Tip - photograph your suitcases

lisyloo

then I can ask them why they keep causing rips and damage to the cases - every time

If they are damaged then you can get them to pay for repairs (or replacements if unrepairable).

You need to check your cases at the carousel and go to the desk in the baggage hall and get an incident report.
You then follow the instructions.
It's helps if you have receipts but not essential.

You will need to take your cases to a repairers to get an estimate or a letter to say they are damaged beyond repair.

If they are quite old then you won't get the full value as obviously you've had some use out of them.

So my tips would be to keep receipts, photos are good, check them at the carousel and buy a brand that has a repairer local to you (you may have to travel twice, once to drop them off and second time to get them).

IvanOpinion

eamonn321 wrote:

I've scanned copies of our passports and sent them to my own Yahoo email address so that if they are lost on holiday we can get copies by going online.

This may be overkill but I would suggest that if you send then to a yahoo email address (which is what we do) then you zip them up and use the encryption option (in WinZip) to protect them.

Ivan

angel

IvanOpinion wrote:

This may be overkill but I would suggest that if you send then to a yahoo email address (which is what we do) then you zip them up and use the encryption option (in WinZip) to protect them.

Ivan

I don't really understand why or how?

Could you explain a bit more, just incase I'm missing out on something here.

Fran

What a great idea edda and the other ideas on here too. :T

IvanOpinion

angel wrote:

I don't really understand why or how?

Could you explain a bit more, just incase I'm missing out on something here.

If you send stuff via email then it is not necessarily secure. If someone hacks into your email account (which has happened) then they would get access to everything you store in there. This is unlikely though which is why I said it was a bit overkill.

There are compression programs such as WinZip that takes a big file, applies some rules to it and can greatly reduce the size of the file which can make it smaller and therefore quicker to send in an email. I am not sure about some of the others but WinZip contains an 'encrypt' option that requests you to supply a password .. it then encrypts the file which means that nobody can read it unless they know the password.

It is just belt and braces in the unlikely event that something may happen.

Ivan

andrewmoorcroft

Sounds as tho the most important belonging becomes ur camera so i'd take a piccy of that too! - lol!