The trip that wasn’t but would have been the trip dreams and family memories are made of. Hoping to celebrate our 25 year anniversary and our son graduating high school to going off to college to play his favorite sport, we booked a house and charted a boat. With a sports schedule often dictating our lives we don’t often find our selves with a long window for travel. This summer we found we would have two weeks. We booked an amazing house at Oil Nut Bay and chartered a boat for the rest of the time. And then quarantine hit. The BVIs shut down. We wait, we hope, we crossed our fingers.
Then it became apparent the trip would not happen. Kudos to Oil Nut for giving us a full refund, that’s how you gain a loyal following. They knew we wanted to come but couldn’t with the lockdown. Now enters the crappy part of the story. Lady Fiona was the boat booked through Boats at Sea. The owner held us captive until one week before the charter to cancel finally saying he would refund our full deposit. Boats at Sea helped until they didn’t. They were paid their full commission when we booked and paid the deposit. When then refund came it was minus the exact amount of Boats at Seas’ commission after we were told and signed a cancellation contract for a FULL refund. The boat owner is supposed to pay the commission yet now we have seemingly paid it. Is Lady Fiona’s owner the crook or Boats at Sea? Either way, word to the wise: don’t book with Boats at Sea and don’t charter Lady Fiona.