I posted earlier about the Dragon Lady and I going to stay at the KC Resort in Koh Samui in august this year,well that was the plan,but now it doesn't look so good.It turns out that the booking agents are nothing but a pack of scum sucking scamming bastards.We took advantage of an offer from a company called Graboneescapes to the tune of about 35,000 baht and made our reservations through an agency called villasindonesia and all was going well. I originally emailed our booking to villasindonesia and received an auto reply saying they were busy and I would be contacted in 3-4 days,when this didn't happen I tracked them down to an adress in Singapore and called them directly. They assured me the booking had been made and not to worry. Just be on the safe side I contacted he resort personally and they too assured me the booking had been made.
Fast forward a couple of months and as our travel date is approaching I thought would confirm our dates.When I talked to a person at the resort they informed me that I no longer had reservations as villasindonesia had not made any payments on about 200 bookings.
Digging a little further I have since discovered that villasindonesia seem to have renegged on payment of several thousand bookings in Bali, mainly in sanur seminyak and ubud.
Evidence of this rip off started hitting travel sites in early March yet companies that were offering these holidays for sale on-line never contacted anybody who was or were about to be affected,for that matter neither did any of the hotels or resorts.
I am currently chasing a refund of my money and also looking for new accomadation as we are not going to let these bastards ruin our trip.
Please, anybody who comes across villasindonesia, take my advice and have nothing to do with these lowlife dogs.From what I have found out so far this scam was carried out over a few months and was not the work of some rogue employee.
Anybody else had problems with these pricks please give me a yell letting me know how you went getting your money back.