DaChief
Distinguished member
- Joined
- Dec 6, 2016
- Messages
- 191
- Reason
- PALS
- Diagnosis
- 12/2016
- Country
- US
- State
- Florida
- City
- West Melbourne
My Rhine Cruise adventure got off with a bang. FLight from Orlando to JFK in New York was delayed for three hours so we finally left about 2pm. I settled back, got a beer, then relaxed as I had a few hour layover at JFK before my flight to Zurich.
Fast forward to 2am sitting in Boston after the plane was diverted there due to weather at JFK. Of course we missed the flight to Zurich. Get rescheduled for same flight the next day (6pm). We are ok regarding the cruise because we learned many years ago to never try and fly in on the day of the cruise.
We finally get to JFK around 3:30am. No hotels nearby due to so many cancellations so we finally found a hotel 30 minutes away. Tried to get our bags but they didn't open until 5am and I am beat by this time so we rented a car and headed to the hotel to get some shut eye.
Drove back to JFK around 2pm and checked in for the flight to Zurich. We were told our bags were expedited so there would be no problem with them. Went to talk to the gate agent and she had upgraded us to Business Class. Now we were on vacation!!!
As we were sitting in our seats awaiting takeoff I decided to use the Delta app to track our bags. My wife and I each had one for clothes and I had a separate bag with all my feeding tube stuff (food, bags, tape, etc). The app showed 1 bag on the plane and no status on the other two. Which bag is it? I hope it is my wife's clothes/makeup/hair dryer etc!!! Life would be so much easier then
We arrive in Zurich early morning and found our cruise rep waiting to transport us to the ship in Basel (an hour drive). The one bag of course is my clothes :-(. Filed a claim and headed off to the ship. Nothing going to spoil this vacation.
We leave Basel and cruise to Strasbourg over night. We have talked to many people about the missing bags and the latest this morning was that they were in London.
Headed out on a winery excursion at 1pm expecting we would never see the missing bags until the cruise ended. Get back to the ship at 5pm and staff checking us in told us there was a surprise in the room. Wahoo, missing bags are in the room.
Happy Wife, Happy Life!!! Hopefully the rest of the cruise will have a lot less drama!
To be continued
Fast forward to 2am sitting in Boston after the plane was diverted there due to weather at JFK. Of course we missed the flight to Zurich. Get rescheduled for same flight the next day (6pm). We are ok regarding the cruise because we learned many years ago to never try and fly in on the day of the cruise.
We finally get to JFK around 3:30am. No hotels nearby due to so many cancellations so we finally found a hotel 30 minutes away. Tried to get our bags but they didn't open until 5am and I am beat by this time so we rented a car and headed to the hotel to get some shut eye.
Drove back to JFK around 2pm and checked in for the flight to Zurich. We were told our bags were expedited so there would be no problem with them. Went to talk to the gate agent and she had upgraded us to Business Class. Now we were on vacation!!!
As we were sitting in our seats awaiting takeoff I decided to use the Delta app to track our bags. My wife and I each had one for clothes and I had a separate bag with all my feeding tube stuff (food, bags, tape, etc). The app showed 1 bag on the plane and no status on the other two. Which bag is it? I hope it is my wife's clothes/makeup/hair dryer etc!!! Life would be so much easier then
We arrive in Zurich early morning and found our cruise rep waiting to transport us to the ship in Basel (an hour drive). The one bag of course is my clothes :-(. Filed a claim and headed off to the ship. Nothing going to spoil this vacation.
We leave Basel and cruise to Strasbourg over night. We have talked to many people about the missing bags and the latest this morning was that they were in London.
Headed out on a winery excursion at 1pm expecting we would never see the missing bags until the cruise ended. Get back to the ship at 5pm and staff checking us in told us there was a surprise in the room. Wahoo, missing bags are in the room.
Happy Wife, Happy Life!!! Hopefully the rest of the cruise will have a lot less drama!
To be continued