Well I am now a bandster :thumbup: Had the op 6th August 2010 same day as Fullfat, Fredrick and everyone at the hospital were very friendly. Not to much wind touch wood, pain not to bad at all. Out of five people there for operation three of us had booked through Tullia Law and all three of us had problems. But I feel I must tell everybody my experience dealing with Tullia Law:thumbdown:, and I must stress this is just my experience. Like alot of people I have struggled with my weight most of my life, diet put it all back on then diet never ending circle. Decided in May had enough and thought about surgery, read feedback on this site and decided it was for me.:thumbup: Contacted Tullia Law 7th May 2010, very nice explained travel, hotel and hospital, and gave date of travel 29th June operation next day return home 2nd July 2010, quoted a price - but to get that price had to pay then 4150 euros. Paid this 8th May 2010 via transax, that was it all set, and just waiting. Week before travel sent Tullia an email because I had not heard anything from her,(emasil just asked was everything still ok regarding operation), she rang me at 8.30pm that night 22nd June 2010 to tell me the operation had been cancelled due to holidays and would ring me the next day with two alternative dates for surgery. As you can imagine I was very upset, during the night I thought surely she would have known about surgeon/hospital being on holiday when I booked. I rang Fredrick the next morning to ask about holidys, he told me they were not on holiday, operations were still going on the following week and I was never on the list. When I asked how this could be as I had paid all the money 8th May 2010, he refered me back to Tullia. I rang Tullia at 10am that day 23rd June 2010, she reiterated the hospital was on holiday I told her this was not the case as I had contacted them and they had told me this was not the case. She said she would ring me back, 30 minutes later she rang, told me I had no right to contact the hospital and to read their terms and conditions and would ring me back when I had. Could not find terms and conditions on the site I originaly booked from but kept looking and eventually found medi-care which is another of their sites. One of the conditions states you are not allowed to contact the hospital and if you do so then you forfit all the monies you have paid. She rang me six times that day shouting at me about these terms and conditions and did I realise she did not have to do anything for me, she then said she would talk to the admin department and see what she could do for me. She rang the next day offering me two dates 26th July 2010 or 6th August 2010, said I would prefer first date, she said she would get back to me to confirm. I spoke to a solicitor to see what I could do to get my money back and how to go about it, I told him about terms and conditions how they were not on the site I booked from and a set had never been sent to me. He told me that if I was dealing with sombody in this country then I was entitled to my money back no question but as I was dealing with somebody in France thats was different. First I would have to get a french solicitor to act for me, which he thought highly unlikely, and advised me just to sit back and see what happened. A week went by and no word from Tullia confirming the date, rang her the July date was no longer available so would have 6th August 2010 said ok. She said she would have to get this date confirmed by the surgeon and would get back to me as soon as it was. Three more days and nothing I rang her again, it was weekend and a bank holiday in France so would have to wait another three days for confirmation. I rang her everyday until I eventually got the confirmation for the 6th August 2010. Even after I got this confirmation I was still nervous something would happen and I would not get the operation. I have to say everthing went as planned 6th August 2010 and I had the operation. But I must say the five weeks before I found very stressfull, would it go ahead, would it be cancelled again. As I said at the start this is just my experience dealing with Tullia Law, all you people out there considering getting a gastric band make your own minds up who to book with.