Timeshare Consumers Association

"Holidays in America"
UK consumers are being bombarded with telephone calls or Internet "pop ups" to get them to pay for a low cost holiday in America.
The consumer is usually asked to pay around £500 for a 10 to 14 day, multi-resort holiday plus a cruise.
Most, if not all, of these offers are fraudulant.
Anyone who takes up an offer finds that the cost of the holiday is much more than promised, the cruise is often only a two hour ferry crossing and the accomodation is two star at best.
TCA advice
Do not touch with a barge-pole
If you have already agreed to take up an offer and have paid by credit card then:-
1.    You do have a 7 working day period in which to cancel under the UK Distance Selling regulations - see How to Cancel.
If you do write to cancel your card company should be able to get your money back for you
2.    You do have a 30 day cooling off period if the call was made from Flodira under Florida law. If you cannot get your money back from the company you should enlist the help of the Florida State Department on www.800helpfla.com/telemkt.html   (telephone 00 1 850 488 2221) or the Better Business Bureau (equivalent of the UK trading standards) on www.bbb.org
3.     If you take up the holiday offer and it does not match what was promised you should be able to make a claim under the Consumers Credit Act - see here
If you are in any way concerned after having made a payment would you please report the matter to:-
International Enforcement Team
Office of Fair Trading
Salisbury Square
LONDON
EC4Y 8JX

December   2005