Two South African fans looking for their hotel in the Wellington suburb of Eastbourne discovered they had actually booked accommodation in the British seaside town of the same name almost 12,000 miles away. Local shop owner Linda Burke broke the news to Michael and Sunette Adendorff after the pair asked her for directions. Burke said Michael Adendorff, who made the online booking, told her he thought it was strange when the hotel charged him in pounds sterling not New Zealand dollars. Burke generously put them up in her own home for two nights and took them to a pub to watch the World Cup opening ceremony on Friday, before the the South African duo watched the Springboks’ 17-16 victory against Wales.

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he thought it was strange when the hotel charged him in pounds sterling not New Zealand dollars

and from this day forth he shall be known as “40-watt” Adendorff

it’s not that ridiculous…he might have just assumed the hotel booking website was in the UK.

Ehhhh?

Did they not start to wonder when they arrived at a ramshackle, miserable, grey concrete airport terminal, surrounded by don’t do this or you’ll be prosecuted signs….

Did they not start to wonder when they arrived at a ramshackle, miserable, grey concrete airport terminal, surrounded by don’t do this or you’ll be prosecuted signs….

Ehhhh? Didn’t you read the post- they flew into Wellington, not Heathrow.

Reminiscent of the honeymooning couple a while back who ended up in Sydney, Canada.

Or the taxi driver who took someone to a football match at Stamford Bridge and ended up just outside York…

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1583778/Satnav-takes-Earls-daughter-to-wrong-Stamford-Bridge.html

Or the Syrian lorry driver who typed Gibraltar into his satnav and ended up at Gibraltar Point nr Grimsby instead of the rock.
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Posted 4 hours ago # Report-Postvinnyeh – Member

Did they not start to wonder when they arrived at a ramshackle, miserable, grey concrete airport terminal, surrounded by don’t do this or you’ll be prosecuted signs….

Ehhhh? Didn’t you read the post- they flew into Wellington, not Heathrow.

I read it as them flying into the UK as well, because if they had flown into NZ, why didn’t they have match tickets rather than watching it in the pub? (Although as you say, it does say ‘the Wellington suburb of Eastbourne’!)