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An American Girl in Paris
injest:
Del..don't do that to yourself! You did the best you could.
You are under a lot of stress planning this, don't let the little hiccups along the way put a damper on it. Try to let it go...
I know it is hard but you are carrying a lot of the burden here and it is not fair. Be kind to yourself. You can't control everything...and your sister left it to you...it is as much her fault as yours. :-\
:-*
{{Del}}
Kelda:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on July 11, 2007, 10:55:05 pm ---OK, now I feel really really bad. :(
For some reason, my sister always leaves it up to me to book airline reservations.
I wish she wouldn't. I'm terrified of flying and so am extremely superstitious about that sort of thing and want to leave it up to the Fates to put me in a seat and on a particular flight. Instead she makes me take an active part in my own destiny. :o
She has the credit card. Don't know why she makes me do this. (hmmm, maybe she's superstitious, too ???) Anyway, another bad reason to let me make reservations is that due to my fear of flying, I don't fly if I can't help it, so I don't know my way around reading the screens about flights and all the dinky little details about how to reserve seats make me nervous and anxious.
Anyway, yesterday I found a non-stop, food included, direct from Texas to Paris, flight at an amazing price roundtrip of $582 (without taxes). I called my sister and she said go ahead and book it. However, I only had enough immediate funds to pay for one ticket, so I bought mine and then transferred funds from one bank account to another so I could afford to buy her ticket. But that's an overnight transaction. I told her this.
Again, I'm nervous, unfamiliar with the screens, the small print is like a wall that my eyes glaze over and I just buy my ticket.
Today, my sister drops off the cash so I can book her a ticket, and when I go to the website, the price has gone up nearly $300 for the same flight one way. Needless to say, my sister's upset and can no longer afford the same flight. I had to book her on another flight that has a 1.5 hour layover, that's more expensive but she still arrives in Paris before I do.
Downside is we have to travel separately and our departure times are hours apart, so we either have to go to the airport separately or we arrive at the airport together and one of us has to hang around for about 3 hours.
Upside is that we're traveling separately.
WORSE part is...as I was buying her ticket today, I realized that the small print at the bottom of the screen told me I could have reserved a seat at the price quoted without paying for it for 24 hours. She's going to end up paying $200 more than me because I was too rattled yesterday to notice this. :( :( :-\ I feel really really bad...
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When you see a price like that though, you do just jump at it don't you... no time to check the small print like that! It's her perfect holiday so she should have been looking at the flights really... How about he way back? will you also be travelling sperately?
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Kelda on July 12, 2007, 03:46:27 am ---When you see a price like that though, you do just jump at it don't you... no time to check the small print like that! It's her perfect holiday so she should have been looking at the flights really... How about he way back? will you also be travelling sperately?
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Thanks Jess and Kelda, I'm trying not to feel so kick-myself about it. Yes, we will be traveling separately there and back. She leaves at 1 pm and I leave at 5 pm to Paris, I leave at noon and she leaves at 4 pm back home. She has a layover on the way home, I fly straight back. That's going to be a pain in trying to plan the logistics of how each of us will get to the airport.
opinionista:
Del, don't feel guilty for something you can't help. I don't think it was really your fault. Airlines do that. One minute plane tickets are cheap and the next they're over the top. It happens all the time.
serious crayons:
Here's something else that's worth trying, Del.
Clear your cookies, set your browser not to accept cookies, then go back to the website and do a whole new search for flights. It's possible you'll see a lower price.
A friend of mine tipped me off to this when we were both buying tickets to Italy. It worked for me then, and I've since had it happen several more times. I've read about it, too. Apparently the airlines figure that if you're going to check a flight twice it shows you're really interested, so they can safely raise the price and still get your business. So they put a cookie in your computer on your first visit, which alerts them when you go back.
But if the cookie is gone, they'll think you're a whole new potential customer and may give you a better price.
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