We bought a voucher for a weekend getaway down south, and have been trying to book it. Every single weekend this year was booked out in 10 seconds or something, so we're booking it for this time next year. Only the owners won't accept the booking without credit card details for incidental expenses.

My problems with this are -

* The booking is already completely paid for, and they ask for the voucher number when booking. Surely they could just cancel the voucher in the unlikely event we don't show up?

* That would mean them keeping my credit card details on file for a year. What if my credit card is due to expire before then, could I just not book it?!

* Every time I try and talk to them about it, they just say 'company policy'. I've tried ringing but no-one answers, they say to do an enquiry through the website.

Professor really wants to go, so I suspect I'm gonna hafta just suck it up and give them the details. I'm not happy that this wasn't mentioned as a condition of buying the voucher. I wonder if it'd do any good to contact the voucher company? I don't want a refund though, I just don't want my details kept on file for a year.

Thoughts?