Also, with shuttles you never know how many other stops you ll make before they let you out. When I

You d think a whole bus is hard to hide but Orbitz had no problem trying to sneak one past Harry McCracken garden district hotel of new orleans when he was booking a flight to Las Vegas. He noticed at checkout there was a $14 ground transportation fee that had been added for [his] convenience. Paging backwards, tucked in a list of about 40 upgrades and local attractions was a $14 bus fee. The tricky part was that all the others were opt-in and this one was opt-out. Naughty Orbitz, trying to sneak a bus onto an airplane!
If they had sent him something in the mail that he didn t order, and then charged him for it, he would be legally entitled to keep it as a gift. Maybe we should think about imposing a rule like that for these dirty-trick situations.
@ speedwell, avatar of snark : While I think it s an annoying trick to get people to pay for stuff, you still have an obligation to look through all your charges before you approve the transaction. It s not as though you approved the transaction, and THEN they hit you with another charge for a service you didn t want. If you approve the transaction, garden district hotel of new orleans and the charge is listed there, it s ultimately your fault.
@ GTI2.0 : To add on to that, don t purchase tickets for any shuttles or cabs in advance. You ll have a whole afternoon of waiting to check in, so waiting for a cab or shuttle isn t a big deal. Just remember to pick up some cash before you leave the airport.
Also, with shuttles garden district hotel of new orleans you never know how many other stops you ll make before they let you out. When I took one, we were the last ones after about a dozen other hotel stops totalling at least 30 minutes.
@ Gstein garden district hotel of new orleans : I ve taken the supershuttle as well, but not in an area with only a few points of interest. garden district hotel of new orleans I live in the DC area, and for some reason they can never organize garden district hotel of new orleans things so that the shuttle is filled with all students from the same school. Oh no, you had to go to almost every school and then it was off to BWI.
@ GTI2.0 : My advice for Vegas is just rent a car. It s really not that expensive and you have your own way around, can leave for the airport when you want to, and so on. The last time we went and had an actual car to drive around in was the best experience I ve ever had getting around Vegas.
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At Denver, I deplane and wait just outside the door for my gate-checked items as I was told. The flight attendant tells me to clear the jetway, that the gate checked items are going to be taken up to podium.
At the podium, I ask the gate agent for a status on my gate checked items. She rolls her eyes, and yells Don t you know that the gate checked items are at the bottom of the jetway?!? You were told to wait there for them. I relayed the flight attendant s instruction. She didn t say that. Now I have to go get your crap because garden district hotel of new orleans you re too stupid to follow directions.
I don t have a name and I am the manger! She then shouted to another agent, then disappeared. The other gate agent appeared with my items, and apologized that her her manager didn t want to give her name, and she couldn t give hers beyond Nancy. I couldn t press the issue there because garden district hotel of new orleans I had to make my connection home, thankfully on another airline.
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Those dimwits garden district hotel of new orleans let someone on the shuttle walk off with my bag. On top of that, they managed to find it in under 24 hours, but took an extra day to get it back to me because apparently there s only one guy in the whole Vegas operation who has the authority to release it from their lost and found and he needed to come back first.
They asked if I wanted to come down there and pick it up instead. At 3am. On a Saturday night. With no transportation to get there. Keeping garden district hotel of new orleans this post PG-Rated, garden district hotel of new orleans let s just say that I refused to get off the phone with them or refuse to stop calling them until they released my bag and put it on the very next shuttle to the hotel.
Seriously, don t use them. Ever. Take a cab; it s probably only going to be $5 more than the shuttle and you don t have to worry about someone who s not paying attention grabbing your bag from the back instead of their own.
I have half a mind to send them a bill for the 1-2 days worth of clothing I needed to buy while I was without my bag, but to be completely honest it was stuff I was meaning to buy anyway just maybe after the trip.
@ BillyShears : Billy, you are sooo right. I once mistakenly took that shuttle, and I tell everyone I can to avoid the Grey Line shuttle like the plague. I was staying at a Harrah s casino, and checking in at their front desk there at the airport. The desk agent checking me asked if I wanted to purchase their shuttle to the hotel, they could add it to the bill. I thought that it would be convenient, but I was so very wrong. It turned out it was the Grey Line shuttle that didn t show up for 20 min. Ok, not that bad, but when I got on the shuttle there was no air conditioning. In Las Vegas. garden district hotel of new orleans In July. The driver really garden district hotel of new orleans took his time loading the luggage, but the real delay came next. Apparently, Grey Line allows garden district hotel of new orleans passengers to just hop on the shuttle and pay the driver, even though there is a booth selling shuttle ticket right there on the curb. So everyone has to wait for some jerk who couldn t be bothered garden district hotel of new orleans to go to the ticket booth like everybody else. While normally this transaction should take lass than one minute, it somehow took as long as getting a home equity loan. Did I mention garden district hotel of new orleans that there was no air conditioning?
I ve seen this more and more on travel sites like expedia, orbits, etc. and its not just for Vegas. They ve added cancellation garden district hotel of new orleans insurance, rides to/from the airport, etc. I haven t seen them automatically book a tour, but I m sure its coming.
it was the first thing on that long list, so it was easy to spot, and the price quoted at the start included it, so it was not a shock, but a nice surprise when i removed it and lowered the cost of my trup.
We booked a trip to Cancun via Orbitz this past weekend. We saw them sneaking this ground transportation in, so we opted out. However, as we finalized the details of the trip, Orbtiz kept sneaking it back in. I think we had to remove this two or three times before we finally purchased the trip.
If you ve ever been to Cancun, you know better garden district hotel of new orleans than to purchase these generic ground transportation packages. The transportation often doesn t even show-up, and you re forced to pay for a taxi/bus on the spot. If they do show-up, you re packed-in with 20 other people going to 20 individual hotels, and it takes you 3 hours to get to your hotel. Worthless.