BA Voucher

rambocat1974 · 20 Jan 22, 04:33 PM

Hi All

We currently have hotels and car booked with BA for our August trip, with a deposit of Ł200 paid.

We have loads of Tesco vouchers and I'm now looking to use those for one of the hotels, so effectively free and can get a good discount for Europcar to save over Ł1k on the car.

I believe we will be issued a voucher for the Ł200 deposit we have paid as can cancel under the covid guarantee.

My question is, can I use this voucher as part payment towards a trip I have booked to Chicago in March, or can they only be used used for new bookings?

Rob

loldis · 20 Jan 22, 04:37 PM

Technically it is new bookings only. You might get away with requesting it but they are within their rights to say no.

Do you have your flights with BA as well? If so, I would just amend the booking to remove the car and the hotel that you want to use vouchers for and keep the rest of the booking as it is.

Note that I've read the Tesco vouchers are non-refundable on hotels now, so you will lose that money if you need to change or cancel for any reason.

rambocat1974 · 20 Jan 22, 05:24 PM

Flights are booked with BA, but separately to the hotels as I work in the travel industry and booked those using a special offer, so they will remain unchanged.

Thanks for the heads up about the Tesco vouchers but aware of that, so not an issue.

rambocat1974 · 21 Jan 22, 03:25 PM

How quickly are people receiving a voucher for cancelled trips?

katnav · 21 Jan 22, 10:31 PM

I cancelled a BA trip on Sunday and the voucher was sent through on Wednesday evening.

rambocat1974 · 22 Jan 22, 05:52 PM

Originally Posted by katnav

I cancelled a BA trip on Sunday and the voucher was sent through on Wednesday evening.

Thanks for that, should hopefully get the voucher by the middle of the week then.

20 Jan 22, 04:37 PM	#2
	20 Jan 22, 04:37 PM loldis Imagineer
loldis Imagineer Join Date: May 17 Location: Sussex	Technically it is new bookings only. You might get away with requesting it but they are within their rights to say no. Do you have your flights with BA as well? If so, I would just amend the booking to remove the car and the hotel that you want to use vouchers for and keep the rest of the booking as it is. Note that I've read the Tesco vouchers are non-refundable on hotels now, so you will lose that money if you need to change or cancel for any reason.