19 November 2009

Holiday Options enters administration

Specialist operator Holiday Options has gone into administration after 16 years in business.

Forward bookings have been taken over by Cambridge-based travel company Light Blue Travel securing holiday payments.

No clients have been left stranded, according to a message on the Holiday Options answer phone.

The ABTA member operator was ATOL protected and ran holidays to a range of Mediterranean destinations plus he Azores, Cape Verde and the Azores.

Light Blue Travel managing director Rupert Thomson said bookings accounting for around 1,100 people due to travel with Holiday Options ths winter and next summer had been taken over in agreement with the Civil Aviation Authority.

The company is in the process of writing to travel agents explaining the situation.

by Phil Davies

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Really sad that HO have ceased trading

I worked for Balkan Holidays for 10 years, a direct competitor of HO. In that time I got to know Hamish Manson (the MD of HO) really well, so I hope he and all the staff ex-staff of HO come through all this OK.

By Chris Rand, Friday, November 20, 2009
A pity that Holiday Options are gone

A great shame to lose Holiday Options. There was a buzz in the offices that showed the people there really liked what they were doing. You don't mind the bad companies going bust but... Good luck to the employees as they job hunt.

By Adrian Lawes, Thursday, November 19, 2009