seduced by the heat and his eyes (Online Bookings - Comments & Tips)

Member Name: pollee

Product:	Online Bookings - Comments & Tips
Date:	05/08/01 (61 review reads)
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Advantages: can be cheaper

Disadvantages: you have to know a bit about travelling

When a friend of mine told me he had a spare ticket for the final rugby match in Sydney I thought long and hard for five or six seconds and decided to go over.

After all you only live once, I had the money, I love live rugby and he has the most gorgeous eyes known to man or woman (not that they had anything to do with it at all) but in the heat in a foreign country ones imagination could run wild....

I got his message in the middle of the night as he was working on Oz time and as I couldn't sleep a wink I decided to get on to the internet and book my flight. I was excited to the point of frenzy, his description of the hotels he was staying in, the previous matches, the people he had met, the adventures he had was so enthalling that I was going whatever....

Two hours on the internet and I had lost enthusiasm slightly as I had discovered that everyone else was in a frenzy for the deciding match and had got there before me and booked the cheapest seats. The best price I found was a little over £3,000 which even for a girl on heat was slightly over the top....ok so I've never flown anything but economy before but I wasn't worried about the frills as I needed to sleep to get my strength up, after all long haul flights are tiring and i wanted to enjoy the experience (and the match of course) while I was there :-)

All of a sudden, having gone through all the obvious sites such as cheap flights,last minute and anything for under a pound (ok I made the last one up) I found a flight for Sydney for less than £600, leaving when I wanted, giving me enough time to freshen up that underwear I hadn't worn for some time, and coming back at the right time for work.

Credit card in hand I booked, got confirmation of my flight and was all set to go. I sent a message to my friend who was astounded that I was actually going (not the reaction I had expected) but he impressed with my get up and go - he hadn't seen anything
yet.......

My Father duly dropped me off at Heathrow worried about the fact that I was travelling such a long way for such a short time, amazed at my sudden enthusiasm for sport and slightly worried I think that I had to resort to travelling to the other side of the world for a shag, although of course he didn't mention that bit. I was a bit surprised at myself but had made this momentous decision to 'live a little'!!

I checked in, did the duty free bit, kept checking my phone for messages just in case there was a problem picking me up at the airport and argued with the stewardess about the size of my hand luggage. After all a girl on a mission needs her essentials so she can waft off the plane looking gorgeous into the arms of her stunned friend who has never seen her looking so gorgeous before, and then in a hot country in a foreign land the heat gets the better of them as they fall into each others arms.......ok we've been here before....but believe me I had lived that moment many times since booking:-)

Take off was great, and as I was such an experienced traveller let the captains voice waft over me, taking no notice as I busied myself with my books, moisturiser and water so I could leave the flight with a dew like complexion.

It was only a couple of hours in that I discovered there are two Sydney airports, one in Australia and one in Canada......

Canada is a very interesting country and not one I had visited before.

As the flight to Canada was a lot quicker than I had been expecting (something I hadn't noticed when booking) I was able to ring my friend and tell him not to wait at the airport for me and that I would explain when he got home but something had come up.

He wasn't unduly upset which wasn't the reaction I had been expecting.....but he was really sorry I was going to miss the match. So much for romance in a foreign land...

The moral of this story is w
hen booking a flight on the internet check the details in full, because they expect you do know where you want to go. If you are a dip stick like me use a travel agent!

The person most happy was my Dad knowing his daughters' honour was still in tact....;-)

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