The Travel Thread

[Deleted User 141]

Oussie- will you Lysol the Airbnb we staying at this weekend if I send you the address?

[jfish26]

I just got invited (directed) to attend meetings in Atlanta next month. Are they...being held at the CDC?

[Shirley]

I just got invited (directed) to attend meetings in Atlanta next month. Are they...being held at the CDC?

If I were you, I'd want to drive myself to Atlanta.

[jfish26]

I just got invited (directed) to attend meetings in Atlanta next month. Are they...being held at the CDC?

If I were you, I'd want to drive myself to Atlanta.

You could put me in a Citation and I still wouldn't want to go to Atlanta.

[Shirley]

I just got invited (directed) to attend meetings in Atlanta next month. Are they...being held at the CDC?

If I were you, I'd want to drive myself to Atlanta.

You could put me in a Citation and I still wouldn't want to go to Atlanta.

^^^

Unfortunately, there's no good way to get from Mar a Lago to KC by car, that doesn't go through Atlanta.

[Deleted User 89]

I just got invited (directed) to attend meetings in Atlanta next month. Are they...being held at the CDC?

If I were you, I'd want to drive myself to Atlanta.

yeah, i wasn’t all that comfortable coming home through the SLC airport...ATL is a bigger beast

[Shirley]

I just got invited (directed) to attend meetings in Atlanta next month. Are they...being held at the CDC?

If I were you, I'd want to drive myself to Atlanta.

yeah, i wasn’t all that comfortable coming home through the SLC airport...ATL is a bigger beast

I love to hate Atlanta, but I'll admit that as big as it is, in my experience, ATL does a good job.

[DCHawk1]

I just got invited (directed) to attend meetings in Atlanta next month. Are they...being held at the CDC?

Been nice knowing you, Fish.

[jfish26]

Gaetz, too. Lulz!

[Shirley]

Gaetz, too. Lulz!

Looks like hate and lies weren't the only thing spread last week at CPAC.

[jfish26]

And it turns out he found out about it...while on AF1 with Trump!

[Deleted User 89]

you couldn’t make this shit up if the fake news media tried

[Deleted User 141]

I just got invited (directed) to attend meetings in Atlanta next month. Are they...being held at the CDC?

If I were you, I'd want to drive myself to Atlanta.

That’d be some nice mileage

[jfish26]

Was in Indianapolis yesterday for a kid sports tournament. Our SWA routing home was through Baltimore (only routing that would support a late-enough departure), but as the day went on that flight kept getting pushed back more and more.

If you fly much, you know that the last flight of the day getting pushed back a lot is airline code for "yeah, this one might not be taking off tonight."

So, not wanting to get into KC at 130am (best case) or get stuck in Baltimore (worst case), we decided to cancel the return flights home and simply stomach the 8-ish hour drive in the rain.

SWA was, of course, easy to deal with. One three-minute phone call took care of that, points and taxes immediately refunded, etc.

Hertz, though, my god. It took 50 minutes to find a live person, who informed me that returning the car to KC instead of IND was going to carry with it a $380 cost.

Why are rental car companies just constitutionally incapable of good customer service?

[PhDhawk]

Some of my worst customer service experiences have come from rental car companies.

And my god the number of things they try to sell you on.

[Deleted User 89]

while it kinda makes sense, i was shocked at the disparity between directions as far as costs associated with renting moving trucks. i wonder if cars are the same? if you were wanting to do the opposite - pick up a car in KC and drop it off in Baltimore - would it have been cheaper?

[jhawks99]

I got stranded in Atlanta, thanks Delta, and tried to get a rental for one way only. Crazy expensive, I ended up just waiting it out.

[ousdahl]

Trying to search for why one way car rentals are more expensive and have extra fees, and it seems the answer is overwhelmingly “because they can”

[TDub]

Youre losing rentable product. That car....which is your money maker. Is gone. Even if its the same company its managed per branch. Financials and bonuses and basically all decisions are a branch by branch decision. When you lose your sellable product you have to charge more to make up a little it for the future earnings on that piece of equipment until you can replace it.

[TDub]

I worked for enterprise for a year to pay for my first year of grad school before i got a more career relevant position.