Horrible airline
Horrible airline. Never ever using them again and they have now scarred us for layovers on any trips, since every single layover we had with them went wrong.
Flew from Vancouver to Portugal for our honeymoon and on the flight to Porto from Lisbon, there was an hour long delay for weather I think. We got to Porto late, but had a nice time while there. On our way to our next destination, Spain, we had another flight with TAP that was also delayed by 2 hours. This caused us to miss the car that we had booked to drive us an hour to our next hotel. So we had to scramble to find a taxi to drive us, which costed a lot more. For our flight home after Spain, we had a layover booked in Toronto overnight. So we booked a hotel to sleep at. When we get to the airport for our first flight home, we sit there for 4 hours with no information other than the flight is delayed and they are figuring it out. They ended up having to put everyone from that flight up in a hotel for the night and rebooked us on new flights for the next day. They did pay for a free dinner too, which was the only nice thing they did. The next morning, we got rebooked for a 6am flight, with a layover now in Amsterdam instead. And it was now too late to cancel the Toronto hotel, so we lost the money on that. We had also uphraded our seats to get more legroom and were originally in the front of the plane, and they had now moved us to the back of the plane, where we were surrounded by children who kept kicking our seats and climbing around and screaming. We get on the plane and this flight is also an hour and a half late leaving, so we have to endure these children for even longer, and they are awful to be around.
So when we arrive in Amsterdam, we are at the very back of the plane and now have to push to the front, telling everyone we have a very tight layover, luckily everyone let us to the front. We ran for 10 mins across the huge Amsterdam airport to our next flight. We arrived just as they were boarding, only to be told by the people at the gate that we were not on that flight. TAP had rebooked us, without telling us, on a flight home from Portugal, which is ridiculous because they had just put us on a flight from Portugal to Amsterdam, so idk why they thought we were still there. So we spent an hour trying to find our bags, and try and figure out refunds and get them to help us get home. We were able to get the airport to book us on the same flight the next day, so we were stuck in Amsterdam for 24 hours and now had to pay for another hotel for the night. Also, when we finally got our bags, they were soaking wet and some of our items were ruined. We did have a nice night in Amsterdam and stayed in a nice hotel, but TAP ruined our honeymoon. Took 2 months to get a refund for all of this, including the hotel we lost money on and the hotel we had to book because of them. Never ever ever book with them. They will ruin any trip you take with them and the people who work at their call centre are useless and dont give a shit about you.
7 October 2024
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