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Someone Asked “What Is The Dumbest Travel Mistake You’ve Made?”, 30 Folks Delivered
Some trips are more breathtaking than others, but he who knows the first thing about traveling would know it to be about movement and change - of landscape, people, sounds, light, and probably the traveler himself.
Therefore, it should come as no surprise that the most probable and (usually) desired part of traveling is various adventures! And adventures wouldn’t be adventures without their essential element - unexpected circumstances and surprises!
That being said, honest travelers would admit that at least some of it springs right from the traveler’s own hilarious mistakes. (Even if it means being stuck in the exact same spot or paying for the room twice.) Dreadful at the moment, but still funny years later. These Redditors shared their experiences of making such a mistake while hitting the road, answering one Redditor’s question “What’s is the dumbest travel mistake you’ve made?”
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#1
On a *very* drunken night out in Thailand I gave my wallet to a lovely couple we had spent the day with on a trip to keep safe as I had no pockets in my shorts.
Needless to say I woke up the next day and the doom hit me.
Kicked myself for the next few days and carried on with my trip with the help of my friends. Mostly transferring money to them online.
A few days later I logged in to a computer at the hostel and found an email from LinkedIn with a connection request and a short message from one of the couple! They had tried finding me on all my socials but the only one that they found me on was LinkedIn 🤣
They managed to post it to my next hostel and it was on my bed waiting for me!
Heroes. 🤩
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#2
Sydney, Australia and Sydney, Nova Scotia are not close to each other. I have no idea why I didn’t question why the ticket was so affordable !
#3
Not me but my husband. The night before our first trip to Barcelona he noticed his passport had expired. Hotels were nonrefundable at that point so I waved goodbye and did the trip solo.
Rose the Cook 1 year ago
What sort of person doesn't check their passport before making travel plans? Some countries insist on at least 6 months before expiry to let you in.
User# 6 1 year ago
That would be me. Only discovered the evening before a day trip to the UK my passport was expired. Luckily I managed to get a temporary passport for the trip that same evening.
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Paul C. 1 year ago
Back in the Eighties a friend of mine, who shall we say, was a few sandwiches short of a picnic, didn't realise a passport was required to go to Tenerife on one of those 18/30 drink/sex fests. A mate lent him his passport and on the way out and back it was barely glanced at. Just as well because he had bright red hair and the passport holder black!
Panda Kicki 1 year ago
And no emergency passport station at the airport? Our airports has the possibility to get a new passport within an hour, expensive but doable.
Marilyn Russell 1 year ago
My husband didn’t keep his passport up to date and we missed out on seeing Peter Frampton again at a concert I got tickets for in New York State (we’re Canadian). I guess I could have just gone with a friend but he gave the tickets to one of his friends instead. That pissed me off.
Mila Preradović 1 year ago
I thought Canadians could travel to US just with an ID? Guess not🤔
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Cricketgeeklol 1 year ago
My aunt works partime down at the docks. Last week she had a family that came and the Dad only had his passport for another 6 months. He couldn't go. The Mum was crying and so were the kids. He was devastated
Stannous Flouride 1 year ago
This made me check mine since I leave for Japan in 50 days. All good until 2031.
Pascal’s Swagger 1 year ago
Enjoy Japan! Very user-friendly travel destination and lots of amazing things to see (and eat!)!
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MarTa 1 year ago
A few years ago, we were travelling with friends and our kids. My ex husband didnt bother to check his id expiry date (travelling within EU) and had no passport. His id was expired and we managed to board on the plane, last minute. He had to pull some serious strings to get a temporary permit (he s a police officer). Yes, where we live, if you have the right connections you can pull anything 🙄
MarTa 1 year ago
Travelling with a group of friends and our kids. My ex husband didnt check his id expiry date (travelling within EU) realising at the airport that it has expired. No passport either. Managed to finally board last minute, after pulling some serious strings to get a temporary permit (he is a police officer and had connections). Yes, where i live, if you have connections in the right places, you can pull anything 🙄
Russell Bowman 1 year ago
Sadly, the U.S. passport service is a dismal failure aka a Government run service. Prior to "COVID" turn around times for a renewal was weeks ... Now, my last renewal (submitted November 2022) just arrived last month ... yep, seven Months. So much for travel this summer.
Mila Preradović 1 year ago (edited)
Why would she lie?! If you travel by car or a train or a bus or even a ferry (and yes, we Europeans do that a lot) no one gives a flying duck about your passport expiration date until you reach the border, nor does your hotel ask about it while booking. Not everyone travels with a travel agent.
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Of course it can happen. Do you think you can only organise a holiday or other trip by using a travel agent? If so, you're not nearly as smart as you like to think you are.
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#5
My wife and I traveled to New Zealand for six weeks camping, then flew to Hawaii for a week to visit friends. I had a car and condo rented in Hawaii but in the plane to Hawaii I realized the day we lost going to New Zealand, we we’re gaining back going to Hawaii (International Date Line). So, we had to scramble as we had no car or housing for our first day there. We literally arrived in Hawaii hours before we left New Zealand. Oops.
#6
Borrowed my dad's old truck to do some wilderness camping with a buddy across the Canadian border in Yukon (I'm from Alaska obviously). Told the border agent I had no guns, ammo, etc but they searched the vehicle anyways and lo an behold my dad had a hidden compartment under the back seat with a .357 and a box of ammo lol. They pulled us out and had us stuck in an interrogation room while they called my dad as it was his name on the registration. He confirmed it was his fault as he forgot it was in there and they actually let us go and they kept the gun. We camped for a week lol. My dad had to drive 250 miles to the border to pick up the gun.
#7
My husband mixed up AM and PM for our flight from Amsterdam to London and I never bothered to double check. We were out happily sightseeing with what we thought were our last few hours in town when I get an email that said “How was your flight? Fill out this survey…”
Thankfully we booked some last minute train tickets. We lost the money on the airfare but at least it was a very cheap flight.
#8
Grabbed my son's passoort, instead of mine, before driving 3 hrs to Chicago for a flight to Cuba early the next day. Thankfully I have an amazing friend who went and got mine from my house and met me halfway. Got back to Chicago at 2:00am, and made my 6:30 am flight. I gave my friend $100 for saving my a**e.
Cricketgeeklol 1 year ago
A very funny story from about 30 yrs ago. My grandparents managed to take there son and daughters passports instead of their own! They were driving to France and those days all you had to do was flash the passport and they didn't fully check. So, they kept away from the curve, not close enough for the pictures to be obvious! They got there and back
#9
I booked a trip to Istanbul in December, assumed it would be warm because it was on the Mediterranean and in the Middle East, didn’t check the weather predictions, didn’t pack any warm clothes, and it was snowing when I arrived.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
I wouldn't have thought Istanbul got any snow, either. The more you know.
#10
I booked a ticket to the Anne Frank museum tour and stood inline. Ticket was for the following year
#11
Mine was being an inexperienced 19 year old traveler bringing lots of German beer to Liverpool in a duffel bag. About 10 or 12 bottles broke and the bags on the conveyor belt were soaked in beer and the people were angrily mumbling over it. Then mine came, the whole bottom was drenched, and eyes were all over me as I quietly snuck out.
Shelby Moonheart 1 year ago
My parents lived in Haiti and would bring vanilla back to us in the USA. At that time the vanilla was in glass 5th bottles. Once trip at least one of the bottles broke. All the luggage coming off the plane smelled strongly of vanilla. It was the best vanilla to use in cooking.
#12
I booked a train from Venice at the trenitalia site. When the train never arrived I discovered I'd booked a bus. We missed it.
CanadianaKa 1 year ago
Does anyone get the feeling the Bored Panda content creators are just using wackier and wackier images just to inspire responses and upvotes?
#13
I forgot underwear on a three week trip to South America. No offense to the Brazilians here but let’s say their men’s style of underwear was not my idea of comfortable.
#14
Not me, but my friends recently were visiting EU (they’re not EU citizens and require a visa to be there) and decided to go on a day-trip from Munich (Germany) to Salzburg (Austria). Never came to their mind to grab their passports as it’s their first time in Europe and they’ve thought “there’s no state borders inside the EU”. They got lucky at the way there, but at the way back there was a police check on travel documents 🙈 they were taken off the train and spent couple of hours at the police station trying to contact hotel so the staff would get into their room and take photos of visas. Ended well though - the police released them once the photos were sent.
Jo Davies 1 year ago
Similar happened to me in Dusseldorf! 2019, travelling back to South Africa from UK. Didn't know the travel rules there are different and I spend 5 hours in the airport police station while they tried everything they could to get me on a plane out. Was very scary, but they did help and I made it home 19 hours later, very tired and broke.
#15
We were traveling to two different cities for a week. We needed two accommodations, one for each city, right? Well my dumbass booked not just one air bnb for the one city, but also booked the other for the same city with the exact same dates. Didn’t notice until a week before our trip. I cried when I realize what I did lol. It was an extremely expensive (no refund) lesson to learn to pay more attention when I book more than 1 accommodation at once :/
I’ve Seen Things 1 year ago
I have to book a hotel for the night before you leave for the country you arrive the next day, when crossing the dateline west to east. Eg. First flight depts 6:00am on 17th April connecting flight arrives at destination 16th April 12:30am. Due to time zones and date line Both Hotel bookings (one for predeparture and one for arrival) are for the night of the 16th in two countries.
#16
Arriving at 1:00 pm for a 1:00 am flight...12hrs too late. The flight was from India to US so it was a very expensive mistake.
Annita Stephanou 1 year ago
I see a lot of this on this list. Which company does not issue tickets with a 24h clock? I was working as a ground hostess for years and never saw one!
#17
I was travelling in Belfast and then taking a flight to Paris from the Belfast airport. When I get to the bus station, I ask for a ticket “to the airport”. I get my ticket and get on the bus. 30 mins into the trip where we should be getting close to the airport, I check my Google maps and see we’re headed the wrong direction. I ask someone if the bus is going to the Belfast airport. He looks horrified and tells me it’s going to the Dublin airport. Missed my flight, had to get a new, way more expensive flight from the Dublin airport.
Nicole Weymann 1 year ago
Something similar happened to us when we were in Istanbul last February. Twenty minutes into the taxi ride I realized we were going in the wrong direction (Havalimaı instead of Sabiha Gokcen). Luckily we had planned with a time margin large enough to make up for the mistake, but the 40 Euro ride became a 80 Euro trip.
#18
I mentally earmark a few hundred dollars per trip for "mistakes" since I plan my own trips. No one is perfect, and expecting to make a few errors helps me deal with it when it happens.
#20
Recently went to Japan and must have been extremely jet lagged my first night because I threw my envelope of 40000 yen (like 280 USD) into the trash can in the bathroom of the floor of the hostel I was staying in. Was checking the bathroom as a last ditch effort, moved a few pieces of tissue and there it was untouched 😂
#21
Went to the wrong airport in berlin and missed my flight
#22
Backcountry backpacking, had those convertible pants, but left the pant legs at a high elevation lake and had to just wear shorts the remainder of the route. Very cold at night!
#23
Showed up for my flight exactly 24 hours before departure. Luckily they got me on or I would’ve have to go home and repeat the whole process the next day.
Extra vacation day I guess so that was cool.
#24
1990’s. Took a redeye charter to the greek islands. Opened the duty free on the plane and got drunk and wasted, as good 19year olds do on a boys-trip.
Arrived. We saw our two bags on the luggage band. Grabbed them, took the chartered bus to the hotel. Crashed in bed after checking in to the hotel.
After 1 hour got woken up by the tour guide knocking on our door. He had two identical bags in his hand. He informed us we took some other guests bags at the airport. Opps 🙄
Nicola Roberts 1 year ago
Why would they want his organs Kitten? He's already admitted he was pickling in alcohol.
#25
Booked my rental car for the wrong day (flight landed at 1am and I booked for the previous day). The rental company was completely inflexible, so I ended up shelling out $500+ *twice* for a 4-day rental. Then I discovered a cab to and from my destination (where I didn't need a car anyway) would've only cost like $150 😩
Jan Moore 1 year ago
For some reason I had us flying out of St Louis a day earlier than we were. Didn't find out till we tried to check in at our day before flight hotel. Called our travel agent to tell Bush's screwed up in booking the hotel as they didn't have our room. She checked and said you're not flying out till 2 more days. So we had to spend the time and more money for the extra day.
#26
"How hard can it be to get from Heathrow to Gatwick ... *very late at night*? It's still the same city."
#27
Spent an entire month in London and never once ventured outside of the city. I was a dumb 20 year old American who didn't realize the ease of train travel there. I remember the only day trip I had looked into was a coach tour bus to Stonehenge and it was super expensive so I didn't do it.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
When you live in a country that requires a personal car to just get out of the city at home, it's hard to get out of that restrictive thinking and realize how much freedom you have when you're somewhere with ample public transportation that goes all sorts of places outside of the cities. My last trip to UK, I regret not going other places.
#28
I left my passport in the Uber in Rio luckily I have family there so I just said “hey again it’s me” I got my passport within 2 days from the driver!
#29
Listened to my mom and a poorly worded/outdated travel site convincing me I can fly to the Bahamas with a passport card. On the way to the airport I felt a sense of doom and found out they were very wrong.
Mom and dad continued on to the airport and I caught the next Amtrak home. Lesson learned the hard way.
Everyone get your Passport book!!!
#30
Before I knew skiplagging was a thing I had a flight to Budapest with a connection in Frankfurt. Found out some friends were in Nuremburg so I decided get off in Frankfurt and take the train to meet them. Luckily I had planned to check my bag so I asked ticket agent to just tag my bag through Frankfurt. That’s when I got educated on what happens when you intentionally miss a leg on your ticket. My return tickets would’ve been canceled and I would’ve been none the wiser until two weeks later on my way home. I ended up paying $300 in change fees to modify the ticket.
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adnap derob 1 year ago
I'm NOT a travel advisor. This list gave me horrible anxiety 🤣😂🤣
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Rocco MZ 1 year ago (edited)
Sort of a travel mistake. I got an email from Bands In Town telling me my favorite metal band was playing our local arena, which is a mile from my house. Jumped online and bought two tickets. A few days later, I looked at the tickets and was confused that they said the show was in a town a few hours away. Went back to my bands in town email and it still showed it in my town. Checked the band's website and it is in deed in a town a few hours away. So now two concert tickets turned into a hotel room, gas, and meals.
Brainmas 1 year ago
Drove all night to Vegas for a wedding that was late morning or early afternoon. Got there in time and after the quick wedding decided to take a nap in our motel and go out after dark. Woke up at 7 the next morning and had to drive back because I had to work, and did not make it in time for my shift.
LH25 1 year ago (edited)
I had a friend who was taking a train trip to visit his wife who was on a jobsite to Vancouver. He was in the Seattle area at the time, there is a Vancouver to the north in BC Canada and one to the south near Portland OR. He got on the train, it took him over an hour to realize they were heading south, not north as he wanted. Yes, he bought his ticket for the southern city, not the northern. Not sure why it took so long, he'd grown up in the area and should have realized after the first couple of stops.
Thor Haugen 1 year ago
Wasn't a huge deal, but I once booked a cruise for the wrong year. Fortunately I realized it before booking flights, etc. I just ended up booking another cruise for that winter and went on the other cruise the next.
Donald 1 year ago
I went on a trip with an ex shortly after starting a relationship. She lied about booking the rental car and the hotel room after assuring me she would handle everything. Of course I learned about this as we land at our destination. Not booking in advance cost around 1500 USD extra and she refused to even split the difference. I had a great week in the Keys and she had a very awkward flight home at the end of the week.
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Shawn Barry 1 year ago
my travel mistake was taking an unofficial taxi from Domodyedevo airport in Moscow RU. $150 USD. (it was from the far south side of Moscow to north of the Ring 2). My Russian being very poor didn't help. 2nd trip I discovered at Sheremetyevo the Airports have a dedicated train into Moscow stopping at a train station that have a direct connection to the Metro. train and Metro got me to my hotel for $9 USD.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
1. My worst mistake was not catastrophic but still a learning experience. At one point when younger I booked the cheapest possible flights to visit my Dad in Thailand. That meant a stop for about 10 hours in Singapore. Not really long enough to leave the airport, especially when the flight arrived at about 10pm. Singapore airport is awesome but it does mostly close down over night. So instead of being able to wander round and look at the cool stuff, get some duty free and a meal then grab a few hours sleep, spent almost the entire 10 hours me kicking myself because everything was shut. Managed to get breakfast at the airport Maccas because it was the only thing open before my flight. Dozed on and off, getting about an hour sleep total because I was worried about missing the connecting flight and the chairs were uncomfortable. Just to rub salt in the wound, as I made my way to the gate I needed found a small lounge that had huge massage recliners that I could have slept on. More...
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
2. By the time I reached Bangkok and met my Dad I'd been awake for something like 36 hours, minus that one crappy hour of sleep at the airport. Was pretty much wrecked and still needed to travel a couple hours to get back to where he was living. So yeah I learned that you either book direct flights or you make the stopover long enough to actually get out of the airport and stay in a proper hotel for a night (or more).
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Elizabeth Basinger 1 year ago
Went on an overnight cruise to the Bahamas to then stay for a week and cruise back. Our luggage was collected from our ship, which was then transported to customs. Unbeknownst to us, we were supposed to collect our luggage as we passed through customs. We arrived at the resort, but our luggage was never brought to our room. That when we were informed of the proper procedure. What really messed us up was that we arrived on Easter Sunday. The port had already closed and was closed the next day for Easter Monday. We had to buy clothes,personal items, everything to last 2 days. On top of that, the island was recovering from a devastating hurricane the year before, so there was basically no town, no grocery store, and no shopping except for the local vendors in the market. We actually got some cute outfits, and the people were very kind. Overall, the trip was wonderful. We just laughed and took it in stride.
Petra Schaap 1 year ago (edited)
we once missed the Eurostar because i messed up by taking the wrong train from home, getting out of the wrong trainstation in Brussels, and then taking the wrong corridor in the right station. Arrived 3 minutes after check in closed. They did put us on the next train without extra cost, but had to wait 4 hrs and it was very frustrating knowing that the train was still there and that we could have easily made it -_- edit: stupiest thing was probably losing my passport in a bathroom stall at JFK. I put it on the TP holder and forgot it. It was found by a German woman who went the extra mile to find the right owner. Forever grateful!! (esp as i was on my own) Lession learned!
Rocco MZ 1 year ago
Three of us rent a house in Florida every Spring. We make sure it's a nice house, with a pool, not tub, chef's kitchen, lots of bedrooms and bathrooms. Once we book it, we ask different friends to join us. The deal is that we all split the house, the food and beverage bill equally. The house part is paid within a week of them agreeing to go. When we arrive, a few take a list of food, beverage, booze and beer and go shopping. At the end of the trip, we tally up the food and beverage and split it evenly. We usually stay for six nights and the food/beverage bill has never cost each of us more than $100, which is totally reasonable. This has never been a problem. Never. One year, we invite a brother and sister who are good friends of ours. They agree to share a bedroom (two queen beds) and they each only had to pay half for the house than the rest of us because they were sharing a room. They agreed to the food/beverage deal as well. I should add, that neither of these two people make
Rocco MZ 1 year ago
a lot of money. And they told us they probably wouldn't join us at the bars and the meals we ate in restaurants. Which was fine. The house was beautiful, had a huge tv, full cable, huge pool and hot tub. Outdoor kitchen and we were stocked on food, beer and booze. When it came time to divide up the food bill, each of us owed $75. That was it. One guest was a chef so we ate like kings that week. They threw a fit about the food bill. Didn't help us clean and bitched the whole way to the airport. At the airport I felt like a mom, I sat them both down, told them to grow up and stop throwing tantrums and reminded them of the agreement and showed them the email. I told them if they didn't pay their share of the bill in a week, I'd blow them up on social media. They paid me on the spot, as each of them had a few hundred in cash on them. Oh they also bitched at us every time we went to a bar or restaurant. We aren't friends with them anymore.
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David A Paterson 1 year ago
Lots of mistakes. A memorable one was not setting my alarm for a PM flight from Korea to Japan the next day. Jet lag kicked in and I slept for 15 hours straight. Missed the flight.
Der Kommissar 1 year ago (edited)
1.Taking the bullet train from Tokyo to Osaka, I threw away our tickets while on the train, not knowing that you had to use them to exit the station. The train employees assumed we snuck on. We were hassled but eventually released. 2. ordering Turkish coffee in Athens. 3. Ordering rice soup with egg in Bangkok (I think I can speak some Thai, but the tone was wrong on the egg so I ordered testicle in error.)
ric carter 1 year ago
We do not suffer travel 'mistakes'. Everywhere new is an adventure. Savor it... unless it's too costly. Then moan, groan, and go elsewhere. 8-)
Entropy Clean 1 year ago
I remember a time when I got stuck in Portland Maine for 13 hours and then had to take a 2 hour cab ride to Boston and then wake up again at 3am to get molested by TSA because of my belt. There was another time when I got my palm read on L*D and Molly came around. Lord, I had to lock myself in my brother's vehicle for a couple of hours to calm down
adnap derob 1 year ago
I'm NOT a travel advisor. This list gave me horrible anxiety 🤣😂🤣
Load More Replies... Rocco MZ 1 year ago (edited)
Sort of a travel mistake. I got an email from Bands In Town telling me my favorite metal band was playing our local arena, which is a mile from my house. Jumped online and bought two tickets. A few days later, I looked at the tickets and was confused that they said the show was in a town a few hours away. Went back to my bands in town email and it still showed it in my town. Checked the band's website and it is in deed in a town a few hours away. So now two concert tickets turned into a hotel room, gas, and meals.
Brainmas 1 year ago
Drove all night to Vegas for a wedding that was late morning or early afternoon. Got there in time and after the quick wedding decided to take a nap in our motel and go out after dark. Woke up at 7 the next morning and had to drive back because I had to work, and did not make it in time for my shift.
LH25 1 year ago (edited)
I had a friend who was taking a train trip to visit his wife who was on a jobsite to Vancouver. He was in the Seattle area at the time, there is a Vancouver to the north in BC Canada and one to the south near Portland OR. He got on the train, it took him over an hour to realize they were heading south, not north as he wanted. Yes, he bought his ticket for the southern city, not the northern. Not sure why it took so long, he'd grown up in the area and should have realized after the first couple of stops.
Thor Haugen 1 year ago
Wasn't a huge deal, but I once booked a cruise for the wrong year. Fortunately I realized it before booking flights, etc. I just ended up booking another cruise for that winter and went on the other cruise the next.
Donald 1 year ago
I went on a trip with an ex shortly after starting a relationship. She lied about booking the rental car and the hotel room after assuring me she would handle everything. Of course I learned about this as we land at our destination. Not booking in advance cost around 1500 USD extra and she refused to even split the difference. I had a great week in the Keys and she had a very awkward flight home at the end of the week.
Load More Replies... Shawn Barry 1 year ago
my travel mistake was taking an unofficial taxi from Domodyedevo airport in Moscow RU. $150 USD. (it was from the far south side of Moscow to north of the Ring 2). My Russian being very poor didn't help. 2nd trip I discovered at Sheremetyevo the Airports have a dedicated train into Moscow stopping at a train station that have a direct connection to the Metro. train and Metro got me to my hotel for $9 USD.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
1. My worst mistake was not catastrophic but still a learning experience. At one point when younger I booked the cheapest possible flights to visit my Dad in Thailand. That meant a stop for about 10 hours in Singapore. Not really long enough to leave the airport, especially when the flight arrived at about 10pm. Singapore airport is awesome but it does mostly close down over night. So instead of being able to wander round and look at the cool stuff, get some duty free and a meal then grab a few hours sleep, spent almost the entire 10 hours me kicking myself because everything was shut. Managed to get breakfast at the airport Maccas because it was the only thing open before my flight. Dozed on and off, getting about an hour sleep total because I was worried about missing the connecting flight and the chairs were uncomfortable. Just to rub salt in the wound, as I made my way to the gate I needed found a small lounge that had huge massage recliners that I could have slept on. More...
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
2. By the time I reached Bangkok and met my Dad I'd been awake for something like 36 hours, minus that one crappy hour of sleep at the airport. Was pretty much wrecked and still needed to travel a couple hours to get back to where he was living. So yeah I learned that you either book direct flights or you make the stopover long enough to actually get out of the airport and stay in a proper hotel for a night (or more).
Load More Replies... Elizabeth Basinger 1 year ago
Went on an overnight cruise to the Bahamas to then stay for a week and cruise back. Our luggage was collected from our ship, which was then transported to customs. Unbeknownst to us, we were supposed to collect our luggage as we passed through customs. We arrived at the resort, but our luggage was never brought to our room. That when we were informed of the proper procedure. What really messed us up was that we arrived on Easter Sunday. The port had already closed and was closed the next day for Easter Monday. We had to buy clothes,personal items, everything to last 2 days. On top of that, the island was recovering from a devastating hurricane the year before, so there was basically no town, no grocery store, and no shopping except for the local vendors in the market. We actually got some cute outfits, and the people were very kind. Overall, the trip was wonderful. We just laughed and took it in stride.
Petra Schaap 1 year ago (edited)
we once missed the Eurostar because i messed up by taking the wrong train from home, getting out of the wrong trainstation in Brussels, and then taking the wrong corridor in the right station. Arrived 3 minutes after check in closed. They did put us on the next train without extra cost, but had to wait 4 hrs and it was very frustrating knowing that the train was still there and that we could have easily made it -_- edit: stupiest thing was probably losing my passport in a bathroom stall at JFK. I put it on the TP holder and forgot it. It was found by a German woman who went the extra mile to find the right owner. Forever grateful!! (esp as i was on my own) Lession learned!
Rocco MZ 1 year ago
Three of us rent a house in Florida every Spring. We make sure it's a nice house, with a pool, not tub, chef's kitchen, lots of bedrooms and bathrooms. Once we book it, we ask different friends to join us. The deal is that we all split the house, the food and beverage bill equally. The house part is paid within a week of them agreeing to go. When we arrive, a few take a list of food, beverage, booze and beer and go shopping. At the end of the trip, we tally up the food and beverage and split it evenly. We usually stay for six nights and the food/beverage bill has never cost each of us more than $100, which is totally reasonable. This has never been a problem. Never. One year, we invite a brother and sister who are good friends of ours. They agree to share a bedroom (two queen beds) and they each only had to pay half for the house than the rest of us because they were sharing a room. They agreed to the food/beverage deal as well. I should add, that neither of these two people make
Rocco MZ 1 year ago
a lot of money. And they told us they probably wouldn't join us at the bars and the meals we ate in restaurants. Which was fine. The house was beautiful, had a huge tv, full cable, huge pool and hot tub. Outdoor kitchen and we were stocked on food, beer and booze. When it came time to divide up the food bill, each of us owed $75. That was it. One guest was a chef so we ate like kings that week. They threw a fit about the food bill. Didn't help us clean and bitched the whole way to the airport. At the airport I felt like a mom, I sat them both down, told them to grow up and stop throwing tantrums and reminded them of the agreement and showed them the email. I told them if they didn't pay their share of the bill in a week, I'd blow them up on social media. They paid me on the spot, as each of them had a few hundred in cash on them. Oh they also bitched at us every time we went to a bar or restaurant. We aren't friends with them anymore.
Load More Replies... David A Paterson 1 year ago
Lots of mistakes. A memorable one was not setting my alarm for a PM flight from Korea to Japan the next day. Jet lag kicked in and I slept for 15 hours straight. Missed the flight.
Der Kommissar 1 year ago (edited)
1.Taking the bullet train from Tokyo to Osaka, I threw away our tickets while on the train, not knowing that you had to use them to exit the station. The train employees assumed we snuck on. We were hassled but eventually released. 2. ordering Turkish coffee in Athens. 3. Ordering rice soup with egg in Bangkok (I think I can speak some Thai, but the tone was wrong on the egg so I ordered testicle in error.)
ric carter 1 year ago
We do not suffer travel 'mistakes'. Everywhere new is an adventure. Savor it... unless it's too costly. Then moan, groan, and go elsewhere. 8-)
Entropy Clean 1 year ago
I remember a time when I got stuck in Portland Maine for 13 hours and then had to take a 2 hour cab ride to Boston and then wake up again at 3am to get molested by TSA because of my belt. There was another time when I got my palm read on L*D and Molly came around. Lord, I had to lock myself in my brother's vehicle for a couple of hours to calm down
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