Extremely concerning experience-£490 +…
Extremely concerning experience-£490 + £58 paid our holiday was ruined.
I am writing this review following an extremely distressing experience involving people who identified themselves to us as outlook Travel.
On 30 September 2026, my wife and I were due to travel to Turkey. We needed urgent assistance because there was an error with the passengers names on our original booking.
We dealt with people who represented themselves to us as Outlook Travel and were asked to pay £490 for replacements. We made this payment in good faith because we believe we were dealing with a legitimate travel agent who was helping us correct the problem and get to our destination. We also paid £58 relating to an amendment to our hotel arrangements.
Despite paying this money, we were unable to travel on our original flight from Gatwick.
We were subsequently told to travel from Gatwick to Stansted Airport for another Sun express flight and were asked to pay a further £250. By this point we had already spent a substantial amount of our holiday money, so we refused to make another payment. After we refused, an outbound Sun Express booking from Stansted to Izmir was arranged for us using a card that was not ours. The confirmation shows a payment of 163.52. EURO. However, only an outbound journey was provided there was no return flight to the UK.
We repeatedly asked about our return tickets and were told that they would be arranged after we arrived in Turkey. We were not prepared to travel abroad without a confirmation arrangements to return home, especially after everything that had already happened.
We have tried to establish exactly What happened to our money and booking. We contacted the publicly advertised number for Outlook Travel and provided our booking/reference details. We were initially told that they could not find our booking. We were subsequently asked to Please wait for couple of hours while they looked into the matter.We waited and attempted to contact them again but, at the time of writing this review, we have not received the promise explanation.
We went to the address on the replacement ticket they sent us, to our amazement there was no travel agent but a Grill take way chicken shop and the staff there said they did not know of any travel outlook company operating on that address.
We have retained our payment evidence, booking documents E-ticket, emails, WhatsApp correspondence and call records.
We have now reported the matter to our bank;s fraud team, which is looking into what happened.
This experience caused us a considerable distress, additional travel expenses totaling to £80 an ultimately resulted in us not having the holiday at all.
We are asking for clear written explanation of
who received our £490 and £58 payment, what those payments were used for, Why we were asked for another £250 why only an outbound ticket from Stanstead was eventually provided and why no confirmed return flight was supplied.
We would also like the Money we paid for services that were not provided to be addressedappropriately.
We are sharing our experience so that other customers can make informed decisions and take care when making payments for urgent travel changes.








