{"id":134,"date":"2007-05-02T07:28:43","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T06:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2007-05-02T07:31:37","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T06:31:37","slug":"altogether-now-hostel-hotel-hostel-hotel-hostel-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"Altogether Now: Hostel, Hotel, Hostel, Hotel, Hostel, Hotel…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…see the difference between them? Of course you do. Can you please teach the Raging Thunder<\/a> team? Ta.<\/p>\n

Yes, despite getting up at 6am and feeling somewhat on the ker-nackered side, my 6:30am pick up to do the (supposedly awesome) Xtreme White Water Rafting didn’t turn up.<\/p>\n

In fact, one did. But when that one arrived at 6:35am it just drove past with the driver responding to my wave with a wave of hello on his way.<\/p>\n

By about 6:45am, I was beginning to wonder if, perhaps, that bus was, in fact, the one I should’ve got on.<\/p>\n

By about 7:10am I was almost certain.<\/p>\n

A phone call to Raging Thunder (along with insistance that the driver couldn’t’ve been waiting outside my accomodation for 5 minutes actually, as I’d been there since about 6:20am til 7:15am) later and it turns out that the driver had gone to the Cairns International Hotel. Yep, I’m at the Cairns International Hostel<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Their fault. They admitted they’d written it down wrong. That wasn’t much consolation for me at that time in the morning, but at least it meant I had time to catch up on blo-er, watch Squage catch up on blogs a bit.<\/p>\n

Also, as it turns out I’m coming back up this way to work in June, so I’ve now got the ticket open-dated and hence haven’t lost any money. So that’s good.<\/p>\n

I just wish I hadn’t got up at 6am to sit on a wall for an hour. Nevermind, eh?<\/p>\n

In other news, I’m now booked for my trip down south. It goes like this:<\/p>\n