When Rebecca Yonker found a two-for-one deal on Cedar Point amusement park tickets online, she jumped at the offer. For just $36, she could get two admissions to America’s Mecca of roller-coasters. That is, until she learned Groupon had made a mistake.Turns out, the offer was more like a one-for-one.
The subject almost never comes up anymore. But when it does, there’s a long pause in the conversation. Yes, I’m on the road with three kids for more than 350 days a year — a single parent traveling with three teenagers.
Think the real world is a dangerous place for travelers? Try visiting the virtual one, a destination filled with shady travel offers and criminals who want to steal your personal information.It’s the time of year when people start planning their summer vacations, and with everyone watching the bottom line, the temptation to save a few dollars by booking online is strong. That might include searching the underside of the internet for a bargain.
Mark Verkennis wants a refund for his canceled flight from Boston to London last summer on Norwegian Air Shuttle. His online travel agency, Travelocity, has requested it from Norwegian, but the response is radio silence. What can he do about his canceled Norwegian flight?
There’s a lost art to doing a road stop. And that’s a shame since road trips are a time-honored American tradition. Shouldn’t road stops get a little respect too?But they are not. People don’t plan their road stops like they should, they show little or no discrimination about where they pull over, and it ends up being all about the destination, not the journey. It doesn’t have to be that way.
When Alitalia loses Jeffrey Reed’s luggage, it promises to pay him $1,579. But four months later, he’s still waiting.
Finding an affordable car insurance policy seemed like an impossible task for Nicole Scheufler. She lives in a busy part of San Diego and has been rear-ended a few times. After her last car wreck, “the insurance rates were insane,” she says.But she found a policy, thanks to a new way of buying insurance called Gabi.
Target promises Soon Chua $60 worth of gift cards, but the money never arrives. What went wrong — and how can he fix it?
Christopher Benson and his wife, Betty, planned one last trip to Paris together. They booked air and hotel through Orbitz and were careful to also include the online agency’s vacation waiver option. That’s because Benson’s wife had cancer, and there was a small chance that the couple would have to cancel the trip so she could seek additional treatment.
Sarah McKeown was supposed to fly from Baltimore to Okinawa, Japan, after Christmas, a trip made possible by her mother’s Chase rewards points. But after receiving the tickets, McKeown realized that Chase expected her to do the impossible to make the flight: to get across Tokyo in just 3 ½ hours during rush hour.
