Yes, the hype over the top.
My next door neighbor has invited us to view the eclipse with her family in her driveway. It’ll be a small but fun party, and we only have to walk over there. I’m trying to concoct an eclipse drink for the event. We will see what I can come up with. Suggestions welcome.
She’s offering Coronas and Blue Moon beer but I don’t drink beer.
I saw the 2017 total eclipse, and it was insane. It was just for a few minutes of viewing, and afterward all the roads out of town were jammed. It took hours just to advance one mile down the road.
“Eclipse Travelers Outraged Over Last-Minute Hotel Cancellations”
Ah. First world problems. Life can be hard at times. :-)
The hotel guests who got cancelled don’t get a reverse cancellation fee from the hotel either. Price gouging is what it is. Guests that secure an agreed upon reservation with stated price and secure it with a credit card hold should not be bumped because hotels decide they can make more profits afterwards.
This eclipse has an added bonus: a comet might also be visible. Prices for hotels are going up and up and up. No wonder hotels are canceling reservations when they can sell the same room for a whole lot more .
10 to one that folks made a call to Schumer...and done deal...you got cancelled. Fair?? Schumer doesn’t know the meaning of the word.
First world problems…
Probably spelled out in the fine print, and why I stopped using those sites. Bait and switch
Just like the Harold Camping predictions and the 2012 end of the world scam.
Which is likely to happen. It's been cloudy around here for days and while I saw some sun this morning, it has clouded up once again here in Connecticut.
Northeast is almost always cloudy or at least partly cloudy this time of year.
I’ve seen two full eclipes in my life, and never the hysteria that this last has engendered.
It seems contrived.
Friends, booking.com is the absolute worst site on the internet for travel. DO NOT use them. Please. You MIGHT get lucky and not have a problem, but if you do, you’ll NEVER get to a human that can help you. You’ll run around in circles for a month. Here’s the game: You call the call center (in India, or at least staffed by people with Indian accents), and you get a long hold. You’ll finally get a person and you’ll tell them in detail what your problem in. They can’t help you, they’ll pass your info along to tier 2 and have them call you back. A week passes, no one calls you back. You call them back, sit in the queue, and the person that finally answers the phone will act like they know nothing about your case. (You give them all the info, they’ll act like it’s the first time you’ve called). You give them the info in detail, and they tell you that they’ve passed your info along to tier 2. This will happen as many times as you let it. I called DAILY for over 2 weeks, and was FINALLY able to get a callback. It was for a flight, and the airline said “Since you booked it with booking.com, they have to initiate any refund requests, looking at your flight details, it WOULD be refundable”. Booking.com told me over and over that my flight WASN’T refundable.
Anyway, PLEASE do yourself a favor and avoid these idiots.
I tried to book a room in northern Vermont/southern Quebec...nothing available. So for me it will be 4 hours up...and hour there...and then 4 hours home.
I tried to book a Learjet to Nova Scotia but they were all booked as well.
No pity. Book for three days for a stupid event seen many times before that lasts for just minutes? No pity.
I tell ya, God needs to charge for this event. Maybe he will just make a bunch of clouds happen.
Pastor said that someone in the church — a little kid, I think — told someone they were going to see the apocalypse.
I’ll be looking at my phone the whole time
Gas prices here in Fort Worth went up 50 cents a gallon just because of the eclipse visiters. That has to be against the law
Same thing happened here on the Central Oregon Coast in 2017. People were outraged to find that their hotel reservations had been cancelled, forcing then to re-book at three times the original rate.