Travel Woes Galore

With Hurricane Ike scheduled to land in Houston at virtually the same time as us - on our way from Calgary-Houston-London Gatwick, we decided to try and fly out a day earlier. Since we booked that portion of our travel through expedia I phoned. To make a long story short, she was singularly unhelpful and said we could change the flights only if we paid $250 more each. Many harsh words were exchanged.

After this frustrating exchange I called Continental where the service went from night to day. She was so helpful I repeatedly asked, "And this won't cost me an extra dime?" "No," she replied with a smile in her voice. Amazing. What a pleasure to deal with someone who saw the logic in getting us out of Houston ahead of the hurricane. After all, the airline will likely have their hands full with irate passengers whose flights are cancelled or diverted on Saturday, so why not get rid of us and have one less couple to deal with? Makes perfect sense to me. Apparently not to Expedia. Jerks.

So, we leave Friday morning instead of Saturday and hopefully we'll avoid Ike altogether.

And so, we get to spend a day in London. Likely that will cost us the $500 we didn't spend with Expedia but, we don't have the stress of missing our flight to Budapest.

Life is good once again.

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