Vacation, Adventure & Lessons Learned-part 3

First let me say, my sister paid the first 563.00 of it herself. Our friends, where just going to split the rest of the charges, such as "upgrades" and their portion of the port fees and taxes. Which still wasn't that bad. And share other expenses as the came about.

As the late, great announcer, Paul Harvey, used to say, "and now for the rest of the story"

After our itinerary came, my sister is reading it, and discovers, it is a promotion for a "Time Share", and she is required to attend a ninety minute sales pitch, upon getting to Orlando. At no, time in any conversation about the trip was that mentioned to her. She gets on the phone to call the people that arranged this, and wants to know what "the time share deal is?" Nobody said a word to her. They insisted that she was told about it, and she requested to listen to all the taped conversations. Being so upset about this, I told her, I thought it was still a good deal, and "we will have an adventure, after all, what was ninety minutes out of seven days of fun?" We were going to spend two wonderful days in Nassau.

We get to the airport and first thing, we have to pay, 60.00 for our luggage. (15.00 each) While making the reservations, US Air didn't have a place on their site to pre-pay for that. We arrived at Orlando airport about one PM. From there we went to Alamo Car Rental, where we were told, we had an econo car, which will hold two adults, 2 children and one large suitcase. My sister explains, we "upgraded" to a mini van. "What am I suppose to do, drive that car and leave the rest of them at the airport?" But, upon looking at the itinerary, there was not mention of mini van. But, "we could upgrade" for a price. Way after we got home, we found where she marked to price to up grade of 198.00 written down, but the person on the other line, never made the changes! She called two different places while at the car rental, and no one could help her with that. The estimated charges, put on her card, was for 229.54 To keep car, for seven days, insurance, taxes and upgrade. This really got to her, 'cause she knew she upgraded and paid for it. We picked out the "full size car" we wanted and drove off towards Kissamee, where our hotel was.