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MARIEDN USA

by Nina Skrpec

May 31, 2012

Mr. Bruce Mendelson is not a teacher. He traveled with the SHREWSBURY HS to Italy and Greece this spring as a chaperon. His wife HEATHER THOMPSON was a tour leader.

Lie #1 - "Bruce" presents himself as a teacher.

Lie #2 Mariden USA never tried to place three students on a separate flight. Mariden USA could not get an additional flight ticket on the Air France flight for the student who joined the group late. Mariden USA gave the SHREWSBURY HS group two options. 1 - to cancel the late joining student 2- to put one of the 4 chaperones and her two daughters on a different flight to Rome and that our tour guide will meet them there and take them to the hotel where they will wait for the rest of the group.

Instead of talking to us we got E-mails from Mr.Mendelson, some relative of the "Bruce" who is a lawyer in Washington DC. He tried to bully us into getting the additional seat for the student. In his letter to me he claims that Mariden USA got money from Air ...See MoreMr. Bruce Mendelson is not a teacher. He traveled with the SHREWSBURY HS to Italy and Greece this spring as a chaperon. His wife HEATHER THOMPSON was a tour leader.

Lie #1 - "Bruce" presents himself as a teacher.

Lie #2 Mariden USA never tried to place three students on a separate flight. Mariden USA could not get an additional flight ticket on the Air France flight for the student who joined the group late. Mariden USA gave the SHREWSBURY HS group two options. 1 - to cancel the late joining student 2- to put one of the 4 chaperones and her two daughters on a different flight to Rome and that our tour guide will meet them there and take them to the hotel where they will wait for the rest of the group.

Instead of talking to us we got E-mails from Mr.Mendelson, some relative of the "Bruce" who is a lawyer in Washington DC. He tried to bully us into getting the additional seat for the student. In his letter to me he claims that Mariden USA got money from Air France to drop three seats. If the tickets are sold out they are sold out. Air France could do nothing to change it and so Mariden USa could do nothing to create an additional seat on the airplane.

#3 Unwanted layover in Paris? There are no direct flights from Boston to Rome for the price that a school group can afford. If we chartered a private jet it would have been possible. It is easy to check it out. Just go to Travelocity.

#4 They were at the airport for 6 hours and there were flights going to Rome but the had to wait.They were with Delta Airline / Air France and they do not put their passengers on the flights of other companies. They fly according to their own schedule. If there was an earlier flight with Lufthansa, we did not have the tickets for that flight and Delta was not going to pay extra to Lufthansa so that the group does not have to wait. Anybody who is in the industry or is well traveled knows that.

#5 Mariden uSA provided a different schedule but had to change the dates to accommodate the customer. It resulted in the different layover.

Mrs. Mendelson the person that was not on the trip published this on our Facebook: "Do not use this service. The problems that Bruce Mendelsohn and Heather Thompson had with Mariden USA indicate that Ms. Skrpec is incapable of running a legitimate business. She should lose whatever licenses she has. As a DC resident, I'll be sure to check her out with all my congressional and executive contacts."

The level of the vendetta is unbelievable. And the accusations are incognito.

Mr. Mendelson senior, being a lawyer and a lobbyist for a big law firm would have sued us by now if there was anything to sue us for.

Nina Turek Skrpec Mariden USA/ Mariden International

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