Tuesday 26 August 2014

The Flight Home from the Happiest Place on the Planet went South. Literally.

I got a wake up call from mickey mouse. Go figure since it was airport day, I started crying :(
Then breakfast came... and they gifted me a SUPER HUGE MICKEY MOUSE WAFFLE!! JUST LIKE I WANTED FROM DAY ONE but i was never able to get one BUT THEY GAVE ME ONE!!! I thought i'd be getting the small mickey mouse waffles like the last few times i had breakfast.
So then i cried eating my waffles. Even when we were leaving they managed to make it super magical!

But then, Lady Reality-check and her Boyfriend Irony decided to slap us in the face AGAIN when someone tried to make US pay for THEIR valet parking. WTF. we never GOT valet parking because we don't have a car, how the fuck did that happen?? So Steven brings it down to the receptionist downstairs and Disney was able to waive it because it was their mistake since they didn't confirm if he was actually staying in the hotel or if it was even the right room he was staying in. While that was happening i was watching mickey mouse cartoons in the lobby. And crying. OK let's just say i cried a lot.
So we left the hotel after that was sorted out, and the mother-fucker who used OUR hotel room number for valet parking got the parking for free :| Disney i hope you get your money that you deserve from the douche-bag that used you for your parking space... All 250 dollars of it.

***Time jump because there was nothing of importance that happened. besides lots of crying***

When we get to Atlanta at 9 pm, we find out our flight was delayed until 10pm... ok so no big deal, we waited the hour.. then we find out.. it got pushed AGAIN to 11pm. then slowly to 12pm.
the travellers and us were quite angry... how can a flight be delayed for 4 hours? Supposedly there was a lot of rain coming from where our plane was coming from. OK no big deal, so Steven and i sat and waited like good children. Played frozen free fall. we get word that the plane was actually due back for 11pm. YAY! an hour early! .... but then something happened I'm not sure what... we saw the plane dock and the crew was supposed to clean up the plane. great. but then it hits 12 and the delta airlines staff tell us that the crew Has "gone missing." another delta airline staff tells us they "clocked out" and that our flight was cancelled.

WTF. it's one thing to delay our flight, i understand things happen. but CANCELLING A FLIGHT and STRANDING YOUR PASSENGERS IN SOME FOREIGN COUNTRY?? So all us travellers grouped together when the staff member told us "well we don't know why they clocked out when there's passengers to fly out."
Well SOMEBODY knew. because how can they just let the pilot and crew go and leave people stranded like that? the plane came in at 11 and they clock out and didn't let all of us know until when the airport closed. wtf. OK so they give us a hotel voucher to stay in for the night. then they informed us to call into the delta airlines phone line to get new flight information "because it's 24 hour service. if we don't pick up, tweet, we answer those right away"
OK at least they did that. except on our way there we get this really sketchy driver who kept talking to himself and repeated things over and over.
A lot of us were very scared. Myself included... like it's dark out, no cars out.. and the guy said any hotel will take these vouchers and will give us a free night stay. drive to hotel and back to the airport included. this Asian guy who was supposed to board our flight was rejected form the cab and was told that WE were headed to a different hotel... except we end up at the hotel we were supposed to be at. including the Asian guy who got denied the ride over and he had to pay a cab. wow.

As soon as we step into Quality Hotel , we see a cockroach scurry across the floor. I kid you not. IT WAS DISGUSTING. when we reach our hotel room, the lights did not work, and the shower was super dirty so i couldn't take a shower :( quality hotel? more like shit quality... so it was time to call the delta airlines phone line.. and they put us on hold for 1 hour. no one picked up the phone. we even tweeted, and emailed.. no one got back to us. a bunch of us passengers were also re-tweeting each other and kept hash-tagging deltafail (BTW to this day they still have not responded). Steven made the super-smart decision to go onto the website to get flight info. once we got out new tickets, we fell asleep... well we couldn't really sleep... you see the pillows were not big enough for our heads... they were tiny dog pillows.. :\ we finally went shut eye at 2 in the morning.

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We wake up at 5 because we had to be back at the airport for our flight at 7am :\ running on 3 hours of energy, and feeling like a grease ball. us passengers finally grouped together again, save for a few who couldn't get on the flight because no delta staff answered our calls.. turns out we were ALL put on hold, and the only people who boarded were the ones who went onto the delta airlines website for updated flight info. we find out one girl had a toilet that couldn't flush, and her lights didn't work either.

It was time to enter security... and i forgot that my water bottle from last night was in my bag. but here's the issue... they didn't confiscate it when i put it through the x-ray machine. didn't tell us to remove our shoes, belts, or anything... so when i found out my water bottle was still in my bag i kept wondering.. why didn't they stop me? so if (god forbid) a terrorist came through with a water bottle loaded with explosives, they'd let him through because they WERE NOT THOROUGH.
I COULD  NOT WAIT TO GET OUT OF ATLANTA. never again am i stopping here. And I am NEVER using Delta Airlines... like EVER.


Worst way to end a honeymoon :|

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