Vouchers for Lynch Hotels Now in recievership

Did you purchase the voucher by credit card? If so, you may be able to request a chargeback on the purchase.

Dayo93 wrote: »

I purchased a voucher for Lynch Hotels as a Chritmas present for the parents , They rang today to try book there 3 nights and were told that the voucher cannot be used as the hotels are in recievership. The hotels are still trading is there anything we can do, Value is approx 300 euro ??

This isn't the first time people have got stung from this crowd.

As has been mentioned if you paid by credit card you may have some come back.

If not and this is a serious suggestion, take your parents and a few others to one of the hotels, have a slap up meal with a few bottles of wine, when it comes to paying hand them the vouchers and leave.

Newaglish wrote: »

In fact, if you don't live near enough to the hotel, pop into the nearest shop and take the equivalent cash out of the till!

That's a silly thing to say. :rolleyes:

This crowd have liberally taken peoples money and hidden behind liquidation and receivership policy while shafting everyone that has given them money, service or goods in good faith, in many cases not even honouring the measily 10% pay out they were generously awarded. See Sponge bobs post.

It's not like the hotels have shut down, they are still functioning and have no tangible excuse not to honour the OPs voucher.

Dayo93 wrote: »

I contacted the CC company and started the charge back procedure, need to get a letter off the hotel now stating that vouchers cannot be used.

Good stuff, let us know how you get on.

Newaglish wrote: »

If the company is in Receivership, the OP is an unsecured creditor of the company. They are entitled to a dividend based on the sale proceeds of the company once the secured and preferential creditors have been paid. I guarantee this will be €0.

If they go to the hotel, order a meal and try to leave without paying, that's theft and the Receiver will almost definitely call the Gardai. While what I said might sound silly to you, I was trying to illustrate the level of bad advice the OP had received.

Yes, the company directors may have shafted people previously during Examinership. However, company law is company law and your emotive reading of the situation does not change that. Also, a receivership is a very different process. The company is now effectively controlled by the bank, not the former directors, so you're not exactly getting back at the right people by stealing from the hotel.

Good to see the OP has initiated a chargeback.

I would agree with you if the hotels had seized trading. Like I said there is no reason they cannot honour the voucher. They also have form and illegally flaunt the rules to suit them.

But what I advised the OP actually happened in one of their hotels in Clare. Your right the guards were indeed called, but advised the hotel to let the table leave accept the payment as no judge in their right mind would rule in their favour.

I don't know if you have been keeping an eye on the local courts recently, but the Judges aren't too happy with Banks, Business's, etc taking ordinary joe public to task, and are hammering them in the courts.

Also you seemed to have missed my initial advice of what the OP should do, which thankfully he is doing and hopefully will get his money back.

Besides Consumer Law is always based on fairness, what happened the OP is certainly not anywhere near the vicinity of fair, at the end of the day it is up to the individual to get his or her redress and this can only be achieved by making a stand and taken some action. I wasn't advising he rolls up into the lobby of the hotel with a 12 gauge.