Originally Posted by
chamonix
Not myself, but I actually saw the Bloomington IN/IL problem happen to some folks! I was at a conference in Bloomington Indiana (which I can drive to) and a carload of folks arrived quite late for the conference because they had flown to Illinois. They didn't catch it until they piled into the rental car, plugged the conference hotel address into the GPS, and it told them it was a 4+ hour drive. they went back up to the rental car counter, "uh, is this thing right?"
I'm originally from Bloomington, IN, and I used to work as a hotel front desk clerk. I had a few instances when someone would call to confirm their reservation and get angry when I couldn't find it in the system--I'd make a quick call to the central reservation number (this was mid-1990s) and lo and behold, they'd have a reservation for Bloomington, IL. Luckily in each case, it was easy enough to switch the reservation to our property.