Grandchildren with Trunki's on Easyjet !

cherydee

Just wondering if anyone had taken trunki's on board an easyjet flight as hand luggage recently, after 5th April this year they changed their pricing policy. Both our grandchildren are wanting to take their trunki's when we go on holiday and don't want to end up paying £80 for them to be put in the hold. Don't like them myself but the kids love them !

Nobjocki

cherydee wrote: »

Just wondering if anyone had taken trunki's on board an easyjet flight as hand luggage recently, after 5th April this year they changed their pricing policy. Both our grandchildren are wanting to take their trunki's when we go on holiday and don't want to end up paying £80 for them to be put in the hold. Don't like them myself but the kids love them !

I'm sorry to say but whenever I see children in airports with those things they are invariably precocious brats with loud mothers and chavvy fathers.
Just my observations you understand.:D

interstellaflyer

What's a Trunki?

agrinnall

I can't see any reason why they would not be allowed as hand luggage, they are well within Easyjet's maximum dimensions. There was a child with one on the last Easyjet flight I took and there was no problem with it. And that child and it's parents did not fall into Nobjocki's stereotyping, hopefully your flight won't be blighted by the likes of him moaning and wingeing.

And for intastellflyer's benefit: http://www.trunki.co.uk/categories/trunki_2/terrance_1

interstellaflyer

agrinnall wrote: »

And that child and it's parents did not fall into Nobjocki's stereotyping, hopefully your flight won't be blighted by the likes of him moaning and wingeing.

As a parent of an 8 year old I found his remarks extremely insulting, children get excited when going on holiday, as do parents and yes they may get a little loud but the does not mean they deserve to be branded as Chavs.

cherydee

My grandchildren are very well behaved and know how to behave properly and are always kept occupied .......once they have their dvd player on (with earplugs) there won't be a peep out of them. One of my pet hates is other peoples kids kicking the back of my seat on the plane ....why parents don't stop them I'll never know, so you can be assured ours won't be doing that.

The only reason I don't like trunki's is I'm always worried they are going to topple backwards and knock their heads on the hard floor.

ajnicho

Nobjocki wrote: »

I'm sorry to say but whenever I see children in airports with those things they are invariably precocious brats with loud mothers and chavvy fathers.
Just my observations you understand.:D

What an absolute twonk!!

Tojo_Ralph

Nobjocki wrote: »

As I said it's just a personal observation.
Airports are busy,functional places and kids should be taught from a young age to behave accordingly and not pandered to with a toy that in my experience invariably has with it a brattish child.
The mothers - always with a fake tan before they go on holiday - speak to their children in a loud voice to make sure everyone else can hear them.You know the type. Dads tend to be covered in equal amounts of tattoos and hair gel. The other parents - fortunately the majority of us who view Trunkis and the like as frivolous tat - simply exchange knowing glances. Sorry, but that's just my experience.

Well I am happy to report that my experiences could not be more different than yours.

My own experiences of seeing many, many children with their Trunki cases at airports around the world either transiting through, moving around or waiting to check in are 100% positive.

For a child air travel is exciting and perhaps a little scary so giving a child a degree of familiarity and a place to sit comfortably in a strange world where standing time can be excessive makes a degree of sense and all kids with Trunki's i have seen have either been sitting quietly "at heal" or trundling along happily with their parents/family.

Whether or not the majority of travellers view Trunki's as frivolous tat as you claim they do has yet to be ascertained, however I suspect you will find you are wide of the mark by some distance.

CraigUK

I am astounded by the ignorance and downright rudeness displayed by the user Nobjocki. If am am correctly reading your username then you have chosen a very apt description of yourself.

As for the information many thanks for your assistance, as a single Dad (without tattoos) I am travelling with my three children this week who are very excited to be taking their Trunkis.

Westin

This is an old thread and Nobjocki posted that comment nearly a year ago. I also don't think he has posted since September 2011.

jpsartre

I'll take a rude post over one that serves no purpose other than to resurrect a long-dead thread any day.