I can still hardly believe it happened. It’s entirely too long of a story-but here’s the annotated version. Thursday morning, while heading to Tampa to board our cruise, we encountered numerous mechanical delays, followed by a Delta employee who re-booked our flights and gave us the wrong tickets, followed by another re-route since the wrong ticket meant we couldn’t board the plane, followed by more mechanical delays. (headache yet?) As the minutes and hours ticked by, and airline employees became increasingly unhelpful, we slowly realized there was absolutely no way we would make our cruise. After over 5 hours of being stuck in the Memphis airport, we sadly boarded the plane to head back home where we had started that morning. I can’t get over it-the vacation I’d been planning and looking forward to for months never happened.
The only way I avoided full on vacation-fail depression was that we had originally turned down an offer to spend the weekend at a friends lake home. We quickly let our friends know about our sad change in vacation plans, and 10 minutes after we got home, they picked us up to the lake where we enjoyed 3 days of boating, swimming, bonfires, good food, and great margaritas.
I’m still in shock about our vacation that never was, but grateful we had a much needed and fun distraction. Until next time…I will be avoiding a certain airline at all costs.
Kiley, this makes me so sad for you! I saw your tweets and just couldn’t believe it had happened. I’m so sorry! They should/need to reimburse you and pay for an entire vacation.
So glad to hear that you still had a fun weekend –
xo Marissa
That’s awful Kiley! I’m glad you had a lakehouse distraction. They better have floated you some first class vouchers though.
Hah. No such luck. Right now they are offering us a refund for the ‘unused’ portion of our trip (like we really wanted to ‘use up’ the first portion of the flight) and 2 $100 vouchers to make up for our >$1000 cruise cost. Unbelievable.
OH NO!! :( How sad!!!
Delta is a hot mess. They fail me often. Sorry girl;(
it’s really scary how much airlines get away with in this country. i had a somewhat similar experience where i had to spend the night in an airport and took some wrong directions from a genius airport employee and then got shut out since my flight wasnt until morning. im so glad this all worked out for you though. a weekend on a lake sounds awesome.
Oh no! What a bummer! Glad you were able to still do something fun (just not as amazing as a cruise).
I’m so sorry, that is so frustrating! I hope Delta comped you some free tickets!! Anyway, the lake house sounds like it was awesome.
That is horrible! I know how frustrating airlines can be, but this tops it. Beautiful lake photo though and it sounds like it was a fun trip at least.
OMG! I can only imagine how livid I would be. I would need that Skyy vodka about 10 times bigger.
NO way! How awful! I’m glad you had a fun getaway to distract you from your vacation woes…. such a bummer!!!
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This is terrible! I’m so sad this happened to you! :(
Oh my goodness, that’s so sad :( And the cost of missing out on the cruise. That sucks! But at least you had fun at the lake? With your friends? Yes?
:)