Need opinions.
My bf and I are going to hawaii again this year and we wanted my bff and her boyfriend to come with us this time. We asked them a month before we booked it and she kept saying she wants to go and she just has to talk to her bf about it but he didn’t say no. she kept saying that. it came time to book the trip and we didn’t have an answer from them but my bf didn’t want them to lose the opportunity so he booked their trip for them and put insurance on it in case they decided against it. don’t get me wrong, I KNOW it was stupid of him to do that. I told him that almost immediately after him telling me he booked it. this was about 2 months ago. for 2 more months we kept getting the “yeah we wanna go but lemme see if we can figure it out”. then all is a sudden she says “it’s not really our type of vacation” which 1) blows my mind and 2) why not just say that from the start? if it’s not ur kind of vacation now then it wasn’t 2 months ago either. anyways, we tried to cancel to find out that the terms of insurance are crazy. basically the only way we can cancel is if one of them were to pass away, get hurt, or lose their job. about 2 weeks ago my bff actually broke her foot. which is the perfect out for us to be able to cancel their trip and get $2,000 back. my bf told her to just ask the dr for a note. she went to the dr yesterday and texted us saying “dr said no note” now we could be wrong, but we both immediately thought she didn’t even ask for one. and I wouldn’t put it past her to be uncomfortable asking for a dr note and just not even do it cuz it’s not her problem. now we are out $2,000 at the same time that we’re selling our home and buying a new one and like I said, yeah he shouldn’t have booked the trip for them, but to go from “yeah we want to go” to “it’s not our type of vacation” seems like she just led us on. and now she’s saying they wouldn’t even want to go if it was free. like 1) who says that? and 2) then why did you say you wanted to go from the start? and now she seems like she’s annoyed with us. she hasn’t responded to us and I haven’t talked to her at all since which isn’t common. Would you be annoyed if you were us? that they couldn’t just be honest from the start? also anyone have experience with canceling trips with crazy insurance policies?