Laravel command - ask always returning true?

I have this piece of code:

if($this->ask('Is this holiday booked? [y|N]')) {
                    $holiday->booked = true;
                } else {
                    $holiday->booked = false;  
                }

in a Laravel 5.2 command, but whatever the response it always seems to return true.

I also tried:

 if($this->ask('Is this holiday booked? [y|N]') === true) {
                        $holiday->booked = true;
                    } else {
                        $holiday->booked = false;  
                    }

But this always enters it into the database as false regardless of if I enter y or n.

It will no doubt be something stupid, but can anyone see where I'm going wrong?

Thanks.

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