Thomas Cook Airlines, quick hand luggage question

lallysmum

Hi all

You were all so helpful with my last thread about taking food to Greece (autistic son, pure unadulterated food issues) that I thought I'd ask another quick question.

I'm packing (despite the fact that we don't actually go until Sunday) and I've tried googling, but keep getting conflicting information.

We are each (me, 16 year old daughter and 5 year old son) taking two cases, one 15kg hold case and a 5kg hand luggage each. Can I take a small handbag as well? Simply to put the tickets and passports and purse in, nothing else, but I really don't want to be endlessly opening and closing the hand luggage case ( I have two of the world's lightest ones and a dreaded trunki *shudders*) because I'm convinced I will lose something. I will put it in my hand luggage case once we are on the plane.. but with all the airport, duty free and waiting faff it would be much easier to have everything easily to hand.

Thanks in advance.

(I even tried to keep this short, my dad was right, I really do talk too much)

Thanks in advance if anyone can help.

lallysmum

Oh, and now with a different keyword google search, I have the answer. It includes handbags.

Sorry!

*gives up and goes to make a cup of tea*

stephb34

If u can fit the handbag in the hand luggage bag thats fine but you can't carry them separately.

interstellaflyer

stephb34 wrote: »

If u can fit the handbag in the hand luggage bag thats fine but you can't carry them separately.

How strict are they? if you bought something from one of the shops in departures and put your handbag in that carrier bag you'd get away with it surely, you see plenty of people getting on the plane with a couple of carrier bags from duty free shop etc.

lallysmum

That might have to be my back up plan. Buy something from duty free and use that bag, I hope they don't count the weight of the purchases, hand luggage weighs 4800g lol

stephb34

interstellaflyer wrote: »

How strict are they? if you bought something from one of the shops in departures and put your handbag in that carrier bag you'd get away with it surely, you see plenty of people getting on the plane with a couple of carrier bags from duty free shop etc.

Yeh that would be fine its on check in mainly when they want to check the weight and more so on the way home.

Obviously_the_best

When I went with them they told me to put my duty-free in my hand luggage bag, as they would only allow one bag, and it wasn't allowed to weight more than 5Kg even with duty-free!!! Wonder why they had a crackdown that day?

luci

Check that the dimensions of your hand luggage cases are within Thomas Cook's limits as they are quite small. If they are, is there a pocket in the case where you can put your tickets, passports, etc?

lallysmum

stephb34 wrote: »

Yeh that would be fine its on check in mainly when they want to check the weight and more so on the way home.

On the way home should be fine, everything will weigh so much less when I haven't got enough food for a 5 year old for two weeks!

lallysmum

luci wrote: »

Check that the dimensions of your hand luggage cases are within Thomas Cook's limits as they are quite small. If they are, is there a pocket in the case where you can put your tickets, passports, etc?

The dimensions are fine, oh god, I'll have to measure again now to make umm, quadruple sure!
There is a pocket on the front of the case, just scared that I'm going to lose something whilst taking it all in and out and trying to keep track of two tired children.

interstellaflyer

Obviously_the_best wrote: »

When I went with them they told me to put my duty-free in my hand luggage bag, as they would only allow one bag, and it wasn't allowed to weight more than 5Kg even with duty-free!!! Wonder why they had a crackdown that day?

Maybe because they would prefer you bought the stuff off them, on the plane.