jackpot06 Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 Staying at a hotel inOrebic near Dubrovnik.Booked for 7 nights but need to curtail the 7 to 6 nights due to getting back to Venice for flight home.They have insisted I pay for all 7 nights even though hotel is fully booked and I have given 3 days notice of early departure -no travel agent involved -they have my credit card and have threatened to charge 'any sum they like 'even though -140 euros agreed per night -spoke with my credit card and they say it's a police matter as it's theft against my credit card -but I'm reluctant to involve them as it's such a 'jumpy place 'would not recommmend a visit here -now they are saying they will get the police against me unless I pay all they say and will withold my passport until I pay -help please -sue Ps hotel owner is a nut job who shouts walks away and behaves very oddly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichB Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 you checked the local law? Just pay up, its not worth the aggro. Then have it out with the cc co when you get back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tbatst2000 Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 they say and will withold my passport wtf did you give them your passport for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iLegallyBlonde Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 Have you tried MSE ? At the very least you'll get a hug and at best they will know how to get back the money you are going to pay to the hell out of there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minos Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 I'd cough up if I were you. Wars have started over less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hedgefunded Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 One word: Hostel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest absolutezero Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 One word: Hostel. Two words. British embassy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.C. Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 Two words.British embassy. Those are very good words, but they probably won't give a monkies. Get back over here and then phone the Daily Mail to do a hate piece about the hotel as the manager has threatened to steal from you, refused to give you your passport or credit card and intimidated you. Take it up with the CC company aswell. In the future never, ever hand over your passport to anyone (except for the appropriate authorities ofc) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vagabond Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Hmmm I leave for Croatia on Sunday. I certainly won't be handing my passport to anyone though.. Pay up, get back and if 140 euro is the worst of the worries count your lucky stars, then shop them to any 'holiday from hell' shows that'll take it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest absolutezero Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Those are very good words, but they probably won't give a monkies.Get back over here and then phone the Daily Mail to do a hate piece about the hotel as the manager has threatened to steal from you, refused to give you your passport or credit card and intimidated you. Take it up with the CC company aswell. In the future never, ever hand over your passport to anyone (except for the appropriate authorities ofc) The embassy will be bothered but only because a British passport has been seized. I imagine their advice would be to pay the bill though. I imagine the OP has entered into a contract for 7 nights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Executive Sadman Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Disgusting. If this was in England it would be deemed racially motivated exploitation or something. Is Croatia in the EU? Maybe you can take down these cowboys before they rip off any more Brits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackpot06 Posted August 27, 2009 Author Share Posted August 27, 2009 Thankyou everyone-really grateful.It was foolhardy in hindsight to hand over the passports.we thought we were meant to ,as I said they are now being deliberately withheld along with threats of the police etc .I plan to pay the euros demanded even though I have been given no clear cancellation policy and have been fair with the manager and given plenty of notice etc .what worries me us that after paying up the euros he will find some kind if reason to continue to withold the passports -he is very trigger happy and unpredicable -he has been arbitrary and random in his responses and threatened to 'up ' the price from 140 to 191 per night for no reason -says I must apologise for calling his country 'rubbish ' when I didn't say anything of the kind .he is frightening and unstable . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackpot06 Posted August 27, 2009 Author Share Posted August 27, 2009 Croatia is not in the EU and visitors here will see and feel the difference having left the EU if they are travelling via Italy or Slovenia -we travelled here by train fro Ljubljana (EU) and paid 43 euros each (quite cheap ) to travel to Split via Zagreb by train (awful journey). But all kinds of hassles even on the train ,you leave EU in Slovenia at Bodovar that's when armed guards enter the train checking all passports (twice ) took over 45 mins /whole experience quite a shock after Slovenia .then they were reluctant to accept our train tickets ad they were bought in Slovenia. Then made us pay a huge supplement just to travel anyway then threatened to throw us off the train if we didn't pay .it's not very tourist friendly here ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lebouche Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 I've been 11 times and never had any hassle. Train guards are drunks though. Hungarian workers generally..often drunk with drunk policeman friends with guns. Croatian people are mostly really nice. A few Neanderthal men though. If you need some one to talk Croatian and explain things I can ask my wife. PM me and I'll give you my number. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrfooty Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Croatia is not in the EU and visitors here will see and feel the difference having left the EU if they are travelling via Italy or Slovenia -we travelled here by train fro Ljubljana (EU) and paid 43 euros each (quite cheap ) to travel to Split via Zagreb by train (awful journey). But all kinds of hassles even on the train ,you leave EU in Slovenia at Bodovar that's when armed guards enter the train checking all passports (twice ) took over 45 mins /whole experience quite a shock after Slovenia .then they were reluctant to accept our train tickets ad they were bought in Slovenia. Then made us pay a huge supplement just to travel anyway then threatened to throw us off the train if we didn't pay .it's not very tourist friendly here ! Jesus that's nothing... I read on here, that in the UK someone was eating in a restaurant and there were some people at a nearby table raising their voices and letting their kids run about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomwatkins Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 This poster is a jerk-sorry. I agree on the passport advice but the fact is he booked for seven nights-end of. How does he know how full the place is in a few days time? WTF did he book seven days for anyway in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Three Pint Princess 2 Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Looks standard to me, all hotels will charge if you leave early, usually with a couple of weeks notice they will do it for free but changing your mind at the last minute means they had to refuse other customers that room, and you say it was fully booked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markie6 Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 remind them their never getting into the EU ( after you get your passport back ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Hovis Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Jesus that's nothing...I read on here, that in the UK someone was eating in a restaurant and there were some people at a nearby table raising their voices and letting their kids run about. The Horror. A Portsmouth family yesterday: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest theboltonfury Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 I have had this before, and I did give them my passport. Its insurance for the hotel that you will at least give them some cash.In my case I knew what were going to be charged and I stayed the full alotted time, so no problems. In my experience this really only happens in backward (ish) countries, where they don't trust you foreigners to do a bunk! Isn't giving your CC enough? What do they need your passport for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swissy_fit Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Pay and go. Sort it out later. You want to cross swords with an unstable man from one of the Balkan cultures? Very bad idea. The next time you get your car washed in the UK you'll get stabbed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reck B Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Go ape-shit mental, It's the only way to negotiate in Croatia. Grab the nearest receptionist and hold a biro against her throat. Threaten a tracheostomy unless they give you your "fúcking money and passport back" (Optional accent on the ú) Hope this works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingding Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Is your passport being kept in a safe or just behind a desk in a drawer or something? If its the latter wait until there is nobody about, take what is yours if you can and leg it. I had to do something similar after a misadventure in Thailand, the alternative would have probably have involved a briefcase full of baht and endless back-handers. I had a few mates who got themselves into some very deep doo doo after finding themselves in hock to someone demanding cash off them for some supposed slight or imagined service rendered. Just go, not worth the potential grief. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.C. Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Go ape-shit mental, It's the only way to negotiate in Croatia.Grab the nearest receptionist and hold a biro against her throat. Threaten a tracheostomy unless they give you your "fúcking money and passport back" (Optional accent on the ú) Hope this works. You could always go and find the most treasured monument to the fallen dead and piss all over it. Goes down well in most of Eastern Europe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregG Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Wouldn't happen in "Shithole Britain" that many of you posters cannot wait to escape from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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