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Anyone still travel with hold luggage?

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ToffeeLatteplease · 26/02/2015 18:35

Does it take long for the baggage to arrive at baggage reclaim? my memories are of long waits but that was years ago when everyone checked luggage. Specifically interested in anyone who has flown easyjet into CDG

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ajandjjmum · 26/02/2015 18:38

Easyjet into Birmingham - left with luggage within half an hour. And we were returning from Geneva, so lots of people had hold luggage from skiing.

Hassled · 26/02/2015 18:38

We did with EasyJet in the summer (not CDG though) - there's never too much of a wait. It's luck of the draw - sometimes by the time you've found baggage reclaim and had the obligatory wee the luggage is already trundling around. I quite like a bit of a wait at that stage - it's breathing space between the stress of the flight and the stress of the car-hire.

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ToffeeLatteplease · 26/02/2015 19:51

Thanks for the experiences. I realise mine are just so out of date.

not specificially but specially CDG OR easyjet. It's good to get an idea of what is generally going on. Personally Id rather just travel cabin luggage... but ds has a wheelchair which would make it significantly easier to check a suitcase

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noramum · 26/02/2015 20:26

It really depends on the airport and even there on the terminal and how many flights come at the same time. I fly to Frankfurt fairly frequent and one terminal means being in the cab in 20 minutes, the other 1 hour.

I hardly ever do just hand luggage if I go for more than one night. I found holidays with lots of charter flights also means delays while mid-week flights mean faster queues.

CheshireCait · 26/02/2015 20:45

We did CDG last month and it was very fast, our cases and two buggies were all at the carousel before we were! It's a bugger of an airport to navigate but it seems efficiently run.

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ToffeeLatteplease · 26/02/2015 20:46

cab?

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Lion12 · 26/02/2015 20:51

We did it last month and by the time we got to the carousel both ends our cases were just beginning to come off. So minimal wait.

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ToffeeLatteplease · 26/02/2015 21:03

Thanks Cheshire and Lion. We take longer getting off the airplane anyway, easier to wait for everyone else to get off first

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wigglesrock · 26/02/2015 22:47

We do it, last time was a few months ago, 10 minute wait maybe.

MillyMollyMama · 27/02/2015 00:32

I cannot get everything I want for two weeks plus in a small carry on bag! I don't want to do a load of washing on holiday or keep sending clothes to the hotel laundry. Hold luggage never takes very long these days and what is 10-20 minutes in your life anyway? At T5 we have had our luggage waiting for us!

SooticaTheWitchesCat · 27/02/2015 10:25

We have travelled with Seayjet a lot with hold luggage and we have never waited long for luggage at any airport, it seems a lot quicker now than it used to be a few years back

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ToffeeLatteplease · 27/02/2015 15:59

Thanks all. I suppose the bulk of my experience is 15-20 years old!

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revealall · 27/02/2015 23:21

The longest bit is getting off the planpe and walking miles before showing tour papssport to sone disinterested Italian/Spainish/French official.
The bags don't take long.

flipchart · 28/02/2015 11:03

I had hold luggage for the first time in 2 years last week on a Ryanair flight.
No problems. We even checked our cabin bags into the hold and all the bags came out very quickly.

bryonyelf · 28/02/2015 15:23

Flew EJ into CDG last week. Took about 40 minutes. Biggest wait was passport control. Bags were just after it and on the belt when we got there

PeachyParisian · 10/03/2015 14:55

CDG can take quite a while! Depends on time of day, whether there's a strike etc though

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ToffeeLatteplease · 11/03/2015 21:15

hmm... it does take us a while to get off the airplane due to the mobility issues (although we tend to get waved through passport control (special assistance). I would want to get out (landed to out of the airport) in under an hour does that sound about right?

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Artandco · 11/03/2015 21:22

About an hour in my experience. We usually always travel hand luggage only now except when skiing.

Have done x2 ski trips this year, both flew back into Heathrow. Took ages for any luggage to appear.

Otherwise I fly approx every other week for work. Hand luggage only. In Comparison I'm usually landed and out the airport within 15 minutes.

Have you considered phoning for assistance if with wheelchair? That way you could take hand luggage, and someone will drive you both with chair/ luggage to and from plane in and glorified golf cart

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ToffeeLatteplease · 11/03/2015 22:18

We did Gatwick to CDG just hand luggage this year. 2 adults 2 kids, TBH Carrying 4 items of hand luggage when one of the adults is manoeuvring a wheelchair through an airport really wasn't that easy! Especially if DS needs two sets of hands.

Also despite best intentions we don't travel overly light. there is extra stuff that ds needs that tends to bulk out the luggage a bit (eg night nappy pants, ideally I'd like to take a bed pad or disposables, extra changes of clothes).

We did have wheelchair assistance last time but really only kicked in for loading onto the plane and for the bit after landing. Easyjet wanted us to wait until the plane had totally unloaded before we got off, which suits us ok anyway as it reduces the risk of DS being knocked over, but does mean that it takes a while. The way back the wheelchair wasn't returned until the baggage carousel, it arrived before we did. I wondered whether that was a freak incident or more normal now people travel hand luggage, it made me think again about how much easier it would be next year dumping the luggage first. Just a nicer start the holiday

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Artandco · 12/03/2015 12:38

Yep you need to take even less luggage if you want hand luggage only with kids. For example when I travel alone with my x2 under 5 years I take a small holdall with strap so can wear across body or over shoulder, plus a handbag as laptop bag. This is all for the three off us for a week. I couldn't travel if we all had x3 large pieces of handluggage luggage as I haven't enough hands. Holdall and handbag leaves me x2 free hands to hold child in each hand

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ToffeeLatteplease · 12/03/2015 16:02

Nice to be able to travel that way. Would love to take less luggage

Unfortunately mine are 9 and 7, travelling that light really isn't an option. Clothes are bigger, we go in winter to colder places because it's easier for DS and there is a fair amount of paraphernalia that goes with him too. we at our max sizewise for three cabin bags, plus the smaller bag with the day to day bits for DS

That's why I am seriously looking at hold luggage. I would love to walk through the airport with one small holdall, a handbag and 2 hands free

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Bunbaker · 13/03/2015 16:56

We always travel requiring hold luggage. We haven't used Ryanair or Easyjet simply because they didn't fly to where we wanted to go. Jet2 is a budget airline, but their prices include a personal allowance of a massive 22 kilos per person, which we get nowhere near.

In terms of luggage retrieval it depends on the airport. Last month we flew to Kiruna and were out of the airport and on our way within 20 minutes of leaving the plane, but it is a tiny airport. Generally the smaller and less busy the airport the the shorter the wait for luggage retrieval.

The longest waits we have had have been in Corfu and Naples.

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