More dimbo travel questions from Enid - can you take a travel cot on a plane? and a buggy? how much baby crap are you allowed to take on these days?

[Enid]

as flying to Bordeaux and hiring a car seems sooooooooooo much more preferable that spending 2 days getting to our mate's house

Buggy can go to the door of the plane.Car seat,travel cot and similar crap can be checked in.
Take as little as poss.
It's bloody tedious.

Probably best to ring the airline direct, tbh.

A folded travel cot? yes- it will be counted as part of your personal luggae allownace though- will have to go into the hold.
A buggy- you can take up to the boarding gate.

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good advice there mi

We have no probs travelling 'lite' but MUST take the travel cot

could manage with backpack instead of buggy and could cram handysitt into suitcase

oh bugger, car seats

do hire cars come with such things?

take bugggy - you can take it to the door of the ploane - much easier -

yes enid - you can book one

can your mate not borrow a travel cot/

and are you doing teh noew lfights out of Bristol??

You can get them.
I've hired them in France.
Easier to take your own though.
Do not leave the buggy behind.It's essentail.The backpack will cripple you eventually.

you see, the need to take all that crap with you is exactly what puts me off flying.

presumably a travel cot takes up a large chunk of your baggage allowance.

buggy you can take to the door of the plane, then they take it off you and stick it in the hold. if youre v lucky, theyll give it back to you at the door of the plane at the other end. otherwise you just get it off the carousel.

one small (by my standards) bag only as handbaggage i think. and how're you supposed to get everthing you need for travelling w a baby/toddler in one of those??

and rental car child seats are almost worse than nothing... so ideally you'd need to take one fo those too...

im not going on holiday again until theyre 20+.

but we will need the backpack for long walks with dd3

dh is 'buggy averse'

yes beety trying to - we need to get to either Bordeaux or Toulouse would be even better

I will take nothing much on the plane as hand luggage - the flight presumably is very short, drinks and books will do us

and yes, im a miserable cow being all negative on your lovely 'going on holiday' thread.

lol

i do tend to agree with you nappies but the prospect of driving from Dorset to folkestone then calais to Toulouse with three kids is more than the human body can take

ferries are all full

we will need to take THREE car seats - I presume dd1 and dd2 will have a baggage allowance - that can be a car seat each

It's only a short flight.I have many grim memories of the 36 hour and three plane changes flight to our part of Turkey alone with a 4 year old and a baby.

hmmm, yes. i would have to agree with you there. hell, even if all 3 kids do nothing but fight, puke, whinge and wet themselves the whole journey, at least it will all be over in a half a day

moondog -

only drink you can take on plane are htose bought in side departures!!

hire all car seats in france

...as opposed to if they did tha all the way on a 2 day car journey...

a humourous worst-case scenario

i was joking, honest

btw is better to take car seats on with you for dc to sit on in flight (unless just a booster seat, cant remember ages of yours). you never know if baggage handlers might be chucking them about when youre not looking...

you know what? beeties right. hire the seats there. its only a week or so, right?

dh says no flying as with car hire will cost £900

so you are going to drive? It is a lnog way for a week

yes the new plan is to leave dorset at 6am, get to calais around ??? 1pm french time? then drive for another four hours and stop at a hotel

so probably in Orleans or thereabouts

then another four hours the next day down to cahors