Lost Luggage Nightmare

Dear Jen and Tom,

Just recently my husband and I went on a summer cruise through Europe for our honeymoon. We both even got second jobs and worked really hard to save enough money for this momentous trip! And since we consider ourselves pretty savvy experts on the internet, we arranged and booked our honeymoon by ourselves instead of with a travel agent.

Having never been out of state, we were thrilled! However, once we landed in Barcelona our feelings of excitement quickly switched to helplessness as our luggage had not arrived. I was wearing jeans and a "Just Married" tank and my husband John was wearing shorts and a t-shirt. Mind you, John is 6' 8" with size 14 feet and we could not find anything that fit him! It was a nightmare!

I am not a shopper so finding clothes was needless to say not fun for me. Instead of day excursions, we spent our days off of the boat looking for and buying what we could. On top of our bad luck, shops in the port towns seemed to only cater to tourism and sold mainly bathing suits and wraps. At this point, I was losing hope and even had dreams of my luggage magically appearing before me.

The worst part was that every morning, we would have to wait in our bathrobes so that our clothes (or lack there of) could be laundered. Everyday, we were told that our luggage would be at the next port town so we would frequently check our email to track them (which ended up being another large bill). Not to our surprise, they were never there!

On top of everything, we had no camera to document our trip since it was in our suitcases. The food was lousy, and my husband was bitten by bed-bugs and ultimately got sick when we got home with something called herpangina.

(Herpangina comes from fecal to oral contact.) I'm sorry if that was too much information, but I guess the maintenance staff must have been sleeping on the job. We didn’t even discover the bed bug bites until after we left the resort. It makes me itchy just thinking about the nights we spent on that bad. Gross!

Overall, We did try to make the best out of a VERY bad situation, but nothing will ever bring back our honeymoon! Maybe we can do honeymoon #2 but this time maybe we'll consider using a travel agent that knows what they're booking.

Sincerely,

Rebecca and John

Portland, OR