do any of you bother to confirm your flights anymore?

if you ve booked your hotel months in advance do you ever ask your travel agent to remind them about you before you leave?

ever wish youve had?

C

I book all my flights online and they email me if there are any changes. You can also have reminders and notification of changes text messaged to you. I've never reconfirmed a hotel and never had a problem. I know many people here do always.

Yes, yes, always! Got my reservations messed up twice. All it takes is just a few minutes to open a website or to call an 800 number.

I just spent an unwanted extra 3 days in Shanghai, courtesy China Eastern Airlines, for failing to reconfirm at least 72 hours before departure. I'll certainly be reading the fine print in future at the very least.

We always reconfirm. It has paid off now and then.

Yes both flights and hotels, especially if they were booked more than a month in advance. Its paid off several times.

Having arrived at CDG a few years ago only to find that my flight had been canceled, and there were no other options for getting home that day, yes, I now confirm all flights.

I don't use a travel agent, and I've never reconfirmed a hotel. But I don't usually make reservations for anything more than a month or two in advance.

I always call hotels directly to book, then fax them my request and ask them to fax back. I take their fax confirmation with me on the trip in case there's a problem when I arrive at the hotel.

Yes, for both my hotels and airlines. The few minutes it takes to do this outweighs the possibility of a screw up that could make your vacation a hassle.

I always confirm hotels and usually confirm flights for the flight to my destination, but hardly ever bother to confirm flights for the trip back.

No matter how they have been made, I always reconfirm flight, hotel, restaurant and car rental reservations.
The fact that you never had a problem doesn't mean that you won't. I can never understand a person's reluctance to spend a mere minute or two to reconfirm for a little piece of mind.

I always re-confirm international flights -- domestic sort of depends on the situation.

Many airlines say re-confirming is no longer needed -- but I've had enough minor (no major, thank heavens) schedule/flight changes to know confirming is important.

I confirm everything, including dinner reservations and beauty appointments. Time is money and my time is precious to me. I can handle surprises and I'm typically armed with a Plan B but that doesn't mean I enjoy it when a wrench suddenly appears from nowhere.

I usually book airline flights so far in advance that most of the time the airline contacts me about a change in the schedule. That in itself becomes my confirmation.

After arriving at my first destination of the trip, I always confirm any flights to other destinations and the return flight to home. That's mostly because there is usually no way for the airline to contact me if the schedule changes while I'm traveling.

I have never confirmed a hotel reservation. I always get a confirmation number upon making the reservation. The only time there has been an issue is when a hotel in Ireland decided to upgrade (for no explained reason) us to a much nicer sister hotel that was nearby. They were also kind enough to let us know this before we got our bags out of the car. I wish I had more of those issues to contend with.

I no longer confirm my reservations but I get on the airline's website the day before to make sure flight times have not changed (it happened once and or twice and I haven't been notified by the airline).

Hi cc,

Last week I had flights from Sacramento to Los Angeles to Tucson.

I checked the computerized flight schedules the night before, all "on time".

The next morning, I called. My Sacramento to LAX fight was delayed 40 min.

Fortunately, my LAX/TUS flight was delayed an hour.

Yes, always, after American AA changed my flight times (both ways) to Paris from Miami, and didn't notify me. Maybe they would have, but I found out about it before they did. I had planned a train trip to CDG the same day of my flight home, so this caused me to change my plans.

Several years ago following a holiday in Scotland we arrived at Gatwick at 11:45 am with what we thought was loads of time for our 3:15 pm flight only to find it had been cancelled and we had been put on the earlier flight that left at 12:00 noon. Needless to say we didn't make it. American Airlines didn't inform us of this change. Yes I wish I had reconfirmed. Luckily there were 2 available seats on the flight the next day.

Yes I now reconfirm on flights and hotels but haven't bothered with car hire. Perhaps I need to rethink that.

Sandy

I wish I had this last time we flew out of NY. We drove from CT-got stuck in 3 hours of traffic (only moved 2 miles in 3 hrs). When we got the La Guardia-we were told that they flight had been cancelled. What was most upsetting is that I called American Airlines to let them know I was probably going to miss the flight and the woman NEVER mentioned that the flight was cancelled. Once we got there-we were told sorry and that the next flight out would be the next day at 7am. We weren't even offered a hotel voucher or anything. We spent 14 hrs at the aiport. I think the AA rep should have told me but from now on, I will call to confirm my reservations (car, air, hotel, etcc...)

I always confirm. Better safe than sorry and it only takes a few minutes but may save many!

No, I don't do either. It may depend what you call "confirming" as what some posters are referring to is just checking shortly before departure what the latest schedule is. I think that is a good idea. I do that online, but I don't call up on the telephone to an airline to tell them I am "re-confirming" by reservation. It's too much trouble and airlines don't really want you to do that because it takes up their time. Maybe the poster above had different rules on some Asian flight, and you should check rules, but no airline I've flown in US or Europe requires you to re-confirm. In fact, I just flew RT US to/from Mexico and the airline specifically said in the information on the e-ticket that there was no need for re-confirmation.

I've never reconfirmed a hotel and never had a problem, but I have specific reservations in writing (FAX or email), guaranteed by a credit card. I do check directly with a hotel to make sure a reservation is made a few days after I book a hotel if I do it through some other web site booking agent, but I don't ever re-confirm a hotel after that.

I don't use travel agents and this is one reason why -- if you have to call and tell a travel agent to do something, they aren't doing their job and why are they getting paid -- just my opinion.