Made any travel mistakes lately?

[tdimdad]

So if you miscalculate your date of arrival, and your connecting flight is not in 2 hours, but in fact 26 hours

Just recently attempted to time the arrival of an uninitiated friend and myself to SYD at the same time from different directions. Non-QF airlines so you can expect them to usually arrive near the scheduled time (15 mins apart of each other, in this case). Agreed to meet up with them at the luggage belts, guide them through the quarantine and accompany to their accommodation.

Lucky I realised a couple of weeks in advance that I had booked my arrival to be a day earlier. No drama but not the first time when I mix dates in bookings. This time my excuse was the mental note of "a late night departure on Xth day" and, yes, it was a late night to be at the airport - for a 0050 departure on the Xth day, i.e. 23 h earlier than my mental image referred to...

 

[mrsterryn]

When you forget half your pills, ring your husband and ask him to bring it to the airport, which totally thwarts the idea of doing things simple this morning by the bus , and your husband kindly brings his pill box not yours and you don't realise till air side

 

[Franky]

When you forget half your pills, ring your husband and ask him to bring it to the airport, which totally thwarts the idea of doing things simple this morning by the bus , and your husband kindly brings his pill box not yours and you don't realise till air side

That’s what you could call a ‘seniors moment’. Sounds like something like I would do….

 

[mrsterryn]

That’s what you could call a ‘seniors moment’. Sounds like something like I would do….

Definitely a seniors moment . Very frustrating.
Of course the flight is also running over an hour late as well

 

[flydoc]

JQ dom (yes my first mistake); Separately (2 months apart) booked essentially duplicate flights (consecutive departures) for the same travel date (today). Flight schedule changes fortunately allowed, via chat, to convert the earlier departure to credit. Glad to have opted to keep the later of the 2 flights, as would otherwise have mis connected due to delays on the domestic network today.

 

[serfty]

If you cancel an ex Oz booking (domestic or international) made online at Qantas.com within 24 hours of making it you can get a full refund.

BTW, WCMO - Booked an ex SIN award as a Placeholder thinking free cancel tomorrow depending on other circumstances

Nup! Forgot - only ex Oz

 

[JohnK]

A travel mistake of sorts.

I purchased an annual travel insurance policy from SCTI commencing Sep 2023. Listed Thailand as the only country being visited which is technically correct.

We do have transits in SIN but I didn't specify that we were going to SIN. Need to try and quote another annual policy and see if SIN airside transit increases cost of policy but the biggest worry is that the cheapest one-way coming back in Jan 2024 was via Bali and we have ~23 hours in transit.

Hopefully nothing goes wrong that requires a travel insurance claim.

 

[RooFlyer]

Booked a B&B in the Chilean wine district that looked great on the website. Turns out to be a bit of a, well not a dump but not very salubrious and on a noisy road and the owner announces when I check in that tomorrow night there will be a school leavers party in the grounds, "but music only until midnight".

Not gunna happen. Its my birthday tomorrow and I’m not going to spend it sitting up listening to bloody music till midnight.

I’ve already booked a really good place that I inspected just a while ago which will do nicely for the following two nights.

 

[Rich]

Booked a QF flight from ADL to MEL yesterday and then discovered it was on a Bombardier.

 

[RooFlyer]

Booked a QF flight from ADL to MEL yesterday and then discovered it was on a Bombardier.

Done that!!

 

[serfty]

A travel mistake of sorts.

I purchased an annual travel insurance policy from SCTI commencing Sep 2023. Listed Thailand as the only country being visited which is technically correct.

We do have transits in SIN but I didn't specify that we were going to SIN. Need to try and quote another annual policy and see if SIN airside transit increases cost of policy but the biggest worry is that the cheapest one-way coming back in Jan 2024 was via Bali and we have ~23 hours in transit.

Hopefully nothing goes wrong that requires a travel insurance claim.

For most policies I have bought it costs nothing extra to have each of Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand listed as countries being visited as all are generally lumped under "South East Asia".

I generally always test this.

 

[Seat0B]

Booked a QF flight from ADL to MEL yesterday and then discovered it was on a Bombardier.

Done that

And I’ve accidentally booked CBR-MEL on a Dash-8. Only once though!

 

[goldielucks]

Did it cost much to get this fixed?

Said airlines (SIA) is really strict on their no show fee I once arrived 2 minutes late to checkin and the ground staff refused to let me check in (mind you this was during COVID era where the airport was practically empty). I had to fork out $400 for no show. Airport security later said they let most people check in late (COVID era) and that service staff is grumpy that day so I guess I had used up all my luck. So much for customer service...

 

[Flashback]

Not sure if it's a mistake yet, but booked Wizz so I could get a direct flight to PRN - that'll be country #86. The things you do...... received an e-mail yesterday to say it's being operated by Titan Airways, who often do wet lease charter flights here, so will be interesting as their planes are usually pretty old. Might mean thicker/comfier seats, though hence not sure if it is a mistake yet (or not)

Left it as late as possible to check in due to random seat allocation, so depending on what the seat map layout is I think it's worked as all middle seats "randomly" allocated out to those who didn't pay for a seat like me and I think it's then giving whatever is left. Looks like I have an aisle, but will see when onboard.

 

[clifford]

Not sure if it's a mistake yet, but booked Wizz so I could get a direct flight to PRN - that'll be country #86. The things you do...... received an e-mail yesterday to say it's being operated by Titan Airways, who often do wet lease charter flights here, so will be interesting as their planes are usually pretty old. Might mean thicker/comfier seats, though hence not sure if it is a mistake yet (or not)

I need to fly from MLA to BTS next July and don't want to fly FR or Wizz ( as I don't like to pay these airlines a lot of money in advance only to possibly see it go down the drain).

So I'm looking at doing BA via LHR or TK via IST, which also may be a big mistake, as I really can't afford to miss a connection and have to do an overnight . What to do?

 

[MEL_Traveller]

A travel mistake of sorts.

I purchased an annual travel insurance policy from SCTI commencing Sep 2023. Listed Thailand as the only country being visited which is technically correct.

We do have transits in SIN but I didn't specify that we were going to SIN. Need to try and quote another annual policy and see if SIN airside transit increases cost of policy but the biggest worry is that the cheapest one-way coming back in Jan 2024 was via Bali and we have ~23 hours in transit.

Hopefully nothing goes wrong that requires a travel insurance claim.

Check with your insurance company… transits are *usually* ok and included free of charge. Especially if the country is considered low risk. Hopefully no drama in your case! (It’s a reasonable expectation that you will have to transit via somewhere for many trips.)

 

[Brissy1]

A travel mistake of sorts.

I purchased an annual travel insurance policy from SCTI commencing Sep 2023. Listed Thailand as the only country being visited which is technically correct.

We do have transits in SIN but I didn't specify that we were going to SIN. Need to try and quote another annual policy and see if SIN airside transit increases cost of policy but the biggest worry is that the cheapest one-way coming back in Jan 2024 was via Bali and we have ~23 hours in transit.

Hopefully nothing goes wrong that requires a travel insurance claim.

When getting a quote on the SCTI site, when you get to Select Countries, under that it states:
"Type all the countries you’re travelling to (including transit stops where you’ll leave the airport).
On their desktop site.

 

[Flashback]

I need to fly from MLA to BTS next July and don't want to fly FR or Wizz ( as I don't like to pay these airlines a lot of money in advance only to possibly see it go down the drain).

So I'm looking at doing BA via LHR or TK via IST, which also may be a big mistake, as I really can't afford to miss a connection and have to do an overnight . What to do?

Just take the direct flight, not worth connecting. Wizzair was fine!

 

[JohnK]

When getting a quote on the SCTI site, when you get to Select Countries, under that it states:
"Type all the countries you’re travelling to (including transit stops where you’ll leave the airport).
On their desktop site.

Yes understood but when I purchased annual policy in August I did not think I'd be arriving in Bali at 12:00midnight one night and departing 11:00pm the next night and booking a hotel for 2 nights.

Since I stopped chasing status we only do airport transits which are fine but this time booked a one-way Qantas award and when looking at return options most were $3500+ for the 3 of us where as SQ to Bali and VA to BNE were $2500 one way for 3 of us.

 

[Gremlin]

Yes understood but when I purchased annual policy in August I did not think I'd be arriving in Bali at 12:00midnight one night and departing 11:00pm the next night and booking a hotel for 2 nights.

Since I stopped chasing status we only do airport transits which are fine but this time booked a one-way Qantas award and when looking at return options most were $3500+ for the 3 of us where as SQ to Bali and VA to BNE were $2500 one way for 3 of us.

Can you look at a single trip policy that covers you just for this stay?

I've previously taken out a single trip policy that provided coverage where my annual policy didn't.

EDIT: Mixed up my tenses and didn't want to end up in the Grammar thread