Family of 4 with 15kg luggage allowance each - separate cases?

stephb34

Thomas Cook airlines definitely let you pool your luggage and you are allowed upto 32kg per suitcase and 5kg per person of hand luggage which you cant pool together. The hand luggage is def 5kg each per bag per person and only 1 piece, if your a woman you can't have a handbag and a travel bag seperately you need to be able to fit the handbag in the travel bag. Just be careful to check which airline you are travelling with as you may have booked a Thomas Cook holiday but they may be contracted out to a different airline ie BMI Baby, Easyjet etc in which case Bmi let you have 18kg each and can pool weight and 10kg of hand luggage but easyjet let you have 20kg each but you cant pool it together (well you couldnt when i last went with a few years ago).

Endora_2

stephb34 wrote: »

Thomas Cook airlines definitely let you pool your luggage and you are allowed upto 32kg per suitcase and 5kg per person of hand luggage which you cant pool together. The hand luggage is def 5kg each per bag per person and only 1 piece, if your a woman you can't have a handbag and a travel bag seperately you need to be able to fit the handbag in the travel bag. Just be careful to check which airline you are travelling with as you may have booked a Thomas Cook holiday but they may be contracted out to a different airline ie BMI Baby, Easyjet etc in which case Bmi let you have 18kg each and can pool weight and 10kg of hand luggage but easyjet let you have 20kg each but you cant pool it together (well you couldnt when i last went with a few years ago).

It is a Thomas Cook plane we are going on and they have stated our allowance for hold luggage is 15kg each (or 30kg combined), I think it depends on your destination as to what your allowance is also not just what airline you travel with, but I may be wrong there. Hand luggage has been stipulated as 5kg each, we have tickets now anyway so it's all in black and white, flying from Gatwick next Sat....that's if that volcano behaves itself.:A

Endora_2

itsakidsworld wrote: »

Keep an eye on the weight of your hand luggage as well as certain airlines have reduced this weight from 10k to 5k- ouch!!!! Package holiday reps are terrible at in-resort airports for stinging you for anything they can make a few quid on- all bonuses so be careful of that rep who is the guy with the deep tan and white teeth- he is the worst!!!!!!!!!

Does he work at Gatwick LOL :rotfl:

dolphinstwins

Be VERY careful...

A friend of mine was told that sharing her sons allowance into one suitcase on the outgoing journey was fine (pooling her allowance)
However she got stung by nearly £100 additional charges on the way back.

Personally I wouldn't risk it - I'm on a holiday with 2 sprogs this summer and as I have a generous allowance I'm likely to get away with one suitcase worth of allowance between the two (20kg allowance each) but that leaves me with being able to bring a suitcase of goodies back if I wanted (lol)

If you do want to risk sharing the allowance - take a lightweight holdall you can transfer stuff too in case the check in staff disagree

dolphinstwins

Oh - & perhaps invest in a luggage scale
Quite a few retail at around £7-10
However you can buy <£3 in places like home bargains / poundland - quite possibly as reliable as sticking your finger in your ear & guessing the weight but you never know

itsakidsworld

Endora wrote: »

Does he work at Gatwick LOL :rotfl:

No: He works in Sunny climates such as Cyprus!!!!!!! He is the smoothy who is nice as pie to you whilst you wait in the queue and then when you are at the front ready to check in he pounces like a cat getting a bird!!!

SUNTAN GUY: "Hi folks had a nice trip"-

STRESSED PARENT: "yes, lovely thank you, this country is soooooooo nice"-

SUNTAN GUY:” glad to hear it" he says and then................................ "would you please put all you have on the scales please which are so sensitive if you breath within 10ft of them it will show an extra 3kilos!!!!!! "folks, really sorry about this but the scales are showing you are 5 kilos over if you include your shoes, socks, hair and of course your eyes"(you see they always have your eyes out!!!). "So that will be......... let me see now..........£84 extra- how would you like to pay"? Big grin, white teeth, real tan, good looking guy but a complete t***er!!!!!!!!

STRESSED PARENT: "But, but , but" you start and your 100% common sense goes awol because he has hit you right inside your human self defence shield when you are most vulnerable and now you are flapping because he knows you will be embarrassed and that you are holding up other clients behind you so you start to pay!!!!

At this point stop!!!! Then take a deep breath and in a calm and collective manner tell him you are happy to pay the balance but before you do you require today’s copy of the companies report on the accurate reading of the scales from the weights and measures company (or similar, you get my drift?) and when he shows you his report to say that today the scales were checked by an independent company to be accurate you will pay!!!! Then watch as the tan gets red and red and red

Pollycat

dolphinstwins wrote: »

Oh - & perhaps invest in a luggage scale
Quite a few retail at around £7-10
However you can buy <£3 in places like home bargains / poundland - quite possibly as reliable as sticking your finger in your ear & guessing the weight but you never know

I bought a cheap pair of scales (not digital) from a 'tat' shop in Skegness last year for £2 and they are surprisingly accurate, at least enough for me to check that my luggage is not overweight before I leave for the outbound airport.

I don't worry about the return journey anymore as I take my own toiletries and sun cream as well as a number of reading books - all of which I leave in resort.
I don't buy much on holiday so I'm usually well under on the return journey.

MrsE_2

Pollycat wrote: »

I don't worry about the return journey anymore as I take my own toiletries and sun cream as well as a number of reading books - all of which I leave in resort.
I don't buy much on holiday so I'm usually well under on the return journey.

Like my sister, please see post from me above;)

Pollycat

MrsE wrote: »

Like my sister, please see post from me above;)

I've heard that Dalaman is notorious for charging for excess.

However, if your sister's luggage was definitely underweight why didn't she insist that it be weighed on another set of scales?

If 'everyone in the queue had to pay' why wasn't everybody up in arms about it?
Surely everyone wasn't over the limit.
What did the £50 represent?
i.e. how many kgs was she supposedly over and how much per kilo did they charge?
How much did they charge you?

My hold luggage has never been overweight on any outbound flight.
My hold luggage has never been overweight on any inbound flignt.
My hand luggage has never been overweight on any flight.
My hand luggage has never been bigger than the dimensions allowed by any airline.

I've never had any problems with being told my luggage is too heavy.

MrsE_2

Pollycat wrote: »

I've heard that Dalaman is notorious for charging for excess.

However, if your sister's luggage was definitely underweight why didn't she insist that it be weighed on another set of scales?

If 'everyone in the queue had to pay' why wasn't everybody up in arms about it?
Surely everyone wasn't over the limit.
What did the £50 represent?
i.e. how many kgs was she supposedly over and how much per kilo did they charge?
How much did they charge you?

My hold luggage has never been overweight on any outbound flight.
My hold luggage has never been overweight on any inbound flignt.
My hand luggage has never been overweight on any flight.
My hand luggage has never been bigger than the dimensions allowed by any airline.

I've never had any problems with being told my luggage is too heavy.

Dalaman airport is a military airport, your rep isn't allowed in with you. Its the middle of the night, they are all Turkish.
People just want to get on the plane & get home.
We were one of the first in the queue, only noticed everyone else was being done after we had.

Very difficult to demand that its within weight & the scales are wrong in Dalaman Airport in the middle of the night with a queue behind you that wants you to hurry up so they can get it over with.

When I say £50, it was about £50 - her (& her DH) a little less, me (& my DH) a little more. Its a few years ago now & I don't remember the kilos or price per kilo.

The following year they tried it again in Bodrum, but I pulled my ticket out & showed them my luggage allowance AND my hand luggage allowance & they waved me through, but I saw others being charged.

Its practically a departure tax in Turkey:mad: