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OT: What's the biggest event(s) you had planned that was cancelled?

polycom said:
Lol this thread again. 11 weeks of business travel. My bachelor party, my fiancé bachelor party, her match day, her graduation, our wedding, and our honeymoon.
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That’s a winning list. Congratulations on the wedding.
 
polycom said:
Lol this thread again. 11 weeks of business travel. My bachelor party, my fiancé bachelor party, her match day, her graduation, our wedding, and our honeymoon.
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I’m sure your guests appreciate you canceling the wedding and not being put in the impossible situation of deciding to go or not.
 
Portugal June 1-12. My wife's family was excited to meet the new baby and see my 2 year old again. Our flight was officially cancelled on May 20 so we should be getting our refund soon. Planning on trying to negotiate four vouchers rather than the refund, since the kids fly free until 2 we only had to pay for two tickets, but my son turns two the week after we would have returned so we will have to buy him a ticket when we figure out when we can go again. Luckily we have a place to stay when there so we only had to worry about getting the flight money back.
 
A trip to Chicago (never been there) to see my cousin and her boyfriend before she graduated in May, cancelled. A wedding in VT first week of June, cancelled. A family trip with my in-laws to the Cape for my nephews 1st BDay, cancelled (my nephew and sister in law and her husband live in San Fran). However, we did book a long weekend for mid-July to Newport and my wife and I are also going to Myrtle Beach mid-August. ::knock on wood::
 
Kathy said:
I originally from White Plains - where in the area do they play?
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Saw them in the past at NJ Proghouse, NEARfest, and in Rye,
NY. Going forward, your guess is as good as mine.
 
the amount of fees that airbnb was stacking on top of the regular overnight expense was insane. You could book a $99 a night stay and there would be $75 worth of additional fees.
 
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30th wedding anniversary trip to Scotland all paid ... really bummed
 
Pawsox said:
Saw them in the past at NJ Proghouse, NEARfest, and in Rye,
NY. Going forward, your guess is as good as mine.
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I'll have to watch NJ Proghouse when they reopen - about an hour from.my son in Pequannock.
 
Early on, cancelled a mid March trip to visit my son in CA and his family (we are in CT) as well as using a time share week in Newport Beach. A big disappointment because my wife couldn’t do that kind of travel for the last 5 mos of 2019 due to chemo. We also travel a lot and the combo of her cancer causing us to cancel a Europe trip last Sept and now this that is stopping us from planning other travel has been a downer.
 
Not being able to travel for work has been a blessing and it's about to come around 180 degrees and be a punch in the face. Basically all 2020 business travel will compressed in to 5 1/2 months. I know my company isn't going to miss out on contractual obligations because some of us will have to travel a bunch. Already prepped the wife for me being gone quite a bit.
Other than that? Had a kid graduate HS a few weeks ago. Graduation ceremony has been delayed twice already and they are now shooting for mid-June commencement.
Had a June vacation set up to meet up with some friends for a get together. Had to cancel that since several of us would have potentially had to quarantine upon return.
Overall, not much of an inconvenience for me yet.
 
August_West said:
The best thing about corona? I hope it bankrupts every airbnb owner . Worst thing ever
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The original idea of finding a place to stay in a pinch was great but now they’re just as bad as hotels.
 
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August_West said:
The best thing about corona? I hope it bankrupts every airbnb owner . Worst thing ever
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Why? I can understand you hating it if you're a hotel owner but in my experience it's awesome for travelers.
 
4 weddings (2 I was best man in), trip to Portugal/Spain, bachelor party in SC, DMB at SPAC :(
 
Families get to DC during cherry blossom time.
Next spring.

UConn baseball games at new ballpark.

Brother's 60th. His daughters-in-law adore him. They planned a big bash with family and friends coming up from various states.

Crab feast in Annapolis.

All the summer guests are no longer coming through Labor Day.

Civil War battlefields tour in PA VA and MD
 
Chin Diesel said:
Not being able to travel for work has been a blessing and it's about to come around 180 degrees and be a punch in the face. Basically all 2020 business travel will compressed in to 5 1/2 months. I know my company isn't going to miss out on contractual obligations because some of us will have to travel a bunch. Already prepped the wife for me being gone quite a bit.
Other than that? Had a kid graduate HS a few weeks ago. Graduation ceremony has been delayed twice already and they are now shooting for mid-June commencement.
Had a June vacation set up to meet up with some friends for a get together. Had to cancel that since several of us would have potentially had to quarantine upon return.
Overall, not much of an inconvenience for me yet.
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Any of your type travel replaceable by, say, Zoom meetings? Some is and will impact air and hotel business from business travelers.
 
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cohenzone said:
Any of your type travel replaceable by, say, Zoom meetings? Some is and will impact air and hotel business from business travelers.
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We have had quarterly planning sessions replaced by Zoom meetings. Not that big a loss, we can do just as much via Zoom except for the info sessions in the bars. There were only a few people that I cared to spend time with anyway. The rest were done after a beer or two. Had some good sessions in Nashville and Denver and one was planned for Austin in March that was cancelled. We will probably never resume the number of meetings that we had.
 
cohenzone said:
Any of your type travel replaceable by, say, Zoom meetings? Some is and will impact air and hotel business from business travelers.
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Unfortunately no for a couple of reasons. Since part of my line in work is "engineering services" (Calling it training sounds wimpy), we do mostly hands on work with our customers showing them how to use new equipment and stuff. Safety aspect of trying to do it remotely and putting name on a certificate saying they are competent without hands on observation is a safety concern customers haven't been willing to overlook.
Also, getting computers from different networks and different security requirements with proprietary information is a real PITA when it comes to sharing information.

I was talking with one of my co-workers from my previous job last week. He had some time constrained stuff he had to do out on the west coast which required a group to travel out there. They needed high level approval from within his company to travel and high level approval from the customer. The team had to travel, quarantine for 14 days, do their work and upon home quarantine again. Basically losing 28 days total to get the work done.
 
March madness with my college friends in Vegas cancelled.
This August I have a bucket list trip to Grand Canyon mule ride down to phantom ranch. Not likely I know but hoping to that still goes on.
 
Big East Tournament. Bought 2 books from Xavier. Sucks. Every year I’ve tried to go something comes up. Maybe it’s just not meant to be.
 
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Our Summer Trip to CT
Ever getting my wife on a plane again will be a chore.
 
Duncan Idaho said:
Thats a biggie. Will you be replanning? or very private thing going forward?
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Both sort of. Keeping the original date for the ceremony w/ a few people and moving the actual reception to April of next year.
 
Three week tour of Italy, Greece and the Balkans over Xmas/NY.
 
PAHusky said:
My wedding
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Sorry to hear about your wedding.

I understand your wedding was cancelled/postponed, but did you still get married? You know Justice of the Peace or something similar.

I'm married but I could see my wife hell bent on still making it official regardless of an audience. Not that I was a great catch, but her grandmother told her some stupid stuff like I wouldn't 'buy the cow if the milk was free'. Her grandmother was a big influence in her life, even with her mother around.

Sucks because the powdered milk was ruining our my romance, plus the ultimatum came. In her defense it was going on 5 years, but still I was angry at her grandmother for ruining a good thing.

(Sorry for the story, just that you brought back a memory from 40+ years ago.)
 
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