A few years ago, a friend and I were making plans for a fishing trip to Cabo. Couple of other guys wanted to go and wanted to fish for Marlin 2 days. I bookedthe boat , and told them to get their own Hotel and plane res. On Thursday night, before Saturday departure, these 2 other guys cancel out. They lost the cost of their "non-refundable" plane tickets and hotel deposit. When we got back, we made them pay for 1/2 of the 2-day boat charter too!!!!!!
The "rest of the story." The cause of the pullout was one guy's girlfriend said she would leave him if the went to Cabo for 3 days without her, and the second guy said his daughter got F's on her last report card????. Irony was we caught no fish the first day, and the Chair Pedestal broke the second day - but we caught 3 sailfish and three 50-60# Yellowfin tuna! The owner of the boat took 1/3 off the 2-day total (plus my customary 10% off). $400/day = $800 - 80 - 240 = $480. We collected $400 from the wimps, so we fished a 31' Bertram for $20/day each!!!!
Nice trip!