Just a little Adventure
Sometimes you make your own adventure....whether you wish to or not.
In purchasing bus tickets from Santa Marta I wanted to use my newer credit card (sign up miles bonus) but the young clerk wasn´t use to chip credit cards (What, no pin!). So the transaction lasted 15 minutes or so with a lot of tries. Once complete we left for the bus....not knowing we left credit card back at ticket counter.
All is fine on the bus, a fairly new Volvo with seating to compare to Air First Class. The conductor comes back with his cell phone with someone one the phone who wishes to talk with me. My spanish is not good, in Santa Marta they talk FAST and it happens passenger behind me knows Spanish and English so he takes phone and explains that they have card and will send it on next bus to our destination so stay at terminal for 2 hours after arrival to pick it up.
So far, so good. But at 9PM second bus is in and no one knows about credit card. Come back tomorrow.
Next day we return to bus terminal (figured out how to use their bus service) and same lady who tried to help last night was there....after about 30 minutes and her frustration increased ( not at us...at her workers) it was discovered in the parcel part of the bus station since it had been sent as a package (separate service) and not with the driver. All´s well, no unauthorized charges on it and everyone happy.
Back to the city bus, I needed to add funds to the Metroline card necessary to ride the transit system. Resorted to asking at every booth until they started pointing in a different direction. Turns out the only place to add to the card is the Information booth which is not signed as such. But it works when you find it!
In purchasing bus tickets from Santa Marta I wanted to use my newer credit card (sign up miles bonus) but the young clerk wasn´t use to chip credit cards (What, no pin!). So the transaction lasted 15 minutes or so with a lot of tries. Once complete we left for the bus....not knowing we left credit card back at ticket counter.
All is fine on the bus, a fairly new Volvo with seating to compare to Air First Class. The conductor comes back with his cell phone with someone one the phone who wishes to talk with me. My spanish is not good, in Santa Marta they talk FAST and it happens passenger behind me knows Spanish and English so he takes phone and explains that they have card and will send it on next bus to our destination so stay at terminal for 2 hours after arrival to pick it up.
So far, so good. But at 9PM second bus is in and no one knows about credit card. Come back tomorrow.
Next day we return to bus terminal (figured out how to use their bus service) and same lady who tried to help last night was there....after about 30 minutes and her frustration increased ( not at us...at her workers) it was discovered in the parcel part of the bus station since it had been sent as a package (separate service) and not with the driver. All´s well, no unauthorized charges on it and everyone happy.
Back to the city bus, I needed to add funds to the Metroline card necessary to ride the transit system. Resorted to asking at every booth until they started pointing in a different direction. Turns out the only place to add to the card is the Information booth which is not signed as such. But it works when you find it!
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