Varghese
Great post. I've made a few solo trips as well. I find that while I really enjoy siendpng all day by myself, I don't like eating meals alone and being on my own at night isn't much fun. I do a lot of solo day trips, which I love, so maybe that's my happy medium. I look forward to reading more of your posts!
Mac
A day of rest and you'll be ready to uh, rock. Or travel anwayy. In your case, maybe both. The rest of the trip is going to be epic and eventually the boyfriend drama will be a shrug your shoulders part of this trip. (Not yet, of curse, but you're going to get there.)
Eli
A man gets called Bob in all 50 email he receevis every day. Gets called Bob by his wife, clients, friends etc. His legal name is of course Robert, is it so unforgivable that when he book his once-a-year vacation that when he sees Bob on his itinerary it doesn’t register? Remember he has probably waited on hold for 20 minutes for some ditz who has bungled everything he has told her to that point and then told he has to act that second or the price will go up. That assumes the person buying the ticket is buying it for her/himself.I’ve worked for a number of insurance company’s, errors in names happen frequently. Reprinting a policy to make a correction take time and costs money – but no company charges for it. Only on rare items do retail stores charge restocking fees. Why . Good customer service. They want you to come back and won’t if they charge some fee to fix an error. That is what is missing in the travel industry and why they deserve to be in the trouble they are in now. But lest also look at the cost and trouble involved, is it commencerate with the effort and cost to make the change? Someone just has to change a name in a database. As so many tickets are e-tickets, not even card stock is required. When someone charges substantially more than the actual value of something that is called gouging. It’s immoral. Here is my answer. When I booked a flight on Air Transat and made an error with my wife’s name (married versus maiden name) they wanted a ridiculous amount to change it. So, I’ll never use them again and I let my friends know and they agreed it was gouging and won’t either. I’m going to put my story on trip advisor. That kind of thing will cost Air Transat far more than the absurd fee. Word of mouth is the best advertising. If they had not been so greedy I might have said I had a great holiday and others would have considered an endorsement from an independent person than a motivated advertiser.
Varghese Great post. I've made a few solo trips as well. I find that while I really enjoy siendpng all day by myself, I don't like eating meals alone and being on my own at night isn't much fun. I do a lot of solo day trips, which I love, so maybe that's my happy medium. I look forward to reading more of your posts!
Mac A day of rest and you'll be ready to uh, rock. Or travel anwayy. In your case, maybe both. The rest of the trip is going to be epic and eventually the boyfriend drama will be a shrug your shoulders part of this trip. (Not yet, of curse, but you're going to get there.)
Eli A man gets called Bob in all 50 email he receevis every day. Gets called Bob by his wife, clients, friends etc. His legal name is of course Robert, is it so unforgivable that when he book his once-a-year vacation that when he sees Bob on his itinerary it doesn’t register? Remember he has probably waited on hold for 20 minutes for some ditz who has bungled everything he has told her to that point and then told he has to act that second or the price will go up. That assumes the person buying the ticket is buying it for her/himself.I’ve worked for a number of insurance company’s, errors in names happen frequently. Reprinting a policy to make a correction take time and costs money – but no company charges for it. Only on rare items do retail stores charge restocking fees. Why . Good customer service. They want you to come back and won’t if they charge some fee to fix an error. That is what is missing in the travel industry and why they deserve to be in the trouble they are in now. But lest also look at the cost and trouble involved, is it commencerate with the effort and cost to make the change? Someone just has to change a name in a database. As so many tickets are e-tickets, not even card stock is required. When someone charges substantially more than the actual value of something that is called gouging. It’s immoral. Here is my answer. When I booked a flight on Air Transat and made an error with my wife’s name (married versus maiden name) they wanted a ridiculous amount to change it. So, I’ll never use them again and I let my friends know and they agreed it was gouging and won’t either. I’m going to put my story on trip advisor. That kind of thing will cost Air Transat far more than the absurd fee. Word of mouth is the best advertising. If they had not been so greedy I might have said I had a great holiday and others would have considered an endorsement from an independent person than a motivated advertiser.