Crisis Averted!

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I woke up one day last week and realized I booked our cabin on the wrong side of the ship for our Alaska cruise. Yes, I often have such revelations first thing in the morning – my brain likes to solve problems while I sleep. So, when I woke up I immediately started investigating starboard cabin availability to see how I could fix this problem, hopefully without an associated cost.

I popped open a chat session in one window and started texting my sister in another. I supplied my booking information, as well as my sister's information, and started working on getting our cabins moved.

Then we discovered that my sister was booked on a June cruise and not the July cruise as previously planned.

Engage scramble mode.

My sister opened her own chat session to sort out her reservation and I continued working on mine. After nearly an hour my representative was unable to move me to a cabin that was clearly vacant and my sister was rebooked on the proper cruise and in the correct cabin. Within minutes of sorting out my sister's situation her rep had my cabin moved to the starboard side, in the cabin that the previous representative could never manage to see. I'm a bit flummoxed as to how one could see everything clearly while the other could not.

In the end everything was sorted with only a small fee incurred for the completely erroneous reservation.

However, my sister is no longer allowed to make travel arrangements without adult supervision!