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They made me spend my Honeymoon in a nasty hotel rather than Mexico

Posted Mon January 15, 2007 12:27 am, by shaunce b. written to American Airlines, Inc.

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We used American Airlines from Orbitz to go to Mexico there was a few hour layover that we hated but understood. We live in Houston our Layover was in Dallas. We have never been on a air plane before didn't know how it worked. My ticket hade a time on 4:45 but the time displayed said 5:30. I said is that 30mins early she said yes.I ask the lady at the booth because I just didn't understand. She stated that a plane had been layed over and the new time was 5:30 at this time its 1:00 or 2:00 o'clock so I'm kind upset because I'm bored but I understand that plan has layovers so Me and my husband walk around the whole airport trying to stay busy just waiting for 5:30 to come. So we walk over there the plane is about to talk off the took our bags off. They said we missed our flight. I'm shocked I start yelling at he lady who lyed to us. Then they tell us that the next flight to Mexico is in the morning at his point I can't stop crying for over 20 mins. I can't calm down. We were so bored walking around a airport we would have loved to get on the plane at 4:45. Well we watch our plane leave. The rep stated that she told us the wrong time after she lyed for 30 mins. She was new I think. The put us in a hotel in Dallas. Very crappy were we faced a major hwy. Had no car no way to eat. Hate to pay a taxi. We had a rent car paid for in Mexico and a $400 a night hotel facing the water. This employee waisted so much of our money. Even though they paid for our hotel I don't think that the way the first night with being married should be. I still get upset when I think about. To top it off Orbitz told it was all-inclusive hotel and it was not. That was the icing on the cake. P.S. I have the name of the reps I spoke to if you need them.

We have 20 couples flying back to Mexico. Why should we use your company. Please put your self in our shoes. Do you remember your honeymoon? Or how do you picture it?


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by Donkey Kong Posted Sat January 20, 2007 @ 12:43 AM

American Airlines= Bush Iraq-lines

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by Marge S. Posted Thu January 18, 2007 @ 8:48 PM

You should have taken the money you spent on a honeymoon and instead
enrolled in some 3rd grade English classes. You are completely
illiterate and that's sad.

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Wow by Prefect Zachary Sat January 20, 2007 @ 7:32 PM

You are all of those things. by Marge S. Sun January 21, 2007 @ 12:34 AM


and you, ma'am, are a hypocrite n/t by Courtney C Mon January 22, 2007 @ 10:43 AM


Marge S. by LadyMac Mon January 22, 2007 @ 2:56 PM

by Refreshed Amanda Posted Wed January 17, 2007 @ 8:32 AM

I am sorry, I got half-way through and had to stop trying to
understand. Too many misspelled words, poor grammar and punctuation,
and unprofessional words killed this letter. I hope the company can
understand it more than I was able to.

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by lj Posted Tue January 16, 2007 @ 11:57 PM

You really need to re-write this letter, or maybe English is a second
language for you? I'm not sure what to think, I still can't believe
you have never been on a plane before, that being beside the point. I
don't think you were very clear when asking the staff a question. If
you speak like you write, I wouldn't understand what you were asking
either.

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by Nayda Badillo Posted Tue January 16, 2007 @ 10:42 PM

hmmmm...

"So we walk over there the plane is about to talk off the took our
bags off. "

Your plane talked? You got your own bags off the plane? I dunno what
to say about that!


"They said we missed our flight. I'm shocked I start yelling at he
lady who lyed to us."

This is the next sentence, so again, was it the plane that said that?
Or your bags? I'm not quite sure, cause I have never heard a plane or
luggage talk.

"The rep stated that she told us the wrong time after she lyed for 30
mins."

I have a hard time telling a little white lie. I can't imagine someone
extending a lie for 30 whole minutes. Was she very descriptive as she
lyed for 30 minutes? Why, if you knew she was lying, didn't you cut
her off after the first 5 minutes of her 30 minute speech?

"Very crappy were we..."

Yeah..uh huh!! I'll agree with you there!! Very crappy were you.. and
this letter even more so!!







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by MommyG4 Posted Tue January 16, 2007 @ 7:24 PM

You need to rewrite your letter. Sheesh.

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by KevinG Posted Tue January 16, 2007 @ 5:35 PM

If you are going your first flight to start your honeymoon, don't you
think you should do some research on how flying on an airline works? I
travel 25,000 miles or more a year, and I am very tired of sharing
planes with people like you who think they are entitled to be lead
everywhere because they can't be bothered to learn how a system works
first.

You were probably one of the idiots drinking the bottle of water right
next to the security guard announcing "no liquids past this point."

By the way, consider yourself lucky you got a hotel voucher. Idiots
who miss planes aren't actually entitled to anything. It's your fault.

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by sarahd Posted Tue January 16, 2007 @ 11:52 AM

First time flyers or not you have to constantly check the update
departure monitors that are every 50 feet or so in the airport. Last
week my original flight time was to fly out of Memphis at 9:40pm.
When I landed in Memphis for that flight I noticed the departure time
was changed to 10:27pm...no biggie. When I checked again at 9:50pm
they had moved the flight time back to 10:05pm. If you're responsible
enough to be married, you should be responsible enough to check a
monitor for updates.

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Yes, but . . . by PattiM Tue January 16, 2007 @ 3:36 PM


She could have brought a book by LadyMac Tue January 16, 2007 @ 4:18 PM


Exactly.. by tater30 Tue January 16, 2007 @ 6:30 PM

I did that once. by PattiM Tue January 16, 2007 @ 6:57 PM

by natalie t Posted Tue January 16, 2007 @ 7:35 AM

did you proof read this letter????

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by calm Posted Mon January 15, 2007 @ 9:55 PM

Shaunce and her husband, first-time flyers, booked flights using
Orbitz. They were going from their home in Houston to Mexico, and
they had to change planes in Dallas.

At DFW the screens said that their flight, scheduled for 4:45, was
delayed until 5. Shaunce asked something which might have been "Does
that mean we'll be boarding at 5 and taking off half an hour later?"
or might have been "We only have to be here at the gate 30 minutes
before departure, right?" or might have been something else entirely.
The American Airlines employee said, "Yes."

Shaunce and her husband strolled around the airport, and when they
returned to the gate the flight had been closed. Their bags had been
taken off. The plane left.

Shaunce yelled and cried and called the employee a liar for half an
hour at which point the airline employee finally said she'd given them
the wrong information and gave them a hotel voucher. The hotel was
not up to their standards, and the airline provided neither a rental
car nor food. Shaunce is very upset because the employee wasted her
money (they had non-refundable stuff in Mexico for that night that
they didn't get to use) and it was her wedding night and all.

At some point in the future (we learn from the Orbitz letter that
that's in June) 20 couples will be flying with Shaunce and her husband
to Mexico (where Shaunce and her husband will get married, according
to the Orbitz letter, which kind of makes you wonder whether some of
this "It's our first night married!" drama is there fore effect).
Shaunce wants American Airlines to show her that she really should fly
American despite this interaction with the pants-on-fire employee who
put them up in a hotel overnight. (And, yeah, 42 passengers is going
to make a big difference to an airline these days, so they may very
well want to pacify her in some way.)

And on the subject of how this was the first night that she and her
husband (whom she will be marrying in June) were married, Shaunce
would like everyone at American to think about how horrible it would
have been if on their honeymoons they had missed their flight. Any
people who haven't been on their honeymoons yet should just imagine
how horrible it was for them.

For whatever it's worth, I have not had a honeymoon and am not
planning one, and I like Dallas, although I think there are almost
certainly hotels there that I would like better than the one Shaunce
visited.

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I read it differently by dawniedawn67 Tue January 16, 2007 @ 7:59 AM


Cal... by DragonflygrrlTheGreat Tue January 16, 2007 @ 10:24 AM

Flight may have been delayed, then un-delayed back to 4:45 due to weather by eloh Tue January 16, 2007 @ 10:49 AM

Another inconsistency in her story... by Peregrina Tue January 16, 2007 @ 11:21 PM

Dallas to Houston are 3.5 hours away, according to Yahoo Maps. by eloh Wed January 17, 2007 @ 5:10 PM

Only if you sprout wings :) by Peregrina Wed January 17, 2007 @ 9:00 PM

Which brings up another question.... by dawniedawn67 Thu January 18, 2007 @ 2:02 PM

by vc Posted Mon January 15, 2007 @ 7:59 PM

What the...

where am I?

Oh yeah, I was saying.....

THUMP...jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj
jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj

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You finally by >Leanne< Tue January 16, 2007 @ 5:31 PM
by memnochthdevil Posted Mon January 15, 2007 @ 6:36 PM

A honeymoon is about starting a new life w/ your spouse. It should
not have mattered where you stayed... what matters was who you were
with. Yes, I would be upset about the loss of money, but you were
still with your new husband. If I were your husband, I would be upset
that the materialistic aspects of life intruded the emotional. My
honeymoon was travelling 30 minutes up the road and stayed in a small
cabin at Callaway Gardens. I was not upset, I was giddy that I was
with my new husband.

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I'd agree with you, but.... by dawniedawn67 Tue January 16, 2007 @ 7:57 AM

I agree Dawn by DeterminedStarlight22203 Tue January 16, 2007 @ 9:30 AM

by Buddy Posted Mon January 15, 2007 @ 4:57 PM

*falls to floor in fetal position sucking thumb after reading
this....*

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by vc Posted Mon January 15, 2007 @ 4:03 PM

Wow, I just don't.......

THUMP..ghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhgh

We regret to inform the PFB community that vc will not be finishing
his post. After trying for an hour to decipher this letter he
suffered a mild seizure and a blow to the head from the keyboard.

Please, pray for him.

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Hang in there, little fellow. by Bored Erik Mon January 15, 2007 @ 4:31 PM


It's gonna be ok, sugar. by DragonflygrrlTheGreat Mon January 15, 2007 @ 5:13 PM

Don't worry VC by DeterminedStarlight22203 Mon January 15, 2007 @ 7:06 PM


You have responsibilities to that harem! Wake up! n/t by >Leanne< Mon January 15, 2007 @ 7:17 PM


I'll drink to that! by RedheadWGlasses Mon January 15, 2007 @ 7:34 PM


I thought I heard a self-inflicted gunshot before the thump. by donno Tue January 16, 2007 @ 12:17 AM


No no, because he came back if you look up above. by >Leanne< Tue January 16, 2007 @ 5:30 PM
by franese Posted Mon January 15, 2007 @ 1:03 PM

This is one of the worst letters i have ever read . .. between typos,
bad grammar and total confusion.

Your last paragraph takes the cake . .. what kind of question is that
"do you remember your honeymoon"?

I'm sure this letter is going to the circular file

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by RedheadWGlasses Posted Mon January 15, 2007 @ 12:52 PM

And she's decided the best way to spend her remaining time on this
planet is crafting lame letters of complaint.

SOrry, Shaunce, but I think you're lying. First of all, I can't
imagine a doctor ever saying, "Oh, you have about 10 years left to
live." My dad was dying with lung cancer that had spread to his brain
and other organs, and even a few months before he died, doctor's
couldn't/wouldn't give a timeframe (they hate to say "two months" when
you end up living two years!).

You are so full of it. Go get therapy.

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argh. "doctors" not "doctor's" by RedheadWGlasses Mon January 15, 2007 @ 12:53 PM


Well, if you want people to think your typo isn't that bad by calm Mon January 15, 2007 @ 8:47 PM

by tickytack Posted Mon January 15, 2007 @ 12:16 PM

Maybe you should take that $400 and invest in some spelling and
grammar lessons.

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by A A Posted Mon January 15, 2007 @ 11:39 AM

You don't have to be able to spell "dictionary" to buy one, in case
you didn't know.

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by thinkingitthrough Posted Mon January 15, 2007 @ 11:32 AM

Somewhere in there you might have some sort of valid complaint, but
between the spelling errors, the lack of punctuation and the terrible
grammar, I could not figure out what it might be.
It is just possible that perhaps you, admittedly never having flown
before and not having any idea how this works, made an error?

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by tickytack Posted Mon January 15, 2007 @ 8:58 AM

Wow. How did you manage to make it through grammar school?

This is one of the worst letters I've seen here.

Pathetic.

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by RedheadWGlasses Posted Mon January 15, 2007 @ 8:08 AM

Well, it sounds like you have some sort of half-baked complaint, but
your grasp of the English language is so poor, your letter is not so
easy to follow.

And 20 people flying together to Mexico? Why would you use some
online service for such a potentially complicated trip? Go to a
travel agent for crying out loud.

Be cool, stay in school!

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by MA Loper Posted Mon January 15, 2007 @ 6:54 AM

I don't usually harp on OP's for their grammar/syntax, but this letter
is so flagrantly illiterate, it's an assault on my eyes to read it.

That aside, there were some issues I had with your "story" that I
couldn't quite figure out.

What exactly were you basing your assertion that the hotel was
"nasty?" Were the sheets dirty? Holes in the walls? Filthy bathtub?
Bugs everywhere? If your only real gripe was that there was no
breathtaking view (DUH! It's an airport!) then you're WAY off base.

You claim the mistake "waisted so much money" (sic) yet by my
calculation, they paid the hotel bill, you didn't rent a car, refused
to take a cab and "had no way to eat" so you spent nothing
additional.

& what is this business about 20 couples flying back to Mexico?

Just FYI, you should never include a "P.S." in a business letter.
That is SO 6th grade!

You also shouldn't include your gripes about Orbitz in the letter to
American Airlines. American had nothing to do with it and doesn't
give a flying fig.

If you are old enough to be married and live in the adult world, then
you should already be well aware that sometimes life doesn't go as
planned and you just have to deal with it. Your overly dramatic (I
can't stop crying for over 20 mins. I can't calm down.) illustrates
your immaturity loud and clear.

At the end of the day, what was the real goal here? Marrying the love
of your life or taking a swanky vacation in a ritzy resort in Cancun?

Honestly, I never expected such snobbery from someone incapable of
composing a grammatically-correct business letter.

I guess to your credit, the only thing you requested was that they put
themselves in your shoes and not free flights for life.

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Re: They made me spend my Honeymoon in a nasty hotel rather than Mexico by CandyPickletoes Mon January 15, 2007 @ 5:43 AM

by CandyPickletoes Posted Mon January 15, 2007 @ 5:44 AM

Here's the link:

http://www.planetfeedback.com/index.php?level2=blog_viewpost&topic_id=
295404

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by Gino Version 1.2 Posted Tue January 16, 2007 @ 11:48 PM

Come Out Come Out Wherever you are!!!

You got some 'splaining to do!!!

Yoo Hoo!!

Oh well...

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by Peregrina Posted Mon January 15, 2007 @ 3:44 AM

Frankly, it sounds like everyone acted badly in this little farce. The
rep gave you poor info, but instead of handling the situation with
maturity and decorum, you acted like a spoiled brat. (Same with the
letter to Orbitz.)

Even I know that the honeymoon isn't about the '$400 a night hotel
facing the water' in Cancun. It's about starting a new period in your
life with someone you have decided to walk beside the rest of your
life.

Except, it sounds like your husband married a child instead of a
mature woman.



Just as an aside, most all hotels in Dallas face the highway. *snerk*
The city is nothing but highway on top of highway. (This is a jibe
about Dallas, not the OP.)

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by calm Posted Mon January 15, 2007 @ 12:54 AM

While I agree that if you showed up without the information more
experienced passengers already have it was particularly problematic
for you to get bad information from the woman at checkin, and while I
recognize that the hotel wasn't a great one, the most important part
of your honeymoon was preserved: you and your husband spent the night
together.

If I were you I wouldn't refuse to fly AA again just because of this
experience. You'll be more prepared to wait at or near the gate, even
if the plane is supposed to be late, so that you can keep abreast of
any developments. So the situation that occurred this time isn't
likely to arise again. There are many factors that go into airline
preference, and if you were okay during the flight you may want to
take that into consideration.

As for getting misinformation from Orbitz, that shouldn't have
happened, absolutely, but it's not American Airlines' fault.

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They made me spend my Honeymoon in a nasty hotel rather than Mexico by shaunce25 Mon January 15, 2007 @ 1:07 AM
by p d Posted Mon January 15, 2007 @ 12:53 AM

This is a terrible letter.

You should have gotten someone with a grasp of the English language to
write it for you.


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They made me spend my Honeymoon in a nasty hotel rather than Mexico by shaunce25 Mon January 15, 2007 @ 1:08 AM


Huh? by mary jo Mon January 15, 2007 @ 9:17 AM

It doesn't matter where it was. by p d Tue January 16, 2007 @ 11:30 PM




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