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‘I cancelled my booking within 36 hours — but was charged £4,300’
✉ I made two bookings late on January 27 (believing them to be simply provisional reservations) for Sykes Cottages for two weeks in August. When I cancelled them both the following Monday morning, Sykes immediately sent me emails confirming the …