Holiday are supposed to be a time to get away from stress, but for one poor woman her bargain holiday quickly became incredibly stressful after she became the 'most hated person' on her flight. Watch her TikTok recalling the incident below:
In a story that's gone viral, Kirsty Clyne told Birmingham Live that a trip booked through discount site Wowcher turned into a nightmare after she accidentally left her passport in luggage that ended up in the hold – although she'd thought she'd be able to take it on as hand luggage.
She explained: "In the UK you can get this thing called the Wowcher £99 mystery deal where you pay £99 each and you get a whole holiday, flights and hotel, for £99.
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"The catch is you just don't know where you are going. And she told us that our bags were included in the airfare because they were just cabin bags and not hold bags or anything, they weren't suitcases."
Unfortunately, that's not quite how things went down when they got to the airport. "She was wrong," Kirsty continued.
"We got all the way to the gate at the airport and just as we are boarding the woman at RyanAir says, 'Look, you've got to put these bags in the hold'."
Understandably, she wasn't best pleased. "We were a bit annoyed because we had to pay extra money that we didn't know about and they put the bags in the hold," she said.
However, much worse was to come – it wasn't actually that which delayed the flight.
Continuing the story, Kirsty added: "We take our seats and my pal turns to me and asks 'oh do you have your passport?' My passport was in the bag that they put in the hold. And you can't get through customs without your passport.
"So I had to go to the pilot and the pilot had to call the ground crew, the ground crew had to bring my bag out from the hold they just put it into. And then I had to rummage through my bag in front of everyone on the plane."
Understandably her fellow passengers were unimpressed at the delay, something she was all too keenly aware of.
"They had to repack the hold with my bag in it," she said, finishing her story. "I was the most hated person on that flight."
Simon Catling