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Refund for Coronavirus cancellations?

Grammarhero

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Thanks. She said she felt “off” today. So I said it’s either nerves or you have it but a mild case which wouldn’t be such a bad thing if you get done with it. I know Australia is working on an antibody test. Hopefully they can push that along. I’d love to be able to test to see if I had it.
Are you able to go through the drive throughout?
 

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Are you able to go through the drive throughout?
im fine now thank God. She’s Just waiting to see if symptoms pop up. She’s working in the hospital so she would get tested ASAP
 

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Thanks. She said she felt “off” today. So I said it’s either nerves or you have it but a mild case which wouldn’t be such a bad thing if you get done with it. I know Australia is working on an antibody test. Hopefully they can push that along. I’d love to be able to test to see if I had it.
I have a crazy story about my daughter (physician) (and yup, definitely hijacked this thread, sorry). Two weeks or so ago she was not feeling well and had coronavirus symptoms. Try as she may (and trust me, she is the most persistent person I know) she could not get authorization to be tested. Not feeling it was ethical to return to work, she had a respiratory viral panel done (spending her own money to do so). She tested positive for Coronavirus OC43. OC43 is a cousin to COVID-19. This explains why she had the coronavirus symptoms. There are some theories and studies in progress that think perhaps having OC43 will give you immunity to COVID-19. I keep thinking how awesome it would be for her to be tested for the antibodies. It will be peace of mind for her. She is tormented (as I'm sure everyone in the medical community is) about bringing COVID home to her family (she is considering living away from them for a few months). But also, she could then treat patients more freely. So that's my wish - a test for antibodies.

I hope your SIL is okay. My sister (a nurse) and I were just talking about this tonight, why not just get it over with (to which my daughter would say, because it might kill
you).

Maybe I can bring this back to topic. One reason I don't "mind" giving refunds, I appreciate the decisions being made to cancel vacations. I don't want to be the reason anyone travels at this time - glad to see people staying home.

Best of luck to everyone!
 

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I have a crazy story about my daughter (physician) (and yup, definitely hijacked this thread, sorry). Two weeks or so ago she was not feeling well and had coronavirus symptoms. Try as she may (and trust me, she is the most persistent person I know) she could not get authorization to be tested. Not feeling it was ethical to return to work, she had a respiratory viral panel done (spending her own money to do so). She tested positive for Coronavirus OC43. OC43 is a cousin to COVID-19. This explains why she had the coronavirus symptoms. There are some theories and studies in progress that think perhaps having OC43 will give you immunity to COVID-19. I keep thinking how awesome it would be for her to be tested for the antibodies. It will be peace of mind for her. She is tormented (as I'm sure everyone in the medical community is) about bringing COVID home to her family (she is considering living away from them for a few months). But also, she could then treat patients more freely. So that's my wish - a test for antibodies.

I hope your SIL is okay. My sister (a nurse) and I were just talking about this tonight, why not just get it over with (to which my daughter would say, because it might kill
you).

Maybe I can bring this back to topic. One reason I don't "mind" giving refunds, I appreciate the decisions being made to cancel vacations. I don't want to be the reason anyone travels at this time - glad to see people staying home.

Best of luck to everyone!
Good information about OC43. That’s the thing, just get it over with.....but it could kill you. So sad.

yes, I agree. While I had no refunds, I could not in good conscience let someone take their family during this time. Rather than lose the money I offered to move the date to the end of the summer. I can’t keep doing that so I’d have to say, if this is still on going we have bigger problems. I’m hoping by the summer with the extreme heat it won’t last on surfaces and will slow down a bit allowing people to emerge into the world a bit.
 

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Good information about OC43. That’s the thing, just get it over with.....but it could kill you. So sad.

yes, I agree. While I had no refunds, I could not in good conscience let someone take their family during this time. Rather than lose the money I offered to move the date to the end of the summer. I can’t keep doing that so I’d have to say, if this is still on going we have bigger problems. I’m hoping by the summer with the extreme heat it won’t last on surfaces and will slow down a bit allowing people to emerge into the world a bit.

I just did another $4,990 worth of refunds based on Wyndham's latest "no check-ins before" date. I had offered the refunds a few days ago. I know a lousy vacation when I see one!
 

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I just did another $4,990 worth of refunds based on Wyndham's latest "no check-ins before" date. I had offered the refunds a few days ago. I know a lousy vacation when I see one!
It’s rough but what can we do?
 

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It’s rough but what can we do?

Not much, but if you can carry forward passive business losses, let me know how! This is gonna be a BAAAD year!
 

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Not much, but if you can carry forward passive business losses, let me know how! This is gonna be a BAAAD year!
Idk much about that. This happened to just be a unit I wasn’t using this year. Luckily I can carry the week next year
 

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Not sure this is the place for this but...I have maintenance paid ($1500) on 2 weeks at Umbrella Beach at Holmes Beach, FL. The weeks are the end of May and the beginning of June. I called to see if I could push those weeks back later in the year and was told they were full. They are doing nothing about the fees I paid. Is there some way to get at least a partial refund?
 

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I'm expecting to see resort closures through May and maybe into June. Hopefully not, but this is a national emergency.
 

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I'm expecting to see resort closures through May and maybe into June. Hopefully not, but this is a national emergency.

I think May for sure and I wouldn't bet against closures through June. If places open in June, it may be just in certain geographical areas.

I know Wyndham wants to wait until almost the last minute to announce closures but I think they're hoping against hope. The sooner they announce additional closures, the sooner we can decide what to do with the cancellations -- book at the end of the year or roll points forward.

I may have mentioned it in another post but the other thing that Wyndham could do would be relax the policy about overlapping reservations. I don't expect it and frankly, it's too much to ask.

P.S. I'll add that I'm on my third week of teleworking -- what the Defense agency calls min-manning/max-telework. We've had two confirmed cases, one of which resulted in a fatality.
 

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Not sure this is the place for this but...I have maintenance paid ($1500) on 2 weeks at Umbrella Beach at Holmes Beach, FL. The weeks are the end of May and the beginning of June. I called to see if I could push those weeks back later in the year and was told they were full. They are doing nothing about the fees I paid. Is there some way to get at least a partial refund?
At least Jessie James robbed his victims with gun and you knew you were getting robbed. Unbelievable that this resort offers nothing to help in this circumstance.
 
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