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I accidentally booked Truro, Canada, instead of the SW of England.

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TheBigFatMermaid · 21/03/2019 20:28

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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NewModelArmyMayhem18 · 22/03/2019 08:53

It's not happened to us but DH did once 'google' the cost of staying in a Premier Inn/Holiday Inn/Travelodge somewhere and found it a lot cheaper than I'd managed to do. Mystery solved when I noticed it was somewhere in the U.S.A. rather than the UK.

TinyTear · 22/03/2019 09:03

i took the heathrow express when i had a flight from gatwick, sigh

BananaInMyPocket · 22/03/2019 09:03

If it helps I once booked a flight to the US from London Canada instead of Heathrow Blush

Nodnol · 22/03/2019 09:05

There’s a Truro in Australia too. Small country town known for a string of murders. I get chills when we drive through.

Cornwall or Canada’s Truro’s sound much nicer!

BadBear · 22/03/2019 09:07

I turned up at the wrong test centre for my car theory test.

I was convinced I had booked the one closest to me so didn't even check the confirmation email (very unlike me). On the day my friend gave me a lift to the test centre I thought my test was at. We were looking for the unit number in the industrial estate only for me to check the email and realise it was at a test centre which was at the other end of the county Blush

She got her Fast and Furious on and got me there 20 minutes later than my slot. Thankfully the lovely lady at the (correct) centre let me take the test. And I passed Grin

CatkinToadflax · 22/03/2019 09:07

We recently rolled up at the Dover ferry terminal to catch our ferry over to Calais. The one we had tickets for wasn’t displayed on the board. DH - who had booked the tickets - was somewhat puzzled. We were there on the right day - but he’d somehow managed to book the tickets the wrong way round so that outbound was from Calais to Dover and the return in the evening was back to Calais! Hmm Confused The very helpful person in the terminal office changed our tickets whilst laughing at him.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 22/03/2019 09:10

About this time last year dh and I went to the Festival Hall for a concert he'd booked.
Found what we thought was the right auditorium, but no audience there, just apparently some sort of rehearsal going on.
Asked staff in the vicinity who checked our tickets - er, it was for 2019, not 2018!

Entirely dh's fault of course.😄
Had a good laugh, followed by a nice riverside drink and walk, and went home.

Wallywobbles · 22/03/2019 09:10

I get at least 50% of my ferry bookings wrong. Forgot to book the car on once. Wrong ferry. Wrong country. Wrong time. Wrong port. And we catch the ferry at least 3x a year.

MilkTrayLimeBarrel · 22/03/2019 09:16

Furry and Whonicked - I have the same problem - live in Christchurch, Dorset, but always get Christchurch, NZ, when I google anything!

juneau · 22/03/2019 09:20

My sister used to work on check-in at Heathrow and said this kind of thing happens all the time. People turn up on the wrong day, bought tickets for the wrong destination, etc. It's really, really common.

drspouse · 22/03/2019 09:21

DH has form for booking the wrong day so he always makes me check the bookings now.

winsinbin · 22/03/2019 09:22

A neighbour of mine was missing her daughter who had moved to work in Thailand. She mentioned it to her sister and they decided to go on holiday and visit him. My neighbour is not tech savvy so dates and a budget were agreed and her sister booked flights, tours, hotels etc for a massive 4 week tour of Thailand for themselves and their partners.

My neighbour phoned her daughter in great excitement to tell her the news and work out where on the trip would be the best time to meet up only for the daughter to tell her “Mum, I’ve told you a hundred times - I live in TAIWAN, not Thailand!’

The trip to Thailand went ahead anyway.

katseyes7 · 22/03/2019 09:23

This has just reminded me of one of Bill Bryson's books, he relates how he'd asked his travel agent to book him on a flight to Brussels. A while later he got a phone call asking "Would that be the Brussels in Belgium, Mr Bryson?"

ls there another one?

HaventGotAllDay · 22/03/2019 09:23

Banana, can't remember which booking site it is, possibly Expedia or Skyscanner- always gives London, Ontario as the first on the drop-down and you do a head wobble thinking "how the fuckety is it going to cost me 4,000 quid for a one way flight when last week on Ryanair it said £9.99

Ivegotthree · 22/03/2019 09:24

It's only four and a half hours to fly to NE Canada - can't you go anyway?

Hoppinggreen · 22/03/2019 09:24

I went to the wrong place for a job interview once (sent by a Recruitment consultant). Managed to figure it out and rushed across to the right place and was just slightly late. I explained and the interview went well. My future prospective boss phoned to say that he would love to offer me the job but the problem was the Recruiter was saying they had absolutely sent me to the right place and it was my mistake so I was lying to cover myself. Boss said he couldn’t employ someone who would lie to him but he wanted to give me a chance to come clean. Stupid Recruiter forgot he had emailed me confirmation of where the interview was. I got the job, company changed Recruitment Consultant.

Also we took Dd to Disneyland Paris when she was 4. Had an amazing time but when we arrived at the airport to come home I found I had booked the return flights for a month later. They said it would cost £600 to get on the flight, we had paid £300 so I thought it was an extra £300 but no, it was an extra £600 - bastards!

BikeRunSki · 22/03/2019 09:27

Colleague once booked flights from Birmingham, Alabama rather than West Midlands.....

PeacefulInTheDeep · 22/03/2019 09:28

I've done the same as you, Getting. Booked tickets for a comedy gig, turned up on the day and found I was a year early! When the correct date eventually rolled round I had completely forgotten about it and only remembered when I found the tickets whilst sorting some paperwork.

UrsulaPandress · 22/03/2019 09:28

All these stories are making me sweat.

YogaDrone · 22/03/2019 09:29

I'm in the UK. I was once approached by a client to do a small consultancy job in Perth. 4 days on site. Sounded good, so I asked them to send me the details.

It was then I found out it was Perth, Australia not Perth in Scotland. Who the hell expects someone based in the UK to do 4 days in Australia? 4 weeks possibly, 4 days, not a chance!

Sidge · 22/03/2019 09:32

We spent a BH weekend with a large group of friends in north west Wales. We decided to spend a day at New Quay, so off we all went in our respective cars.

Half an hour later one family phoned to say "Why are we going so far today? This can't be right!"

They'd put Newquay, Cornwall into their sat nav instead of New Quay, Wales...

poundoflard · 22/03/2019 09:33

I applied for Australian visas for my whole family, so all dates of birth, passport numbers etc etc needed loggin in online. So I check and double check, all ok . So I thought.
Turn up at check in and all but my DD ( 2yr old at the time) get their tickets and baggage taken, then the airline staff point out I'd put her birth year down not as 2011, but 1911 so I was in effect travelling with a 103 year old baby!
All got sorted and they changed the dates as it was all electronically stored , otherwise a it would've been a costly turn around and go back home!

I'm just about to book a flight now and I've got all nervous reading these!!

fishonabicycle · 22/03/2019 09:34

I booked an apartment in northern Spain for 10 June instead of 10 July. Fortunately I got an email a week before reminding me I was travelling soon and it was my last day to cancel without being charged. Had to hurry to find another apartment too. What a bellend I am.

IncrediblySadToo · 22/03/2019 09:34

Needed to book flights to Frankfurt for boss, he was really impressed with the price until he landed. Frankfurt Hahn is 126km from Frankfurt airport and the taxi cost used up all the savings and more

I was on the bus at a depot, on my way to Frankfurt - only I wasn’t, I was going to Frankfurt Hahn 😖. I don’t remember now how I realised, before it left but I did and after a mad panic just made the correct bus as it was pulling out 🤣. I double check now!

YogaDrone · 22/03/2019 09:36

DS doesn't let me book cinema tickets anymore Sad. One time I booked what I thought were tickets in the last row, turned out I was looking at the diagram incorrectly and we were in the front row. So we had to watch the movie in extreme close up and came out with cricks in our necks.

The next time (bearing in mind the lesson I'd learnt previously) I booked the back row. Feeling mega proud of myself, DS and I turned up to watch whatever Marvel franchise movie it was - got our seats, all looking good. Until a man with his son turned up and said we were in their seats. I pushed back - no, I'm sure we're in the correct seats, perhaps there's been a double booking?

We get the attendant in. Turns out we were in the correct seats but on the wrong day Blush Luckily the cinema wasn't packed and we just moved to the row in front.

DS now checks all my online cinema/theatre bookings. He's 11.