Saturday, December 1, 2007

Off to Tasmania

Ticket mix-ups, missed flights, and Australian airline policies

Monday evening, Shari announced we were scheduled for 6:00 AM flight, and K announced we were scheduled to leave at 1:30 PM. Turns out we were both right. After mild death threats and staying on hold with Virgin Blue for 2 hours, it was decided that Shari would go ahead on her own to Tasmania. Except...she missed the flight, and rather than being able to stand by for the next flight, or pay a change fee...she was charged for an entire new trip there.

Moral of the story - don't miss flights in Australia.

We ended up on the same flights there (and back) and had time to view Hobart, which is a surprisingly big and vibrant city.
(stolen picture from http://www.hwidc.tas.gov.au)

We walked around, tried to get a drink at Australia's oldest pub

Instead got one hereAnd ate at Mure's

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