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I do all the travel booking for the two of us, and although I send copies of confirmations and ask for "another set of eyes", things don't get validated.
So today I was organizing my month-long fall trip that includes a multi-city airline booking that starts and ends the trip, then a few flights and a cruise in between. When I booked that multi-city, I had lots of thrashing, so ended-up keying it in way too many times. Finally booked it a few weeks ago. Today I realized the last leg was the wrong date Thankfully, it was booked with points, so I was able to cancel and re-book without a penalty, but if I hadn't see the boo-boo, we'd have been a no-show for the flight, and had no way home when we got there later.
Once I get things booked, I put everything into an itinerary spreadsheet, and I would have noticed the problem with the date, but I don't usually bother with the spreadsheet so far out (the travel starts in late September).
Here's a really dumb one that I DIDN'T catch. I stepped off the trans-Atlantic cruise in Florida and requested an Uber to the airport, and it was telling me it was a 3 hour drive! At first, I was booking a cruise ending in Port Everglades, so booked the flight home out of Fort Lauderdale. Then I switched to a different cruise that ended in Port Canaveral, and didn't fix the flight
I realize, I'm really bad at this travel booking stuff. There's probably not many people here that can top my blunders, or want to admit theirs, but if so, might be entertaining/instructional. Or maybe how you make sure you don't book travel like I do
So today I was organizing my month-long fall trip that includes a multi-city airline booking that starts and ends the trip, then a few flights and a cruise in between. When I booked that multi-city, I had lots of thrashing, so ended-up keying it in way too many times. Finally booked it a few weeks ago. Today I realized the last leg was the wrong date Thankfully, it was booked with points, so I was able to cancel and re-book without a penalty, but if I hadn't see the boo-boo, we'd have been a no-show for the flight, and had no way home when we got there later.
Once I get things booked, I put everything into an itinerary spreadsheet, and I would have noticed the problem with the date, but I don't usually bother with the spreadsheet so far out (the travel starts in late September).
Here's a really dumb one that I DIDN'T catch. I stepped off the trans-Atlantic cruise in Florida and requested an Uber to the airport, and it was telling me it was a 3 hour drive! At first, I was booking a cruise ending in Port Everglades, so booked the flight home out of Fort Lauderdale. Then I switched to a different cruise that ended in Port Canaveral, and didn't fix the flight
I realize, I'm really bad at this travel booking stuff. There's probably not many people here that can top my blunders, or want to admit theirs, but if so, might be entertaining/instructional. Or maybe how you make sure you don't book travel like I do