6:16. Book with Confidence. Please see our booking conditions for information or for more information about financial protection and the ATOL Certificate go to If you buy other travel arrangements such as accommodation only this protection doesn’t apply.Holidays Please sells travel services on behalf of Hays Travel Limited and benefits from Hays Travel's membership of ABTA with membership number 65310
For further information about ABTA, the Code of Conduct and the arbitration scheme available to you if you have a complaint, contact ABTA, 30 Park Street, London SE1 9EQ. We are obliged to maintain a high standard of service to you by ABTA's Code of Conduct. ABTA and ABTA Members help holidaymakers to get the most from their travel and assist them when things do not go according to plan. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, the military facility was also used as a CIA interrogation site. Tel: 020 3117 0599 or www.abta.com. The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), also called the Chagos Islands, is a British overseas territory. UN hands British Chagos Islands to Mauritius. We use cookies on our website in order to improve your experience. We are a Member of ABTA which means you have the benefit of ABTA’s assistance and Code of Conduct. It is not known as a destination for travellers. PEROS BANHOS A cluster of a score of small islands which form the largest group of the Chagos Archipelago, Peros Banhos forms a basin of 29km in length, north to south, and 19km in breadth from east to west. The largest island on the Chagos Islands archipelago, Diego Garcia, is where the US and the UK operate a large military base and was also used as a US military base for the US-led attacks against Afghanistan and Iraq in the 2000s.
We provide financial protection for your money when you buy a package holiday. 12:25. Holidays Please is a trading name of Holidaysplease Ltd who are registered in England and Wales with company number 04488333 and VAT number GB193167195. Families of islanders housed in council-allocated accommodation deemed inappropriate by social services Third generation of UK-based community do not have automatic right to citizenship If you do receive an ATOL Certificate but all the parts of your trip are not listed on it, those parts will not be ATOL protected. Like many reputable holiday companies we are ABTA registered, our ABTA membership number is 65310.We also use ATOL protected tour operators. They lie 1,930km northeast of Mauritius, south of Gan in the Maldives. May 02, 2020; About tourism package Dec 09, 2019; The chagos islands Nov 22, 2019; What's the weather like in April Jul 11, 2018; A Happy Christmas Dec 25, 2016; Why a Diego Garcia forum? In fact, it is very hard to get to at all, as the main atoll, Diego Garcia, is also a joint military facility of the USA and the UK. Foreign Office-run trip thought to be first formal parliamentary visit to the disputed territory Mar 30, 2016; is it true? Walkabout Yachts 15,518 views. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the islands were home to up to 500 people employed in the coconut plantations and fishing station. The UK could lose its permanent seat on the UN security council unless it resolves the future of the Chagos Islands, the archipelago in the Indian Ocean whose largest island, Diego Garcia, is … Visits by individuals are difficult to arrange. Please ask us to confirm what protection may apply to your booking. Do you know that Diego Garcia people was depopulated to make room for a military base?The evil Labour government allowed Us bases in Diego Garcia in 1967....and the expulsion of locals...and the Torries are allowing it to go on.We would like to go on a dive trip to the chaos islands...anybody who can inform us how to get there...where to stay and IF there is a possibility to dive?Did you get a reply to your post as to whether it is possible?Yes and it looks a bit dangerous given the current political climate - ie DT and N Korea.Don't think it's possible either, and world is a very dangerous place with DT in charge....This is a Military Island inhabitated by the US under a 50 year agreement with the UK it is not open to tourism, I visited there when in the Royal Navy in the 80's its a beautiful island, and the chagossians were forced off it to This is the version of our website addressed to speakers of