The City of Cambridge had a bit of fun over the weekend with a social media post from a UK based broadcast journalist who posted on Twitter that he mistakenly booked a hotel room in Cambridge, Ontario for a weekend in June instead of Cambridge, UK.
"Turns out it is Cambridge in CANADA. A totally different continent," he wrote after receiving confirmation from the Travelodge by Wyndham Cambridge on Hespeler Road.
The post garnered over 750,000 views from around the world, thousands of "likes" and hundreds of replies and retweets, including one from the City of Cambridge Twitter account.
The city responded by saying, "Sorry to hear your dilemma @chrisgolds! This is quite a situation eh? Don’t be too hard on yourself though! Could happen to anyone! For future reference there’s also a Paris, London and even Scotland Ontario!"
The thread went on to suggest the mistake could end up being a happy accident and encouraged Golds to visit our city when he had a chance.
"Cambridge ON is a beautiful place if I do say so myself! Shows like Handmaids Tale and Queen’s Gambit were filmed here! We are also home to Canada’s oldest hockey arena and the famous BlackBerry was invented in our region!"
"Contrary to what many think, our summers are warm eh so no need to pack a toque in that knapsack of yours!"
The city offered Timbits "on us" if he made the trek.
His reply, "This is so cute. I'm 100% coming to Cambridge ASAP!"
Others commiserated with Golds on his mistake, saying they've had similar travel mix-ups before.
😂 I once booked tickets to see Celine Dion in Stockholm but then months later then it came to book accommodation and flights had somehow convinced myself it was in Copenhagen so booked there, for a totally different weekend. Wrong weekend and wrong city 🤷🏼♂️😂
— G’sus 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 (@G_AshDog) May 27, 2023
