{"id":4118,"date":"2010-06-08T10:22:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T15:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=4118"},"modified":"2010-06-08T10:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T15:37:00","slug":"in-which-she-books-six-hotel-rooms-for-three-nights-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2010\/06\/08\/in-which-she-books-six-hotel-rooms-for-three-nights-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"In which she books six hotel rooms for three nights’ stay"},"content":{"rendered":"

C<\/span>learly, I have missed my calling in life. I should have been a travel agent, because I am so embarrassingly good at vacation planning that I currently have six hotel rooms booked in four cities for three nights of travel. Overcompensate much? <\/p>\n

First, I booked a room in Edmunston, NB for one night on our way out to Nova Scotia and one night on our way home. That was back some time when it was cold and we had only a nebulous plan of attack to conquer the 16 hour drive to Nova Scotia. Then y’all chimed in with your really wonderful suggestions, and we changed the plan so we overnight in Grand Falls, NB on the way out, nullifying the need for the Edmunston booking (note to self, must cancel Edmuston booking) on the first night.<\/p>\n

We also changed the plan for the drive home, extending the trip by a night for a more leisurely trip home. Now we take the ferry <\/a>across from Digby, NS to St John, NB the first day and stay in St John. After a midmorning visit with the divine Mad Hatter<\/a> in Fredericton, we sojourn in Riviere-du-Loup at this <\/a>adorable and incredibly affordable cottage recommended by one of my colleagues. (Note to self, also cancel second booking in Edmunston for homeward leg.)<\/p>\n

In agonizing over hotels in St John — a hotel which we will barely see because the ferry arrives at 7 pm, the kids’ bedtime is around 8 pm and we will be departing as early as possible the next morning — I realized that I could perhaps use some of my Air Miles that I have been ferreting away since 1987. After spending 20 minutes on hold not once but twice yesterday with the Air Miles peeps, I booked a room at the Hilton on the understanding that I could offset the cost of the room by cashing in an Air Miles gift certificate. Imagine my delight when I realized that the $115 nightly rate I found online couldn’t be honoured with the $100 gift certificate I would buy with 20 years worth of carefully collected Air Miles. In fact, the rate would be $169 plus <\/em>taxes, plus <\/em>parking, plus <\/em>who knows what else, so even with the gift certificate I’d be paying close to $100 out of pocket plus <\/em>squandering a lifetime collection of Air Miles. <\/p>\n

In a pique of annoyance, while waiting on hold for more than 30 minutes for clarification from an Air Miles agent, I also booked a room online at the Holiday Inn Express in St John for very nearly the same price I’d pay above and beyond the Air Miles gift certificate. (Note to self: cancel Hilton reservation, too.)<\/p>\n

If you’re counting, that’s two bookings for the same night on the way out (one in Edmunston and one in Grand Falls) plus three bookings for the first night of travel back home (two bookings in St John and another one in Edmunston) plus the one for the last night in Riviere-du-Loup.<\/p>\n

I’m a serial reservationist. Stop me before I book again! <\/p>\n

The irony in all this is that in fact, most hotels seem to think we will in fact need six hotel rooms for three nights of traveling, because despite the fact that my kids have a collective age of 16 and a collective body weight of about 130 lbs, we’re expected to book two rooms because we’re a party of five. Hmmm, which one do you think should sleep in the car, the baby, the six year old or the eight year old? Sheesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clearly, I have missed my calling in life. I should have been a travel agent, because I am so embarrassingly good at vacation planning that I currently have six hotel rooms booked in four cities for three nights of travel. Overcompensate much? First, I booked a room in Edmunston, NB for one night on our … Continue reading “In which she books six hotel rooms for three nights’ stay”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-away-we-go"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4118"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4123,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118\/revisions\/4123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}