Heathrow to introduce new maximum weight for individual bags

Julian Fowler wrote:

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 18:51:03 +0100, "Mark Hewitt"
wrote:

"user" wrote in message
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On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:42:18 +0100, Julian Fowler

wrote:

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:19:54 +0100, "Col"
wrote:

I guess some people aren't aware that other countries have
laundry facilities that can be used by visitors. ;-)

And I would guess most people think that doing washing is not their idea of
a good time to spend their holidays! So will take enough clothes so that
washing is not an issue.


Have these people no sense of smell? Spending a couple of hours doing
laundry seems infinitely preferably to living in a hotel room w/ ever
mounting piles of sweaty/soiled clothes ....

Have you not heard of vacuum bags. They both compress the things and
contain the smell.

"user" wrote in message
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On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 20:17:28 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:
In message , Julian Fowler
writes
All too often I seem to have to wait for 30-40 minutes for bags to
arrive at the carousels in MAN, and then watch while parties of
Mum+Dad+2 kids struggle to retrieve six huge suitcases plus sundry
other bags ... what *do* these people take with them?

Probably enough clothes for 2 weeks holiday, bearing in mind that cheap
places to stay probably won't have any useful laundry or dry cleaning
facilities. For kids under about 5, you can double the volume of
miscellaneous clothes and other things you need.

I disagree completely. While the cheap places may be less likely
to have onsite laundry fascilities, I've found that they're more
likely to at least have a laundromat nearby.

And for kids under 5 - you certainly don't need to "double the
volume". You can pack several 1t-5t sized shirts and pants in
the amount of space a given adult-sized piece of clothing takes.
Kids can typically wear the same shirt and pants on more than
one day, barring gross accidents.

- Rich

Plus Stroller, Car Seat, Travel Crib, portable stair gate.

Stephen

"Lansbury" wrote in message
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On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 20:18:52 GMT, "Chris"
wrote:

If you're an English family going to the States, you can buy your
clothes/trainers for the whole year and save a fortune.

Indeed and we do that every year and we can bring a years supply of
clothes, shoes and sundry other items Mrs Lansbury can't buy here in our
allowance of four suitcases. The most they normally weigh is about 25Kg
each and they are large ones stuffed full.

So 32Kg shouldn't be a problem in the vast majority of normal travel
requirements.

I checked and found the same. A case starts to feel real heavy at around
26Kg. Unless you are carrying heavy things, diving weights, papers. It is
difficult to fill a 62linear in case to 32Kg.


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