Bah Humbug!
My Christmas surprise?
A phone call from booking.com this morning advising me that my reservation for the 8 day stay at the Super 8 in Appleton during EAA Oshkosh 2017 has been 'altered'. The motel now says they 'made a mistake' and the rate will NOT be the $64 per day as quoted and confirmed 4 months ago.... it will $200 per day, and my options were to accept it or cancel the reservation. I suggested they were out of their minds and to obviously cancel. This is literally the same bait and switch a mom-n-pop motel near Oshkosh pulled on me last year.
I did send off a nasty-gram to Wyndham Resorts corporate that owns the Super 8 chain explaining my total dissatisfaction with their business practices. I expect no response or resolution from them if course.
Ho-Ho-Ho and Jack Frost roasting on an open fire.
Super 8 Appleton can go do something anatomically impossible.
The sole saving grace is that I did have the foresight to have a back-up reservation at a tiny joint some 50 miles away so I can still be a Tram volunteer again next year.