Made any travel mistakes lately?

[serfty]

I just checked, all intact!
As you say weird

Maybe they at the PO forgot?

I'm sure SOP was to cut off and destroy the "Machine Readable" text at tbe bottom of the photo page.

 

[burmans]

If there's one thing I think this thread points out very well.... is it doesn't matter how much we think we know, there is always learning to be done!

Yes agree totally but I guess my point would be that LCCs are much less tolerant of ‘mistakes’ than normal carriers so I read the T&Cs much more closely (and generally Google complaints so I know what I can get penalised for), ie try to do my learning upfront.

 

[stm1sydney]

That's what they do in the Post Office on renewal.

Yeah, they used to do that back in the day but I think they stopped doing it with all the delays last year, so your old passport would remain valid for the 8-16 weeks of waiting.

 

[RooFlyer]

That's what they do in the Post Office on renewal.

My old PP also not snipped on renewal last December. Mind you, this was the guy who reckoned that I needed 6 months left on my PP to enter Australia!!

 

[Seat0B]

If there's one thing I think this thread points out very well.... is it doesn't matter how much we think we know, there is always learning to be done!

and I love to learn from other people's mistakes - saves me having to make them all myself

 

[Flashback]

and I love to learn from other people's mistakes - saves me having to make them all myself

But then where's the fun in that?

 

[Blacksheep]

But then where's the fun in that?

I can hear lucifer cackling away

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But then where's the fun in that?

I can hear lucifer cackling

 

[JohnK]

LOL.

Your flight on 08 April will be cancelled due to operational reasons.

I know it's a LCC but my goodness this is starting to get very predictable.

By the way the operational reason is we have not sold enough seats so we are merging multiple flights into 1 flight. So now instead of getting home 3pm I'll get home 8pm.

 

[Flashback]

LOL.

Your flight on 08 April will be cancelled due to operational reasons.

I know it's a LCC but my goodness this is starting to get very predictable.

By the way the operational reason is we have not sold enough seats so we are merging multiple flights into 1 flight. So now instead of getting home 3pm I'll get home 8pm.

QANTAS and BA ... along with many airlines, all do the same thing. Had it happen many times. Not just LCC territory I'm afraid.

 

[JohnK]

QANTAS and BA ... along with many airlines, all do the same thing. Had it happen many times. Not just LCC territory I'm afraid.

Yes I know. Thailand domestic have no choice other than LCC.

They give one free change to any flight or voucher to use later. I'm more concerned losing most of my Saturday.

 

[Pushka]

All travel is fraught. KLM have changed my flight so many times. Finally it was cancelled and rebooked 24 hours earlier.

 

[Flashback]

That's travel - need to roll with the punches. If you don't want to, then not much point really IMHO......

 

[love_the_life]

Not really linked to airline travel but I once booked MrLtL into a non-refundable hotel in Sydney on 14 March rather than 14 Feb (or similar) - there had been no availability for Feb at all and then suddenly I saw something - bingo and booked - then realised it was a month later but because it had been Feb, the March date had been the same. Oops - in the end I managed to get something for the Feb date so he had 2 weekends in Sydney.

Back to flying, I once left all the paperwork (when everything was paper) for an overseas trip at the checkin desk at Canberra. MrLtL was called to the lounge desk to collect.

And not me, but MrLtL's cousin from UK who used to fly to HongKong every few weeks - arrived at LHR to check in and was asked if MrsM was travelling with him as he had presented her passport. A rush for wife to collect the correct passport and get it back out to the airport but he did make the flight.

 

[Bundy Bear]

I booked a 2 night hotel stay over the weekend but wanted to then cancel the 2nd night realizing that the non changeable period had passed. I ended up keeping the stay and although I didn’t stay the 2nd night i came back for breakfast for the 2nd morning, lots of times I have stayed 2 nights and not had breakfast for the 2nd night.
Caught up with some friends on Saturday and stayed for a few drinks and dinner, no red wine but some white, the catch up had been 3 years in the making, dam covid.

 

[JohnK]

One thing I learnt with travel a long time ago was multiple night hotel bookings.

Just had 4 x 1 night bookings in a Pattaya hotel. Staff look at me funny when we checked in and key card has stopped working a few times. We lost first night due to Scoot 19 hour delay. What would have happened if I had a 4 night booking and did not turn up for first night? I don't care and I don't want to find out.

Checked in to a another hotel today. Same sort of issue with staff thinking I'm only staying 3 nights. Have a 3 night booking from Trip.com, 2 night booking from Qantas hotels and 1 night booking from Agoda. Why? It's a $38/night hotel.

- Trip.com was offering $50 off for bookings over AUD100 so booked 3 nights
- Had a $50 Qantas hotels voucher from BP rewards
- Had some Agoda dollars so booked the last night

I think I paid something like $80 for 6 nights. Not a travel mistake but I did learn a long time ago if there is no discount for multiple night bookings then book single nights and you can cancel and move bookings around as you like.

 

[LostRedditor]

One thing I learnt with travel a long time ago was multiple night hotel bookings.

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I think I paid something like $80 for 6 nights. Not a travel mistake but I did learn a long time ago if there is no discount for multiple night bookings then book single nights and you can cancel and move bookings around as you like.

if you do this in a hotel, do you have to checkout of the room each morning and check back in? I imagine you can't guarantee you get the same room for each night

 

[JohnK]

if you do this in a hotel, do you have to checkout of the room each morning and check back in? I imagine you can't guarantee you get the same room for each night

I've not had to checkout and check back in to any hotel using the above method. I tell them the number of nights I'm staying and they've let me stay in room the entire stay.

 

[p--and--t]

if you do this in a hotel, do you have to checkout of the room each morning and check back in? I imagine you can't guarantee you get the same room for each night

There is no obligation on the hotel to keep you in the same room, they may have upgraded you to a slightly better room for the first booking but move you to the room type booked for the second booking because they either don't have availability or their cut of the tariff was lower for the second booking.

Not withstanding the above, I have had better than 50:50 strike rate to remain in the same room. Housekeeping prefer it because is saves a full room prep.

 

[Quickstatus]

multiple night hotel bookings

I too have done this but not to the extent of multiple single night. I've tagged single nights at either end when I'm unsure of arrival or departure dates

 

[Flyfrequently]

Maybe they at the PO forgot?

I'm sure SOP was to cut off and destroy the "Machine Readable" text at tbe bottom of the photo page.

Agree @serfty , she may have forgotten as it took 3 attempts to get photos right (must admit though very happy with how I will look for the next 10 years!)
Have previously had corners cut when we last renewed in Melbourne.