My wife read the itinerary wrong so we missed our flight to Vienna. New flights cost a combined 450 Euros. Yes, flights, as none of today’s flights to Vienna have 2 available seats. We fly three hours apart. Man, I am really upset. This is the second time my wife has read departure times incorrectly while in a foreign country, and the second time we had to buy expensive same day tickets.
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Really sorry to hear your troubles. Hope it all works out OK.
I travel a fair bit and am completely anal about schedules. Even then, things occasionally go wrong.
It won’t help now, but as this is the second time your wife has made a scheduling error, perhaps from now on a double-check from you is in order.
All the best.
I know this sucks. However, let me point out the obvious that the 2 of you both need to triple check all the travel arrangements. Missing flights is a lot worse than reconfirming too many times. 
At least there’s somewhat decent establishments at Schiphol - try the Italian if it’s still there!
I can’t believe no one has suggested that you check the itinerary yourself.
Your wife is obviously defective, and you should order a new one from the manufacturer.
Hell’s, he got time to take the train into Amsterdam and just get a new one there.
Bigger question: How does one misread an itinerary and miss a flight? Were the flight connections booked incorrectly? Were you staying in the Netherlands for a few days and then missed your flight? Are you lazy and rely totally on your wife to direct you from place to place?
Yeah, there is no way I’m doing any traveling without having my own copy of the itinerary that I have personally confirmed.
Before we married my wife took my surname so that everything would match on our first childs birth certificate. She used the deed poll to change her name on everything: bank accounts, drivers licence, tax returns etc.
About a year later I booked us a romantic trip to venice, just the two of us with the kid left with grandparents. She’d been using my name on everything for quite a while by then so I didn’t even think twice when I booked the flights.
We get to the airport and discover that the name on the ticket doesn’t match the name in her passport. There wasn’t enough time to get home and find the deed poll and get back in time for the flight so I tried to buy a new ticket. The flight was fully booked but they could sell me the same seat again, seeing as my wife wouldn’t be using it. But that would mean a cancellation charge for the original seat in order to free it up. Bottom line is that the new seat ended up costing almost twice the original fare for both of us plus the cost of the hotel combined.
I’m normally quite chatty on airplanes, but I did not say a word until we got to the hotel for fear of exploding and taking the whole plane with me! By the time we got to the hotel, I could almost see the funny side.
At least Schiphol’s decent. I recently spent 10+ hours overnight in Heathrow. I won’t go into details but suffice to say it was a miserable, Pit-worthy visit.
Guess someone has lost the job of " In Charge of the Itinerary"
I realize that if you are flying standby, just waiting for the next open seat, you obviously can’t get up and go anywhere, but if you have a fixed amount of time to kill, Schiphol is golden, as you can literally get from the airport right into A’Dam’s Centraal Station in about 20 minutes.
10+ hours stuck in any airport is something out of Dostoyevsky or Kafka…
At the time, I described it as “In the Mouth of Madness meets Brazil.”