Made any travel mistakes lately?

[cove]

Thought I had forgotten to book SIL her return journey from London. Thinking it was an Oops moment as it wasn’t in my Singapore Air booking list. Finally found I had booked her on Qatar by going back thru emails. Pressure off we can resume our holiday.

 

[kookaburra75]

Theft is an age old tradition, heck - it's the foundation of Australia as we know it today! Thanks Great Britain!

Yes - but we were selected by the best judges in England

 

[Blacksheep]

Oh gosh, I wouldn't know where to begin!
Booked my NZ and Tassie trips last year during the double SC promotion last Feb. Done all the accommodations and car hire for NZ.
Finished my trip to NZ mid sept, started looking at my Tassie trips...oh cough nothing had been booked....got reamed with extremely limited choices for accommodation and car hire. But on the upside, I'd loved staying at hostels where you could mingle while cooking with people of various background.

 

[Bundy Bear]

Booked accommodation in Geelong a Best Western drove to the wrong one to check in to, about 20 minutes wasted, the code didn’t work for the box to get the key out.
Hired a car from Firefly which is handled by Hertz and unless you google Firefly you wouldn’t realise that you have to go to Hertz as there a no signs anywhere, some things work others things don’t run as smoothly.

 

[Spongbob]

I have gone to a domestic airport to check-in for an international flight.

 

[p--and--t]

As part of a RTW, booked 2 nights in an AirBNB in Tokyo after a tour and only stayed one because of miscalculation of day/time differences between Portugal & Japan. A prompt from TripCase about my upcoming flight made me re-check details, thankfully only lost one days payment for cheap accom, potentially could have arrived at airport one day late .

 

[Fifa]

Used Lifemiles to fly J to UK and Krisflyer miles to fly home from IST for a trip in Aug/Sept.
Entered all flights in a spreadsheet and thought all was ok.
When we checked in at IST we received BPs for IST-SIN-SYD (not BNE as noted on the spreadsheet). I told my +1 they must have made a mistake so quickly checked the e-tickets and oops it was me who made the mistake!
Mad rush in the lounge to look and options - booked the SYD Rydges (at a very good rate) and a points flight next day from SYD-BNE. Saved.

 

[ozbeachbabe]

I have gone to a domestic airport to check-in for an international flight.

Another trap for young players is people going to the international terminal when their ultimate destination is overseas but their first flight is a domestic one departing from the domestic terminal.

 

[Saab34]

Booking the flight from Tullamarine but going to Avalon instead. I mostly use Avalon, the checkin agent found it funny as it’s usually only the other way around.

In my younger years I left a packet of condoms in the side part of my backpack. I left the zip open by mistake as it went through the x ray machine. There was a delay scanning so 20 people waiting at the other end for the bags to pop out. My bags was first out, followed by the packet of condoms just behind which fell out. I tried to act like they were not mine as everyone was looking at it chuckling, when I walked off the loudly security cow shouted....’sir you forgot your condoms’. Awkward as cough*

 

[Sprucegoose]

Booked a car in melbourne Florida for Tullamarine pickup.

booked Syd Mel when in Melb, got to the airport .....

seriously there are no real excuses

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Oh jeez where do I start?

Good friend booked me 2 nts at discount rate at 5* hotel - I booked the 3rd night at +2x rate - eventually 3rd nt became available at super cheap rate so he booked that also - I call Dia # to cancel my booking but instead of concentrating I had mind elsewhere and I cancelled his 3 nt discount booking instead of mine - D’Oh - cap in hand I go back asking can he get booking reinstated which he did but only first 2 nts

This morn had taxi booked for 5 am to drive to MEL - long story short told taxi driver go over Westgate and up Western Ring Rd instead up Citylink - good plan cept Princes Hwy completely closed past Williamstown Rd so we have to detour half way around Western suburbs to get to MEL - $100 taxi fare ended up $140 by the time we got there

 

[Spongbob]

booked Syd Mel when in Melb, got to the airport .....

seriously there are no real excuses

Corporate travel booked me on a flight MEL-SYD-MEL. I did not notice this until I was checking-in at SYD.
I could blame myself for only checking the departure and arrival times and travel dates, and not checking the departure and arrival locations.
But I did not!

 

[cove]

Tomorrow night we are heading to Sydney. Now where are the flat keys?
Normally in my bag......

 

[Hvr]

....’sir you forgot your condoms’. Awkward as cough*

Not as awkward as getting 'ready for action' and realising you've forgotten them.

 

[RSD]

On an escalator at the main train station in Rome with several large Pelican cases of camera gear and one gets turned around and jams at the top of the escalator causing me on the still moving escalator to do a massive triple somersault with pike over the top while still trying to hang on to another Pelican case and wearing a huge LowePro backpack full of camera bodies and lenses - thankfully it was before Youtube was invented.

 

[QF_Flyer]

A few years ago, I had booked a ticket for the scenic train in Norway, between Oslo and Bergen. Paid the supplement for first class (or whatever it is) for the big windows and excellent views, happy days. Anyway, board the train and a while later a lady is asking if I'm in the right seat, so we compare tickets, and both have the same seat allocation, confusion ensues...neither I nor the lady whose seat I'd stolen noticed that I'd booked the tickets for the day before Luckily the ticket inspector took pity on my idiocy and let me stay on the train in first class, without penalty for which I was eternally grateful (naturally I moved and the lady got her rightful seat).

But wait, it doesn't end there. I get to the hotel in Bergen later on, and there's no record of my reservation...I was a day out on that too, a day early this time ! Luckily there was still space, although I paid a bit more for the privilege of a last minute booking (luckily my pre-booked rate was flexible, and I was able to cancel that just in time).

By this time I was beginning to think my brain had developed a terminal fault. In my defence, I was in the process of changing jobs and selling a house (probably not the best time to decide on a visit Scandinavia really, but there you go), so I think my mind was just elsewhere, but still!

 

[straitman]

I made a couple of accommodation bookings (semi-flexible rate) for Istanbul for next October.

Next morning when I revisited the bookings I found one was for February NOT October and we were past the flexible cutoff.

I sent them a quick email which they answered 11 minutes later. Apologised and said they couldn't change the dates so they cancelled the booking and asked me to rebook for the dates I wanted. Great service.

 

[straitman]

Early January and I was looking at the flight bookings for the year ahead. Felt sure that I had booked BNE-NAN for late May but couldn't find the reference anywhere. A week or so later there was a small price drop so I went ahead and booked.

On Monday this week I discovered that I had two bookings for the trip. Both on the same day and on the same aircraft.

After agonising on this for a day I rang VA and explained my stupidity but also queried how they could accept two bookings on the same flight. No issues at all and one flight was cancelled and refunded at no cost to me.

Still shaking my head about how I did this, but anyway the only real cost was my embarrassment.

 

[Mattg]

After agonising on this for a day I rang VA and explained my stupidity but also queried how they could accept two bookings on the same flight. No issues at all and one flight was cancelled and refunded at no cost to me.

Still shaking my head about how I did this, but anyway the only real cost was my embarrassment.

Nice of VA to refund the second booking though! If this was with Qantas, you'd still be waiting to speak to them (let alone be offered a refund without penalty).

 

[rayray]

Booked two one ways between MAA and IXB on different airlines for our family (because it was cheaper that way). Discovered a week later that I'd booked them both as MAA -> IXB. Had to pretty much give up the value of the ticket to change it.

Then we had to cancel the whole trip to India anyway because my wife broke her leg 2 days before we were due to go. Yay for travel insurance.