Made any travel mistakes lately?

[Lynda2475]

Ordered a coffee to have with free chocolate hour at Movenpick and forgot to flash my Accor plus card for a discount.

 

[JohnK]

Not quite a mistake but a miscalculation.

Wife would have made (did make) 1,000 Velocity SCs, and Platinum, with our PER-SIN flights on Boxing Day. She was going to be 2 flights short so booked revenue flights for her PER-MEL-SYD while daughter and I had award tickets.

We got back to Brisbane and I checked but she is still Gold. As it turns out our DPS-ADL-BNE flights were 18-Jan-24 and her PER-MEL-SYD flights were 22-Jan-25 so 2 sectors dropped off and she is now 37 SCs and 2 sectors short of Platinum.

She has Gold until July 2026 but I think it's still worth it for Platinum/Gold until March 2027. I think if I fly to SYD for the weekend in 3 weeks and the 3 of us fly to SYD end of March she can still make Platinum but I'm not 100% certain with all the changes to Velocity coming up.

 

[Lynda2475]

An extra spontaneous trip to BNE last year meant that my previously booked DSC trip to AKL last weekend triggered my Loyalty bonus, which would have otherwise been triggered in May allowing me to claim the SCs in Aug in next FF year. Now I will have to claim them this year when they arent needed to retain status.

I should have left my FF number of the BNE trip, and then put in a retro claim after the SC issue had resolved itself.

 

[Flashback]

For the past few days, it's been bugging me (without actively thinking about it.....) that my passport wallet felt a bit light. I've just realised what it was, the little black wallet thing I got when Hilton Premium Club existed (remember that, @straitman ?) has fallen out, somewhere along my travels home. I had my passport wallet open/closed so many times from GRU-MIA-LHR-DUB-LHR that I can't even work out where it would have been lost. Damnit.

Fortunately, I think the only cards in there were Revolut, Chase, and something else....... but they were all cards / accounts that have a zero (or sub £5 balance). Unfortunately, as they're app only banks, each card will cost to replace so that's a bit annoying!

 

[owenjwest]

Screwed up booking Qantas flights to Bali and forgot to use my Qantas Amex Ultimate $450 travel credit - booked directly through Qantas instead. :-(

Guess that'll teach me to make booking immediately after waking up and before the coffee kicks in!

 

[Lynda2475]

Screwed up booking Qantas flights to Bali and forgot to use my Qantas Amex Ultimate $450 travel credit - booked directly through Qantas instead. :-(

Guess that'll teach me to make booking immediately after waking up and before the coffee kicks in!

If its been less than 24hours should be able to cancel Qantas ticket for free.

 

[Flyfrequently]

Screwed up booking Qantas flights to Bali and forgot to use my Qantas Amex Ultimate $450 travel credit - booked directly through Qantas instead. :-(

Guess that'll teach me to make booking immediately after waking up and before the coffee kicks in!

Welcome to AFF @owenjwest
If you read through this thread, others have done worse!
Time to plan the next holiday

 

[owenjwest]

Welcome to AFF @owenjwest
If you read through this thread, others have done worse!
Time to plan the next holiday

Yeah, pretty minor in the great scheme of things - at least I booked the right date, so that's a good start!

 

[drron]

A warm welcome to AFF @owenjwest . Hopefully still some time to use the Amex credit. At least you have the flight you wanted on the day you wanted so one of the best outcomes for a travel mistake.

 

[DC3]

Screwed up booking Qantas flights to Bali and forgot to use my Qantas Amex Ultimate $450 travel credit - booked directly through Qantas instead. :-(

Guess that'll teach me to make booking immediately after waking up and before the coffee kicks in!

And welcome to AFF

 

[straitman]

Screwed up booking Qantas flights to Bali and forgot to use my Qantas Amex Ultimate $450 travel credit - booked directly through Qantas instead. :-(

Guess that'll teach me to make booking immediately after waking up and before the coffee kicks in!

Fortunately it's not too bad a mistake.

As others have said: Welcome to AFF.

 

[HirafuHeartAttack]

Made 2 really...
1 was going anywhere near LAX on return from Vancouver. That airport (QF F lounge aside) is one of the great sh*tholes of aviation IMO.
The other was not realising that the daily YVR-LAX flight arrives into the 'Regional' satelite terminal, meaning a bus connection in the rain, and then because of LAX's never ending renovations a 150m walk in said rain to enter terminal 4.
The only upside was arriving from YVR not having to re-clear any TSA or re-check bags, which came with the downside of walking the creepy hallways of the T4-TBIT connector.

 

[RSD]

Made 2 really...
1 was going anywhere near LAX on return from Vancouver. That airport (QF F lounge aside) is one of the great sh*tholes of aviation IMO.
The other was not realising that the daily YVR-LAX flight arrives into the 'Regional' satelite terminal, meaning a bus connection in the rain, and then because of LAX's never ending renovations a 150m walk in said rain to enter terminal 4.
The only upside was arriving from YVR not having to re-clear any TSA or re-check bags, which came with the downside of walking the creepy hallways of the T4-TBIT connector.

You make LAX sound like it ranks only just slightly above Guantanamo Bay!

 

[HirafuHeartAttack]

You make LAX sound like it ranks only just slightly above Guantanamo Bay!

What can I say, other than the sanctuary and familiarity of the Aussie lounges it really doesn't do wonders for me.

 

[RSD]

What can I say, other than the sanctuary and familiarity of the Aussie lounges it really doesn't do wonders for me.

OK can I suggest in that case that if you haven't already crossed them off your list of potential "Greatest Airports of the World" then probably put a line through Cairo, and Indira Gandhi in Delhi - actually you can probably put a line through a few airports in India. Dar Es Salaam is another that you might want to put a line through too unless they have improved it substantially.

 

[jonboixxx]

I left a bit of sand in the footwell of a Hertz rental car and copped a $165 cleaning fee.

 

[kpc]

Dar Es Salaam is another that you might want to put a line through too unless they have improved it substantially.

We flew out of Dar in Nov 2023...it is now a big, spacious modern airport!

 

[RSD]

We flrew out of Dar in Nov 2023...it is now a big, spacious modern airport!

OK that is progress!! I was going to include CYB but I'm glad that I checked first - when I was there in the early 90's it was a grass strip and the "terminal" was four posts with a tin roof and some wooden bench seats - now it is a fully fledged international airport!

 

[JohnM]

I left a bit of sand in the footwell of a Hertz rental car and copped a $165 cleaning fee.

Where was that?

 

[straitman]

I left a bit of sand in the footwell of a Hertz rental car and copped a $165 cleaning fee.

That certainly seems excessive to me.