Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
return transfer
English answer:
transfer to and from
- The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2013-02-01 08:54:07 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)
English term
return transfer
( Actually, I need to understand the last sentence)
Thank u in advance.
| 4 +4 | transfer to and from |
Catharine Cellier-Smart
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| 4 -1 | transfer to (the airport) |
Henk Sanderson
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Responses
Reunion
The Smart Solution
Native in: English (Variant: British)
Works in: French to English, Creoles & Pidgins (French-based Other) to English, English
transfer to and from
'Transfer' here would mean transport by taxi for example.
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qianyong xie
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thank you William
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Mark Nathan
3 hrs
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thank you Mark
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Sheila Wilson
: I think it would be excluded even if the second hotel were one of the participating group - they will only get the transfers that were originally agreed to
5 hrs
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true
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Yvonne Gallagher
5 hrs
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thank you
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David Moore (X)
: I suspect the wrong interpretation has been put on the source text - although it's easy to see why...
10 hrs
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Phong Le
20 hrs
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thank you
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Netherlands
47 years of Engineering Experience
Native in: Dutch (Variant: Netherlands)
Works in: German to Dutch, English to Dutch
transfer to (the airport)
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David Moore (X)
: I think the 'reading between the lines' has rather come off the rails here - ther's no suggestion at all of transport here, is there...
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Discussion
I think the chosen answer needs to be re-examined. I read the text submitted to mean that the guests who chose to take accommodation other than that originally allocated, and who were subsequently 'evicted from or deemed non-grata' by those (new) hotels, no longer have any claim to be accommodated at the original hotels.
And that doesn't IMO mean transfer to AND FROM, but back...And here it's not necessarily a taxi transfer, but just a transfer of the person(s) from one hotel to another.
Having said that, the wording in the text submitted certainly needs to be clarified, and think the asker should have gone back to the customer, as this could cause problems if wrong.