p most of the boot or trunk as they say over here.
I’m writing this in retrospect as got the new car about a week ago, also had to book a trip as I needed to leave the country. You can only stay for ninety days over here on the visa waiver program before you need to leave, and on the 8th Nov I would have been here 89 days.
Had been thinking of coming back to the UK but it would only have been for a couple of days, too much time spent travailing, it’s about 22hrs door to door so decided to go to Mexico instead. I booked a trip to Cancun leaving on the 8th Nov and coming back on the 11th, not long, but long enough. Never been to Cancun before so didn’t know where to go so just looked around on the Internet, ended up deciding on the Hyatt Caribe Resort http://www.cancun.caribe.hyatt,com/ don’t know why, they all sounded pretty good.
It got to Wednesday the 7th and I still hadn’t booked, ended up doing it over the phone with Orbitz.com, cost just over $1000 flight and hotel, bit pricey for 3 nights but it’s was one of the cheaper packages I could find that looked like it had a good hotel. Don’t really know why I bothered as the company was paying and it was cheaper than a ticket to the UK, I say the company’s paying I have to claim it back yet, but that should be no problem.
I’d been thinking that I would just drive to the airport and leave the car in the long stay car park for three days. Anyway the day of leaving came and as usual I packed my bag the morning before I left, always seem to be in a bit of a rush, but it’s my own fault.
Drove to the airport found the car park, got my ticket and went in, found a parking spot and locked the car, normally I just press the button for central locking wait for the beep and walk away. This time I tried the door as I was leaving it for a few days, it opened, went through the process a few times tried using the key, the drivers side door would not lock. Seems like I had been parking the car for the last week pressing lock hearing the beep thinking it was locked, it never was the lock was bust as we say in Yorkshire.
Could not leave the car in the car park when I found this out, if it got nicked with my luck I’d be responsible, had come to realise there’s a clause for everything over here.
Finally made my way out of the car park, had to pay because all this palaver took longer than 15mins. Needless to say I was in a rush, had to fill the tank and then go back to Dollar and I was late anyway. Got back to Dollar Rentals , they screwed up cost me more than it should have and it was there fault for giving me a car the lock was not working on. Had a bit of a row with them totally not like me, but was late and frustrated, anyway they agreed to refund me a few days on a new lease when I got back on Sunday. That been said I was now really in a rush to get on the shuttle bus to the airport and get checked in.
If you can remember had started off on this blog singing the praises of Dollar rent a car, not so sure now as 2 of the cars they have given me have been faulty, had four so that’s a 50% failure rate in anyone’s money.
Had been thinking of coming back to the UK but it would only have been for a couple of days, too much time spent travailing, it’s about 22hrs door to door so decided to go to Mexico instead. I booked a trip to Cancun leaving on the 8th Nov and coming back on the 11th, not long, but long enough. Never been to Cancun before so didn’t know where to go so just looked around on the Internet, ended up deciding on the Hyatt Caribe Resort http://www.cancun.caribe.hyatt,com/ don’t know why, they all sounded pretty good.
It got to Wednesday the 7th and I still hadn’t booked, ended up doing it over the phone with Orbitz.com, cost just over $1000 flight and hotel, bit pricey for 3 nights but it’s was one of the cheaper packages I could find that looked like it had a good hotel. Don’t really know why I bothered as the company was paying and it was cheaper than a ticket to the UK, I say the company’s paying I have to claim it back yet, but that should be no problem.
I’d been thinking that I would just drive to the airport and leave the car in the long stay car park for three days. Anyway the day of leaving came and as usual I packed my bag the morning before I left, always seem to be in a bit of a rush, but it’s my own fault.
Drove to the airport found the car park, got my ticket and went in, found a parking spot and locked the car, normally I just press the button for central locking wait for the beep and walk away. This time I tried the door as I was leaving it for a few days, it opened, went through the process a few times tried using the key, the drivers side door would not lock. Seems like I had been parking the car for the last week pressing lock hearing the beep thinking it was locked, it never was the lock was bust as we say in Yorkshire.
Could not leave the car in the car park when I found this out, if it got nicked with my luck I’d be responsible, had come to realise there’s a clause for everything over here.
Finally made my way out of the car park, had to pay because all this palaver took longer than 15mins. Needless to say I was in a rush, had to fill the tank and then go back to Dollar and I was late anyway. Got back to Dollar Rentals , they screwed up cost me more than it should have and it was there fault for giving me a car the lock was not working on. Had a bit of a row with them totally not like me, but was late and frustrated, anyway they agreed to refund me a few days on a new lease when I got back on Sunday. That been said I was now really in a rush to get on the shuttle bus to the airport and get checked in.
If you can remember had started off on this blog singing the praises of Dollar rent a car, not so sure now as 2 of the cars they have given me have been faulty, had four so that’s a 50% failure rate in anyone’s money.
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