Talk about a big mistake. A man planning to propose accidentally booked the wrong destination and ended up in a ghost town.
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28-year-old James Cox was ready to make the plunge with his girlfriend, Chloe Hutchinson. He planned a romantic one-night getaway to Frankfurt, Germany. The only problem is that he booked a plane ticket for Frankfurt Hahn Airport, which was 80 miles away.
"I was in complete shock, I had no idea what to do. It completely threw all of my plans out the window," Cox said via People. "As we were flying, Chloe could see fields and not a city at all, but I was asleep [on the plane] so I had no clue."
Trip to a Ghost Town
"When we got off the plane, I was looking around and it was a really small, quiet airport and there was no one there. I started panicking,' Cox recalled. "We decided to check Uber to see if we could get a taxi ... My face just dropped [when] Chloe said we were 80 miles away from Frankfurt."
As you can imagine, the man had a meltdown after landing in the town of Lautzenhausen, Germany. It was basically a ghost town and not the romantic getaway he planned.
"I was so upset I didn't know what to do. I've never made a mistake with booking things, and I felt absolutely sick," he told Kennedy News. "We didn't see anyone while we were walking through the town. We were having to walk past all these factories and this derelict town. We've never been anywhere so quiet in all of our lives."
But determined to continue forward with his plan, he proposed at an Italian restaurant in the small ghost town. It's a story they will never forget.
"It made it even more special," Hutchinson told Kennedy News. "It was something memorable and silly and I don't think it could be more us."
