The End of The Trip and Start of the Story

Most stories start at the beginning but this one starts at the end of a fantastic romantic weekend getaway to Istanbul with my Finnish girlfriend.

Upon arriving back at Istanbul's airport with the intention of returning to Helsinki, where we live, we immediately were greeting by the in itself unpleasant site of seeing that our flight had been cancelled. We took the usual steps of walking around the airport trying to find out information and eventually discovering that as Malev had gone bankrupt they would not be flying anyone home.

Of course the expected questions arrive, what are we supposed to do? what should we do, how are we going to do that?

As we could not get home that day we decided to go back to the hotel. Upon arrival at the hotel we thought it best to call IF's emergency number to see what we should do.

During the phone call we were led to believe that IF would pay for the return flights and additional night in the hotle as well as other costs. With this in mind we relaxed booked quite expensive flights the next day so that we could get home faster and checked back into our very nice hotel in Istanbul.

End of a lovely trip to Istanbul

With this in mind we simply relaxed and enjoyed what remained of an additional day in Istanbul, went to bed and returned to Finland the next day.

After returning home we made the travel insurance claim through IF's web service and this is where the plot began to thicken.