Welcome • User Guide
ToS • Privacy • Canary
Donate • Bugs • License

©2026 Poal.co

1.1K

I used to love travel. The sights, the new experiences, the wonder of the world. The older I get, particularly after 'rona hysteria made everyone retarded, the more I've grown to dread travel.

Airlines? Its been years since I booked a flight that wasn't delayed, rescheduled, or cancelled outright. On any airline.

Hotels? Be prepared to lose a day arguing with retarded corporate drones who think "corporate policy of no refunds" trumps pesky things like "fraud statutes" or "health codes". Even at nicer venues, it's the same deal of explaining to retards why "roach infestation" and "$200/night" shouldnt even be in the same sentence.

Is there some way to make travel not a shitshow and actually enjoyable?

I used to love travel. The sights, the new experiences, the wonder of the world. The older I get, particularly after 'rona hysteria made everyone retarded, the more I've grown to dread travel. Airlines? Its been years since I booked a flight that wasn't delayed, rescheduled, or cancelled outright. On any airline. Hotels? Be prepared to lose a day arguing with retarded corporate drones who think "corporate policy of no refunds" trumps pesky things like "fraud statutes" or "health codes". Even at nicer venues, it's the same deal of explaining to retards why "roach infestation" and "$200/night" shouldnt even be in the same sentence. Is there some way to make travel not a shitshow and actually enjoyable?

(post is archived)

You are currently inside a comment thread.
Click here to see all the comments (16).
[–] • 0 pt

Travel insurance

[–] • 1 pt

What's the hassle factor? Is it a fight like most insurance, or straightforward like "The retarded airline cancelled/rescheduled my flight, here's $$$ to go buy a last minute ticket on another airline that's not trying to reroute you through four connections on an eff you schedule"?

[–] • 0 pt

Never filed a claim so don't know the hassle.

[–] • 1 pt

That's what's killing me. I can fight and win spats because I'm legally savvy and assertive, but spending a day or two every effing trip arguing with retards isn't relaxing. If I could pony up a couple hundred bucks per trip to an insurer so I could make one call/email to the effect of "The airline/lodging/etc lied or broke the law, here's the evidence, cut me a check so I can last minute book whatever" I'd do that in a heartbeat. Just to save myself being ready to flip a table for days because I had to explain to some smoothbrain time why fraud is illegal for the nth time.