Today should have been a pretty exciting one. For my 33rd birthday in 2006, my friends clubbed together to buy me a helicopter flight. (OK, so it's taken me a while to get round to taking it!)
As you can see from my previous post, I tried to take it last month. This involved a drive up to Preston, where I had to hang around a hotel lobby for about an hour before finally someone from the company told us we would not be able to fly that day, due to the wrong helicopter turning up on the day. Because of the inconvenience, they allowed me to rebook for another date, and said they'd throw in a free ride as a passenger around a 4x4 track as well as my flight next time. Fair enough, these things happen.
So today, I drove down to Stafford for my rescheduled flight. Again, I waited around for over an hour before they told us the flight was cancelled due to the helicopter being unable to get permission to take off from Sheffield (the mind boggles!). this time they're offering to double the flight time if I rebook, plus get the 4x4 ride.
So after two wasted half-days, over 200 miles of driving and several phone calls, I've still got both feet firmly on the ground. Forgive my cynicism, but I'm a wee bit dubious about this company now, so I'll be aiming to get the cash out of them so I can book with someone else. And they better not mess me about when I phone them next week!
To name and shame, in the hope that no-one else gets taken for a ride (not literally, more's the pity!), the experience was booked through Adventure 001 via Buyagift.com.
Thank goodness Amazon.co.uk are able to keep their promises and delivered the last Harry Potter book this morning, or the whole day would have been a washout!
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