Welcome back Nemesis!

[Electrolyte01]

I can see him in the active users list, so he must be back :D

Have a good holiday? :)

[paulyoung666]

he could be anywhere in the world :erm: :confused: :D :D :D

[Nemesis]

No .... I'm back :D

Now recovering .....

Not quite the holiday from hell, but the first 4 days were ....

Anyone thinking of booking with Expedia .... THINK AGAIN !!!!!!!

[Electrolyte01]

Expedia? I've never heard of them before :erm:

[Chris]

Expedia? I've never heard of them before :erm:

What, despite an extensive TV ad campaign running most of this year? :erm:

Nem, do tell us more....

[Electrolyte01]

What, despite an extensive TV ad campaign running most of this year? :erm:

Nem, do tell us more....
I don't watch much TV :p:

[Nemesis]

ok .....

We went to Fuertaventura, all booked via Expedia. The flights were from Heathrow to Madrid to Fuerta. Normally 1 3/4 hours to Madrid, and 2 1/2 hours to Fuerta.

The time at Madrid was 1 hour between flights.

I'm guessing your begining so see what happens next ...

The Heathrow flight was delayed .... by an hour. We got to Madrid, changed terminals and missed the connecting flight by about 3 minutes.

Back to BA desk, Next flight is next day ..... oh and we've lost one of your suitcases.

Stay in Madrid overnight, return to airport, still can't find case, we "think" it's in Fuerta ....

Land in Fuerta, and YES there is the case .... went via Gran Canaria :Yikes:


So we are here .... 35 hours after starting off :(.

Get to hotel ... and it's awful .... Pool is cloudy, apartment is dirty, plaster falling off blcony, microwave wires burnt, bare cieling wires, camp beds, toilet filthy and rusted, tiles cracked .... etc etc ... I filled two pages with things that were wrong.

Called Expedia, explained all to them and they said thay would move us ... in 2 days ... ok we thought, so didn't really unpack.

Day of move arrives, Expedia call and explain there's been a computer error .. (Computers don't make errors, Humans do) .... They can't move us. No other hotel accomadation on the Island .... :Yikes:

We argue and eventually get them to refund our money, and thanks to my daughter and hotelopia.com, we find new apartment.

Get in taxi and get to new apartment ... FANTASTIC :D :D. Clean, tidy, helpful staff etc etc ... So Holiday begins 4 days after getting to Heathrow ....

Expedia were incompetant, rude, unsympathetic, etc etc, and although they weren't to blame for the flight delay .... BA weren't much better.

Makes you wonder though, you look forward to your "2 weeks" away, and these guys really don't give a toss :( :(

[Richard M]

Jesus, that's why I never take the regular package holidays.
It's more expensive to book your own accomodation etc but well worth it.

[Nemesis]

It actually worked out cheaper .... :D

We had scheduled flights, the reason the flight was delayed was that the cabin crew turned up late :(

[Ramrod]

We had scheduled flights, the reason the flight was delayed was that the cabin crew turned up late :(and probably drunk :rolleyes: :D
Holy cow Nem! That beats my holiday last year where we almost missed our flight, someone crashed into our hire car and Alex broke his arm :disturbd:

[paulyoung666]

surely there must be some compo due somehow :erm:

[Florence]

Welcome Back Nemesis.
We will try not to give you too much work but no promises
:angel:

[Nemesis]

surely there must be some compo due somehow :erm:
We're working on it .... ;)

[paulyoung666]

We're working on it .... ;)


good , i hope you get sorted out :tu:

[Tezcatlipoca]

No .... I'm back :D

Welcome back :D

Anyone thinking of booking with Expedia .... THINK AGAIN !!!!!!!


I've used them before...didn't have any problems... :erm: