A TikToker said she accidentally booked flights for the wrong country, prompting hoards of viewers to send tips and encourage her to go anyway
TikTok: @sophealice, Sophie Alice
- A TikToker said she accidentally bought flights to Bucharest instead of Budapest in a viral video.
- Hundreds of viewers gave the TikToker recommendations on where to visit in the Romanian capital.
- She told viewers she and her friend decided to go to Bucharest after all, and "it was great."
A TikToker went viral after she said she and her friend accidentally booked flights to the wrong city, confusing Bucharest in Romania with Budapest in Hungary.
On March 4, a TikToker who goes by SophAlice shared a video that showed a crowd of people appearing to queue in an airport, before showing a screen that said "Bucharest" on the display. The on-screen caption of the upload read, "When you thought you had booked flights to Budapest," alongside a video caption that read, "They sound similar right," and pinned Stansted Airport in London as the location.
The video used a popular TikTok sound that repeats the word "shit" as the creator lip syncs, often used to denote finding themselves in an unfortunate situation.
The upload received 4.3 million views and attracted over 870 comments, many of which informed the TikToker they were still heading to a great location. "Honestly, Bucharest is nicer than Budapest," one viewer wrote which received 4,800 likes. "Romania is the most underrated place, of all the cities I've been to - there is so much to do there! It happened for a reason," another comment read which received 292 likes.
Others provided the TikToker with specific recommendations of places to visit when they landed, ranging from a thermal spa to Bran Castle which may have been the inspiration for Bram Stoker's "Dracula" castle, about three hours north of the city.
In a follow-up video posted on March 5, the creator said she'd received many comments asking whether she and her friend still went on the trip. "Yes we went, of course we went and it was great," she said in response.
In a series of further videos, the creator shared some of the locations they had spent time in during their trip to Bucharest which included a visit to Bran Castle.
SopheAlice has 674 followers on TikTok where she shares travel uploads, which include a former visit to Budapest, and thrifting videos.
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