Sunspot Tours Limited
Reference number: 488129
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Introducer appointed representative
This firm can only introduce you to its principal, and cannot give financial advice, recommend products, or arrange deals alone.
- Appointed for 18 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 1979
- Accounts filed up to 30 November 2025
Responsible principal firm
Holiday Extras Cover Limited Reference number: 828848 View firm →What does this mean?
- An introducer appointed representative can only pass your details to its principal firm. It cannot recommend products, give financial advice, or arrange deals on its own.
- Sunspot Tours Limited (FRN 488129) introduces customers to Holiday Extras Cover Limited (FRN 828848). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not Sunspot Tours.
- Example: if Sunspot Tours refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from Sunspot Tours itself.
- Before you proceed, confirm contact details match the official FCA register for both firms. Scammers sometimes clone legitimate AR names and FRNs but use fake phone numbers and websites.
Website, phone number and address
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Phone number
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Address
St. Johns House, Suffolk Way, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN13 1YL, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When mercuryholidays.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 0800 408 0506 is
- Who else gives the postcode TN13 1YL
Other names (4)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Mercury Holidays Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Sunspot Tours Ltd Former name: A name it was registered under before.
- Sunspot Tours Ltd (Suspended) Former name: A name it was registered under before.
- Mercury Direct Former trading name: A name it used to trade under.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Holiday Extras Cover Limited, the principal firm responsible for this firm's regulated activity. FSCS cover and the Financial Ombudsman Service apply as they would to the principal.
- Complaints Ombudsman, freeYou can refer a complaint about this firm to the Financial Ombudsman Service for free, whichever activity it relates to.
FCA disciplinary action and complaints
No FCA disciplinary action.
The Financial Ombudsman Service only publishes complaint figures for firms with 30 or more new complaints in six months, so there are none here for this firm.
Companies House record
The company behind the firm: its status, age, registered office and directors.
- Company number
- 01470134 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 31 December 1979 (46 years old)
- Registered office
- St. John's House, Suffolk Way, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN13 1YL, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Travel agency activities (SIC 79110)
- Tour operator activities (SIC 79120)
- Activities of tourist guides (SIC 79901)
- Other reservation service activities not elsewhere classified (SIC 79909)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Paul Bugeja | Director | May 1984 | 19 Dec 2012 | 2 other companies |
| Markus Peter Alexander Mcnally | Director | Apr 1972 | 19 Jul 2022 | None |
| Emma Mary Lyttleton | Director | Sep 1985 | 1 Oct 2022 | None |
| Irina Ropotan | Director | Sep 1975 | 1 Jul 2025 | 1 other company |
| Martin Bugeja | Director | Jun 1957 | Not published | 2 other companies |
| Irina Ropotan | Secretary | Not published | 1 Apr 2012 | – |
Other companies run by these 5 directors
A firm is run by people, and their other companies are their track record: what they built, what closed, and anything that failed. It is the check most people never think to make.
- other companies
- 3
- closed down
- 1
- run together
- 1
In the full report: all 3 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 5 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- The 1 company these 5 directors run together
- All 22 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Turnover
£66.5m
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Profit before tax
£4.79m
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Net assets
£9.98m
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Cash at bank
£31.4m
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About these figures
- Turnover
- Money taken from sales in the year, before any costs.
- Profit before tax
- What was left after the year’s costs, before corporation tax. A minus figure is a loss.
- Net assets, or total equity
- Everything the company owns minus everything it owes. A minus figure means it owes more than it owns.
- Total assets and total liabilities
- Everything the company owns, and everything it owes, on the last day of the year. The gap between them is its net assets.
- Cash at bank
- Money in the company’s accounts on the last day of the year.
- Owed within a year, owed after a year
- Debts and bills due in the next twelve months, and those due later.
The figures for the year to 30 November 2025 were read from the printed accounts, because the filing does not tag them in a form that can be read automatically. They were checked against the accounts’ own totals.
These are group figures: the firm and the companies it owns, combined.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 01470134. Every figure is as filed, apart from total assets and total liabilities, which are added up from filed figures. Nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
Sunspot Tours’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2016
6 April 2016
- Martin Timothy Bugeja became the majority owner (50–75% of shares)
Companies House
2012
29 February 2012
- Changed its registered name from "Sunspot Tours Ltd (Suspended)"
FCA register
3 February 2012
- Changed its registered name from "Sunspot Tours Ltd"
FCA register
2008
28 August 2008
- Became an introducer appointed representative
FCA register
1979
31 December 1979
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 44 events
- All 44 events in its history (5 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 36
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- All 44 events in its history
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Sources and links
- Its entry on the FCA register register.fca.org.uk
- Its Companies House record gov.uk
- Complaints the Financial Ombudsman Service can help with financial-ombudsman.org.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk