I booked a non-refundable trip around a visa I did not have
🇮🇳 India · ✈️ Travel · 30-39
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Collective insight
What people learned about travel
Observations aggregated from 1 mistakes submitted to this archive. Not research — just what people told us it cost them.
1
Mistakes
€4,100
Money lost
€4,100
Average when money was lost
1
Countries
What keeps repeating
visa1travel1planning1
The most expensive of them
The lessons
Book the paperwork before you book the plane. Optimism is not a travel document.
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The mistakes behind them
I booked a non-refundable trip around a visa I did not have
🇮🇳 India · ✈️ Travel · 30-39
What happened
I assumed the visa was a formality and booked flights and hotels for a family of four. The visa took eleven weeks. We lost everything except the flights.
What it cost€4,100Time lost3 weeksEmotional costHumiliating
What I learned
Book the paperwork before you book the plane. Optimism is not a travel document.
❤️ 842 people learned from this