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Saga Holidays discriminates

David

I am putting this under hobbies as I am prevented from carrying out my hobby of swimmig in the Medeteranian Sea.

SAGA has cancelled my holiday in CRETE and giving me a full refund.

Is that not DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION.?

Is SAGA breaking the Equallity Act?

She assured me that she was not discriminating against me because of my Asperger Syndrome.

SAGA HOLIDAYS have told me that I CANNOT come on a SAGA Holiday without my Mother or a friend.   It was because of the impression I made on the Danube Cruise.

She wanted a Doctors report that I am fit to travel.

I told her that ASPERGER SYNDROME IS a social disability not an Illness so there is no point asking my Doctor.

 

 

She said as there is only one rep per Hotel Saga cannot give me extra help so I cannot come on a SAGA Holiday on my own.

David

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  • I couldn't do organised holidays. I'd feel trapped and don't like being in a crowd (and not because of repetitive or focussed tendencies!). Besides which being single on one of these makes you a target for every do-gooder couple that thinks you need taking out of yourself.

    Joining a SAGA cruise seems a rather roundabout way of getting to swim in the Med. Some package holidays are designed around mature travellers as distinct from the usual bingeing kids or uncouth grannies.

    What I have been on is med based field trips for students using package holiday resorts out of season, as they are cheaper but have the resources students look for.

    Every hotel however has some pantomime dame, for want of a better description, who is there to protect the old from the young, as the main out of season use is senior citizens looking for warmer climes over British winters. These dragons seem hell bent on restricting the fun of any young groups the hotels agree to take, merely because prime revenue is pleasing the old.

    I'm also reminded of what happened to one 20th century British composer who, finding himself in a hotel full of SAGA grannies, and unable to reach the self-service cereal and toast counters, stood on the table and shouted rule britannia, in protest and frustration.

    All that dithering and nattering and gossiping I could never cope with the noise intrusion.

    Must be better ways of getting to swim in the Med. Leave SAGA to the grannies.

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  • I couldn't do organised holidays. I'd feel trapped and don't like being in a crowd (and not because of repetitive or focussed tendencies!). Besides which being single on one of these makes you a target for every do-gooder couple that thinks you need taking out of yourself.

    Joining a SAGA cruise seems a rather roundabout way of getting to swim in the Med. Some package holidays are designed around mature travellers as distinct from the usual bingeing kids or uncouth grannies.

    What I have been on is med based field trips for students using package holiday resorts out of season, as they are cheaper but have the resources students look for.

    Every hotel however has some pantomime dame, for want of a better description, who is there to protect the old from the young, as the main out of season use is senior citizens looking for warmer climes over British winters. These dragons seem hell bent on restricting the fun of any young groups the hotels agree to take, merely because prime revenue is pleasing the old.

    I'm also reminded of what happened to one 20th century British composer who, finding himself in a hotel full of SAGA grannies, and unable to reach the self-service cereal and toast counters, stood on the table and shouted rule britannia, in protest and frustration.

    All that dithering and nattering and gossiping I could never cope with the noise intrusion.

    Must be better ways of getting to swim in the Med. Leave SAGA to the grannies.

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