I'm transalting this sentence from Russian into English.

Have your friends had/did you friends have a vacation in Spain? - No, they were going to, but changed their mind.

I'm wondering about the following: we are asking about the news, we don't know about that fact in the moment, but at the same time it can be a past event having nothing to do with the present situation (may be we know the exact past time).

So, which one is more preferable having no definite context?

I'm translating this sentence from Russian into English.

Have your friends had/did you friends have a vacation in Spain? - No, they were going to, but changed their mind.

I'm wondering about the following: we are asking about the news, we don't know about that fact in the moment, but at the same time it can be a past event having nothing to do with the present situation (may be we know the exact past time).

So, which one is more preferable having no definite context?