Posted on 05/31/2024 9:37:10 AM PDT by Red Badger
A Kentucky family’s $15,000 Carnival Cruise vacation they had been planning for a year was canceled just two days before the ship was set to sail after they accidentally shared their booking number online in a case of identity theft.
Tiffany Banks was devastated to learn that her trip aboard the Carnival Celebration ship with her husband and their four kids was canceled without her knowledge the day before the family was going to fly to Florida to leave on the boat.
Banks said in a series of TikTok videos that she had no idea their vacation, for which they had already paid in full, was trashed until she got an email about off-ship excursion cancellations and called to investigate.
A Carnival customer service representative told her that she had canceled her $12,000 reservation for the ship’s largest room — the Excel Presidential Suite — through the online system.
The mom and nurse practitioner said she went into “a full-blown panic” and she and her four kids were all in tears.
“We have nearly $15,000 tied up in for this vacation including excursions. The room itself was I think $12,000 or $13,000, and then we’ve got a few grand tied up in excursions, and actually with almost $2,000 for flights,” she said in a May 12 TikTok video.
Banks said she never canceled the trip and wondered if it was a system glitch.
Carnival said the room they had booked was now reserved by another customer and offered the family two interior rooms — the cheapest on the ship — instead, but the mom did not feel it was an adequate replacement.
Carnival also refused to offer a full refund as its cancellation policy states that no money will be returned within 15 days of the cruise date.
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Insinuated?
The verification was the booking number this dullard posted on Facebook.
“Cart return areas don’t mean jack. Unless they are in every other parking spot. You just need one that is “far” away and you win.”
What is “far”?
I would think that the major chains including Walmart, Sam’s Club and Costco have set theirs close enough and they are not in every other spot.
LMAO. You have been to walmart lately have you?
I’ve been known to post without reading the excerpt, based just on the headline.
“LMAO. You have been to walmart lately have you?”
Yes. One about 3 miles from my house. They have cart return stations and dudes gathering carts.
Haven’t we all.
“Cart return areas don’t mean jack.”
Where we live, I have to say we never see rogue carts in any parking lots. Maybe eastern TN is ultra civilized.
Nice.
Me personally never return the cars unless it’s right next to my car/truck. It’s job security for the baggers to go collect carts ;-)
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