HELP

We had booked our Royal Caribbean 13 day Mediterranean cruise in Feb. for our August '08 wedding. We were going to be leaving Sept 1st. FH is going to be starting nursing school that first week in Sept. We can't go anymore because he would probably fail for taking off his first 2 weeks of school. FH booked our flights through Expedia (flights were to and from Barcelona, Spain). Not a smart idea...BTW didn't know that was how he booked them. Expedia won't credit us for the flights. We have exactly one year from the month we booked the flights (Feb) to use them. We are getting married in Aug and have till Feb to use the flights! Who wants to go on a cruise to the Mediterranean in Dec (his winter break)??? I suggested canceling the flights and just losing the $2,000 and take our honeymoon the following summer. FH is totally against this. He rather take a similar cruise (destinations are so different from the original cruise..not to happy with the stops) than loose the $2,000. Plus on top of everything this new cruise that we would be taking leaves Dec 21st..WE WOULDN'T BE AROUND OUR FAMILIES FOR OUR 1ST CHRISTMAS! I told him that I rather loose the $2,000 than make that many sacrifices and spend about $8,000 on a trip I don't want to take. Both Iberia (Spain airline) and Expedia won't extend our credit. FH fought with them late last night. WHAT DO I DO? Sorry soo long..I'm so upset about this.

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Posted by JJC

well what are your trip options for December...where would you go?

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The thing is if we don't want to loose the $2,000 for the flights we can only go to Spain because we booked with Iberia. Otherwise if we could say forget the cruise all together and just go somewhere warm and sunny in December during his break, but FH andI really had our hearts set on the cruise.

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Posted by Annoulak

can you take a cruise in the next couple of months so as not to lose the $? Think of it as a pre-moon.

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Well to be honest--- FH and I have never been away together alone because my parents are really old-school Italians and frown on that sooo for 9 years out of respect for my parents we have never gone away. THAT IS WHY this is killing me

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Posted by Annoulak

Also, contact his school...they may be able to work something out with you...don't assume that he'll automatically fail before talking to them.

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I'm def. going to try that.