Well, Redditoru/yankeevandalasked, “Everyone has a travel blunder; what’s yours?”
Here are the stories people shared.
“Put my keys back through the AirBnB letterbox, as requested.
It took an hour and a half for someone to come and let me in.
I got to the airport just in time to see my plane take off.”
“My dad once made reservations for a very nice hotel in Spain in a central location.
He couldn’t believe how cheap the rooms were and what a good deal it was.
u/gentlybeepingheart
4.
“When I was in my early 20s, I went to a nightclub in Istanbul with my girlfriend.
“The plane I was on hit turbulence, and I dislocated both hip replacements.
u/JonnyP3283
6.
“I needed to take a train to the airport in Rome to catch my flight home.
So I got on the track where the train to Roma Fiumicino was announced.
Then we arrived at the next train station….which was Florence!
“I made hotel reservations for the wrong weekend.
I had to find a new hotel 30 minutes away.
u/mook1178
8.
“Booked a train ticket from Rome to Venice and drank way too much the night before.
“I missed my flight home from Ghana to California on a layover in Rome.
u/zeebette
10.
“I booked a holiday to Ibiza from the UK while out at a rave.
What should have been a two-hour flight took most of the day.
“I once read the flight arrival time as the departure time.
She wasnt stoked with me.”
u/twankyfive
12.
I was proud of myself at first for finding a great deal.
In my defense, this was years ago, in the early days of the internet.
“In Portuguese,gasolinameans gas, andgasoleomeans diesel.
Despite the confusingly similar names, these two things are still not interchangeable.
I learned this the hard way.”
u/c322617
14.
“I missed a flight because I was eating a Big Mac.
And my buddy just got on the plane without me.”
Had to book a new one.”
u/dude341387
16.
“I booked a flight to Santiago, Spain.
Months later, when checking into my flight, I realized I had booked for Santiago, Chile.
I repacked my bag and went to Chile six hours later with zero itinerary or reservations.
I ended up in Patagonia and had an awesome trip.”
“My husband passed a kidney stone on the first night of our honeymoon.”
u/TinyBunny88
18.
“Turns out SJC is NOT the airport code for San Jose, Costa Rica.
Rather, it’s San Jose, California.
I figured this one out too late.”
“A hotel I was staying at gave me the key to someone else’s room.
When I opened the door, there was some random guy lying on the bed without a shirt on.
We both sort of jumped.
I slammed the door shut and walked away.
I got a free (and vacant) room after that incident.”
u/DJAlaskaAndrew
20.
“I traveled for over ten hours for a sold-out festival in Vegas.
