An expensive ‘free trip’

A couple of years ago, we were lucky enough to have an amazing time getting a Hurtigruten ferry up the coast of Norway. The trip itself was fantastic, but what wasn’t so great was that KLM cancelled one of our return flights at the last moment. This was not the first nor the last time we’d had issues with KLM flights. In their defence they were quite helpful in rebooking our journey home, but it did mean that we were delayed by a day getting back. As such, we were able to claim compensation. As per their guidelines, we could have claimed a certain amount as a direct cash refund, but we could get more if we accepted KLM vouchers. We thought we may as well go for the vouchers, as they are valid for a year to make the booking and we were sure we’d use them.

Well, I was able to use my voucher getting myself and my parents back and forth from the UK to Luxembourg, but Radka ended up not having any reason to take KLM flights. So it was getting to the point where they were going to run out and we decided that we should just book somewhere. We looked ahead and my work was giving me a ‘bridging day’ to connect the Europe Day public holiday on the Thursday to the weekend. This seemed like a perfect opportunity for a little city break. So, surely it wouldn’t be that hard to find a reasonable flight to somewhere we hadn’t been before using KLM? Well it turns out, yes, yes it would… Flights are just really expensive at the moment, and tickets for two people certainly wouldn’t be covered by the one voucher. And we didn’t want to pay too much just for a little break. So it took quite a bit of searching until we found a reasonable flight, which happened to be to Oslo via Amsterdam. Once we found this option, it seemed like a perfect choice given how we got the voucher in the first place. Like returning to the scene of the crime. So, if you’d like to see what we got up to in Oslo back in May, then please click to read on…