Asian travel company offers “good weather guarantee” – in the rainy season
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A Southeast Asian travel site is now promising its customers good weather and offering refunds if it rains.
From 1 April to 31 October 2016, travellers booking a minimum seven-night trip to Laos with One Click to Asia (OCTA) will get a partial refund if their holiday is disrupted by heavy rain. For every day of three hours or more continuous rain, the clients will receive a refund of 50% of their daily trip cost.
And the refund will be in the form of cash handed over to the travellers during their stay, rather than a post-trip refund or credit for future trips.
The new policy is especially generous considering the fact that the booking period covers the traditional rainy season in Laos.
“When travellers read the phrase ‘rainy season’, they immediately think of monsoons, floods and ruined holidays,” said Laurent Granier, OCTA’s co-founder. “This means that Laos and its neighbours all suffer a big drop in visitor numbers during the rainy months. So we want to knock on the head the notion that travelling to Laos during the rainy season is unpleasant or impossible.”
Granier added that there are several advantages to rainy season travel. “Firstly, our rainy season corresponds with the spring and summer school holidays in Europe,” he explained. “Secondly, even during high season Laos isn’t busy – we only receive around half a million Western tourists each year. So during the low season, there are so few visitors it can feel like you have the whole country to yourself. This has a knock-on effect on hotel rates, which become cheaper during this period making it a lot more affordable to visit.”
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