Made any travel mistakes lately?

[p--and--t]

Ouch - it’s been about a year or so since I was last there, but that was about 1hr 45m to hotel at Broadbeach from BNE airport car rental pick up; seems I was quite lucky!

Depends on day, time of day, weather, and rubber neckers. Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

 

[RSD]

Well booking the Wharney hotel in Wan Chai was a mistake - chose it from the QFH options for the area as it was convenient to where I wanted to go - but my room was on the back of the hotel - which is where a back street full of dusk to dawn night clubs are - even though I was on the 9th floor, sleep was damn near impossible. Fitting the shower and toilet into a 1.6 x 1.6 metre bathroom was ridiculous.

 

[Beano]

Depends on day, time of day, weather, and rubber neckers. Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

Done that several times, usually about 6 pm, BNE (DOM and INT) to Surfers. Never noticed any extreme holdups apart from roadworks, which seem to be perennial. Takes just over an hour. My peeve would be Broadbeach to Burleigh Heads, which can take a long time, because of roadworks or is it tramworks, even at 7:00 am.

 

[Captain Halliday]

For our current trip to Japan I booked almost 12 months in advance.

Some months ago a QF schedule change meant I could select a return flight to AU a day later without any additional cost. Winner.

“I’ll book the extra night’s accom later”, I thought to myself.

You can see where this is going…

On checkin at the hotel, they asked me to confirm check-out date and still I missed it.

“Just give me a room key already”, I was thinking.

Over dinner tonight, Miss H and Mrs H had a good-humoured stoush over how many skiing days we have left.

Good thing they did or I’d still be in ignorant bliss.

Our stay was at ~AUD335 per night.

Quoted price for an additional night AUD957.

Ouch!

 

[Brissy1]

Our stay was at ~AUD335 per night.

Quoted price for an additional night AUD957.

Ouch!

Sleeping in the car tonight?
Or..hey let's build an igloo

 

[RSD]

For our current trip to Japan I booked almost 12 months in advance.

Some months ago a QF schedule change meant I could select a return flight to AU a day later without any additional cost. Winner.

“I’ll book the extra night’s accom later”, I thought to myself.

You can see where this is going…

On checkin at the hotel, they asked me to confirm check-out date and still I missed it.

“Just give me a room key already”, I was thinking.

Over dinner tonight, Miss H and Mrs H had a good-humoured stoush over how many skiing days we have left.

Good thing they did or I’d still be in ignorant bliss.

Our stay was at ~AUD335 per night.

Quoted price for an additional night AUD957.

Ouch!

Always thought that skiing was an expensive sport...

 

[p--and--t]

Quoted price for an additional night AUD957.

I thought it bad enough when I asked for an extra night in TYO post a tour I booked for Japan and they quoted AUD750. (Cherry blossom season)

I said no I'll make my own arrangements and booked an AirBnB for AUD57 two streets away from the tour hotel.

 

[Cynicor]

I thought it bad enough when I asked for an extra night in TYO post a tour I booked for Japan and they quoted AUD750. (Cherry blossom season)

I said no I'll make my own arrangements and booked an AirBnB for AUD57 two streets away from the tour hotel.

That’s cheap for Tokyo now. Hotels I stayed in regularly pre-covid for 400-600AUD a night are now somehow asking 2000. And the dollar has strengthened, not weakened, so it’s not an exchange rate issue.
Insanity, considering no renovations etc to justify it (shangrila and Conrad are 2 examples).

 

[Captain Halliday]

Sleeping in the car tonight?

Luckily no.

My miracle save was a bit like @p--and--t :

I thought it bad enough when I asked for an extra night in TYO post a tour I booked for Japan and they quoted AUD750. (Cherry blossom season)

I said no I'll make my own arrangements and booked an AirBnB for AUD57 two streets away from the tour hotel.

I have pushed the bus transfer back to late on our final day (no charge). This has salvaged most of the final day of skiiing.

New arrival time at CTS is about 6pm.

A 3 minute cab ride from CTS is a two bedroom, fully self contained apartment available for AUD113.90. Looks flash too.

It was on QF hotels so I applied a $50 PC voucher bringing our final night down to less than $65, and I’ll collect a handful of QFF points.

Another crisis averted.

 

[BCons]

Just made 2 mistakes- able to correct one, but not the other..

Been looking for a points redemption fare to Europe next yr with SQ - the website displays redemption availability a week at a time, with your nominated date in the middle. I picked what I thought was the right date and proceeded to book myself right thru to payment of points + $700 charges for a return in J. Happy with that, as I got preferred row 11 seats.

Then, because you cant combine revenue & points on the same booking, I next booked the Mrs on the same itin with a normal revenue tkt. We hv different status with SQ, so I couldnt access same seating for her, necessitating a call after booking to SQ to sort it out. Thats when I was told we were on different dates for the return! Seems I selected an earlier date, probly because thats when there was points availability and I didnt notice

That took a bit of time but SQ service centre got to work, moving the flexible revenue tkt to the right day. We are now seated together on the same flights on the same day, so that issue was resolved.

But I have since realised I shud have booked Mrs on the points flt, so that the revenue booking (and attached PPS value) is credited to my KF acct. Might be scratching to retain PPS next year and that might hv made the diff..

 

[Beano]

Just made 2 mistakes- able to correct one, but not the other..

Been looking for a points redemption fare to Europe next yr with SQ - the website displays redemption availability a week at a time, with your nominated date in the middle. I picked what I thought was the right date and proceeded to book myself right thru to payment of points + $700 charges for a return in J. Happy with that, as I got preferred row 11 seats.

Then, because you cant combine revenue & points on the same booking, I next booked the Mrs on the same itin with a normal revenue tkt. We hv different status with SQ, so I couldnt access same seating for her, necessitating a call after booking to SQ to sort it out. Thats when I was told we were on different dates for the return! Seems I selected an earlier date, probly because thats when there was points availability and I didnt notice

That took a bit of time but SQ service centre got to work, moving the flexible revenue tkt to the right day. We are now seated together on the same flights on the same day, so that issue was resolved.

But I have since realised I shud have booked Mrs on the points flt, so that the revenue booking (and attached PPS value) is credited to my KF acct. Might be scratching to retain PPS next year and that might hv made the diff..

I've had the same situation when travelling with Mrs Beano. I sympathise wholeheartedly!

 

[Flashback]

I think the real mistake here, is booking your Mrs on the same flight as you when you had the opportunity to split them up!