At this precise time, my Hubs and I would be walking around the city of Pisa, doing some sightseeing, etc but nope, we are back home. Our whole weekend trip went down the drain because the Italians decided to choose this day to have a national strike. All flights flying in/out to/from Italy will be delayed or cancelled. In our case, our flight were cancelled! When the Italians decided to have a national strike, they mean business. All public transportation in Italy came to a halt.
We woke up very early morning to drive to Brussels Charleroi airport to catch our flight at 10:30am. We both were looking forward to this trip especially me, I have not been to Italy. We got there after braving through the horrendous traffic in Brussels and another one in Charleroi area and finally we'd arrived at the airport. We dropped off our luggage, got our boarding gate number and was going through the security check, when the announcement came simultaneously. Our flight was cancelled! I thought that guy doing the security check was kidding cos he was scanning our boarding pass and we were about to pass through the customs, etc. Shucks!! So what happened next?! We were send off to enquire and ended up at the airline ticket counter, waiting for an hour or so for our turn. There were many people like us in the queue getting flights changed, refund, etc.
While waiting for our turn, my Hubs decided to collect our luggage and we were told they could not locate our bag and we have to go to 'Lost and Found' counter to try our luck. After such news, we decided to sort out our tickets first (a full refund) then deal with our luggage later. Meanwhile, I had to cancel our hotel booking and hopefully we will also get our full refund without any penalties.
We woke up very early morning to drive to Brussels Charleroi airport to catch our flight at 10:30am. We both were looking forward to this trip especially me, I have not been to Italy. We got there after braving through the horrendous traffic in Brussels and another one in Charleroi area and finally we'd arrived at the airport. We dropped off our luggage, got our boarding gate number and was going through the security check, when the announcement came simultaneously. Our flight was cancelled! I thought that guy doing the security check was kidding cos he was scanning our boarding pass and we were about to pass through the customs, etc. Shucks!! So what happened next?! We were send off to enquire and ended up at the airline ticket counter, waiting for an hour or so for our turn. There were many people like us in the queue getting flights changed, refund, etc.
While waiting for our turn, my Hubs decided to collect our luggage and we were told they could not locate our bag and we have to go to 'Lost and Found' counter to try our luck. After such news, we decided to sort out our tickets first (a full refund) then deal with our luggage later. Meanwhile, I had to cancel our hotel booking and hopefully we will also get our full refund without any penalties.
Gosh, it was such an exhausting, disappointing morning for us. We wasted first half of the day just driving, queuing and in the end no weekend trip for us. Though we were very near to Brussels about after such an ordeal earlier, we decided to head home, had a quick breakfast at the airport and start our journey back. *sob*sob*sob* Better luck for me next time to visit the beautiful city of Florence, Pisa....
What a shame!!!!
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