Refunds and cancellations
How cancelling a booking works, what you get back, and how long it takes.
Cancellation terms are set per property rather than across the whole site, so the terms that apply to your booking are the ones shown with your quote. The six policies a property can carry are listed below. If you are not sure which one applies to a booking you have already made, your account manager will tell you.
This page explains how it works in practice. The position that binds a booking is clause 8 of our Terms and Conditions.
The short version
The six cancellation policies
| Non-refundable window | What that means | |
|---|---|---|
| Very Strict | 30 days | Cancel within 30 days of the arrival date and the booking is not refundable. Usually applied to long stays. |
| Strict | 14 days | Cancel within 14 days of the arrival date and the booking is not refundable. |
| Semi-Strict | 7 days | Cancel within 7 days of the arrival date and the booking is not refundable. |
| Semi-Flexible | 5 days | Cancel within 5 days of the arrival date and the booking is not refundable. This is the default where a property owner has not chosen one. |
| Flexible | 2 days | Cancel within 2 days of the arrival date and the booking is not refundable. |
| Freedom | 5pm the day before | Cancel free of charge up to 5pm on the day before arrival. |
Which policy applies to your booking. The one shown to you at the point you accepted the quote. If the listing is changed afterwards, your booking keeps the terms you accepted.
If a property has no policy set, Semi-Flexible applies, so there is always a policy in force on every booking.
What else affects the figure
Two things that work in your favour. If a property becomes uninhabitable, or a force majeure event stops the booking going ahead, the cancellation policy does not apply and we refund the nights we cannot provide. And if we cannot resolve a reported issue within 5 working days, you can move to another property or cancel with a refund of the remaining days. Clauses 8.3.1, 11 and 22.
Questions we get asked
Cancelling, amending and refunds.
Contact your account manager with the booking reference, in writing. Do not contact the property owner directly, because your contract is with us and we handle it with them.
Need to change or cancel a booking?
Speak to your account manager, or call us on 020 3743 8989 and we will put you through to the right person.
