Up The Farway Tree

Extended holiday?

We are booked on a flight home……on Wednesday not arriving home until Thursday!!  We couldn’t get through to Air France this morning but thankfully another passenger handed over their phone once they finally got through.  They were not booking people back onto flights automatically - you had to call and arrange this yourself and Wednesday was the earliest flight we could get and this is via Detroit and Amsterdam!  We did see if I could get on an earlier flight due to the fact I will run out of medications but they had no spaces at all.   The other family we were speaking to had been given other options by their travel agent but these were not until Tuesday and at a cost of £9000 for their family so needless to say they are just taking the same flight as us.  We have also tried to call Expedia who booked our flights but can’t get through at all.  We have no choice but to accept the Air France flights so need to settle ourselves until Wednesday!

I have enough anti rejections until Thursday as long as the flights do actually leave but have run out of Septrin (prophylactic antibiotic) and will run out of painkillers.  I could spin out the painkillers but I called my transplant centre and they want to me try and get some Septrin if possible.  I called the CF centre in Miami and a nurse is going to call back so really hoping they can help me out as not quite sure how to go about getting medications here and what it might cost.  My travel insurance company will automatically extend my cover until I get home at no extra cost so hoping meds will be covered under this but will just have to wait and see.  Will feel a bit better if I can get meds sorted and then perhaps we can try and think of this as an extended holiday!

We do need to move from this hotel though as we are essentially in the middle of an industrial estate and can’t walk anywhere (hired car went back yesterday).   We called the hotel we stayed with on arrival and gave a big sob story explaining that we loved the hotel so much but could only afford the rate we stayed at (which was an offer).   After speaking to the manager they called back and said they would offer the same rate for the next 4 nights, which will only work out as £45 per person more for the 4 nights than if we stayed at the Holiday Inn at Miami beach, which has rather mixed reviews.  I think this is the best option because it was a lovely hotel with a great location.  It’s all on credit card though – think we will all be officially broke by the time we get home!  I think the plan might be to eat as much as humanly possible for breakfast and perhaps swipe a pastry or two for later.  We also have the whistles mum bought for my birthday so another option would be a spot of busking…