(Policy modified 8-1-2010 effective immediately for all current and future bookings)
As you all know, the oil spill disaster has the potential to impact us all this year. We are already receiving calls from concerned booked guests who are asking our policy about cancellations and refunds. As a result, I wanted to make you all aware of our policy concerning the oil spill disaster.
Refunds:
If Federal, State, or Local authorities close the beach due to an oil spill landfall, we will issue full refunds to any vacationer that has booked a condo through Blue Sun Properties.
If Federal, State, or Local authorities close the beach due to an oil spill landfall during your stay and you decide to leave before your scheduled departure date because of the oil, any unused portion of the rental will be returned.
Rescheduling:
We will give any concerned vacationer the opportunity to re-schedule their vacation to avoid the oil. This may result in moving a confirmed booking from one condo to another based on availability and situation and may also result in rate changes based on season.
Non Oil Spill Related Cancellations
For Cancellations not related to the oil spill, please see our rental policies
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Our vacation is planned for the week of June 12th. Can you keep us updated on the beach and the ocean. Is the water in good swimming condition.
Keep reading the blog here and I will do my best to keep you updated. Lucinda and I are going back to the beach June 5th to June 19th. I will be personally keeping an eye and nose on the situation.
Hi! We live just north of Dallas and have a vacation scheduled to PCB for June 27th thru July 1st. We are not canceling our vacation. We have been coming to PCB for the last 8 years and we are not going to let oil stop us! Thanks for your blog. I check the spill everyday. Your postings are most helpful!
Let me know how the beach is looking in the morning. We are planning on coming down the 12th…hopefully the oil will stay away!
I just posted a video of the oil free beach
BP lying again. They have zero credibility. Ruin our coast and lie the entire way through it. Oil is great, eh?
don’t let them fool you, they want your money. I’m a surfer who spends 6 days a week in the water and my surf board is covered in a a light film of oil this morning. My throat also was burning!!!!! It is here and its going to get worse.
Brandon,
Exactly where are you? What part of the beach are you surfing and finding the oil? I am in PCB right now and I would like to see what you are talking about.
Brandon
Thanks for your honesty, which beach were you surfing on. I am to arrive on July 31st and have been told they have no residue.
Keep me informed. please
Debbie
Great post! Mind if I use some of the information from this post if I provide a link back to your site?
HELLO, I READ ON ANOTHER WEBSITE SEVERAL OIL DRUMS WASHED UP ON PC BEACH, AND 1 SWIMMER HAD TO BE TREATED BECAUSE HE WAS OIL COVERED, AND THEy PUT OUT DOUBLE RED FLAGS AND CLOSED THE WATER AND BEACH. WHERE ON PANAMA CITY BEACH WAS THAT? IT SAID THE OIL WAS ON BEACH 700 YARDS ON BOTH SIDES OF OIL DRUMS. COULD YOU PLEASE UP DATE ME ON THIS?
Brenda,
A drum washed ashore in Laguna Beach just West of PCB and the beach was closed for 3 hours while they removed it. I saw nothing on the news about any oil covered swimmer. I did hear a second washed ashore too. Maybe that one was the culprit.
It first saw tar balls as physical evidence from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, now Florida has woken up to find a 550 gallon oil storage tank washed up on Panama City Beach.
From http://www.tankstoragemag.com/industry_news.php?item_id=2208
The tank, on which the words ‘BP’ and ‘Horizon’ were found, was suspected to have been on the Deepwater Horizon rig, but it could have come from a ship.
The rectangular metal tank had an undetermined type of oil in it and was leaking. Hazardous materials crews loaded the 5,000lb tank onto a trailer and took it to a Coast Guard station for transport to Louisiana, where it will be turned over to investigators probing the BP oil spill.
The white sandy beach where it came ashore, the Laguna Beach area of Panama City Beach, has not seen any tar balls or oily sheen from the spill. It was about 60-70 miles east of the Florida Gulf Coast area where oil has washed ashore.
We were at PC the week of June 5 and departed June 12 – Everything was fine . The double flags was due to the water not oil. We were there last year and saw the double red flags for water and there was no oil problems last year. The weather was beautiful. Ate plenty of good seafood.
We have a vaction planed for June 21st through June the 27th. And we are wording if there is an oil on the beaches of PCB??
According to vacationers in PCB now, there are no tar balls on the beaches in PCB, but there are some at Carillon beach 7 miles west of PCB
We were there last week through this Monday the 21st tar balls were washing up and saw a schene on the water that Sunday the twenty other than that the sea weed was washing up
This whole oil matter is a tragedy. I wish BP would have cared more about the spill.
Thank you for your interesting article. Indeed, the nightmare of the Gulf oil polution is actually a majour problem. I am really looking forward to coming updates, which probably brings hope and terminates the oil problem.
2 tar ball fields approx 30 yards square 200 feet offshore on the east end of panama city beach. one quarter mile from st. andrews state and floating from west to east. swimmers within a hundred feet of the tar ball fields. i live in pcb and saw these tarball fields from my condo balcony. not a good sign. good luck
We arrived at PCB yesterday June 25, we are staying at Aqua. The water is crystal clear, no tar balls in sight anywhere where we are, it is beautiful. BTW, we have been on the beach an swimming in the water twice already.
Hello from PCB. As promised I am checking in to report on the beach conditions. It was a rain filled stormy day today. High winds and heavy rains. I know the wind and rain conditions have some folks concerned. I am happy to report that the skies cleared and we made it back out to frolic on the beach by 7:00 pm. The water is still crystal clear, no tar balls in sight. I see why they call this the ” emerald coast” the water is beautiful!
Will be arriving in PCB next week for a week stay. Read reports about a few tarballs but mostly the beaches seem to be pristine and the water clear. How badly is the oil spill impacting the area seafood restaurants?
please keep updating….i have a planned vacation the first week of august to take my 2 small children to the beach…please keep updating on the condition of the water and beaches….thank u
I posted a new story this morning
I am currently working this disaster and i can only say to the people planning the vacation, to not be worried. A few tar balls here and there but crews are keeping that clean. most of the things reported are not in fact tar balls but asphalt that is being washed up from the ocean. I cant really say to much because i like my job but you may see me are around the miracle strip location. My advice, do not let this deter you from your vacation at this time, i cant speak for the coming months but as of now you shouldn’t cancel.