Butts
Veteran Member
I travelled down to the WM to take my daughter to Harry Potter at Warner Brothers new experience in Watford
We were travelling from Sandwell & Dudley to Watford Junction on two Advanced 1st Class Singles (there and back).
I had booked the tickets online at a cost of £62 in total and collected them from the machine at FKG prior to the trip. (Flew EDI to BHX and back)
Imagine my consternation when at 11pm the night before the trip I realised I had left the tickets all bar one of the seat reservations in Falkirk and here I was in Dudley. I had the booking reference and print out of the journeys etc but not the flipping tickets
A quick check of the VT website seemed to suggest if I had lost the tickets I would have to buy replacements. Had I opted for the "print at home" I could have reprinted them.....salutory lesson there !!!
A quick check on the website revealed I could replace them at a cost of £82 in total for the same journey......after midnight (no advance on day of travel) and it's up to £500
so I quickly booked replacements.
Did I do the right thing - would they have let us travel with just the booking reference details and one of the reservation tickets ????
When I got home I found the missing tickets down the side of the sofa
Further thought if I'd had the presence of mind could I have applied for a refund on the original 1st Advanced Tickets I'd left in Falkirk after I'd booked the new ones (as it was before I travelled)
We were travelling from Sandwell & Dudley to Watford Junction on two Advanced 1st Class Singles (there and back).
I had booked the tickets online at a cost of £62 in total and collected them from the machine at FKG prior to the trip. (Flew EDI to BHX and back)
Imagine my consternation when at 11pm the night before the trip I realised I had left the tickets all bar one of the seat reservations in Falkirk and here I was in Dudley. I had the booking reference and print out of the journeys etc but not the flipping tickets

A quick check of the VT website seemed to suggest if I had lost the tickets I would have to buy replacements. Had I opted for the "print at home" I could have reprinted them.....salutory lesson there !!!
A quick check on the website revealed I could replace them at a cost of £82 in total for the same journey......after midnight (no advance on day of travel) and it's up to £500

Did I do the right thing - would they have let us travel with just the booking reference details and one of the reservation tickets ????
When I got home I found the missing tickets down the side of the sofa

Further thought if I'd had the presence of mind could I have applied for a refund on the original 1st Advanced Tickets I'd left in Falkirk after I'd booked the new ones (as it was before I travelled)