Could Be Worse…

In celebration of our upcoming trip, we decided to stop at The Avenue for their wonderful happy hour menu. As we were dining, our phones began dinging in unison and we knew there was an issue. Even though our flight was not until 3PM the following day, United decided that the predicted weather (which never happened) was too bad and canceled our flight.

We were obviously concerned, but were quickly rebooked on another flight. This made our connection time shorter than we had hoped, but still manageable. We then got another text that our new flight was canceled. This was followed by every flight from CMH to Newark being canceled due to the horrific weather event that was sure to disrupt all travel in Columbus.

After hours of talking with lovely United agents, we were offered a flight to Newark on Saturday, which was exactly a day too late to catch our direct flight to Croatia. Jenn has more patience than I do and worked with an agent throughout the night and ultimately found a flight in Cleveland that departed just early enough to make us drive to the city at 5am. We debated a rental, or abandoning our aging Kia to the parking lot gods, but Dave, Jenn’s Dad, came to the rescue and offered to get up at the crack of dawn….well pre-dawn, join us, and then drive our car back home.

Part of the reason this was all so disappointing was that Jenn had surprised me with our first 1st class tickets! We lost the 1st class, something we will be talking with United about, BUT the premier access was the only reason we were able to make the change…..so it was worth it in the end!

So here we are in Newark with a short 8 hour layover. We decided it warranted an upgrade to the United Lounge, which is brand new and one of the largest in the country. It’s huge and has a view of the NYC skyline, so all-in-all…..it could be worse.