We decided that this
would be a sleep-in day. Our flight
wasn’t supposed to leave until 5:25, so the plan was to check out of the
hostel, store our luggage, shop, eat, and meet back at the hostel at 2:00 to
get to the airport.
One group went to Dash
and the other went to the Strand in Union Square. I personally managed to spend my children’s
inheritance (without feeling guilty), and our group also managed to be late
getting back to the hostel. There were
no negative effects, and we got to the airport with plenty of time to
spare. The news that the flight was
delayed by an hour wasn’t met with much concern, because it would give us time
to eat before boarding. But then the
flight was canceled. This wouldn’t have
been too much concern, either, except that rebooking twelve people is much more
difficult that rebooking one or two. We
got on the phone with the reservation agent (one strike against Delta: Their Group Reservation desk is closed on
weekends, meaning that a group can get no
help from someone who knows what’s
going on during the weekend) who couldn’t get all of us on another flight
until 7:30pm on Saturday. We offered to
fly to Nashville, Memphis, Atlanta, with as many connections as needed, but no
luck.
The next challenge was
finding a place to stay. When we called
the hospitality group recommended by Delta, the message stated that New York
was experiencing a citywide sellout.
Oops. After a lot of trying, we
finally called Expedia and asked the agent to help us find any hotel that had a
shuttle to LaGuardia. We found one that
was right next to the airport and actually had three rooms available. We congregated in one room to watch the Olympics
and then went to sleep.
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