I was very excited when I heard about Antarctic expedition opportunity through a PBS news story, highlighting the Canadian company, One Ocean Expeditions.
CAUTION should be used in dealing with this company. I paid the $2758 deposit for this $10,000+ ten-day trip by check. Two weeks later, they claimed to not have received the check and asked that I do a wire transfer or I could lose my spot. I did a wire transfer for $2758.
A personal medical condition precluded me from being able to consider the trip. I understood that the deposit was non-refundable. What I did not realize is that the company did receive my initial check payment and they cashed it, even though I had sent the wire transfer.
In 8 months, I still have not been able to get my $2758 refunded to me and they have blocked all my attempts to resolve this issue. They at first said they would send me a refund check, which never came. Since then, they won't communicate to me at all.
This begs the question of the integrity of this company. Deal cautiously or not at all with ONE OCEAN EXPEDITIONS....BAD NEWS read more