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onceling
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So it's the 50th birthday of my friends mom this year. I will try to make this as brief as possible but I'm not good at that.
Apparently she (lets call her Debbie) been telling him (now dubbed James) since he was 15 that she wants a first class ticket "somewhere" for her 50th.
This doesn't seem like it's going to be possible. James has a decent job but first class tickets just aren't that cheap for a 25 year old to purchase. Secondly, how can you book a ticket for someone else, without them planning their time off and other stuff??
At first I said to James that he should maybe book a ticket for her to California. Debbie has a sister there, California isn't too far away from Vancouver ($$$) and it would pretty much be easy to organise because there's no need for accomodation and its a location that "can't go wrong".
However, a couple of weeks ago I was at Debbie's house (without James). She was talking to me and a bunch of her friends about her birthday and her promised 1st class ticket. She laughed and said "And I hope it's not somewhere stupid like California to see my sister!!" and then laughed.
I cringed a bit inside.
So basically, Debbie is already going on a Mediteranean cruise for her birthday, I assume its booked already, but Mexico, Turkey, Morocco, Hawaii and the Mediteranean are the places she has hinted that she wants to go.
Even if James could afford a first class plane ticket to any of those locations (and accomodation??), Debbie hates being alone/traveling alone and would have to be taking her fiancee with her (or one of her sisters), has non-flexible time off policies from work (takes lots of time off, but has to book it a lot in advance) and has a LOT of vacations and outings planned already, that James could not possibly navigate around. How could James even book one ticket, then have the fiancee book another on the same plane but at a different time?? Doesn't sound feasible at all.
I think all that crap is just impossible. Debbie sounds impossible.
I think the only thing James can do is drop like $1000 on some kind of redeemable voucher? Is this possible? I've googled "travel voucher" and other similar terms and just seem to get a lot of horror stories for people trying to reclaim airline comp'd vouchers for delaying their flights when overbooked.
Is there such a thing as just a voucher for an airline? What about a cruise company? Any advice/ideas appreciated
Apparently she (lets call her Debbie) been telling him (now dubbed James) since he was 15 that she wants a first class ticket "somewhere" for her 50th.
This doesn't seem like it's going to be possible. James has a decent job but first class tickets just aren't that cheap for a 25 year old to purchase. Secondly, how can you book a ticket for someone else, without them planning their time off and other stuff??
At first I said to James that he should maybe book a ticket for her to California. Debbie has a sister there, California isn't too far away from Vancouver ($$$) and it would pretty much be easy to organise because there's no need for accomodation and its a location that "can't go wrong".
However, a couple of weeks ago I was at Debbie's house (without James). She was talking to me and a bunch of her friends about her birthday and her promised 1st class ticket. She laughed and said "And I hope it's not somewhere stupid like California to see my sister!!" and then laughed.
I cringed a bit inside.
So basically, Debbie is already going on a Mediteranean cruise for her birthday, I assume its booked already, but Mexico, Turkey, Morocco, Hawaii and the Mediteranean are the places she has hinted that she wants to go.
Even if James could afford a first class plane ticket to any of those locations (and accomodation??), Debbie hates being alone/traveling alone and would have to be taking her fiancee with her (or one of her sisters), has non-flexible time off policies from work (takes lots of time off, but has to book it a lot in advance) and has a LOT of vacations and outings planned already, that James could not possibly navigate around. How could James even book one ticket, then have the fiancee book another on the same plane but at a different time?? Doesn't sound feasible at all.
I think all that crap is just impossible. Debbie sounds impossible.
I think the only thing James can do is drop like $1000 on some kind of redeemable voucher? Is this possible? I've googled "travel voucher" and other similar terms and just seem to get a lot of horror stories for people trying to reclaim airline comp'd vouchers for delaying their flights when overbooked.
Is there such a thing as just a voucher for an airline? What about a cruise company? Any advice/ideas appreciated
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When its my 50th (in many, many years), I'd be horrified if either of my sprogs thought they'd have to spend that much to make me happy. Even if they earned oodles of dosh.
Just cos she's been telling him she wants something for a long time doesn't mean he should be the one to provide it. He needs to have a reasoned talk with her, about what she hopes for, and what she can reasonably expect from him, from her family and friends, and from her fiance. Maybe she could ask everyone for travel vouchers, if that's what she really wants, and maybe he could pay for an excursion on her Med cruise?
I know what I'd like for my 50th, but that will come from my husband, not my kids (a greenhouse!).
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