C’est la vie to Paris Trip
July 25,2013
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
WESTWOOD NJ, A little out of our way but we think there is a moral to this story .
A group of Westwood Regional Junior/Senior High School students may be out thousands of dollars after booking a trip to France with a Virginia company that is going bankrupt, the Record reported.
The group of 13 girls and one boy each paid Maridan Travel USA $3,678 for a the trip which would have taken them to Paris. Some even worked extra jobs to save money for the trip.
Parents contacted the Ridgewood blog and said form the beginning the whole thing was a bit off. One parent told us that parents were asked to pay cash while others questioned weather the company really went bankrupt or not, still other ask why the schools would send business to a company with such a bad reputation ?
Worse yet some parents indicated they were pressured by the school system to keep quite on the matter .
The Record is reporting that Maridan president Nina Turek Skrpec was selling off assets to pay back the three groups whose trips were canceled, including the one from Westwood. Students trip. (https://www.northjersey.com/news/Dream_trip_to_France_goes_down_the_drain_for_Westwood_students.html)
Moral of the story. ALWAYS pay with a credit card. If you do not receive the product you paid for (THE TRIP) simply ‘dispute the charge’ with your credit card issuer. Its cheap insurance for the purchase of ANYTHING.