Missed Plane! Missed Ship! What Would You Do.....Vacation is Paid For??

These are misfortunes one needs to face. If there is a way out I will surely resort to it but if nothing can be done to reach that ship that has already left the shores what alternative do I have but to turn back!

Of course I would try to reach the ship. Cruise ships stop in a town every day or almost every day, so worst case scenario you would probably only need to fly there or maybe even drive by car, since maybe the next stop is not far away. I would never turn around and go back home, because I would be in a bad mood for the whole week or even month. If you have plans and everything paid, you can't just give up on everything and go home. That would be a waste of money.

If I traveled to the airport and found out my flight had already departed I would claim on my travel insurance if it was possible to do so. If I didn't want to do that I would buy a flight to another destination. Then I would purchase a guide book for that country. Then off I would fly. Like for example if I missed my flight to New York I would try to get a flight to Boston or Washington DC. Then I would make sure I would get my flight home from New York. Alternatively I might have booked a trip to Thailand but would end up in Japan. If I was booked on a cruise and I missed it I would try to catch up with the ship. I would fly to the next port in order to board to ship. I wouldn't just go home and forget my trip. In 2006 I booked a flight to Cancun in Mexico but a hurricane hit the Mexican Coast. My flight was canceled and I got my money refunded. I felt so sad and worried. I was all ready for a tropical vacation. I rang some travel agents and one offered me a flight to The Maldives for £200. I said yes please and I rushed off to the library to borrow a book about The Maldives. When I read the accommodation listings I noticed the very high prices. I took double the money and spent most of it. I stayed five nights on Asdu Island, two nights in Male the capital and seven nights on Gan Island.

I´d do all I could to get on that ship. There´s always a way. But I know I´d do everything yelling and crying. I lose my control on such occations.

In this case what you should do is call the cruise line and try to arrange boarding the ship by other means. Many times the cruise line has entertainers flying in at any given time or boarding at different port of calls. Other ways you could get on your boat is through connections the cruise line might have with sister ships in the same docking location as yours. As for missing a plane that one is alot easier if you have the time. While on vacation in florida several years ago my father got the departure days mixed up and we missed our plane back home to California by a whole day. Believe it or not this happens alot more than you might think, and the airline deals with it by putting you on the next flight available that has room, and often times at no additional charge or a small fee.

In 1996 I took my family on a 7 night cruise from Fort Lauderdale on the Celebrity Century. Landing at Miami we took a taxi to FL and about 15 minutes later my wife discovered that she was missing her pouch with her passport and voucher for the cruise! We had to turn the taxi round and return to the airport. We frantically searched all the places we had been as well as the restroom she had used but to no avail! We were in a poor state mentally due to the 13 hour flight from South Africa and were at the end of our tether when miraculously someone showed up and said that one of the restroom staff had found the pouch and handed it in at the help desk. That was a close shave because as the saying goes "Someone without a passport is someone without a country!"