diff --git a/booking.paypal.inc b/booking.paypal.inc
index b3cfdcd..c3ebfdf 100644
--- a/booking.paypal.inc
+++ b/booking.paypal.inc
@@ -33,18 +33,16 @@ function _booking_paypal_ipn_verify($vars = array()) {
     ob_end_clean();
 
     if (preg_match('/VERIFIED/i', $info)) {
-	  watchdog('booking', 'Payment verification completed successfully: @info', array('@info' => $info));
+	    watchdog('booking', 'Payment verification completed successfully: @info', array('@info' => $info));
       return TRUE;
-    }		
-    else {
-	  watchdog('booking', 'Payment verification not successful: @info', array('@info' => $info));
+    }	else {
+	    watchdog('booking', 'Payment verification not successful: @info', array('@info' => $info));
       return FALSE;
     }
-  }
-  else {
-    watchdog('booking_paypal', 'Call to curl_exec() failed. url=@url vars=@vars', array(
-      '@vars' => print_r($vars, TRUE)
-      ), WATCHDOG_ERROR);
+		
+  } else {
+    watchdog('booking_paypal', 'Call to curl_exec() failed with error @error. vars=@vars', array(
+      '@vars' => print_r($vars, TRUE), '@error' => curl_error($ch)), WATCHDOG_ERROR);
     return FALSE;
   }
 }
@@ -58,9 +56,17 @@ function booking_paypal_ipn() {
 	
 	watchdog('booking', 'Payment notification received: @info', array('@info' => var_export($ipn, TRUE)));
 
-	if(!_booking_paypal_ipn_verify($ipn))
-		return;
-		
+	//verify the notification with paypal
+	if(!_booking_paypal_ipn_verify($ipn)) {
+		watchdog('booking', 'Payment verification did not succeed. Retrying.');
+		if(!_booking_paypal_ipn_verify($ipn)) {
+			return;					
+		} else {
+			watchdog('booking', 'Payment verification succeeded on second attempt.');
+		}
+	}
+
+	//if we're still exectuing then the verification was successful
 	
 	/*
 	if ($ipn['payment_status'] != 'Pending' && variable_get('booking_paypal_sandbox', 0) == 1) {