Made any travel mistakes lately?

[samh004]

Actually given the new layout of the BNE Domestic Airport, its probably closer than the taxi rank...

The taxi rank is right outside the baggage belts?

 

[Homer]

Does taking your mother-in-law on a two-week trip to Disneyworld where, despite appearances, it turned out that she didn't enjoy any of it, count as a travel mistake?

 

[AIRwin]

I'm usually quite a careful person so I'm embarrassed to admit to:
- booking the Y Hotel Redfern instead of Hyde Park (this was through Velocity partner HotelClub)
- making a separate flight booking for my partner but with the return date 1 week after mine (this was through zuji.com.au and it being a Sunday morning I had an agonising wait for their phone lines to open so I could cancel and rebook it, then later in the day Everyday Money called me up about the duplicate charges as the refund had not yet been processed)

 

[Awesom Andy]

Not too long ago, I was booked on a 6.30am flight. When I eventually woke up that morning, my first thought was... why is it so bright outside?

 

[JohnK]

Basically Novotel Brisbane Airport should be renamed to the suburb it is located in.

Not just in Brisbane.

How far is the Holiday Inn Sydney airport from the airport?

Many cities around the world use the word "airport" to describe the hotel but with some research you find the hotel is miles away. Sometimes 30 minutes away.

 

[k_sheep]

I booked the Sheraton Mirage

There's your mistake right there

I think I win. I had an extensive SJU AA YUPP run booked .... for which I missed the first flight for because of a time zone snafu (ie I was 24hrs late for the flight). Entire thing cancelled, no refund. 780 SC, gone.

 

[freepyjamas]

On the Monday just gone, rocked up to JFK after 5 days in NYC. As soon as I got inside the terminal, i realized my passport was still back in the hotel safe. Spent a 6th day in NYC.

 

[serfty]

..., gone.

ouch! That hurts ...

 

[cove]

Wow k-sheep that matches a mother in law story and raises our imaginary bar.
How about receiving a double status credits offer, booking several why go direct when you can connect JASAs but forgetting to accept the 3 month DSC offer. Big potential ouch but saved so this one cannot beat your entry.
Having your flight leave before you arrive is a really good one or sleeping through multiple alarms to wake you up is pretty special.

 

[ozmille]

Booked a nice weekend in MEL for the long weekend in June, after a couple of days we realised we had to be in NTL on the Sunday morning, now rebooked on the first QF flight back to SYD at 6am to then race up north :-(

 

[Princess Fiona]

Booked a nice weekend in MEL for the long weekend in June, after a couple of days we realised we had to be in NTL on the Sunday morning, now rebooked on the first QF flight back to SYD at 6am to then race up north :-(

Could have turned that into a 100SC J reward seat on VA

Shrek has the worst travel mistake in our house.
Last year he was traveling to LHR booked through the Corp TA.
Booking was NTL-SYD-SIN-LHR.
He got a phone call at 7 am one morning from the OT desk at NTL asking if he was going to turn up for his flight, bleary-eyed he said no.
Turns out the TA had booked the entire trip two days earlier than he had asked them to book

 

[ozmille]

Could have turned that into a 100SC J reward seat on VA

There was not a single flight which gets us to NTL before 9am though... So now it will just be 80SCs on QF and a very useless day because of the 4am alarm

 

[Princess Fiona]

There was not a single flight which gets us to NTL before 9am though... So now it will just be 80SCs on QF and a very useless day because of the 4am alarm

That's the pits, 4am is ugly on any schedule

 

[cosi]

CX use to leave PER for HKG each night at 00.05am

I did the on line check in, then boarded the aircraft to find somebody seating in my seat.

I was on the wrong flight, 1 day late - the flight I was booked on left earlier that morning on the same day I was trying to board the aircraft.

I should have boarded on the Friday evening for a Sat morning departure instead of Saturday night for a Sunday morning departure.

Luckily there was 1 no show in J, so I given that seat, on a full flight.

For the record, CX scheduled departure is now 11:55pm

The hotel in HKG was expecting me a day earlier.

This is the only place I have confessed this mistake - did not even tell Mrs C.

 

[EvanC]

CX use to leave PER for HKG each night at 00.05am

I did the on line check in, then boarded the aircraft to find somebody seating in my seat.

I was on the wrong flight, 1 day late - the flight I was booked on left earlier that morning on the same day I was trying to board the aircraft.

I should have boarded on the Friday evening for a Sat morning departure instead of Saturday night for a Sunday morning departure.

Luckily there was 1 no show in J, so I given that seat, on a full flight.

For the record, CX scheduled departure is now 11:55pm

The hotel in HKG was expecting me a day earlier.

This is the only place I have confessed this mistake - did not even tell Mrs C.

Wow - even the staff didn't notice!

 

[Tortuga]

Had a very short connection after having to get put on another flight due to a non-functioning plane. Managed to run and make the connection from LHR-GRU however I had no idea if my bag had made it. I was told it was 'manually tagged' so I had no baggage ticket and also got told they could not check it through to my final destination (AEP). So I arrive in GRU and have 30 minutes to make another connection, do I go through customs and miss my flight to see if my bag made it (if it did make it and I didn't pick it up I doubt I would see it again). After a lot of hassle I end up going through customs only to find out after waiting 30 minutes that it didn't in fact make the flight. So I have to go check-in again and get put on the next flight. Did all the paper work and it showed up 4 days later. The root cause of these problems was BA saying they couldn't check it all the way through to AEP even though all the TAM people in GRU and AEP said that was wrong and it could be checked through. Maybe the BA people thought AEP was in Brazil - I asked at least 5 times for them to check because I couldn't believe that was the case.

 

[deejo77]

Booked same ticket twice, Prague back to the UK......it was in my cheap days and it was easy jet or Ryan air so was not much money

 

[Rox]

CX use to leave PER for HKG each night at 00.05am

I did the on line check in, then boarded the aircraft to find somebody seating in my seat.

I was on the wrong flight, 1 day late - the flight I was booked on left earlier that morning on the same day I was trying to board the aircraft.

I should have boarded on the Friday evening for a Sat morning departure instead of Saturday night for a Sunday morning departure.

Luckily there was 1 no show in J, so I given that seat, on a full flight.

For the record, CX scheduled departure is now 11:55pm

The hotel in HKG was expecting me a day earlier.

This is the only place I have confessed this mistake - did not even tell Mrs C.

I've done the same thing coming back from Darwin , but they graciously sold me another ticket at the difference in price and said I was lucky there was a spare seat!

 

[cosi]

Wow - even the staff didn't notice!

Toll Holdings are responsible for ground arrangements, including boarding for CX flights in Perth

 

[Poisson]

I'm normally OCD about travel arrangements, but I'm beginning to have a few too many mistakes.

Was doing the Boeing factory tour in Seattle and got talking to some other Aussies about joining the APT tour in Vancouver the next day. "Oh, we have friends doing the same tour, but they're leaving today". Oh cr@p! I only got one speeding ticket getting to Vancouver which was pretty good under the circumstances.

And just recently in Paris I rocked up to a hotel on the 12th only to find that my booking was for the 13th. Luckily they were able to accommodate us.

I've told SWMBO that she has to organise our next trip.