So, we have to go to Truro in the South West soon, for a weekend, for DDs obsession hobby. So, as usual, we had a good look on Booking.com.I like the lack of paying for cancellation.
I was looking on the app on my phone, DP was looking on his phone. He found a place that was far cheaper than any I could see. He kept on about it, until I asked him the name, googled it and got taken to it via the App. It gave the price in £££, so I booked it. It looked lovely.
The booking confirmation came through and it was in CAD! Took me a while to work out that meant Canadian Dollars. Then I looked and saw it was Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada. Lucky I could cancel straight away, but DD thinks it's hilarious, so, well I thought I would share our stupidity with you, so you can have a laugh and maybe make me feel better with similar tales.
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I accidentally booked Truro, Canada, instead of the SW of England.
TheBigFatMermaid · 21/03/2019 20:28
DH had to go to a 2 day conference in Barcelona for work. It was near our wedding anniversary, so we thought I would fly out with him a couple of days early, then I would go home and he would do the conference. All fine, all hotels/flights booked. Only problem was, he got the date of the conference wrong, it should have been the following week. So his work trip actually just turned into a jolly for us (and we conceived DS while we were out there 
) and he had to send a colleague to the actual conference as he couldn't go anyway.
To be fair, it was entitled the Winchester campus. I only noticed when an email came through confirming and none of the students in the photos looked British.... 
I booked flights but at the check-in desk they said I had forgotten to book for luggage for the 4 of us. 4 big suitcases....
Just before leaving home, I had printed out the booking confirmation, that said we had luggage booked. So I showed them the print out, very polite but insistent to show them they were wrong.
They kept saying it was not in the system, but I was determined, and they added the bags. I asked again, politely (honest!) If they could check for me the bags were included on the return flight, so I would not have to go through the whole argument again on the way back. They were super helpful and apologetic and fixed it there and then.
When I walked through security, and looked closer at my print out, I saw that it was for a trip a year ago and I had blagged my way into them paying for our suitcases....
Loving today's story about the BA aircraft that took off from London City airport en route to Dusseldorf, and when the announcement came that they were about to land at Edinburgh airport, it took a passenger's enquiry and a show of hands before the crew realised
I remember once booking a field study trip to Tripoli to look round some ruins. Well, I was not too happy I can tell you when I discovered I was in Tripoli, Lebanon. We all had to dash back to the airport while Hezbollah and Hamas were trading bullets and bombs with each other.
We were so relieved to get back on the plane and turn around to head to Tripoli, Libya. Mind you, our relief was about as short-lived as an X-Factor winners career when after landing in Libya we got embroiled in a gunfight as Gadaffi was overthrown.
But that is nowhere near as funny as when my late Uncle Tom got offered a position with Mars. Can you just imagine his surprise when, rather than ending up at the Slough factory of a famous chocolate manufacturer, he stepped out of his taxi and put his feet firmly on the red planet..... He would not make the same mistake these days, not with sat nav and all.
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