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Fabiola Cineas
As one of DC’s No Kings marches wound down at the Southwest Waterfront, protesters said they want the country to remember that DC was the “guinea pig.”
“Donald Tump unleashed this on Washington DC first,” Ama’d, 27, said as a group of National Guard members stood a few feet away. “We need to rest of the country to know that we are being over-policed in our communities.
Ama’d, an activist and music artist, helped design protest music that he performed on a float. “No one man should have all that power! We need our rights back! We’re taking back ours,” one musician rapped as crowds of protesters chanted, “Free DC! Free DC!”
As protesters made their way to the Waterfront metro station, organizers distributed flyers for future protests, including a daily “Hands Off the Arts” protest to “keep the Kennedy Center open” and “save jobs,” organizers told the Guardian.
For a 1 May protest, activists are demanding a day of “No work. No School. No shopping,” another flyer states.
“Part of what we are trying to do is be in solidarity with other groups and movements that are being attacked and one of them is the labor unions and working people here in DC,” said Nachama Wilker, 64, a volunteer with Free DC, the local organization advocating for DC home rule and DC statehood. “The May action is in solidarity with all of these labor organizations as Trump guts union jobs in DC”.
Wilker added, “People come out to these big rallies, and they don’t know how to plug in after the rally. That’s a big reason why I am handing out these flyers”.
Rachel Leingang
Jane Fonda, Joan Baez and Maggie Rogers are closing out the day’s speakers in St. Paul.
“This is not the America I was told existed,” Fonda said. “I was told we are the people.”
Rogers praised Minnesotans for their resilience, saying it was inspiring. “So much love in the face of evil,” she said.
Baez praised Minnesota’a resistance, saying “thank you, Minneapolis”.
Then, Baez and Rogers ended the rally by singing “The Times They Are A-Changing.”
As No Kings protests begin to wrap up on the east coast, they’re just getting started in California.
Here’s a glimpse of the demonstrations under way in San Francisco and Los Angeles:
Lex McMenamin
The multiple No Kings contingents in Manhattan merged through Times Square, continuously flanked by photographers. Families carried LGBTQ pride flags and Palestinian flags, while older marchers held pun-heavy protest signs, and others handed out whistles. Across age groups and race — though the crowd did overall lean white and older, it was by no means homogenous — the consistent themes were anti-ICE, pro-LGBTQ, and, obviously, anti-Trump.
But perhaps the most consistent theme was anti-war. Multiple signs connected the Epstein files to the Trump administration’s decision to target Iran and spend immense amounts of funding on warfare. “This war has to stop,” said M.B., 55, who came in from Queens to protest. “American people do not want what this administration is doing. We don’t want it. We need healthcare, we need jobs. We need infrastructure.”
The front of the march reached the dispersal point at Madison Square Garden by 3:30 local time, and more than an hour later, protesters still streamed through the closed intersection. Leftist organizing groups and political parties set up shop to peel protesters off as they walked to the subway, flyering for future actions and ways to get involved in their work.
Rachel Leingang
Organizers in Minnesota estimate at least 200,000 are at the main march at the state capitol in St. Paul.
The crowd stretches back further than I can see in multiple directions.
“Fuck ICE” and “ICE OUT” signs and pins are a frequent site, an indicator of how much the federal government’s incursion into the state left a mark on its people.
Speakers on the stage talked about how they and their organizations responded on the ground to their neighbors’ needs during the surge.
Bernie Sanders riled up the crowd with remarks about the role of the ultra rich in politics.
My colleage Amy Qin is continuing to report live from Chicago, where a diverse slate of speakers, including faith leaders and legal advocates, have addressed a crowd gathered at Butler Field in Grant Park:
The loudest cheers came when two student protest leaders came on stage, including Leah Sophia Lopez, a student at Social Justice High School in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, a predominately Latino neighborhood that was a frequent target of Trump’s immigration enforcement campaign last fall.
“My fellow Americans: kids are being put into cages while our government funds war and genocides,” said Lopez, who led hundreds of students in a school walk out protesting ICE last year. “America is built off of protest, immigrants, slaves, we built this county.”
Illinois lieutenant governor Juliana Stratton closed out the rally to thunderous cheers from the crowd. “We came here to make it clear that we will never bow to a king,” she said. “Illinois will stand up and fight back like we always do.”
Fabiola Cineas
Thousands of protesters are rallying across the Washington, DC region as No Kings protests spread across the nation’s capital.
One protest group, made up of about a dozen Palestinian mothers, stood at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and waved a massive 10-foot-tall Palestinian flag. One of the mothers, activist Hazami Barmada, 42, said she was protesting to draw attention to “Israel’s atrocities against the Palestinian people.”
“Most Americans don’t know that our tax dollars are being used to subsidize violence,” Barmada said. “This is happening while many Americans can’t afford housing, milk, school, or healthcare. Prices continue to go up as we are fighting Israel’s wars.”
Other protesters, led by local activist organizations including Free DC, gathered at the Frederick Douglass Bridge in southeast Washington, DC. The crowd marched across the bridge to Fort McNair in Southwest DC where White House senior advisor Stephen Miller resides. The protest’s organizers say Miller is “running the effort to take over DC.”
Protesters told the Guardian they wanted to draw attention to the occupation of Washington, DC. In August, President Trump issued an executive order that put the federal government in charge of the Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department. Trump used an additional executive order to deployed more than 2,000 members of the National Guard to the nation’s capital. Trump said the Guard members were mobilized to fight crime, though violent crime in DC is at a 30-year low.
Bruce Springsteen headlines rally in Minnesota
Rachel Leingang
At the flagship protest in St Paul, Minnesota, many tens of thousands filled the streets around the state capitol to commiserate, mourn and speak out again the Trump administration.
Bruce Springsteen sang his song about the death and destruction brought by ICE to this state, Streets of Minneapolis, leading the crowd in chants of “ICE OUT NOW.”
Governor Tim Walz introduced Springsteen, saying it was clear America needed “no damn kings” but it needed The Boss.
Walz praised his state as the “freest” in the country and commended the state’s people for standing up for each other and for immigrants when Trump sent in thousands of federal agents, who killed two Minnesotans.
The names of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti featured heavily in the No Kings protest and signs here in Minnesota.
“We will never forget what they did here,” Walz said of the Trump administration. “You’ll still be here when that orange clown is in the dustbin of history.”
Thousands of protesters are rallying at Butler Field in Grant Park, Chicago, where my colleage Amy Qin is reporting:
As they filed into the park, protesters chanted “ICE out” and “Trump must go now, facists gotta go now”.
Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson was the first to speak at the event, opening by addressing the size of the crowd: “Look around: Our movement is bigger, our resolve is bigger.”
“We’re sending a clear message: we’re gonna end these assaults against working people, against immigrants and end these endless wars,” Johnson said.
In the crowd, protesters held aloft signs reading “No country for orange men” and “Imagine hating immigrants more than pedophiles”. Others waved signs denouncing ICE, supporting voting rights and criticizing wars.
Later in the rally, Dian Palmer, president of SEIU Local 73, said, “Fascism is really just one thing: powerful people using force to keep everyone else down, and unions exist to push back against that.”
Also at the event, social worker and Chicago Therapy Collective executive director Iggy Ladden denounced the Trump administration’s attacks against transgender people.
“Trans people are a direct threat to fascism because depends on control telling people who they can and cannot be,” Ladden said. “When we build a world that protects trans people we build a world that’s better for everyone.”
As demonstrators gather across the United States, the White House and Republican leadership are denouncing the No Kings day events planned today as “Trump Derangement Therapy Sessions”.
In a statement, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said the demonstrations were created by “leftist funding networks” and that “only people who care about these Trump Derangement Therapy Sessions are the reporters who are paid to cover them.”
The National Republican Congressional Committee echoed the White House. “These Hate America Rallies are where the far-left’s most violent, deranged fantasies get a microphone,” spokesperson Maureen O’Toole told the Associated Press.
Protesters are gathering in Minnesota’s Twin Cities for a flagship No Kings rally in St Paul. Bruce Springsteen is expected to headline the event and perform Streets of Minneapolis, which he wrote following the deaths of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti earlier this year.
Joan Baez, Jane Fonda and senator Bernie Sanders are also expected at the St Paul rally, which organizers believe could attract about 100,000 people.
Lex McMenamin
Well before the main New York City No Kings march was set to touch off near Central Park’s south-west edge, protesters milled through the frigid midtown streets with posters and banners, donning costumes, keffiyehs and parkas.
By 1.50pm, Letitia James, the state attorney general, Jumaane Williams, the city public advocate, Robert De Niro, Rev Al Sharpton and Padma Lakshmi filed into the front of the crowd behind hand painted banners reading: “WE PROTECT OUR DEMOCRACY – PEOPLE OVER BILLIONAIRES – WE PROTECT OUR NEIGHBORS.” They joined union members in AFT merch and protesters of all ages.
Press photographers swarming the celebrities slowed the progress of the march down 7th Avenue, making it difficult for them to take off. “From Palestine to Mexico, all the walls have got to go,” someone boomed into a small speaker, half a block ahead of the celebrities. “Racist ICE, you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide!” Hundreds more people awaited the march in Times Square, while another march proceeded parallel down Broadway to convene.
Protest against the far-right underway in UK
With No Kings protests under way in the United States, my colleagues across the pond are covering a massive, although unrelated, demonstration against the far-right in the United Kingdom.
Organizers believe about half a million people gathered in London today in what was expected to be the biggest multicultural march in UK history, organized by the Together Alliance.
“Together was formed in response to last September’s far-right ‘unite the kingdom’ demonstration, when violent groups went on the rampage. The overwhelming majority of people reject the racism, Islamophobia, division, hatred and violence promoted by Tommy Robinson and the far right,” Sabby Dhalu, of Stand Up to Racism, one of the members of the Together Alliance, told the Guardian.
As crowds continue to gather in Washington DC and Minnesota’s Twin Cities – where two of the largest protests of the day are planned – demonstrations are underway across the country.
Here are some more images from protests in Georgia, Kansas, Texas and elsewhere.
What is the 3.5% protest rule and what does it mean for the US?
The number is frequently cited in leftwing circles, serving as a rallying cry for people who oppose Donald Trump: if 3.5% of a population protests against a regime, the regime will fail.
Left-leaning content creators, activists and media have boosted the 3.5% rule as the anti-Trump resistance has grown. A Pod Save America episode in June was headlined The 3.5% Protest Rule That Could Bring Down Trump. Social media posts from protest groups broke down the rule and its limitations.
In the lead-up to mass days of protest, organizers have referred to the target as a goal. After the No Kings protests in June 2025, for instance, the progressive activist group Indivisible sent an email to its supporters noting how “3.5% is a historically important target – but not a magic number”. Another day of protests is set for Thursday [July 2025], dubbed “Good Trouble”, a reference to the late congressman John Lewis on the fifth anniversary of his death.
The figure stems from research of prior mass movements, though it’s often oversimplified. Still, the gist is accurate: sustained mass participation in a resistance movement can topple authoritarianism.
Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered outside the Capitolio de Puerto Rico in San Juan where my colleage Joseph Gedeon is reporting.
Here’s a scene of the crowds:
In an op-ed published today, California congressman Ro Khanna said, “The Epstein class thinks it runs America. Today, No Kings protesters send their response.”
“As more Americans are sent to fight abroad and the survivors of abuse are silenced at home, people increasingly feel dispensable,” the California congressman wrote in MS NOW. Khanna co-sponsored the Epstein Files Transparency Act. “For too long, Americans have seen our leaders fight harder for the Epstein class than for the working class. They have watched our system shield elites instead of delivering fundamentals such as affordable health care, housing and education.”
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European stock markets hit record high and oil price falls to three-month low after US-Iran peace deal – business live | Business
European stock markets hit record high
European stock markets have hit a record high at the start of trading, as relief over the US-Iran peace deal ripples across global markets.
The pan-European Stoxx 600 index has jumped by 0.9% to 639 points, over the previous record high set just before the Iran war started, with shares rising in London, Frankfurt, Paris, Madrid and Milan.
Mining and travel companies are driving the rally, while oil company shares are sliding.
That follows sharp gains in Asia-Pacific markets overnight, where Japan’s Nikkei surged by 5% on hopes that the strait of Hormuz will reopen within days.
Matt Britzman, senior equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, says global equity markets are starting the week firmly on the front foot after President Trump announced that a deal with Iran had been reached, adding:
The move has given investors a clear reason to dial back some of the geopolitical risk premium that has hung over markets, especially as the Strait of Hormuz is expected to reopen and oil prices move sharply lower.
Energy prices have been one of the clearest transmission channels from Middle East tensions into inflation, bond yields and equity sentiment, and there is likely to be a concerted effort to get prices down even further once this deal is finalised.
There are still details to be ironed out before markets can fully trust the agreement, but for now the direction of travel is clear: lower oil, calmer nerves and a renewed appetite for risk.
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Peace deal should keep mortgage rates down
Mortgage borrowers can breathe a sigh of relief at the news of a peace deal in Iran, says Adam French, head of consumer finance at Moneyfactscompare.co.uk.
While we are far from being out of the woods yet, a lasting peace deal should dramatically reduce the risk of the Bank of England’s worst-case scenario for inflation and interest rates becoming a reality.
“Under that scenario, Base Rate could have risen to 5.25%, potentially pushing typical rates on new mortgages towards 6.75%. Instead, today’s news means mortgages rates, which have already been slowly falling for several weeks, have likely already passed their peak – at least until the next unwelcome crisis.
“Borrowers can be optimistic but with a word of caution, as inflation and economic data will continue to influence the outlook. However, a lasting peace should remove one of the biggest risks to mortgage costs and may help restore a more stable environment for hard-pressed remortgage borrowers and prospective buyers.”
Even before this morning’s drop in UK bond yields (see earlier post), average mortgage rates have dipped slightly.
Moneyfacts reports:
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The average 2-year fixed residential mortgage rate today is 5.61%. This is down from 5.62% the previous working day.
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The average 5-year fixed residential mortgage rate today is 5.58%. This is down from 5.59% the previous working day.
Why it may take months for oil flows to return to normal
Donald Trump excitedly declared: “Ships of the World, start your engines. Let the oil flow!” last night, but the reality is that it will take some time for oil flows through the strait of Hormuz to return to pre-war levels.
One reason is that many oil tankers are simply in the wrong place, after the long closure of the strait.
Another is that some production and refining facilities have been damaged by the conflict, while others were mothballed after storate facilities filled up to the brim.
A third factor is that insurers could still be wary of the conflict reigniting, and price their cover accordingly.
Neil Shearing, group chief economist at Capital Economics, explains:
Even if ships now have safe passage, tankers are in the wrong place, oil production/refining facilities need to get up to full capacity, and questions over the cost and availability of insurance for ships traversing the Strait will remain.
Our current working assumption is that ~80% of energy flows will resume by the end of Q3. Natural gas flows will be slower to return, following the damage to Qatari facilities earlier in the conflict, which according to local officials has put 17% of production offline for two to three years.
US crude drops below $80
US crude oil has dropped to its lowest level since the second week of the Iran war.
The cost of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) light sweet crude has dropped by 6% today to $79.72 per barrel, the first time since 10 March that it has been under $80/barrel.
That could help to pull down US gasoline prices, which climbed after the conflict began, hitting consumer confidence.
UK bond yields fall
Today’s relief rally is also driving up government bond prices, pushing down the cost of borrowing.
The yield (or interest rate) on 10-year UK government debt has dropped by 6.5 basis points (0.065 of a percentage point) to 4.775%.
Two-year bond yields are down 8bps to 4.16%.
Lower bond yields indicate that that the cost of issuing new government debt has fallen, which will be a relief for the UK Treasury after the Iran war drove up borrowing costs.
Copper mining company Antofagasta is now the top riser on the FTSE 100, up almost 8%.
Trader will be concluding that an end to the Iran war will boost the world economy, leading to more demand for raw materials such as copper.
European stock markets hit record high
European stock markets have hit a record high at the start of trading, as relief over the US-Iran peace deal ripples across global markets.
The pan-European Stoxx 600 index has jumped by 0.9% to 639 points, over the previous record high set just before the Iran war started, with shares rising in London, Frankfurt, Paris, Madrid and Milan.
Mining and travel companies are driving the rally, while oil company shares are sliding.
That follows sharp gains in Asia-Pacific markets overnight, where Japan’s Nikkei surged by 5% on hopes that the strait of Hormuz will reopen within days.
Matt Britzman, senior equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, says global equity markets are starting the week firmly on the front foot after President Trump announced that a deal with Iran had been reached, adding:
The move has given investors a clear reason to dial back some of the geopolitical risk premium that has hung over markets, especially as the Strait of Hormuz is expected to reopen and oil prices move sharply lower.
Energy prices have been one of the clearest transmission channels from Middle East tensions into inflation, bond yields and equity sentiment, and there is likely to be a concerted effort to get prices down even further once this deal is finalised.
There are still details to be ironed out before markets can fully trust the agreement, but for now the direction of travel is clear: lower oil, calmer nerves and a renewed appetite for risk.
BP and Shell’s shares slide
Shares in oil companies are falling, though – BP and Shell are both down 3.7%, as investors anticipate an end to their earnngs boost from the Iran war.
FTSE 100 index hits eight-week high
Boom! Britain’s stock market has hit a near-two month high at the start of trading, as investors welcome the breakthrough between the US and Iran to end the Middle East conflict.
The FTSE 100 blue-chip share index has jumped by 99 points, or almost 1%, at the start of trading to 10,570 points, its highest level since 21 April.
Engineering firm Rolls-Royce, which makes and services jet engines, is the top riser on the FTSE 100, up 5.5%, followed by British Airways parent company IAG, up 4.8%.
UK house prices dip in June
Gwyn Topham
Two bits of good news for Britons who don’t own their homes have been revealed, with data showing a drop in house prices in June as well as fewer tenants facing rent hikes last month.
Figures from Rightmove showed the average price of property coming on the to market fell by 0.6% or £2,113 to £376,191, the biggest June fall in fourteen years, with prices 0.5% below this time in 2025. The biggest drops were seen in southern England and Wales, and in asking prices for flats rather than houses.
The property site said the number of homes for sale was still at historically high levels for summer, making it more of a buyer’s market. Mortgage affordability has also improved slightly this month, with the average two-year fixed rate deal dropping about 0.1 percentage points to 5.07%, it said.
Meanwhile, figures suggest that the introduction of the Renters Right Act may already be seeing results in terms of keeping rents down for tenants.
The new law came into force at the start of May and means landlords can only increase rents for sitting tenants once a year. According to Hamptons monthly lettings index, the number of tenants who saw their rent rise was down 23% from the same month last year. Hamptons said if the rest of the year saw similar change, it would expect only 31% of sitting tenants to face increases, compared to 40%-50% in previous years.
However, the agency warned that rent rises in Scotland, where landlords have been operating under a similar system for longer, exceeded the national average. Sitting tenants who faced rent rises had an average increase of 5.4% in May, but the figure reached 7.7% in Scotland, albeit for a lower absolute rent – £952 – than the Great Britain average of £1375.
Speaking of the ECB, their president Christine Lagarde has been warning that inflation pressures are spreading in the euro area.
In an intervew with broadcaster France Culture, Lagarde warned that high energy prices are starting to feed through to other parts of the economy, saying:
“Indirect effects of inflation, we have absolutely started to see that more or less everywhere in recent weeks.”
The US-Iran agreement is well-timed for the Bank of England, which is due to set UK interest rates on Thursday.
If the strait of Hormuz does reopen, and oil flows return towards pre-war levels, there will be less inflationary pressure – and thus less need for interest rate rises.
The European Central Bank raised its interest rates last week, but this week is the turn of the BoE, the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan.
Kathleen Brooks, research director at XTB, says:
Over the past month, the price of oil is down by more than a fifth, and the Brent crude price is now back at levels from early March. This is good news for inflation, which should start tumbling monthly from June, and it could ease concerns about price pressures as we lead up to some major central bank action this week. The decline in the oil price also raises questions about whether the ECB was too hasty in raising rates last week.
European stock markets are on track to jump when trading begins, in just over 20 minutes.
Germany’s DAX share index is up 1.65% in the futures market, Reuters reports, with the UK’s FTSE 100 0.75% higher.
The US dollar is weakening, as investors shift into riskier currencies.
The pound is its highest in over a week, at $1.3438.
Markets rally across Asia
There are strong gains across Asia-Pacific markets today, as investors welcome the deal between the US and Iran.
Japan’s Nikkei share index has leapt by 5%, as has South Korea’s KOSPI, while China’s CSI300 index is 1.9% higher.
Jim Reid, market strategist at Deutsche Bank, says:
Whilst the deal is very good news for markets it looks like tough conversations will have occur in the 60-day window to ensure the peace is sustainable. As an example, the Senate needs to approve any extensive sanction relief for Iran.
For now the can kicking exercise has been very well received by markets even after a strong US close on Friday where hopes were raised of a weekend signing
Introduction: Oil falls to three-month low
Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of business, the financial markets, and the world economy.
The peace deal agreed between Iran and the US is sending a wave of relief through the markets today.
Oil has tumbled 4%, and markets across the Asia-Pacific region have jumped, as investors anticipate the reopening of the strait of Hormuz.
Although it is unclear exactly what has been agreed – with the final text of their memorandum of understanding unpublished – Donald Trump’s claim that “oil will flow on both ends again for the region, and the world” is pushing down energy prices – a relief for busineses, consumers, politicians and central bankers alike.
Brent crude has fallen as low as $83.04, its lowest since 10 March, after the prime minister of Pakistan announced the US and Iran will sign a memorandum of understanding in Switzerland on Friday.
That still leaves Brent above its pre-war price of $72.48 a barrel, though.
Trump has indicated that the opening of the strait is contingent upon the signing of the peace deal, scheduled for Friday.
Iran’s Mehr state news, though, reported that the agreed memorandum of understanding calls for the reopening of the strait within 30 days under “Iranian arrangements” – an indication that Tehran hasn’t surrendered its control of the waterway.
Chris Weston of IG points out that there are still obstacles to overcome:
The probable reopening of the Strait of Hormuz later this week would represent a significant positive development. Markets had increasingly questioned how long inventory draws could offset supply disruptions and whether physical dislocations would begin weighing more heavily on risk assets. The focus now shifts towards understanding what normalisation of logistics could realistically look like, and how quickly shipping volumes can return to pre-conflict levels of 120 to 140 commercial vessels transiting eastbound and westbound each day.
There are still obstacles to overcome. Mines may need to be cleared, and there may be structural damage to refineries and export facilities around the region that will take time to repair and come back to pre-conflict capacity.
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My partner and I paid £2,150 for a week’s all-inclusive break in Marrakech with easyJet Holidays.
We chose the Jaal Riad Resort Hotel because of its pool and spa. When we arrived, we were told that use of the heated pool cost £24 a person an hour, the Jacuzzi £24 for 20 minutes, and the hammam was £16 for 20 minutes.
Nowhere were these extra fees listed when booking. EasyJet Holidays rejected my complaint and referred me to a line buried at the bottom of the list of facilities that said charges may apply. We were planning on using the pool regularly but could not afford it. If we had known, we would have booked elsewhere.
DP, Cambridgeshire
Hidden charges can hugely inflate the cost of holidays. Resort fees are the most pernicious – some hotels charge up to £50 a person a day for facilities whether or not they are used.
Then there’s the daily tourist tax levied via the accommodation provider during the stay in some countries, and ancillary fees for upgraded wifi for sun loungers.
EasyJet Holidays makes a big deal of the pool – it’s a prominent photo on the webpage for the hotel.
No asterisk refers potential bookers to the crucial caveat that a couple, wishing to avail themselves once a day during a week’s stay, would have to pay almost £350 extra.
Even the eagle-eyed who alighted on the paragraph of small print at the bottom of the page, would be none the wiser.
Only after declaring that the facilities are subject to height and weight restrictions, seasonal availability, opening times, and age and dress code, does it mention that they “may” attract additional charges. These are not listed.
This is potentially unlawful, according to consumer lawyer Gary Rycroft.
“The facilities were prominently marketed as part of the holiday experience, and extra charges were not clearly disclosed before purchase,” he says. “Under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers (DMCC) Act 2024, businesses must not omit material information that would influence a consumer’s decision about whether to enter into a contract.”
EasyJet is defensive. “We always strive to make it clear that use of hotel facilities may incur additional charges,” it told me.
The company said then that it was reviewing the description to “further highlight that the use of the spa facilities is chargeable”, although, at the time of writing, three weeks later, the webpage remained unchanged. It has also now offered a £500 goodwill payment.
As the holiday season begins, you need to read the small print to avoid nasty surprises.
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