Well, after dawdling for a few months we finally got our honeymoon in order–but not without some hiccups.
When we finally decided on Spain, we targeted Barcelona as the city we wanted to base ourselves in; however, when it came time to book my frequent flier miles, United only let me go to Madrid–except we had to leave at 7am from Washington, DC. Okay, well, fine. It’s a free flight to Europe, I’ll take what I can get. We’ll go to Madrid too–we even ignored everyone who said, “Oh, but you guys would love Barcelona so much more,”
Fast forward a few months later–we’re working with our travel agent, Heritage Tours, for our Morocco leg. I decided to double check my flight schedule so the agent, we’ll call her Trisha, can make a much better itinerary for us. Low and behold, Aer Lingus had mysteriously decided to CANCEL the flight to Spain (but oddly, not the flight FROM Spain) months earlier, but failed to inform me of this very important little tidbit of information.
I called up United, ready to do battle. However, to my surprise, I got a very helpful friendly guy who acknowledged that the cancelling a flight without informing me was really uncool–and so, I managed to get a brand new flight for the same points with the only extra cost being a few dollars more for tax. Here’s the amazing part though:
- We got the trip to Barcelona.
- Not only that, it leaves from a better airport for us, JFK (aka in NYC).
- And it leaves at 9pm…thus saving us a day of vacation we don’t have to use.
Amazing!
Well, that happened two months ago and now we’ve finally finalized every leg of our trip today.
NYC -> Fez, Morocco -> Marrakesh -> Essaouira -> Mallorca, Spain -> Barcelona -> NYC
So excited to finally go to continental Europe and Africa (well, North Africa.) And yes, even more excited as this will be the first real vacation we’ve had in a year and a half (which is eternity for us), let alone the first trip in ages where we weren’t backpackers. I mean, I loved backpacking, but carrying everything on my back got old 
