As we strolled towards the bus station Sunday morning we couldn't help but comment on what a great place we had just visited and how perfect everything had gone. Noticing that no one was outside waiting for our bus due to leave in 15 minutes we figured, hey even the bus station has a nice waiting room!
Nope, our 9:15 bus had departed at 8:00 that morning, leaving us high and dry. The bus line claimed they had emailed us, however we know this not to be the case, but this was not a time to point fingers, we had to get to Wellington in 7hrs for our next flight. We ran through the options...a later bus, no, we would miss our flight, the last of the night....rent a car, $288 plus gas, doable, but we have yet to drive here and it would be 4hrs and under pressure... taxi, nope $600...fly, $460, way too expensive, but doable....so what do we do???
Well after worrying way too much for about 30 minutes we realized this was why you have insurance, and maybe they can help. Long story kinda short, we called them, they put us on the flight, reimbursable because we were not notified
about the change in bus times, and we received a refund on the bus. So the moral of the story here is you can solve a lot of problems by paying for a little insurance up front. We have already saved over 1/2 of our entire premium in 2wks with an ear infection and one missed bus.
In case you're wondering, the next two flights were without incident and we arrived in Nelson safe and sound on Sunday night.
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