Travel slip ups, what notable ones have you gone through?

Thankfully the vast majority of my trips are uneventful, safe and great memories, I dont get lost, I dont get cabs to the wrong hotel, usually take everything I need. But things still happen from time to time as they do.

But some memorable ones come to mind....

Rome - Trip went off without a hitch, itnerary planned, shuttle bus from the airport booked, no problem... except there was a problem, I somehow booked said bus from the wrong airport - Fiumcino airport, not Ciampino. Fairly quickly realised and booked the right one but yeah, travel brain I guess.

Budapest - bit of worse one here! (This is solo) After a pub crawl my phone died, which isnt a problem usually as Im always out with a power bank... which is also dead, thankfully not drunk but I now had to find my way back to my hostel on memory and asking kind strangers, some of whom spoke no English. You can imagine how this went, so fast forward maybe about 2 hours with directions and I found a hostel, phew.

Except this was the right hostel brand but wrong individual branch, funny looking back at it now (now at the time 🤣). So i repeated my efforts and did manage to find the right hostel maybe an hour later, the relief... safe and sound but note to self, never again.