Yeah, the title of this blog reflects a stupid oversight when I booked my trip to Barcelona for this coming weekend. A few friends and I had planned the trip a few weeks ago; to leave Sevilla early Friday afternoon and then return early Sunday morning, March 27th. But, today when I received a confirmation email telling me to complete my online check-in so that I can print my boarding pass, I realized that it says my return flight to Sevilla was APRIL 27th. I have been looking for flights since I realized the stupid mistake I somehow made, but all flights for that Sunday end up costing just about the same as a flight there and back! I'm wondering if it's even worth it! I don't know what to do! I can either buy an expensive return flight or just forget the whole thing and lose the money I already paid for the two flights. It is very hard to decide which option is better. I don't know of anyone else going to Barcelona later on... but I wonder if I could find someone/if I should take that chance. There are lots of other API students going next weekend. I also didn't book my hostel yet, so it's not like I would be losing any money for that, though. Additionally, if I were to forget the whole thing, Tara was talking about a trip to Gibraltar this weekend, which I might be able to still do. WHAT SHOULD I DO!?!
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Update: March 20, 2011
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Last night, I finally purchased another ticket back to Sevilla. After talking to several people yesterday, everyone told me that Barcelona was definitely a city that I could not afford to not go to. Although my ticket ended up costing just about the same amount as both the flights for my original purchase, I'm sure (and hoping) it will be worth the extra cost. (For future reference also, it was cheaper for me to go through an entirely new website/airline to purchase a return flight, rather than to change the flight date on RyanAir. With all the fees that they tack on for the change and the fact that you have to purchase the new flight as well, the cost ends up being astronomical! I will write more about the horrors of RyanAir in my blog about Morocco soon... probably later on today in between my studying for midterms!) All in all, I am still pretty annoyed at myself for making such a retarded mistake, but at the same time, I think this is something I will probably always remember and laugh at the careless mistake... and hopefully never make the same one again! (Atleast it wasn't a flight back in the U.S... while buying another flight in Europe cost me about $60, I can't even imagine how much of a nightmare it would have been to make the same error back home!)
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