Did they charge you for Monday night, too? Normally if you don’t show up or cancel within 24 hours you would get charged for the room.

Our craziest experience was on our honeymoon in Europe…we almost got run over by so many crazy drivers..I swear they do it to tourists for a laugh!

sorry about your hotel!! at least you get the best room:) your hospital story abroad reminded me of my brother…my family went to ireland for my cousins wedding and at the time my brother was only 16 but my parents and my aunt and uncle (my cousin pat was also 16) agreed they could drink if they controlled themselves…HAHA. well they started sneaking whiskey cokes…they thought the parents would think it was just coke…sneaky kids! they were running around the hotel and my brother jumped a flight of stairs and messed up his ankle. they had to take him to the hospital in the morning and it was completely free! we were so confused until we realized they must have socialzed medicine. the crutches they gave him were also the kind that hook to your arms not normal under the arm kind…haha.

Boo to the hotel situation.
I can’t really remember anything TOO bad happening on vacation except one instance. We were in Mexico, and on one of the excursions through the Mayan Ruins we were on, the tour guide person told us not to leave anything behind, unless you’re up for buying it back on Ebay. What do I do? Stuff my new camera in the pocket of the seat in front of me on the bus we were on, and forget to take it with me when we left! I didn’t remember until we were on the boat back to the mainland. Obviously they wouldn’t turn around just for my camera 🙁 So gone was my camera and all the pictures I had taken so far!

My biggest fear is getting sick on a plane. Sometimes I will almost convince myself I’m sick and start feeling ill. I am crazy.

I CALLED IT ON TWITTER!

We once booked the wrong flight home from Sicily to Florence- wrong day. It was a b%tch but a few tears later we convinced them to put us on the flight. At the time I was very grateful to speak fluent Italiano!

The Husband and I (not married at the time) missed a night when we were scheduling our hotel in Florence, Italy when we were backpacking through Europe. We decided we could rough it and stay out at the bar and hit the train station early for our return train to the airport, save the $90 we would have spent on another hotel room. Except we didn’t think about the fact that it was a Sunday night. The bar closed at 12:30 and the train station didn’t open until 6:00 the next morning. We “slept” in an apartment building lobby and I had a terrible allergic reaction. It was terrible and we didn’t get to our next destination (Germany) until almost 5:30 the next day. Never again!

Oh man I have a ton! I got stuck on a plane on the tarmac in Rome for 5 hrs in 100 degree weather with no AC. I thought I was going to die! Also was homeless in Rome for a night, but that’s another story….

I don’t know about paying for that suite. I mean you had a sweet car you could sleep in 🙂

When I was 13 or 14 I was flying back to the states from England (my mom & step-dad were stationed there for the Air Force) and missed my connection in Minn. due to being tied up in customs……..by the time I got to my connection, which was still there, I found out they gave my seat away! =O So a not so happy phone call from my mother after I called her crying got me on the next flight. I can only imagine how “worried” she was…I know if my daughter had that happen I would of FREAKED. =(

P.S. I would of been stuck sleeping in the car, $100+ more for a room would of been too much for me……..but would of loved to do it as that Suite looked nice and was all for you! =)

There are too many crazy travel stories. One that springs to mind is in Melbourne on the morning of my flight back to the UK. We were pretty frazzled and maybe a little hungover… Anyway, it’s quite a long drive from Melbourne to Tullamarine airport and we were nearly there when I realised I’d left my passport at the flat. My BFF’s boyfriend had to do a U turn in the middle of the highway and go all the way back to Melbourne. By the time I got to the airport my flight had been called and I hadn’t even checked in. The staff were awesome beyond belief and ferried me through (this was a long time ago when security wasn’t so tight). I got to travel on one of those little airport trucks with the flashing light!

Let’s see… a looong time ago my dad, sister and I went to San Francisco (I was about 11). We were typical tourists and took the trolley everywhere. Well, I got off where I was instructed but the trolley continued on before my dad and sis could get off, leaving me standing on a busy street corner (crying). The conductor sees what happens, grabs my sister, and jumps off the moving trolley… with my dad still on there. So now my sister and I are on opposite sides of the stree (she was 8), crying. Sooo my dad jumps off the moving trolley a few blocks down and comes to rescue us. On that same trip a homeless woman also got up in my face and yelled, “Go home and don’t you EVER come back.” 🙂

Wow, I think your travel story definitely trumps anything I can remember!!

Oh my goodness… that is a crazy travel story! Projectile-vomiting? That must have been terrifying.

I don’t think I have any stories of that caliber, but I definitely have a “don’t drink the night before flying” story… my sister lives in Colorado Springs, CO where the elevation is way higher that where I live in Milwaukee, WI. We decided to go out for karaoke the night before I had a mid-morning flight. No biggie as I didn’t have to be at the airport until around 10AM.

I made the classic rookie mistake of drinking too much, however failed to take into account the consequence of drinking at a higher altitude. OH MY GOODNESS I was sicker than a dog when I woke up! I could barely stand up when my sister dropped me off at the airport, and thought I was going to pass out while waiting in line for security. When they made me toss my water bottle I thought I was going to cry. And let’s just say that by the time our tiny prop plane took off (Denver-bound, a 20-minute flight) and was bouncing around all over the place… ughhhhhh. I recovered in due time but will NEVER party that hard the night before a flight!

Damn that car is hot!

Travel can be crazy! I have:

-Spent 12 hours in the El Salvador airport when I was never even supposed to be going to El Salvador (a re-route on the way to Costa Rica).

-Went to England for a wedding. Stayed in London for two days before heading to Calne. Got to Calne and realized the dress for the wedding was hanging in the hotel closet in London. Eek. Good thing it was from Forever 21. Replacement dress was purchased in Bath for about 6x the cost of the original dress. Oh well!

-Mix up with electronic tickets had my family repurchasing tickets to Turks and Caicos about 20 minutes before our flight was supposed to leave. Got it straightened out later but the fam had to temporarily put an insane sum on the credit cards to get us there. Crazy.

-Booked a flight for the wrong day coming home from Chicago. On the way to the airport I was bitching about how much I hated airports and how they seemed to automatically turn smart people dumb. Hmm. Foreshadowing.

I have about 300 other stories as well. Thats part of the fun of traveling. All the memories you have, good and bad!

Oh, stressing situation- glad it turned out fine (but a tad more expensive :/ ).
The scenery is so beautiful, and that bed made me kind of want to just be three years old and take a big dive into it.

Hmm, I have not had any very bad happening to me while traveling. I did get some nasty stomach bug from eating chicken in Lithuania though, haha, and ended up at a hospital where nobody knew English- just Russian and Polish. I remember being a bit stressed because nobody could explain to me what was happening, so I just had to lie there at the hospital for two days. The old female nurses were really cute though, watching me while I ate my soup and toast.

Last summer I also had an experience which I am so thankful for today. My family were taking the boat from Sweden to Denmark when this girl approached me, wondering if I suffered from anorexia. I freaked out, but had to be honest. Turned out that she was recovering from the same, and it is a rather long story, but that girl really motivated me to get help and we are still in touch today.

Hooray for universal healthcare!

That hotel is AWESOME! My craziest traveling story.. hasn’t happened. We (finally) booked a hotel for my cousin’s communion. It has 2 beds and no pool 🙁 I have to share with my brother 🙁 I get to see my adorable little cousins!! 🙂 🙂 🙂

Your Paris travel story sounds INTENSE!

I have a lot of relatively crazy travel stories, but my most recent was only last month and all of my own doing. I met some friends in Las Vegas for the first round of the NCAA tourney. We had been there for five days and I had been really good, not drinking much or gambling at all. The last night we were there I decided to let it all loose and have fun! (Fun for me in Vegas = gigantic frozen drinks. You can see where this story is going…) The last thing I remember from Vegas is being at a fun blackjack table on a hot streak and doing (multiple?) shots with my tablemates. Yeah. The next thing I remember is being in the McDonald’s at the Denver airport. I don’t remember packing my suitcase, going to the airport, the first flight of my trip, NOTHING. It was like I took a 12 hour nap and woke up with a Sausage McMuffin in my hand. I’ve learned my lesson: do not wait until the last day before an early morning flight to have your fun! Ha.

The funniest thing about this story? I somehow, in my drunken haze, managed to search out that week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly in the Las Vegas airport (which had a letter I wrote in it), take a picture of my letter, and text it to my friends. Narcissism knows no drunken bounds! 😉

So curious which food blogs she was writing about!

Loving the upgraded car and upgraded room! If it makes you feel any better I once dis the same thing in greece, but decided to sleep on the beach… Waking up in 40 degree heat, blistering sunburn and no watch (stolen!!) is not a good look!! Thankfully my rolex was a BAD fake!! That was back in my student days when upgrading was not an option!!

Julia x

Nothing terrible, but on a flight once I got pinned between the window seat and a woman who was 400 pounds if she was a pound. Nothing necessarily wrong with that, but it was very hot on the plane and being pinned in made things even hotter. I’m claustrophobic and prone to anxiety attacks, so the feeling of not being able to go anywhere was really getting to me. Then she whipped out a huge bag of Cheetoes, and the smell from that made me even more nauseous. Then, after eating the ENTIRE BAG (seriously), she mentioned how sick she was feeling and began dry heaving. I’m the type of person that gets sick if someone even mentions they don’t feel well, so I spent the entire descent swallowing back the rising bile. It was bad at the time, but nothing awful.

It hardly compares to your story, but here’s mine:

I was in middle school and my family and I were flying to Montana for vacation. We were flying right over the Rockies in the middle of a big thunderstorm, you could even see the green flash of lightening outside the windows. The last hour of the flight was straight, hard-core turbulence with tons of air pockets. My mom was next to the window and I was in the middle seat. I felt like I was going to get sick, so I reached for the bag they put in front of seats. Someone stuck GUM in my bag so it wouldn’t open! So I took my mom’s: I threw up twice during the flight. The second time I threw up the flight attendants wouldn’t take my puke bag to throw away because they said they weren’t supposed to be walking up and down the aisles because of the turbulence. So why the hell did they get up to come and tell us that if they wouldn’t even take my puke bag away with them?! Definitely the worst flight ever. I felt really bad for the lady sitting next to me (who also happened to have a big box of Cinnabon cinnamon rolls with her), but she kindly gave me an un-opened bottle of water she had with her.

Good luck with the presentation!!! 🙂

Oopsie, well at least you found a room I guess. Nothing too crazy on my trips, just ran out of money when I was in Italy, luckily I had a ticket that could easily be changed. Took a train to Paris and flew my poor ass outta there!

A fairly healthy vegetarian meal you can find almost anywhere is the kids grilled cheese meal at Sonic. You can get apple slices with it, and milk or juice to drink. It’s my favorite on the road meal.

My dad and I were on a flight leaving Ecuador after being on a boat for 3 weeks in Galapagos. We were soooo exhausted! We board the plane in the middle instead of the front (which sometimes is normal). We take off and then land 30 min later when we were supposed to be on a five hour flight. They didn’t tell us what was going on at all. Just had us get off and go through security again and then get back on. Turns out, there were about 25 nuns and 2 cardinals on our flight and for some reason we had to deplane for them? No one ever explained what the heck was going on to us. I just remember bursting into tears from sheer exhaustion.