TravelNightmares

I’m honestly still trying to wrap my head around this. I paid $7,744 for a roundtrip ticket. Due to everything going sideways on the way home, I had to cancel my return flight. When I contacted Qatar Airways about the refund, they told me I’d only get about $2,000 back for the...

Honestly still pretty upset thinking about this. My family flew Buffalo to Chicago yesterday on the way to San Diego for my daughter’s spring break. My job is extremely stressful and my husband rarely gets time off, so this trip meant a lot to us. The first leg started going...

Turkish put me through it the last 48 hours. Booked LHR to Kigali with a 14 hour layover in Istanbul. I specifically asked if there were earlier options. Agent said yes but it’s only a 35 minute layover, not enough time. Then assured me I’d get a free hotel since this was the...

This is honestly awful. Being forced to check a thin poster tube after begging to keep it with you, only for it to get left behind at a connection, is exactly the nightmare scenario. All that prep, funding, and work over a year, gone because the airline said “it’ll be fine”....

This is one of those stories where the details make it worse, not better. Being told the connection is fine, landing on time, and then literally being unable to deplane because Alaska assigned the same gate to both flights is just wild. Especially when there were empty gates...

Trying to keep this short, but this was a mess from start to finish. Our Turkish Airlines flight from Singapore was canceled due to technical issues. At the airport, TK staff told me that once we reached Istanbul, they could reroute us so we’d still make our planned Brussels...

I get that weather happens. Fine. But Ryanair’s handling of this was brutal. Flight Dublin to Memmingen left about 10 minutes late, no big deal. We get to Memmingen, fog rolls in, plane circles for about 35 minutes, then diverts to Nürnberg. After landing, we’re told buses will...

Had a roundtrip booked YVR–YUL–IST–DEL and back DEL–IST–YVR. First leg YVR–YUL was Air Canada, everything else Turkish. All on one PNR booked through Turkish. The YVR–YUL flight got canceled by Air Canada due to ops. Since the connection was tight, AC rebooked me on a different...

Booking.com suddenly suspended my account with no explanation. I have almost 10 active reservations for a month long family trip, all tied to this account. I’ve spoken to regular customer service, supervisors, and even managers. Every single one gave me the same response: they...

Posting this partly to vent, partly to warn others. What should’ve been a long but manageable trip turned into a 54 hour nightmare thanks to Turkish Airlines and IndiGo completely dropping the ball on a codeshare itinerary. After my DEL to IST flight was delayed, I misconnected...

Was anyone else on FlixBus N803 from Amsterdam to Paris that got stuck on the A1 for what felt like forever because of snow, traffic, and protests? I was one of the four passengers who gave up after about five hours. I had a Lisbon connection at 11:30 and knew it was already a...

This happened today and I’m still in shock. We’re a family of five and booked a Marriott run resort in Kauai for late December through Orbitz/Vrbo, something we’ve done many times before without issues. We never got check in info, so I messaged the host two days before the trip....

This sounds absolutely brutal. Maintenance issue during taxi, panel left open, two hours on the tarmac, then back to the gate and canceled. From there it just snowballed into one failure after another. Rebooked to EWR instead of LGA even though seats existed. Dirty hotel room...

This airline has been a mess from the start. About a month ago, Air India changed my original one stop flight into a two stop routing and basically forced me to accept it. Annoying, but at least I was still getting there the same day. Then yesterday, they rerouted the flight...

This happened to my boyfriend’s mom and I’m honestly shocked. She booked a round trip with Avianca: SAP to SAL to YYZ, then back YYZ to SAL to SAP. About a month later, Avianca emailed saying there was an adjustment on the return. Fine. New routing was YYZ to BOG to SJO to SAP,...

I had a confirmed Booking.com reservation in Kuala Lumpur for Dec 20–22. Two days before arrival, I messaged the hotel through Booking.com to let them know I’d arrive around 5am after an overnight flight. Never got a response. When I arrived at 5am, the hotel told me they had no...

Checked in at SDF and was literally standing at the bag drop when the agent asked if I’d seen a cancellation notice. As she said it, my app flipped from on time to canceled. No warning. At the counter I was told there was nothing available anywhere, even after listing multiple...

Flew JFK to BUF and put my backpack in the overhead bin since my purse counted as my personal item. Fell asleep before takeoff. At some point a flight attendant removed my bag, assumed it belonged to a passenger from the previous flight, and took it off the plane without ever...

We ended up living in Changi Terminal 2 for more than 60 hours with our one year old after flying Sydney to Singapore to connect to Tiruchirappalli. The first flight was fine. Everything after that turned into rolling two hour delays with no real info. No IndiGo staff in...

Missed my United flight to Maui because of my own dumb mistake, and instead of just rebooking with the airline like my wife tried to do, I went the “save money with Expedia” route. Huge mistake. Expedia had me on chat for hours, gave me totally wrong info, cancelled my ticket,...

I’m honestly done with Alaska after this week. My PDX–SAN–JFK trip turned into a nightmare. The first leg got diverted to ONT, we sat there for hours, and both follow-up flights got canceled. I was supposed to be in First, but ended up in Main after they said I’d get a full...