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

[TheBigFatMermaid]

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.

So glad I started this thread. I have been laughing while reading it.

Also, so many of you living in Truro, yet none offering to put me, DP and my DC up for the weekend!

I was looking at hotels this morning and it took a couple of minutes before I realised they were in Birmingham, AL not U.K. because I've got Booking.com set to £'s luckily I know the suburb names

My housemate booked tickets to San José California instead of San José Costa Rica once. Only realised at the airport.

We drove to the airport (Heathrow) and left the car there. Then when we got to the airport with our baby dd for our return flight realised we were flying back into Gatwick instead. That was really annoying and not a fun national express coach journey around the m25 in rush hour.

MT2017

Anything like this happening gives me the giggles, uncontrollable giggles ..... DH on the otherhand ......... is not so err giggly

Our narrowboat holiday with catalogue of mishaps is a whole other thread 😉

I’m always surprised that there aren’t more mix ups with Liverpool Street and Liverpool Lime Street.
I pity poor foreign tourists trying to get their heads around that.

TheBigFatMermaid I'd love to have you but I doubt you'd like being squeezed into a Cornish cottage with three smelly teenage boys and a grumpy DH.

Last week, I booked a day's leave for April 2018. My old boss got the electronic notification to approve. We thought it was a systems mistake, until new boss saw I'd entered last year. No idea how I managed that.

I went on holidays for 2 weeks and wrote my out of office for the following year, so I'd be away for 1 year and 2 weeks. That would have been a nice long holiday. I was clearly in need of one.

I sometimes book train tickets from a station in Whitchurch - only there are 3 places called Whitchurch that have railway stations - Hampshire, Cardiff and Shropshire. I have to be very careful when clicking!

bigbluebus which one are you heading for?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47691478

I used to be a city councillor. I frequently got complaints about things from residents of a large American city of the same name. Some of them used to get quite angry with me I pointed out their error!

re the weather apps, they always give the weather for Leeds Kent instead of the (real) Leeds and I get all excited that it's going to be warm and sunny before realising, clicking on the right place, and seeing the usual shitness.

I booked Dover -Calais ferry tickets the wrong way around.

This was as discovered after I had just made a slightly sarky comment to the check in guy about the wait. DP nearly killed me. Lesson learned.

Our Ikea used to be "Edmonton" which caused much confusion as it wasn't the really big Edmonton in Canada (So if something was in stock, it was an 11 1/4 hour flight away) . It's now Ikea Tottenham. Apparently people know where that is.

I went to Canada a few years ago with my mum. I booked car hire for the day after we arrived in Saskatoon. When we arrived I called the car hire company to ask why the car wasn't there, and demanded it was delivered immediately. They brought a car over, and then politely told me I was a day early! I was very embarrased.

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.

I nearly did the same a few years ago. As we live not too far away from Truro I looked further as I couldn't work out where a campsite as big as the one we were looking at was! So I didnt get caught. Funny tho

Al2O3, you win the funniest post of the thread award!

Arrived at the channel tunnel and drove up to the barrier. It's done by anpr and normally it just issues your ticket..no luck. Pushed the button.
"No Mrs AJP you are not an hour late, you are 23 hours early"

Oh, just remembered when we got to check in, then realised we'd left both kids' car seats in the park and ride type carpark, so DH had to dash off in a taxi to get them, only to realise when he got back to me that he'd left his wallet at home.

Fortunately we were just going to stay at my parents' holiday place in Eastern Europe, so we didn't need cards as proof of booking of anything and he was able to transfer money to me online for the week!

Was just going to post Kindergartens link. At least you, OP, didn’t fly a plane full of people to the wrong country!

a friend booked Haven Thorpe Park to stay there while they visited the theme park, only to find its nearly 4 hours away from it 😳

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

Years ago, I got on a train at London Victoria heading for Gatwick after a work trip to London. The platform info board said the train was my one. But, I discovered when the train started moving 30 seconds later that the previous train to mine had not actually departed yet and I was stuck on a train to who-knows-where that didn't even stop for an hour.

Missed my flight home.
No Internet in those days. Luckily managed to get through to someone at work who was able to book a new flight for the next day.

The most painful part was paying for a return ticket to get back to London.