The honeymoon...

squirrly · March 2010

. . . is both the part of the wedding I'm most looking forward to right now, and the thing that has been the most difficult to get planned.

First, it took me 3 phone calls and 3.5 hours to get our flights booked. Then, they apparently changed our outbound flight to a couple of hours earlier. So, I've now made 5 calls over 2 hours today getting us booked on a flight that doesn't require us to cancel the day-after brunch.

Oh, but it's not yet resolved. They haven't entirely re-issued our tickets, so I can't get seat assignments for both of us nailed down. I would really prefer to sit WITH FI on the flights.

louisvillebride21 · March 2010

Ugh, I'm sorry hon. I hope you're not flying through to Atlanta. I've had bad luck there every single time.

danieliza1127 · March 2010

Geez louise! Where are you guys going?

AmoroAgain · March 2010

Why have you had such a difficult time, and having to phone?

Pirata13 · March 2010

Wow that is no fun at all! Where are you guys going?!

MrsHaH101010 · March 2010

I'm sorry! We had a tough time booking our flights too...in the end it is worth every phone call!

janedoe1113a · March 2010

That's frustrating!

squirrly · March 2010

Cincy to Paris. Then after 5 days there, we rent a car. Normandy - 1 day. Brugges, Belgium - 1 day. Cologne, Germany - 1 day. Schweinfurt, Germany - 1 day. Munich, Germany - 5 days. Fly from Munich to Cincy via Atlanta.

I bought FI's ticket with Skymiles, and mine with e-credits/cash. That + the open jaw itenerary necessitated the phone calls originally. First one, I didn't know if FI's middle name was on his passport, so I had to dig that up and start over. Then, when trying to give me credit back for the fee they charge for calling instead of using the internet (which I tried but didn't work due to the clusterfuck previously mentioned), they transfered me to a twatwaffle who mistyped my CC # or address, wouldn't read it back to me, and demanded another CC because she deemed the one I gave her to be invalid. Nope, it's not. And it earns me more skymiles if I use it. I asked for a supervisor & she hung up on me. The third call finally got things fixed.

Or so I thought.

They bumped our direct flight from Cincy to Paris up a few hours & we can't get to the airport that early. Plus, arriving in Paris at 6:10 am is kinda. . . challenging. I don't want to drag our suitcases through Monday AM rush hour. YUCK!

So, I called Delta. Bad connection.

Called back. She moved our flight, but couldn't assign FI a seat because it's an award ticket, and our new flights are codeshare on another airline. Had me call the other airline. They need the ticket number. Delta just gives confirmation #s. Called Delta back. Got the number. Called the other airline. That's the original # that reflects the original flight.

I want to stab somebody. But I have no idea who right now.

danieliza1127 · March 2010

Good grief!

vallyhoo · March 2010

yikes.

It'll get worked out but I completely understand how frustrating that must be.

squirrly · March 2010

Seriously, I spent less time trying on dresses than this. Even if you add in BM dress shopping, it's less. Every single other thing has been easier. FFS, why are plane tickets so damn complicated?

aMrsin09 · March 2010

That is a whole lot of driving. It will take you about 5 hours to drive from Normandy to Belguim. From Belguim to Germany is going to take the better part of another day. In fact, Cologne isn't even on the map we just used for our road trip, and it took us a day to drive from spot to spot, that IS on the map.

AmoroAgain · March 2010

Nutso.

squirrly · March 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_honeymoon-2?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:7c3b46fa-1ec8-4fc0-a701-5786674824c6Post:2f5cbe5a-5584-49f9-9270-39389ed122c2">Re: The honeymoon...</a>:
[QUOTE]That is a whole lot of driving. It will take you about 5 hours to drive from Normandy to Belguim. From Belguim to Germany is going to take the better part of another day. In fact, Cologne isn't even on the map we just used for our road trip, and it took us a day to drive from spot to spot, that IS on the map.
Posted by aMrsin09[/QUOTE]

We've got the drive times planned out. Brugges to Cologne is the longest, I think. But, FI was stationed in Schweinfurt previously for two years, so he's familiar with most of the driving. He never made it to Normandy, though, and that was his one request for the France part of the trip.

lyndausvi · March 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_honeymoon-2?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:7c3b46fa-1ec8-4fc0-a701-5786674824c6Post:e0b41b7d-f2e6-4512-97cd-01a53b659c43">Re: The honeymoon...</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: The honeymoon... : We've got the drive times planned out. Brugges to Cologne is the longest, I think. But, FI was stationed in Schweinfurt previously for two years, so he's familiar with most of the driving. He never made it to Normandy, though, and that was his one request for the France part of the trip.
Posted by squirrly[/QUOTE]

I loved Normandy. Have you every seen "The Longest Day" it's an old black and white WWII movie? When I stood on the beaches all I thought about was that movies and how weird it would look to all the sudden seeing all those boats on the horizon.

georgia_bride09 · March 2010

When we went on our HM, we were one of the few couples who were seated together. The girl next to me in the window seat was super pissed because her H had to sit about ten rows up. On a flight to Europe, I'd definitely confirm that the seats will be together.

squirrly · March 2010

And I'm on the phone again. If they can get FI's ticket fixed, we should be ok. We have seats together on the international leg on the way over, but not on the domestic leg (we now have to change planes in Boston instead of the direct flight). They have seats blocked off that we should be able to get when we get to the airport, but there's no guarantee.

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