Okay fine. I'll comment on the rest.
I mean more time in the Clubhouse right?!
As we starting walking to the terminal M starting sniffling... a lot. Oh no.
Oh no. but... at least she wasn't sick from the first day of the vacation... which according to you was the day before.
Silver linings, right?
Right???
hello?
“Do you have the credit card you used to purchase your flights?”....Except that!
uhhhhh.... what?
"No I don't and I don't need it. The tickets are paid in full and I paid off the credit card too. So go stuff yourselves."
Now I have never been asked for a credit card when checking in for a flight
Nor have I. Or anyone else on the planet.
The nice lady behind the counter proceeded to tell us that the system wouldn't let her check us in.
She led over to the ticket desk
hmmm...
now then, did you mean "She led
us over..." or "She
fled over to..."
I suspect the latter.
I explained that it was M's card and that we didn't have that card with us, mostly because a couple of months before her card had been acting weird and the bank sent her a new one (with different numbers) and we didn't know we needed it.
Nor do you. The tickets are paid for! Months ago!
I asked why, if having the credit card you booked with with you is so important why at no point during booking (or in any of the five emails about flight schedule changes) do they tell people to bring it? Turns out this is a really smart move on their end, see if they don't tell you and you are committing fraud then when you come to the airport they can arrest you, cause if they said bring the card, clearly you wouldn't turn up and then you can't be arrested!
uh huh. sure.
So I asked what would happen if someone else had booked our tickets? Well, apparently, that couldn't possibly be fraud and that would be totally fine.
Sure. Totally makes sense.
Which is why "Alexander" got himself a very nice $8,500 vacation at my expense last July.
(got the money back, but... it was a months long process.)
I won't lie to you, by this point I was a mess. I mean Kim K mess level.
oooh... ugly crying...
my new BBF behind the desk told me I would have to buy new tickets for the flights, at full on the day cost, then apply for a refund on the other tickets which may or may not be approved.
You're sh*tting me!
"Great idea! How about we put it on
your credit card and
you apply for the refund later since this is
your screw up."
grrrrr... I'm really angry on your behalf.
But luckily the worst was over now and we could move forward without going through anything that stressful for the rest of the trip (hahahahaha....if only that was true....).
oh, dear
Without a single apology or even smile the lady behind the ticket desk handed back our passports and shooed us back to the check in desk.
Wow. Nice.
security was a lot smoother this time! I ended up talking to a lovely security lady as we went through and told her about our ordeal, and she was just as shocked about it as us.
Good!
Well after a quick pit stop at Boots to get cold cure medication!
You keep medicine in boots?
How very odd you British are.
They actually apologised for what happened
Finally! Someone with a lick of sense.
I would just send Virgin an email about it all when I got home (which I have!).
Any response?
Looks good. I might have ordered the same.
M got eggs Florentine but I don't have a photo of it as she dropped her napkin on it the second it arrived.
Uhhhh.... why?
So why not get our nails done?!
Why not? Heck it's free, so... even I might have done that.
Well... maybe not...
it is sandal weather in Florida isn't it?!
It's
always sandal weather in Florida
Lucky for you I didn't take a photo of my feet!
and a vast, copious amount of foot fetishists leave the TR.
Love the graphic.
Tinker Belle! Guess that means we better go to Disney!