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Vacation Experience Essay

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Have you ever been on a vacation to paradise that turned out to be a nightmare? That was the experience we had on our first foreign vacation as a family. We had been to Florida’s wonderful beaches many times during my childhood but then decided that we wanted to change things up a bit. We pondered where we wanted to go for our vacation and decided that it was a good idea to go talk with a travel agent. She recommended many destinations, but we decided on Cancun, Mexico. We looked over the booklet that the travel agent gave us and saw many resorts that looked nice. As a family, we discussed the resorts and decided on one. It was an all-inclusive resort called the Iberostar. The Iberostar was rated a six star gold resort, which is the highest rating that it could get from Apple Vacations. It was also a little bit cheaper, which was appealing to us. We booked the vacation with our travel agent for early July and began to get excited about it. July 1st came around fast and we were packed and ready to go. Our nonstop flight was scheduled to leave early morning on July 2nd, at least that’s what we thought. We arrived at the airport 2 hours before our flight’s scheduled departure time and stood in the check-in line for over 45 minutes. We flew with a budget airline, which turned out to be a mistake. Once we got to the check-in counter, we were informed by the attendant that our flight was delayed two hours. This did not make us happy, but there was nothing we could do about
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