Website, phones etc closing for 4 days!
I rarely open the Tauck website. I just went on it to see if there are any banners about the river cruises and saw this
We're Making Improvements to Better Serve You
As we launch our new reservation system, our Reservations Sales Center hours will be temporarily adjusted.
Modified Hours (US & Canada)
August 17–18
Open from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm ET
August 19–23
Closed
Phone support, email, My Account and Advisor Connect will be unavailable during this time.
August 24
Open from 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm ET
We anticipate higher call volume and longer wait times than normal once we reopen. During this time, you may once again use My Account and Advisor Connect to manage many aspects of your reservation.
August 25–28
Open from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm ET
Guests in the United Kingdom or Australia
Our Reservations Sales Center for guests in the UK and Australia will reopen on August 25 with regular operating hours.
If you face a true travel emergency during our closure
Please call 1-800-468-2825 (for Roam by Tauck call 1-877-519-2204) and press zero to reach our after-hours team.
Thank you for your patience and understanding as we complete this important upgrade
Comments
I pity the people who are assigned to answer that 800#.
British, we received an email on August 6th detailing the above information. Did you not receive one? I would have thought Club 25 members like yourself would have been to first to receive this notification. 😁
Hi! New here with River cruises. We have just received word that the Milan to Amsterdam rhine river cruise has adjusted its itinerary with a five hour bus ride up north with a ship swap. No castle dinner and no cruising up the middle Rhine,viewing all the beautiful castles. I keep hearing that TAUCK always surprises you with wonderful things in this situation but what are the surprises? And why can’t they tell you.
Sam - I don't recall receiving the email.
More importantly, will the forum be up? If not, what are we going to do all day?
If it is down, hopefully they'll fix the most important thing about the forum - the ridiculous size of the emojis 😁
P.S. In case anyone's wondering how I used a correctly sized emoji, I copied and past3ed Sam's.
We did not get an email. Yes, no forum. Going cold Turkey.
What do you mean about an imoji? is it one of your jokes I’m not getting? 🤪
Yes I too got an email from Tauck about this on the 5th. Will be interesting to see what improves with this.....
Lisa, I think maybe Tauck could delay these updates and lack of clients being able to talk to them. This is a disaster for them, even if it is not exactly their fault. Waiting and waiting for more info is not fun, remembering we went through all this with tours at the start of the pandemic plus when Jennifer Tombaugh was over confident about when she said tours would be opening up again.
I cannot think of how this is going to affect Tauck, their finances , their disillusioned customers, the price of future tours etc.
New customers will be most disillusioned Maybe they will look at Viking next time even though they only give vouchers when people cancel tours.
British - No, not a joke. Are you on phone or PC? Here's a PC Tauck emoji
I agree it's bad timing, given all the river cruise cancellations.
My wife and I both received an email on August 5th about the phones.
I got an email several days ago about this. My thoughts were like those of British - with all the river cruise woes and changes and cancellations this seems like a particularly bad time to be doing this. But, since management changes a few years ago I feel like they lack a certain amount of common sense now…🤷♀️
Unless I deleted it, I don’t see an email about it.
Never use our computer for the forum, usually my iPad. Only probably in the last year have I used my phone for the forum
Rarely look at the Tauck website these days, mainly because I’m using other companies to book tours more frequently. Also, when they updated the website site some years ago, it has never been as good at finding tours.
Maybe only those with currently booked tours got the email???
Unless I misread, I think the forum will be available since it is not tied to Tauck’s reservation system. ‘My Account’, which is tied to the reservation system, will be unavailable certain days.
That probably explains it. I don't buy products that start with "i," except for my car, but that's from a different company.
I did not receive an email either, it probably was sent to customers that have tours booked this year.
I doubt it. My TA wasn't informed.
I received an email from Tauck ,as we leave in just over 60 days. I wonder if we will receive our travel docs?