XClose
Travels With Child : http://www.travelswithchild.org

Distant Lands

Friday, 06 June 2008

Checking the fine print

We just received a packet of info for an upcoming trip (more on that later), and I'm glad I checked it carefully.  Our profile address was wrong, which is why it took so long to reach us, and our daughter's age was 6 years older than she is.  Plus, the car seat we'd requested wasn't on the invoice.

Like I said, glad I checked.

My personal favorite so far as these things go was when we flew to Cologne on Continental a couple of years ago.  We were booked on a Monday afternoon flight.  Our daughter, who was supposed to be flying as a lap-child, was booked on a different flight, 12 hours earlier.  Someone would have been in for a big surprise.

I've heard that the infant ticket date and time doesn't really matter, but I didn't feel like testing that theory out at the airport.
Posted in Americas : Europe : Infant by Fran W. at 4:28 PMPermalink

Trackback URL for this blog entry:

Comments

Re: Checking the fine print

Back in college before we had D, DH and I went on a trip to India to visit his parents (where his dad was posted at the time). We didn't notice until a couple of weeks before we left that the tickets we had purchased for December (and hadn't looked at since they arrived in the mail) had been incorrectly issued for SEPTEMBER instead. Fortunately this was before 9/11 and we were able to convince the airline that, no, we really *hadn't* already taken the trip, and they issued us new tickets. Lesson learned!
 

Re: Checking the fine print

Holy Guacamole. Jessica, that's really nuts. Fine print, people!
 
Add a new comment
Title
Author Anonymous Poster
  Create a new account
Comment
Anti-spam Enter the following text into the box:
To add more detailed comments, or to upload files, see the full comment form.
 
info at travelswithchild.org | © travelswithchild.org

you are welcome to link to the content in these pages. 
copying it wholesale requires permission of the post's author. 
no reproduction of images is permitted unless you have express written agreement from the post's author.

This site made manifest by Manifesto software