Just need to let off steam

[bisdu]

We are off to the Far East in 3 weeks for a 3 month trip around 14 countries....the planning has been long and complicated but it's nearly done....or at least it was until this morning.

We had an evening flight Paris to Singapore, with a 15 hour daytime layover in Mumbai. We had a day in Mumbai planned.....yes I know it's not the nicest place there but there's a couple of things we'd like to see. The plan was to take the 10 am train to Paris for 1900 flight.

So ...this morning I get my etickets in my email box.....strange because I already got them ages ago...and were downloaded on the app so didn't pay much attention to them at first. Later discover the flight has changed to early morning....in fact we would not even have left Rennes station. Furthermore our layover time in Mumbai is now during the night. Rang them ....they want me to pay them to amend my flight, and as I have onward hotels this isn't going to work anyway

So now, we have to pay again for train to Paris a day earlier, as train was non transferable, take a hotel in Paris overnight and take a hotel in Mumbai overnight...

Am a bit stressed today.

[granddad]

Am I reading that correctly, they want to charge you to change your flight back to what you actually booked in the first place?

[bisdu]

Not exactly G,

Original flight for which I have tickets are this ...
depart Paris 1900 arrive Mumbai 8.30 next morning.(we intended to sleep on the plane.overnight) Then a full day layover in Mumbai (which have trip all planned) then back to the airport for departure early hours of following morning 01.40 and on to Singapore. Sleep on plane.

Now they have brought the flight forward to 10 am. The original flight no longer exists. Now we Arrive Mumbai airport at about midnight but have exactly the same onward connection so the layover is now 26 hours most of which is during the night so no good for sightseeing and no where at that airport to sleep.

As well as that we have to buy a new train ticket and go the night before andso now have to buy a hotel on Paris.

I called then an asked I'd they would change my Paris flight to the following day, that way I could still go on the original connecting flight to Singapore with just a 1 hour layover but I have to pay......

So currently have booked a hotel in Paris, another hotel in Mumbai and train tickets.

ps.......if anyone wants to go from Rennes to Paris departing 10 am on 11 January just ask, because I have 2 tickets I no longer can use. (They are singles)

[Ali]

Hey, go with the flow hippy chick xx