STA and Gadget Boy Goes Global foil Castro… sort of
Have you seen Tim’s itinerary? He’s really travelling; gadget boy is literally going global, courtesy of some serious organisation carried out by his good self, and some on his behalf by his local STA outcrop in Brighton.
The only problem had arisen was when attempting to get from Bermuda to Cuba, a process divulged in detail in his latest post on Random Projects. For brevity, just take my word for it, between odd flight routes and the US trade embargo it’s awkward. In fact about as awkward as a phone call with Mexican Airlines customer services, a service provided in a language you don’t speak… Tim’s main reason for apprehension regarding calling them realised immediately.
After being unable to sort a flight to fit it with the STA world tickets available and struggling to purchase the only flight suitable (Mexico City to Havana), Tim decided to be decisive:
“I even did a quick tour of local travel agents and basically got told (with a smirk sometimes) that as I hadn’t booked the whole trip with them they wouldn’t help (even after what I thought was some very reasoned debate on my part sometimes). That really was the last straw. Wait till the recession hits them! Then they’ll want my money!
“Hmmm sooo maybe as these agents weren’t saying they couldn’t do it, the one that booked our trip could? Bizarrely only now did I pick up the phone to Julia at STA in Brighton and pop the question.”
Ok, presumably that question was ‘can sort me out with a pair of tickets on this flight’ outside the world ticket, not the question. This assertion is confirmed by Tim who after having tickets sorted for almost exactly the same flight by Julia (good work) he received a second call:
“About 7pm the mobile went, it was Julia again, she’d found the exact flights I wanted originally, same price, all sorted! I wasn’t expecting that!”
Even better work Julia!
