Rant

Landed at Heathrow after a delayed flight, already exhausted, and then found out my checked bag didn’t arrive. Went over to the lost luggage area and there was one busy BA staff member and a bunch of self service tablets. Tried one tablet. Broken. Tried another. Also broken. So...

This kind of stuff drives me crazy too. You get there early, stand in line like everyone else, and then someone just hovers and slides in once boarding starts like it’s no big deal. The “yeah I’m good” response is wild. That’s not confusion, that’s entitlement. At that point you...

Was on the last LAX to EWR flight last night, totally full redeye, landed around 7:30am right as the snow started. I had an aisle seat, couple was split in the row and immediately started asking everyone to switch so they could sit together. Multiple people politely said no, for...

Was on a recent Singapore Airlines flight sitting next to another Solitaire member and honestly it was painful to listen to. Nonstop complaining about the plane being old, the food, asking for different options over and over. You could tell the crew were doing everything they...

I’ve been loyal to Southwest for years. A-List Preferred, Companion Pass, flew constantly. In the last month alone I was on 10 flights all over the country. Tried using the DreamBig promo to rebook a points flight I had already upgraded with cash. The “30% off” saved me about...

Flew MCI to LAX today. A-List with A26, traveling with just a backpack and laptop bag. Flight was already delayed about 20 minutes because the crew was late. I tried to sit in the extra legroom seats up front and was told I could only sit there if I put my backpack under the...

Flew home after Christmas with my kids and brought a projector screen my brother wasn’t using anymore. Definitely oversized, but I figured it’d be maybe $35 or $75 like before. Nope. $235. At that point I either paid it or ditched it at the airport, which felt wrong. And I...

Stayed at a Southeast Asian style hotel with a gorgeous garden and a pool in the middle, but the water was ice cold. Maybe 20°C if I’m being generous. Everyone was just sitting around it like walruses while mosquitoes had a feast. It’s not even just outdoor pools. Some indoor...

Drives me nuts how often people book hotel rooms for other people and then don’t show up themselves. No, if the reservation is under John Smith, I don’t care if you’re Jane Smith. Same last name doesn’t matter. If your name isn’t on it, you’re not getting the room. It’s wild...

I’m beyond fed up with Booking.com at this point. It feels less like a travel site and more like a trap. Hidden fees, misleading listings, and customer support that might as well not exist. I’ve wasted hours chasing confirmations that never showed up, only to get copy paste...

On a Delta flight right now and this one is honestly hard to watch. I’m in C+ next to a very sick kid. Like sick enough that before pushback the gate agent and other Delta staff came onboard to check on her. Pale, miserable, clearly not doing well. Other passengers are offering...

Not really a complaint, more of a warning. If you’re grinding toward Ambassador thinking it gives you real protection, it really doesn’t. Booked this stay over a month ago. Prepaid, two nights over a weekend, not a major city. We were there for a kid’s sports tournament. I get a...

I was honestly shocked. I’m staying at the hostel, went down to the café, ordered an espresso and a croissant, opened my laptop and they immediately told me it’d be 10 euros for a half day or 15 euros for a full day to use the space. The room was basically empty. I just laughed,...

Reading this honestly stunned me. You’d think after decades of perfect payment history, high spend, and zero issues, Amex would treat someone like a valued member… not freeze four cards at once while they're on vacation and demand bank statements, portfolio access, and IRS forms...

NYC–Bogota–Pereira roundtrip and it was honestly one of the worst travel experiences I’ve ever had. Even before the trip started they “canceled” my first flight and moved me a full day later, even though my friend still flew the original flight. Classic overbooking dodge. You...

I love taking the train from Wilmington to Penn instead of driving, but the prices are getting ridiculous. Saw 400 dollars roundtrip and just stared at it. I could literally fly to Mexico for that. Sometimes it’s 40 bucks, sometimes it’s 167 for the exact same ride, total demand...

Been bouncing around Hanoi, Ha Long, Hai Phong, Da Nang, Hoi An, and honestly I keep wondering if I’m in the same Vietnam everyone else raves about. I came partly to see if I could live here as a digital nomad cheap, beautiful, good culture, all that. But Hanoi felt like smog,...

A-List Preferred + Companion for years, always get A16–A19 without touching anything. Booked this trip months ago, flight time changed in August (by Southwest, not us), no big deal. This morning my wife checks and she’s C50. I check mine and the app won’t even show a position....

Been with Amex since 2006, Platinum since 2015, always paid in full, never missed a payment. I use my bank’s bill pay to auto pull the full statement balance. For some reason in October the e-bill never showed up, so the payment didn’t go out. I caught it the next day and paid...

Had to rant about something goofy. I work for a smaller legacy airline in the US and offered a friend some buddy passes or even my dependant slot since it’s always empty. Instead of just saying no, they hit me with “Oh, I only fly [bigger airline]. Maybe you should fly them too....

Every single time. Nobody’s bags are out yet and somehow there’s already a wall of people pressed up against the carousel like their suitcase is gonna pop out first if they stare hard enough. Same energy as group 9 trying to board early. If folks just stepped back a couple feet,...

Had a window seat on HKG–AMS, 14+ hours, and the crew locked the dimmers right after takeoff. Couldn’t adjust anything myself. They kept it fully dark all the way until we parked at the gate in Amsterdam. I get that it was a night flight, but I figured they’d at least unlock it...

Kinda ridiculous that my Alaska Lounge+ membership doesn’t get me into the Hawaiian Premier lounges, but my Priority Pass does. If capacity is the issue, way more people have PP than Lounge+, so the logic feels backwards. I get prioritizing Huaka‘i for locals totally fair but...