I am sure their stance on things will change as the situation does. see, if tourism only starts very late this summer or worst case it's a no-season, they will be all desperate to have jobs and thus will happily accept to transfer your booking over into 2021. I have no doubt about that. you may not get the deposit back, but you'll have their help next year if indeed you couldn't do the wedding this year.
 
stivi said:
I understand it's a big thing a wedding. I remember ours and imagining to move the date and everything connected to that does sound like a nightmare.

as for the people you work with, I am sure their stance on things will change as the situation does. see, if tourism only starts very late this summer or worst case it's a no-season, they will be all desperate to have jobs and thus will happily accept to transfer your booking over into 2021. I have no doubt about that. you may not get the deposit back, but you'll have their help next year if indeed you couldn't do the wedding this year.
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We've asked already. Venue is virtually fully booked for next year, and postponement would only be valid for the very few dates they have free later this summer (no doubt a Tuesday in late September)
 
DelMarSunset said:
We've asked already. Venue is virtually fully booked for next year, and postponement would only be valid for the very few dates they have free later this summer (no doubt a Tuesday in late September)
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that must be quite the venue then, being fully booked a full two seasons ahead! ?
 
stivi said:
that must be quite the venue then, being fully booked a full two seasons ahead! ?
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I'm not naming the venue on here but that's what they've told us. It may be that they're saying that to protect the business... i don't expect them to hand over any money without a fight regardless of the unprecedented situation.... but we booked for this July last spring
 
DelMarSunset said:
I'm not naming the venue on here but that's what they've told us. It may be that they're saying that to protect the business... i don't expect them to hand over any money without a fight regardless of the unprecedented situation.... but we booked for this July last spring
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I find it hard to believe personally that in march time they are fully booked for two summers and thus think it is what you said, try to protect the business.

needless to say I'm hoping for you (and everyone really) that by july ibiza is back open.
 
DelMarSunset said:
The venue we are getting married at in July are saying business as usual, it's all going ahead.... no chance imo. Thankfully we have good wedding and travel insurance so in the grand scheme of things our wedding isn't important but it's still disappointing. Even if things are slightly back to normal by then, some of the guests will have been out of work for a while with much more important priorities than spending cash on a long weekend in Ibiza... Flights won't be back to normal if some airlines are flying at all..... how many businesses are going to survive an extended lockdown... the whole thing is an absolute shit show
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Makes me so sad and emotional this whole mess because of that bloody meat market
 
makka said:
The realist in us all knows that future summer fun is highly in jeopardy but to cancel things for July onwards is certainly not good for everyone’s morale! Optimism is healthy but brace for disappointment!
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I am not going to cancel anything in haste right now (July-Oct) even though the pessimism in me feels otherwise. I will wait and see what happens and hope...hard because I am very impatient
 
Maybe try sns
DelMarSunset said:
Haha!

If it was a small family holiday i'd take the hit or it would be easier to re-arrange. We have a family villa booked for 2 weeks and the wedding is the middle Saturday. We have another 40 people booked at various hotels and flying from around the UK so it's going to be complicated trying to get them over to the island if we can't do it on the date we have booked.

I realise that companies aren't going to just hand us money back and will try to re-book at a later date if July doesn't happen but that means everything needs to be changed for everyone. Just from a purely financial point of view, we had a minimum person/spend in place and it's thousands of Euros.... if we get 15 people turning up instead of the minimum 35 then i still have to pay for 35. What's the point in that?

I've also been told by everyone (venue, villa, photographer) that any postponement and carrying over of deposits lasts for this calendar year only. If we can't do it in July as normal and aren't able to re-arrange for later in the summer then we lose everything (about 9,000 Euros so far)
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maybe try a sell the villa booking on , maybe someone on the island would have it .
 
Tiffany Barrett said:
Still booked in Pikes from May 29th. Holding out hope!!
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We were to arrive the day before, for a one month stay. Would love to just push it off a month and be there for my 40th, but I think we are looking at mid August as the (earliest) safest bet for a rebooking.
 
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stivi said:
I find it hard to believe personally that in march time they are fully booked for two summers and thus think it is what you said, try to protect the business.

needless to say I'm hoping for you (and everyone really) that by july ibiza is back open.
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Sorry just to clear it up we booked in March 2019 for July 2020 and we got one of the last Saturdays of the summer. Presumably in the year since we booked most of summer 2021 has been booked
 
What would be amazing is if they had one big party at each club in Oct for closings for a week and all the djs that have residencies play and more...

Dreaming about odyessy right now
 
not had an email yet from jet2 for my flights in april - checked my booking & saying its canceled. Phoned them up, refunded. Cancelled hotel (white island) & hotel - car park in Glasgow...still got July but cant see that happening either but have to pay the full amount on the 28th April. In a dilemma,
do we pay & wait with fingers crossed...:confused:
 
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