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Offline BernieTeyze

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Re: Help with hand luggage
« Reply #20 on: January 17, 2014, 13:07:15 PM »
I have actually forked out 9£ for some decent scales from.Millet s.
After encountering some over zealous staff at Dalaman,we have taken to weighing our luggage at the airport
On a spare check in.
This time we have 2 x 30 2 x 25 and 2 x 20kg. And sent boxes over. My fault entirely as I am not ready
to let go of everything. Still we won,t have a plate to eat off when we get there. Slik is just rolling his eyes
and keeping his gob shut. Crazy whats important to you,when you have to leave it.



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Re: Help with hand luggage
« Reply #21 on: January 17, 2014, 13:45:14 PM »
We have two scales.  One in Scotland one in Calis.  I saw scales recently in one shop for 99p.  So cheap enough for everyone to have a set

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Re: Help with hand luggage
« Reply #22 on: January 17, 2014, 17:02:02 PM »
Do they allow extra for a laptop then?

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Re: Help with hand luggage
« Reply #23 on: January 17, 2014, 17:05:43 PM »
No

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Re: Help with hand luggage
« Reply #24 on: January 17, 2014, 17:25:17 PM »

 Slik is just rolling his eyes
and keeping his gob shut.

Sounds like a man with a bit of sense to me!    ;)

Good luck to you both, hope you get everything on the plane and onto your new life!    :)

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Re: Help with hand luggage
« Reply #25 on: January 17, 2014, 22:01:14 PM »
I was always going to buy a RufusRoo jacket with all the pockets but never got round to it.  I have a lightweight 3/4 length jacket with big pockets which I drape over my arm or the luggage trolley.  I also carry some strong elastic bands and have on occasion filled the sleeves and secured the ends with the elastic bands.  In over 5 years, I have never been told to 'wear' the jacket and I can tell you that sometimes the weight has been 10K.  Now that I have said this, I will probably come a cropper on my next trip but up until now it's been OK.

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Re: Help with hand luggage
« Reply #26 on: January 17, 2014, 22:05:36 PM »
I love Karaokemark's method - break the linings in your coat pockets and fill the inside bottom of your coat with tins of ham. Genius!

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Re: Help with hand luggage
« Reply #27 on: January 19, 2014, 21:52:10 PM »
When you book a flight it is clearly stated what your baggage allowances are and if you want to purchase more you usually have that option. So why do so many people who have to pay for extra baggage weight winge about how much it costs them.Its not like they don't know because they do.Far to often we have been in a queue and you have idiots at the front who are way overweight with their baggage and there they are on the floor taking things out of their cases holding everyone else up.As like another forum member on here we have a set of our own scales to make sure we are not going to be overweight.The last thing we want is to spend our holiday money on extra baggage charges.The scales are as said
Inexpensive considering the money they can save you.



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Re: Help with hand luggage
« Reply #28 on: January 19, 2014, 21:54:01 PM »
Amen to that.

Why do some people think that the weight rules are any different from the no smoking rules.

I confess that it drives me insane seeing huge bags being loaded into overhead lockers at take off never to be touched again until landing.

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Re: Help with hand luggage
« Reply #29 on: January 19, 2014, 22:30:44 PM »
Glad we fly monarch now when we can.




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