DD's suitcase lost at Greek airport - DEVASTATED!!

[Kiki105]

My 19 year old DD has just arrived in Zante with 2 friends for their first girly holiday. Her friends have collected their suitcases but DD's suitcase didn't show or maybe someone collected it by mistake. She's reported it to the TUI rep and is now on the coach travelling to the hotel. She's absolutely distraught and in tears. Does anyone have any experience of this happening to them and the likelihood of her case being found within a short time. She has got absolutely nothing else on her other than the leggings and hoodie she travelled in. I'm feeling so stressed and helpless right now.

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Fingers crossed it turns up soon.
I'm sure no holiday maker, regardless of their age, wants to spend the first day of their holiday having to speak to reps and airlines and reading through their insurance paperwork! At 19 years of age they probably just want to get on the beach or by the pool, check out the nearby lads, and plan their first night out!

I'm sure some of the negative gits on here see being nasty as a sport, it's almost as if they try to outdo each other.

Its funny because it’s so ridiculous.

The OP is being unsupportive to her DD because she’s not helping the DD deal, she’s just flapping about being “devastated” and making the situation dramatic, on top of inconvenient and disappointing, which it certainly is.

I’m not saying a missing suitcase wouldn’t be annoying - it’s just not, in my experience, worth being “devastated” and crying all the way to your hotel over, while your mum joins you in your panic.

Your mum is supposed to support you, which in this situation should mean the OP encouraging her DD to recognise the disappointment, move past it, cop and get on with enjoying her holiday. I don’t see the OP doing any of those things, instead she is just adding to the “devastation”, so therefore I think she is being unsupportive yes.

No idea. He was too middle class for me so enabled the duck protocol and ltb.

Now please let me get back to my weekly square of dark chocolate.

OP, view this experience as a learning curve and a character building opportunity. If she’s lost anything sentimentally valuable, she’ll learn not to pack it in her hold luggage. If she’s lost things that are worth a lot of money, she’ll learn to get insurance. She’ll learn if her ‘friends’ are true friends by the extent to which they help her out. She’ll learn that shit happens, and we deal with it as part and parcel of adult life. She’ll come back older and wiser and all the better for it.

I'm hoping everyone who's been sneery or shitty here, has their bag go missing next time they travel!

Zante town actually has a fair few decent clothes shops so, should the worst happen and her case not arrive, she can buy a few bits. I’d be devastated too and I’m in my 40s!

Honestly I don’t think people actually read in full sentences, they just see words, string them together however they want and then get stressed about what they’ve just made up.

I never said OP’s DD’s situation was hilarious. I said the dramatic overreaction of the OP was hilarious.

Please read before you get your left-luggage knickers in a twist dear.

Absolutely! This I supposed to be a place where we can support each other and give advice! Hope everything is okay! Ignore people on here!

Its great how you have absolutely no shame in showing how horrible you are.
Go you.

was their another case left over on the conveyor belt OP , Then you'll know its been taken by mistake but at least in the right location?

The op has made it clear that it is her dd who is devastated and that she is indeed helping her. By posting on here she has been given some really useful advice which she can then impart to her dd. I would say the op is doing what she can. There have also been some really nasty posts on here that are totally unnecessary. If you watched your dd power through her A levels, get excited about her holiday, buy new outfits and be giddy about wearing them, surely you would be sad for her that things haven't worked out and that she will now need to spend her first day looking at insurance documents and trying to buy new stuff when she would much rather be relaxing at the beach.

Completely sucks but can be a character and resilience building experience. All the times something went wrong while I travelled have been for me.

Allow her the time to wallow a bit then encourage her to begin troubleshooting. Has she asked the airline what they will do for her in the meantime? I’ve been given reimbursement for things I had to buy while waiting for my luggage, even though it eventually arrived.

The most likely explanation - overwhelmingly likely – is that her suitcase never made it to the plane. The best case scenario it will be put on another flight in the next day or so and delivered to her. The worst case scenario is that it's delivered back to her in the UK. But her stuff isn't gone.

I can understand her feeling devastated - she's young. The best thing she can do now is to plan what she needs to borrow or buy to enjoy her holiday. As others have said, she should keep receipts. Maybe she can look at it another way - she'll have some lovely new Greek things in addition to her UK things?

My case went missing recently with British Airways and they delivered it the next day. But I was an idiot as I put my makeup in my case at the last minute rather than taking it carry on! Plus I didn't take a spare knickers and socks on carry-on (which I would ordinarily do). Such a reminder to always assume the worst, and have makeup, key toiletries, chargers, extra knickers and a change of clothes (plus swimming costume for beach/resort holidays) in carry-on!!

Ignore the brainless sneerers op. They must have sad lives to get enjoyment from sneering at you being stressed for your dd. Hope her stuff gets returned soon.

All the nasty posters probably can’t remember what it’s like being 19 and on holidays. Outfits would have been planned and these things are hugely important. Tbh, I’d be a upset if my luggage went missing too and I’m more than double that age.

OP, I hope your daughter gets her suitcase back soon. This has happened to me twice and my bag always turned up within 24 hours.

If you were out for a walk with your friend and her dd rang upset over this from the airport and she was upset, would you say oh get a grip and tell her cop on why are you being so dramatic this is hilarious and expect your friend to still engage with you?
Cos anyone who does that would be a cunt IMO.
Its just the nasty keyboard warriors who do this.

I'd be upset too. It has happened to me twice at Heathrow, once at Manchester and DS's pushchair didn't arrive at Geneva.

Cases turned up a day or so later and the pushchair was 2 days - delivered to our apartment an hour away.

It is a learning point. Nowadays we pay for guaranteed hold luggage and have learned to travel light.

My suitcase got lost recently - it turned up 24 hours later but I had to buy a few things to cover -
During the holiday we were catching a few internal flights so I learnt to pack some essentials in hand luggage and split clothes between people
It was v v inconvenient but ....

Hi OP

I think some people are being mean. Whilst devastated is probably a bit of a over reaction in the grand scheme of things I know for a fact when I was 19 of something like this had happened I would have indeed been devastated.

This is an opportunity to help your DD learn to manage this kind of thing going forward. Be calm and collected, without making her feel like she's being silly and make a plan. Is she maybe worried about the cost of buying things to tide her over? If that's the case are you in a position to maybe send her an extra few euro? And as others have said make sure she keeps receipts in case of insurance.

As an aside, when I travel I always put one set of swimwear, one clean change of clothes including underwear and usually tooth brush and tooth paste incase of something like this happening. Partly because I'm a plus size person and actually loosing a case is a nightmare scenario for me because I wouldn't be able to find any clothes that fit easily but I think it's a good tip overall.

Happened to me a couple of times and sorted the next day. I always have my swimsuit and a change of clothes in my hand luggage now. Annoyingly you can’t take your make up in your hand luggage though.

People are being aresehols OP. So should every non-life-threatening grievance now be met with a response of 'there are people dying in Africa'?? FFS, yes, there are much worse things, but OP's DD IS probably feeling devastated because that's how a teenager on her first girl's holiday might feel.

It WILL probably turn up but I suggest she speaks to reo/airline as soon as she gets to hotel to find out if she can buy some basics and get a refund.

This is really unhelpful at this precise moment, but I always put my Apple Air Tag in my suitcase when flying. If it goes missing, I can see where it is and that can speed up recovery.

Agreed.
I save money for months to buy outfits to wear on holiday. I would be a bit devastated to discover my case missing. Plus contact lenses/makeup/books etc.
If I was 19 and it happened I would have been in tears.
I find it difficult to get swimwear that fits too so I probably wouldn’t be able to get a new bikini in a holiday place.
I think people are being deliberately mean on here.
I hope she gets her case and/or is insured and has a lovely holiday once the shock has worn off.

I know its not a failsafe plan but DD has a really garish ugly suitcase. We saw it being loaded onto the plane because you can see it a mile away and is way easier to see on the bag carousel than my boring black one. I'm considering getting a hideous one as well. It won't necessarily stop it getting lost but hopefully might be easier to find/describe if it does!