(18-05-2015, 04:02 PM)Steady the Edward Wrote: Dear Mr Woodward in your statement you say ( ‘This means genuine visitors have less opportunity to secure their preferred sailings, which in turn can discourage some fans from planning a visit. ) I think you will find that if you study your records more closely you will find that it is not individual customers not being able to come and there for selling their tickets on that stops the genuine visitor from getting the booking he wants' there for not coming , it is the block bookings that you hold on to for the tour operators that are then re offered when  the tour operator cannot sell the amount of crossings they had hoped they would , this is what has been happening for some years now and has been a bone of contention to the genuine fans since it started  in my opinion , if I am in any way wrong in my assumptions , then way I point out to you that my assumptions are held  by thousands of genuine TT supporters , many of which have given up on the TT for this very reason , if I and they are wrong you need to do an awful lot of pr work to look after your core TT travelers to try and help get rid of your image and name of being the Racket company

Yours don't care anymore you're too late , Steady The Edward C/O the home for the upset off TTWebsite.com
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Rightly or wrongly Eddy, I have to agree, that is the way I feel about the booking system.  In their defence though, Hotels do need to have enough ferry spaces to accomodate their customers.  For years, until they closed, we stayed at the Royal Hotel in Port Erin, who were able to do all the booking for us.  If we tried to book, and they could not get us on a boat, what are they going to do, except have empty rooms.  Maybe the block bookings are weighted too heavily in favour of the Hotels, but they do need to be able to get their customers across. Campers and Homestay etc have different requirements, and need to be able to book their own crossings, this is understandable.  It would be interesting to know how many people, who really wanted to go this year, could not get a crossing when all the extra spaces became available.