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
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....
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.... 
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.
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