We also agree. We had made 2 separate deposits, one each at Clubs Orient & Fantastico. Chloe emailed my wife saying that the deposit had been refunded - we would have been okay with it being applied to our next stay (sometime in '18). CO had posted a month ago that they would be able to start refunds, but nothing forthcoming yet. When we knew that our Nov. SXM trip was kaput, we decided we would go to Curacao and could certainly use that refund. We'd even be happy to donate a portion of it to the employee fund, but can't afford the entire 500E.