A Travel Nightmare:Newark Airport
We arrived Canada yesterday morning instead of Sunday as earlier planned.We checked out of our hotel around 12noon headed to the Airport for our 2.55 pm flight to Toronto,little did we know that our day will be spent at the Airport. Our flight was cancelled due to cloudy weather and we were put on a standby for the next flight which was for 5.30 pm. The long wait started at about 1.30pm it would have been okay if the flight left by then but it was delayed to 7.30 pm by this time my kids have become very restless after feeding and changing their diapers we waited.The flight came and left without us it was fully booked,we were told to wait again for the 9.00pm flight oh no! that flight have been delayed to 11.00 pm. You guessed right we didn’t make that flight too which was the last to Toronto for the day. The seats at the airport are not comfy enough for one to take a quick nap.
This was my worst experience at any Airport so far,we couldn’t go back to our hotel because we were in New Jersey airport and not JFK in New york.We called a hotel in New Jersey,entered the air train and stopped at the parking lot where the hotel shuttle bus came to pick us up.I was so pissed off with the whole situation i asked my husband what we were doing at that airport instead of JFK he then told me that the flight that was avaliable that day was an early morning flight and didn’t book it because of the kids. The lady at the boarding gate was not polite at all but i wasn’t going to give her that chance to get to me so i just ignore her.We went downstairs to collect back our luggage which we have earlier checked in.We were the last to leave the boarding gate ,got to our hotel room and to my greatest surprise we had a good sleep;we woke up around 5.00 am got prepared,fed the kids went downstairs for breakfast and entered the hotel shuttle to the airport for our 8.55 am flight.We went through the security check again how i hate all those checking,when we got to the boarding gate the lady there asked me if we have Canadian visa another stupid question how did we get there? I just told her yes and moved on to leave the dirty airport behind me.We had a very smooth flight that lasted for about 52 mins so in all we are grateful for we know that everything happens for a purpose.
Have you had any bad experience during a trip?
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Posted By 
tyna 
Jul 29, 2008 
such an awful experience sister!
great you came out of it all in good shape.
no trip experience here…
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yes, even i hav had a very bad experience when i travelled to rotterdam. i was cheated by people there and was fully looted.
there was nothing that i had after that. it was the gov. which then helped me come back to my country.
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