Sunday, May 23, 2010

Got woken up once again by a phone call, at about 5.00am again, I think that maybe I was supposed to be on a flight to either Miami to continue my journey from there or they would talk Barbados into letting me enter again and transit onwards on my journey. None of the above, missed the flight to Miami then was told that I couldn't do that, it would invalidate my ticket if I did. Because I had my flight booked from Barbados to the Bahamas via Miami and JKF I couldn't transfer it or change any aspect of it, in fact I wouldn't even be able to use my onwards flight to New Orleans. This incident at Barbados has properly ruined my plans and could cost me a small fortune If it can't be sorted. Just as I was actually toying with the idea of buying a brand new set of tickets, I got word that the flights had all been sorted, I was allowed to enter Barbados on transit, I no longer had to purchase a visa but had to pay a fine, the exact amount was unsure but they had a feeling it would be around the $200 US mark, a bit shit as I shouldn't have to pay it but its a whole lot better than shelling out $774 US. American Airlines had managed to change the dates of my flights to tomorrow to the same route that was on my original itinerary. It sounds stupid but it was my cheapest option, my flight from Barbados to the Bahamas goes a little like this; Barbados to Miami, Miami to JFK (arriving the following morning), JFK back to Miami (arriving the following morning), then onwards to the Bahamas, arriving two days later, a whole lot dirtier and smellier, but much more relieved.

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