Evening flight cancelled- I lost value of my prepaid hotel for that night!
For my birthday my wife and I decided to splurge and stay at a nice hotel that costs almost $500 in another city. The reviews were great and we were really looking forward to it.
That evening out of a clear blue sky the weather turned terrible and huge thunderstorms formed. After a very long flight delay, they decided to cancel the flight and send us out the next day.
The trouble was our flight cancellation did not allow us to stay at the fancy resort on Saturday night. We called the hotel and they said nothing could be done, it was prepaid and it was too late to cancel. $500 lost and our mood turned dark. Our romantic weekend turned out to be a huge fight. My wife was sure that I could talk them into giving us our money back or at least a voucher for another night. No dice.
Have you experienced something like this and did you lose everything?
(FYI: Because it was a domestic flight we did not buy travel insurance.)