Not even a First World Problem

[jethrien]

I'd call this a First World Problem, only I know people in the First World who have much worse problems.

The hotel in the Bahamas we were supposed to go to for our fifth anniversary took hurricane damage and is closed until November. (We're getting our money back. But now we have nonrefundable plane tickets to nowhere.) I personally know people still struggling with huge impacts to property and jobs and the like from the hurricane, so I really shouldn't complain about losing a couple hundred dollars for a vacation. But still. Sucky.

Spend my whole lunch hour frantically researching alternative uses of time and plane tickets.

Also, scheduling. Man, there are a lot of cultural events and trips to see friends I wanted to do this fall. Yeesh. I've got up to three road trips, three dance performances, and two operas that I'm juggling around the vacation, dance performance, and Philharmonic concert I'm already committed to. Not all of these are going to happen. Need to make some choices.

Comments

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

Yuck. No alternate hotels on that island are open?

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Working on that.

[firynze.livejournal.com]

Very sucky, actually. No way you can transfer the plane tickets or something? $100 in transfer fees is better than $800 in lost tickets.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

We're trying to figure out if we're going to try to change to a less battered hotel or try to change the tickets to somewhere else entirely.

We're going on vacation. The vacation will be fun. But I have to completely redo the planning stage that I thought I finished a couple months ago, and because of various restrictions, we need to do it in the next couple days.

[firynze.livejournal.com]

URRRRRK. Stress you did not need.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

That really sucks man. My aunt and uncle got a very cheap cruise to the Caribbean a few years ago in hurricane season. And the ship turned around halfway through. Because it was hurricane season.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, exactly.

It's not exactly the end of the world--as I said, I'm working on finding alternatives. This is why, however, we did not go to the Caribbean for our honeymoon.

[wavilyem.livejournal.com]

You call that a first world problem? One of my coworkers jokingly complained that the 30" monitor he got for his computer blocks his view out the window. "If I'm going to work in Mountain View, I want a mountain view gosh darnit"! =)

Seriously though, that's gotta be frustrating. I hope you can find a less battered hotel to stay at!

[maydove.livejournal.com]

This post reminds me of this rap:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2p5svFJ9cQ

[lithoglyphic.livejournal.com]

That sucks! I wish you awesome vacation planning luck and mojo.