@Mike-And-Jane0
Yes, they blocked the calendars of hosts in the UK for a time, but not so in many other parts of the world (and they were still advertising certain UK apartments on their HotelTonight portal during lockdown anyway. These typically claimed to be "serviced apartments", including one particular block in London that I'm personally familiar with, that could never come under the auspices of serviced apartments, by any stretch of the imagination)
Other hosts were even receiving emails during lockdown in their countries, advising them how to get more bookings on restricted dates. (Automated, obviously, but still..)
I think we're all acutely aware at this stage from the thousands of posts from furious guests online and from various MSM articles, that the pre-March 14th "full refund for all" claims didn't exactly pan out as promised - or anywhere even remotely close to it.
And of course they're refunding guests when requested to do so. Perfect timing, with Q3 coming to a close. Give it a week or two though, and if the early Covid refund debacle is anything to go by, we'll be hearing about all sorts of "glitches" and anomalies in relation to this latest refund batch.
And let's hope none of the guests cancelling due to Rule of 6 booked their stays with vouchers they received from cancelled Covid bookings earlier during the year, because they may very well be in for a shock or two.
Penelope