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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Travel
Shane Hickey

Holiday cancellations: can you sell or transfer your trip if you can’t get a refund?

Children jumping into resort swimming pool, one holding a pink and white rubber ring
Websites SpareFare and Transfer Travel operate eBay-style marketplaces in which people can sell on their holidays, flights, and hotels. Photograph: Tony Tallec/Alamy

Even the best-laid holiday plans can go awry. Illness, bereavements, break-ups, money problems, redundancy, pregnancy, jury duty, floods – all of these can throw a getaway into disarray.

But while you may miss out on a break in the sun or relaxing city break, you do not necessarily have to lose all of your money as a result of problems at home that force you to cancel your trip. You can now sell on your holiday in much the same way you sell on a concert ticket, although that is not the only way to get some money back.

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