Flood in Rio...

[ahka]

Our trip to Rio de Janeiro is under risk of not happening.  Apparently, there is flood and who knows if it will be cleaned by the end of the month.  It just happened today and airlines have not updated their flight information.  The article explained that there was a big traffic in the airport and a lot of canceled flights. 

I called Orbitz and found that I can cancel my hotel with no penalties 7 days before reservation date and I could cancel our tickets, only that would cost us $250 per person.  I absolutely don’t like this fee thing.  So, I started to explore other options.  We could still fly to Rio and take another plane to go to Iguacu and stay there instead of Rio.

Well, we have more than a week to see what’s going on there and if we would have to change our trip.  I am determined to go to Brazil because we already spent money on our visas. 

In fact, yesterday we got our visa documents back because they were missing signatures.  We signed the papers and Boris mailed them today, so hopefully next week we will get our passports back with the visas.  One problem after the other.

Comments

[levinius.livejournal.com]

don't worry too much - brazil is a large country, there are plenty of places to visit and there is still a month. Very excited for you guys! Brazil is on my top 2 list of places I absolutely need to visit, right next to Japan :)

[agusovsky.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can't not to worry, but yes, it is a big country, I need to figure out which part I want to visit and make decisions on time. Thanks for the support! :)

[i12bmore.livejournal.com]

Had no idea you were taking this trip--have a blast!

[agusovsky.livejournal.com]

that is the problem, we may not have a blast in Rio because of the flood :( but we may go some other place.