Holiday’s from Hell by doozer
Myself and 2 other friends decided to go to New York for St.Patricks Day. We fly out on the 15/03 for 5 days. I fly out of Shannon Airport, as my boyfriend needed to go back to work after dropping me off , so was at the airport about 4 hours before flying out.
He waited until I had checked in before leaving me, but I was one of the first to be checked in for that flight. Must admit my boyfriend unlike me is quite organised, me on the other hand often has to do dashes across airports and airport carparks .
Met my 2 friends but as they were a lot later we weren’t sitting together, but hey I didn’t mind so much . I was going to get some sleep as I had intended to do some hard partying when we arrived in New York.
It was a lovely flight , the in-flight meals were edible and managed to grab a few winks so I was all set to go. My friends who had checked into after me had now got their bags off the carousel as most people had and there were now only about half a dozen of us waiting to collect ours, the carousel alarm was sounding so that meant some more bags were on their way.
The bags were on their way up , one by one the half dozen or so people was getting smaller and smaller. Then there was just me , with my friends by my side . Now I was worried , I went to one of the Airport staff and let them know my bag didn’t come up yet , he made a call and said that was the last of the bags , however I could try another sections as big bags like golf bags often get loaded over there. I didn’t have a golf ball but was willing to give anything a try , needless to say my bag was not there.
They directed me to an Airline staff member who told me that they would try to track the bag and would leave a message at my hotel room as to its whereabouts. I was now in tears …
My clothes , my makeup , tolieteries , all green cloting hats face paint etc for Saint Patricks Day was in the suitcase. That night in a bid to cheer me up , my friends did my hair and gave me some of their makeup , I tried to forget about it as Its possible my suitcase could arrive at the hotel the next day.
It didn’t, 4 days later it arrived in New York . The Day before I was due to leave , it had gone on the London flight in error , and then got resent on a Virgin flight that got redirected due to bad weather. It ruined my holidays because items that I hadn’t budgeted for I had to go out and by like new clothes , which I would have anyway but make-up toileteries etc. It was the inconvenience of it all , having to check each day if they had located it ..
Moral of the story.
Don’t check in too early (which is why mine went onto London…)
Book flight on credit card as you get expenses incurred due to lost baggage a lot quicker from the credit card company than from the airline
I can’t help thinking of the joke where the chap goes up to check in two bags on a flight and says can you send 1 bag to JFK and the other to La Guardia. The lady replies sorry I can’t do that , to which the chap replies “Well you managed it last time I flew!”
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