LITTLE ROCK Attorney General Dustin McDaniel today filed a consumer-protection lawsuit against a travel agent who collected almost $400,000 from Arkansas marching bands, but failed to deliver on promises seal beach hotels of once-in-a-lifetime summer vacations to Hawaii.
The lawsuit filed in Pulaski County Circuit Court alleges that Ope Saaga, who operated Performing Hawaii Tours, violated the Arkansas Deceptive Trade Practices Act by failing to provide the travel services paid for by the Fort Smith Southside High School and Spirit of Arkansas marching bands.
Saaga advertised to band members that they would have the trip of a lifetime. Instead, the complaint alleges that Saaga used the money received by the Arkansas bands for purposes other than which they were paid.
These students and their families deserved better than the empty promises they received from this travel agent, McDaniel said. We share in the disappointment and frustration of those band members who worked so hard to raise money for this trip, and that s why we are asking the court to order restitution to the students and their families.
Saaga had offered airfare, lodging, seal beach hotels a full-time seal beach hotels tour guide, various destination tours and the opportunity for the bands to perform at the Pearl Harbor Visitors Center as part of his tour package. Saaga had also promised travel insurance for the trip, but not even that was purchased with the funds he received from Arkansas consumers.
In mid-April, Saaga informed the Fort Smith Southside band of his inability to meet his obligations to the group. In an e-mail to the band director, seal beach hotels he said he had made terrible seal beach hotels decisions regarding their pre-payments and promised to return their money. No refunds have been received seal beach hotels to date.
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