WDW Status Update

Well, we found The Boy's money. Or rather, the credit card found the debited amount. In confusing parlance that could only come from a financial institution trying to cover its ass, we were told that the money came off of The Boy's credit card and was given to WDW for about a nanosecond. Then, it disappeared into the ether (thus, WDW did not receive the funds). But that's not the best part. Apparently, another cardholder with an account number similar to The Boy's was also debited for the WDW funds - however, the debit was not visible to that cardholder. Basically, the credit card company took this stranger's money in addition to taking The Boy's, but NOTHING wound up getting to WDW.

Because of the trace initiated by The Boy (which took a week), both The Boy's account and the stranger's account have been credited back the amounts they were debited. However, that doesn't help with the trip we were supposed to take in 2 weeks. Even though The Boy has his credit card money back now, it's too late to reinstate our trip. Our room with a view is gone, along with all of our dining reservations.

After much fiddling around with dates and costs, we've decided to postpone our trip until next September. For our trouble, we are going to extend the trip to a 10 day excursion and rent a convertible so we can get to places like Sea World and Discovery Cove. This will give us plenty of time to pay it off in advance so we don't run into this situation again. But I'm sure something else will come up to block this next trip. Perhaps I'll contract typhoid fever.