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Juliet Dennis reports from Bahamas Flavour's fam trip to Nassau...

As most travel agents would no doubt agree, no fam trip would be complete without a few hitches along the way.

But none of our party of agents expected it to get off to a such a flying start when we arrived in lovely hot Nassau in the Bahamas on tour operator Bahamas Flavour's first educational trip for the trade.

We spent an hour in the arrivals hall waiting for luggage (thank God, only the Caribbean would have a bar next to the carousel serving up rum punch for us needy Brits), and then discovered one of our bags (and it would be the bright red one) had not turned up.

Poor Helen, from Universal Reservations travel agency, put on a brave face but even her patience was tested when the lady at the British Airways desk said she would file a report but there was very little she could do as she didn't have a phone. No phone? No computer? ...where are we?!!

After a bit of detective work we found a similar bag to Helen's with a different name on it - and concluded that another holidaymaker has walked off with her bag.

And so the search begins. Helen is now off at another resort, with our fantastic host Kim from Bahamas Flavour at her side, who is determined to track down the naughty Brit who picked up her bag.

(We have it on good authority from Jane, from Global Star Travel, that the party who have picked up Helen's bag were getting into the holiday spirit on board the flight and have already had a few drinks...)

Let's hope she finds it - the other scenario is that the bag's stayed on the BA flight and has gone to Turks and Caicos for the week. We all like to buy a few new clothes on holiday, but a whole new wardrobe?

Meanwhile, the hotel's business centre is shut on Sundays and it's taken me 40 minutes to find an Internet cafe (via a vast casino that is like a mini-Vegas, and I nearly got lost in there alone) and then the computer wouldn't accept my work American Express card... looks like I'll be needing a few rum punches myself later.

Juliet Dennis, chief reporter