A quick update on my stupidity... and my $400 mistake.
so tonight I boarded my plane to Berlin. With a quick 45 minute layover in Zurich. Everything was peachy and I was able to leisurely make my way through Heathrow to my plane. After being in the plane some time, they served dinner. Come to find out they had given away all of the vegetarian food already. So I didnt eat... no biggie right? Ill just eat at the airport in between flights. Or the next flight should have food too... So I check the screen and the only flight to berlin is in the other terminal. So I rush over and go through security again where they dump my entire bag out to see its contents. And then I run over to the gate to realize it was an AirBerlin flight and my flight is back in the terminal I just left. And I had 5 minutes to catch my plane. So I missed it, no big deal. I go to the ticketing counter and tell them my situation and I find out that it was the last flight out. For any airline. And my ticket is non transferable. The woman was very helpful and got me set up with a hotel in the airport and let me know where i could get decent priced tickets the next morning. We locate my luggage and I head down with instructions on how to get back in. I explain my situation to security and he tells me to come back to the 1st gate when I get my bag and they will let me back in to get to the hotel in the airport. He even says if they give me any trouble, to have them talk to him. I grab my bag and then wander back to the window where I am told I cant come in. That I cant bring my bags back in and I am not allowed in the airport with it. I tell him that the other man said I could and he was very mean and told me to wait and huffed away. While I am waiting for him to come back a very drunk man stumbles to me and starts asking me questions. Fairly shortly after he tried to sneak back into the terminal. They grabbed him and immediately put him into a holding cell right next to me. weird! So the mean man and another man walk out of the room and the other man asks me what is going on. I explain my situation again, on the verge of tears, and he says oh! no problem let me help you. And proceeds to walk me and my bags almost all the way to the hotel. I check in and the man tells me the restaurants in the airport are open until 1030. It is 9 by this point so I make a run for it. None of them are open. Not even a store with snacks is open. Not even Burger King. Yes I was hungry enough to eat there. After coming back to the hotel defeated I find a vending machine where a bag of chips I tried to purchase got stuck. UGH. So I ended up with BBQ chips. So gross, and definitely not dinner. Now I am sitting in this semi crappy room in an airport. It is a box, no windows with tile floors and a shared bathroom. So much for my sweet hotel room for the night all by myself. Oh well, tomorrow morning at 820 I will get on a flight to berlin. And then I am looking for a burrito. It will be glorious.