Leisure Direction, call number 0844-5765504

All the numbers listed on the site do not work!

Website http://www.leisuredirection.co.uk/

I want to speak to Customer services,

•Where is the company based? Not sure

I want to contact them as the ferry company I booked with has stopped sailing on the dates I booked!

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~ Edited by Dave: Thread title amended

Hi & welcome

Leisure Direction is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Travel Gateway Ltd based at
2 MORROW COURT  
APPLEFORD ROAD  
SUTTON          
COURTNEY        
OX14 4FH        

Try 01235 845 100

Leisure Direction is a wholly owned subsidiary of

The Travel Gateway Ltd

2Morrow Court
Appleford Road
Sutton Courtenay
Abingdon
Oxfordshire
OX14 4FH

The only number I can find a the moment is

0870 458 0401


edit...Mainbass beat me to it

Thanks I tried 01235 845 100 but they could or would not put me through but thanks for trying.

Hi again jsknight100

01235 845 100 also belongs to two other companies at the same address,  Entee Global Services Ltd & 2Morrow Group Ltd so for the benefit of the database, please let us know if it works.

Typing Travel Gateway Ltd into the 'Company's House' web site reveals....


Name & Registered Office:
TRAVEL GATEWAY LTD
57 HALL FARM DRIVE, WHITTON
TWICKENHAM
MIDDLESEX
TW2 7PG


However, it also states that the company is dissolved

jsknight100 wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2010 at 2:52pm:

All the numbers listed on the site do not work!

For the record, the numbers that do not work are temporarily out of order. The entries containing those numbers have been removed from the database and are as follows:

Eurodrive	0870 442 2440		020 8324 3055	Leisure Direction call centre
Hotel-Price.co.uk	0871 423 8936		020 8324 4000	Leisure Direction call centre
Into France	0870 442 2222		020 8324 4050	French Holidays - Leisure Direction call centre
Leisure Direction Ltd	0870 442 8941		020 8324 3055	also for 0870 4428955
Leisure Direction Ltd	0870 442 8955		020 8324 4031	Fax: 0208 3244030   also trade as Best of Egypt, Best of Portugal & Best of Greece
Leisure Direction Ltd	0871 423 9819		020 8324 4019	Times Travel offers
Leisure Direction Ltd	0871 423 8919		020 8324 3055	Telegraph Travel offers

All these were previously verified.

The two entries that remain are:

Best of Greece	0870 442 2442	020 8324 3111	also for Best of Egypt & Best of Portugal (0871 4235542)  Also: 020 8324 3112 /3118 p/o Best of Travel Ltd
Seafarer Small Ship Cruises	0870 442 2447	020 8324 3117	Also for: 0871 4235547  p/o Best of Travel Ltd

These are part of Best of Travel Ltd, Image House, Station Road, London N17 9LR. Perhaps these companies are now no longer connected with Leisure Direction.

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There are some entries that appear to be connected with this company:

Verified entries:

AFerry Group

0870 458 0401

01235 845100

p/o The Travel Gateway Ltd

Unverified entries:

AFerry Freight	0870 066 0000	01235 845606
AFerry Group	0844 576 8845	01235 845188
AFerry Group	0844 576 0006	01235 845194	Reservations Admin
Ferry Savers	0844 576 8835	01235 845697	The geographical number cited is the one that showed up on my caller display when Ferry Savers called me. They refuse to confirm a geographical number. I can't get a reply on the 01235845697 number.

Thanks for that information do you think the numbers will ever work, I think that as those numbers are now on the site they will never work & the company will try & get everyone to use the 0844 number! Is it harder to find alternative numbers to 0844 numbers?

I have found some more links that may be of interest:

• TravelMole - Accounting issues blamed for Leisure Direction failure [08 February, 2008]
  
  
  Quote:

  Based in Tottenham Hale, London, Leisure Direction was set up 21 years ago and, on average, took bookings from around 35,000 customers each year. The company, run by Alan Potts, employed 50 staff and its most recent annual turnover was £15 million. The company was a registered ATOL holder and registered ABTA licence holder, trading under a number of names, including French Impressions, French Holiday Service, EuroDrive, Alliance Travel, The Travel Alliance, and Faresavers. […] Leisure Direction also used to trade under a series of 'Best of' names, but these were purchased by Best of Travel Ltd in April 2007. Best of Travel managing director Eli Idrissi said although the two companies operate from the same building, his companies were trading as normal. These include Best of France, Best of Greece, Best of Cyprus, Best of Portugal, Best of Turkey, Best of Spain, Best of Italy, and Best of Cruising. "We used to work together 20 years ago, but we bought the specialist division from them as it was a separate busines," he said.

  
  So "Best of" was split off in 2007, which is why the 020 numbers still work for it.
  
  
• Holidaymakers warned of new travel company [14 Feb 2008]
  
  
  Quote:

  Holidaymakers are being warned that a new company which has emerged following the collapse of tour operator Leisure Direction has no connection with this former member of the Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA). Leisure Direction, a specialist tour operator to Europe, had been operating for 20 years, but went into administration a week ago, following accounting problems. Several companies, including ski operator Erna Low, took over the existing bookings. The administrators, however, sold the Leisure Direction website to a firm called Entee which has created the similarly-named Leisure Direction Travel Limited, a company which is not an ABTA member.

  
  Entee's website is [url=www.entee.co.uk[/url]]www.entee.co.uk[/url] and its address is also 2morrow Court. The company is part of 2morrow Group.

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jsknight100 wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2010 at 6:08pm:

Thanks for that information do you think the numbers will ever work, I think that as those numbers are now on the site they will never work & the company will try & get everyone to use the 0844 number! Is it harder to find alternative numbers to 0844 numbers?

It would appear that 2morrow Group has numbers from 01235 845100 to 845699. 845700 belongs to another company and I assume that all numbers inbetween belong to 2morrow.

Those numbers added to our listings have been submitted by visitors. Perhaps they are staff members' direct numbers, staff who have left...it's all ifs buts and maybes really.

If calls are dealt with at that address, then maybe the 0844 numbers (there are various 0844 numbers for different parts of the business) go to one or more of those 845xxx numbers....

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From 2morrow Group About Us page:

Quote:

The first of the group companies, Entee, was founded by Chris Howe-Davies in 1997. Then in 2008, Chris's eldest son James Howe-Davies took over as Group CEO. This family owned and run company also includes younger son Michael Howe-Davies (CEO of The Travel Gateway). The Group is operated on family values with global ambitions, and now employs over two hundred people across seven countries.

845699 allows access to the directory of extensions and direct dial in numbers are 01235 84 + four-digit extension. So if you know the name of the person you want to speak to....

Chris Howe-Davies is x5103, James is x5109 and Michael is on x5602.  ;)

Try 5682 during the daytime; at present it is answered with a recording which identifies it as being "Leisure Direction Travel". Please report back on what you find so as to help me to list a suitable alternative.  :)

Please help me to find a geographic location number for  08444931464.  This number is for Justcampingfrance.co.uk, also spelt Just Camping France, and the company's full details are: owned by  The Travel Gateway Limited, registered in England and Wales. Company No. 04127327. Registered Office: 2Morrow Court, Appleford Road, Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, OX14 4FH.

I have asked for information from them from their e-mail address, but they don't answer.
Thanks, searcher461

searcher461 wrote on Feb 14^th, 2013 at 3:20pm:

Please help me to find a geographic location number for  08444931464.  This number is for Justcampingfrance.co.uk, also spelt Just Camping France, and the company's full details are: owned by  The Travel Gateway Limited, registered in England and Wales. Company No. 04127327. Registered Office: 2Morrow Court, Appleford Road, Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, OX14 4FH. I have asked for information from them from their e-mail address, but they don't answer. Thanks, searcher461

Hello and welcome to SayNoTo0870.com.

We have covered The Travel Gateway Limited, part of 2morrow Group, before, and I have joined the posting you made onto that thread.

See above; it would appear that the main number for the 2morrow office might be 01235 845100, with subsequent numbers used for direct-dialling in.

Please let us know how you get on. If you find a suitable alternative, post about it here and I will put an entry in the database for it.