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My Expedia / Air Canada Vacations / Hotel Xcaret Mexico Adventure

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I recently had a very unpleasant experience involving my long-awaited vacation and, specifically, my dealings with Expedia, Air Canada Vacations and the Hotel Xcaret near Cancun, Mexico. I hope you will bear with me while I try to summarize the issues I had as completely and accurately as possible. Tl;dr version: -          We were bumped less than three days before departure -         The alternatives were all downgrades not upgrades -         I spent hours on the phone (mostly on hold) and on Twitter with Expedia playing broken telephone with Air Canada Vacations for what should have been a 5-minute process -         We received no financial compensation despite assurances -         The only compensation that we have been offered requires us to spend another thousand dollars to obtain -   ...

Twitter conversation with Expedia & Air Canada Vacations

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Here's the DM conversation with Air Canada Vacations: maddening. (booking reference removed) And here's my DM conversation with Expedia: (private info removed) Any help appreciated. Obviously (private info removed) fyi I am reachable at (phone number removed) as well if