The Titanic Awards

Name Clare Currie
Who? Publishing Director of Rough Guides
Age 38
Countries Visited 30+

Titanic Nominations
Worst Airport Experience I was trying to go to Edinburgh for one day for a funeral of someone I didn’t know very well.  Got snowed in at Luton airport — no one was allowed to leave the boarding area so we spent the night there with an Irish/Scottish/Polish cocktail of  tired and emotional  travelers. I missed the funeral, so I didn’t want to get on the flight when it finally left. The kicker was that EasyJet  didn’t want to reimburse me for the return ticket because they said I  could have figured out another  way to get to Edinburgh by bus or train, despite quite clearly being trapped in Luton
Worst Kind of Hotel Not fond of B&Bs.  It’s harsh but I don’t think a single sane person runs a B&B.  And who could possibly enjoy being forced to exchange pleasantries with strangers over a fried egg?
Worst Flight Sri Lankan Airlines. We were on our honeymoon.  One man was behaving suspiciously  and it transpired he was shooting video of  some cockroaches  he’d found, so he could post it online.  The apparent death of another passenger – heralded by a great, rattling last gasp for breath – served to distract our attention from the infestation issue, but didn’t improve our general enjoyment of the flight.
Worst Airport Frankfurt is pretty bad… mostly because there are no seats. And they have the most aggressive security guards I’ve encountered. I had to redo the whole long security queue because I touched my bag too soon after it was scanned. Who knew there was a time restriction?
Worst Visitor Experience The Red Fort in Delhi – not in itself a bad place to visit – but the body search at the gate was more than a little hair-raising. Not sure what they thought I may have been hiding in the region of my bra, but they were thorough in their investigations.

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