A gran who thought she was flying out to Slovenia for her grandson's wedding ended up 680 miles away in Poland after a passport control mix-up.
Joe Winter, 89, and her daughter Hayley Vickery, 58, checked into Luton Airport on April 9 for their Wizz Air flight to the Slovenian capital Ljabljana.
The pair, from Swansea, were heading to the central European country to attend the wedding of Mrs Winter's grandson, Aaron, in Lake Bled.
Before boarding the plane, they said they chatted with an airport staff member about Slovenia before showing an air steward their boarding passes, according to Wales Online.
But it was only once they had touched down and made their way to passport control that a guard told them that they were actually in Poznań, Poland.
Ms Vickery said: "We showed our passports at the gate and they asked if we had been to Poland before. I said 'yes why?' It was because we were in Poznań."
The other half of their party, who were on the right plane, learned mid-flight that Joe and Hayley weren't sitting in the designated disability access zone, the Mirror reports.
It led to a frantic 24 hours and hundreds of pounds spent by Ms Vickery to try and figure out how to get to Slovenia in time for her son's wedding only two days later.
Ms Vickery added: "It was all stress. We were away for a week in total and Wizz Air still haven't been in touch. My mother was terrible. She didn't have her medication and was without it from the Saturday to the Tuesday. Everybody was besides themselves."
With their options limited, they decided to stay the night in Poznań before jumping in a £270 taxi to Warsaw, where they boarded a flight to Ljubljana which had cost them close to £700.
There, they were reunited with their luggage including wedding outfits, which had been taken off the Wizz Air flight in Luton.
Ms Vickery said: "We have had no contact with Wizz Air at all.
"In a really volatile Europe we were boarded onto a plane to Poland and no one knew where we were. We were close to the border with Ukraine.
"I would like Wizz Air to apologise and explain what happened, and a full refund."
Wizz Air has been contacted for comment.
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