A execution enigma lawsuit that near customers fearing they had been scammed retired of hundreds of pounds has announced it is postponing each aboriginal events and blamed 'unforeseen challenges'.
Furious fans took to societal media aft discovering 4 'Wine Escape' events owed to instrumentality spot successful luxury hotels astir Cornwall hadn't been organised.
Disappointed customers were promised 'glamour and extravagance' and an 'exclusive party' held connected 4 consecutive nights astatine luxury hotels crossed Cornwall for the terms of £65 per idiosyncratic oregon a array of 10 for £635.
But edifice unit astatine each 4 hotels confirmed organisers had ne'er booked with them with immoderate adjacent asking for their names to beryllium removed from the Wine Escapes website.
In a station connected Facebook this week organisers announced a 'temporary suspension of each upcoming Wine Escape events'.
In an email to customers, organisers added: 'This determination was made aft exhaustive efforts to resoluteness unforeseen challenges that person arisen.
A execution enigma lawsuit that near customers fearing they had been scammed retired of hundreds of pounds has announced it is postponing each aboriginal events
Among the disappointed customers was Dannii Moss and 5 friends booked tickets for the lawsuit to observe her day costing £390
Sophie Bee said she spent £400 connected a akin lawsuit time nighttime astatine the Penventon Park Hotel successful Redruth, Cornwall, but was besides told the lawsuit was cancelled
'Unfortunately, we are incapable to disclose further details regarding the cancellation astatine this time. Please beryllium assured that you volition person a afloat refund for your tickets). We are presently processing refunds, and you tin expect the refund to beryllium credited backmost to your archetypal outgo method wrong 30 days.
'We sincerely apologise for immoderate disappointment and inconvenience this cancellation has caused, arsenic we admit it is astatine precise abbreviated notice. Please cognize that we explored each imaginable options to debar this result but yet had nary alternative.'
Among the disappointed customers was Dannii Moss and 5 friends booked tickets for an lawsuit connected Thursday to observe her day costing £390.
She posted connected Facebook: 'So contiguous myself, Craig, Amy, Tracey, Paul and Tom were meant to beryllium doing a 1920s vino flight (murder mystery) astatine St Ives Harbour Hotel, for my birthday. 'Unfortunately aft idiosyncratic saying it was a scam we rang up the edifice who said the institution WINE ESCAPE didn't really publication this lawsuit with them, I looked up the adjacent lawsuit arsenic determination meant to beryllium doing others successful different areas, and it seems they enquired with the venues but ne'er really booked with them.
'So it seems maine and my friends arsenic good arsenic galore others perchance person been scammed retired of £390.. determination is nary telephone fig connected the website/Facebook oregon insta but they don't reply emails oregon messages.
Locals posted warnings online labelling the institution 'a scam' and saying 'they ne'er adjacent made a booking'
A idiosyncratic astatine the Atlantic Hotel successful Newquay said: 'The organisers ne'er confirmed an lawsuit with us. We person asked them to instrumentality our sanction disconnected their marketing'
Padstow Harbour Hotel posted connected Facebook: 'We tin spot that this institution is advertizing that they are holding an lawsuit astatine our hotel. Please beryllium advised that we don't person a confirmed booking from this company'
'I privation to stock truthful cipher other gets scammed.. I'm devastated arsenic I was looking guardant to doing thing different, we've each paid retired for bully outfits and everything truthful not conscionable the £390 for the tickets.'
Sophie Bee said she spent £400 connected a akin lawsuit time nighttime astatine the Penventon Park Hotel successful Redruth, Cornwall, but was besides told the lawsuit was cancelled.
She said: 'This is simply a scam bash not bargain tickets unluckily maine and a radical of my friends did and person present mislaid implicit £400. Do not bargain these tickets.'
Staff astatine the Penventon Hotel were unaware of the booking erstwhile contacted by MailOnline.
Events are besides booked successful Newquay and Padstow connected Saturday and Sunday. Padstow Harbour Hotel posted connected Facebook: 'We tin spot that this institution is advertizing that they are holding an lawsuit astatine our hotel. Please beryllium advised that we don't person a confirmed booking from this company.'
In its description, Wine Escape promises attendees will: 'Step backmost into the roaring 1920's and bask the glamour and extravagance of Hawker Wine Estate. You person been invited to an exclusive enactment hosted by the precise affluent owners, the Von James family. But the celebrations crook sour erstwhile a tempest of vengeance, lies and deceit ruins the evening. You indispensable instrumentality together, clasp your nervus and bushed the timepiece successful bid to flight Hawker alive…'
MailOnline has contacted Wine Escape for comment.
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