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Topic: Waiting for the luggage to arrive

KansasK
First Class Passenger
Member # 1758

posted 04-03-2001 08:15 AM

Do ships start at the top level or the bottom level as a rule when delivering luggage? Or is there any organization to it?

Angie commented in her post about waiting anxiously until 11:00 for their luggage to arrive at their room. We waited until nearly 9:00 on our first cruise, but just hoped for the best and checked back now and then. On our second cruise, luggage for the 4 of us started arriving by 6:00, but all did not come until 9:00 again.

We were on the 4th level both times.

Posts: 126 | From: Overland Park, Kansas USA | Registered: Jan 2001 | IP: Logged

sympatico
First Class Passenger
Member # 797

posted 04-03-2001 08:37 AM

I don't think there is any rule as to when they deliver the luggage. I've seen it sitting near the elevators on every deck waiting to be sorted and delivered. Sometimes we got our luggage right away or within an hour of boarding. One time 3 cases had been delivered and the 4th...my husbands garment bag with his tux, etc....didn't arrive until after we sailed. We were getting a little nervous.

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Stevesan
First Class Passenger
Member # 1494

posted 04-03-2001 09:59 AM

HAL recommends attaching your 'alumni' tags to your luggage to receive 'priority' handling. I strongly suspect that HAL is BSing, but I attached the tags, anyway. After all, we all want priority service, don't we?

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sympatico
First Class Passenger
Member # 797

posted 04-03-2001 10:12 AM

Stevesan - I agree with you about HAL BSing the Alumni. We are supposed to get Priority boarding. A year ago March we got #15 or something for boarding. When I mentioned that we were Alumni and didn't we get priority boarding, the lady said "there are too many Alumni and we can't do that anymore"!!!

So, what is the purpose of the Alumni tag? We put ours on also, but I don't think it means a thing.

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Green
First Class Passenger
Member # 171

posted 04-03-2001 07:38 PM

I don't see that there can be much organization to delivering luggage - if you arrive by plane and have a transfer to the ship your luggage is removed from the airport carousel, loaded on to the transfer vehicle and transferred to the ship. If you arrive on your own, upon arrival at the boarding point you are relieved of your luggage and it's loaded. Maybe it's first on, last off

Alumini labels - think we all agree that it's BS - we tie ours on too!
Boarding numbers are handed out randomly - see my Statendam Review - VIPS board first followed by Suite pax - then the numbers start. Really don't know how they could do it any other way.

Posts: 2913 | From: Markham, Ontario, Canada | Registered: Jul 99 | IP: Logged

James
First Class Passenger
Member # 1351

posted 04-06-2001 01:25 PM

We leave our luggage with the line at the pier, go out for lunch, or sightseeing, and board at the very end of things. I've stood in too many lines already!

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Ascendancy
First Class Passenger
Member # 840

posted 04-07-2001 01:10 PM

I don't think there is any logic behind how the bags go from the pier to your cabin. I too have gotten bags at separate times. I know I drop them off at the pier together, but they sure don't end up in my cabn together. I think it all has to do with the baggage guys and whether or not they want to work efficiently or not. They scan them, let the dogs sniff em, go threw them, who knows what they do with them. The key is, don't ever put anything valuable in them.

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 04-07-2001 02:09 PM

Kansask, I've been in that worrying position of everyone on your deck has received their luggage except you! Fortunately it eventually turned up, it had been placed outside the wrong cabin/wrong deck.

Of course the beauty of a fly-cruise is that you have two chances to loose your lugguage.

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Beezo
First Class Passenger
Member # 1505

posted 04-07-2001 02:36 PM

Hey,
When we went on our first cruise, the NORWEGIAN MAJESTY, we had a little problem...
When it was about 3:00, all of our luggage was delivered to out room (or so we thought). My dad was just counting all of them just to make sure they were there. he counted 6 bags. we really had 7. Right after he counted them, his face went pale, and i mean REALLY PALE! he realized that he left it at our house. We were in a rush to leave because we were going to be on a bus to Boston with a group of our friends. When he realized that it was gone, he (literally) ran out the door. he didnt even tell us where he was going. What he did was, he went to the pay phone. Luckly, my brother was still home. My brother went upstair to get the bag and went VERY quickly to the port. My mother, me and some other friends were on the jogging track looking out at the road when we say the car. so i ran to the room to tell my dad that he was here. Then, we heard an annoucement...they were going to do the lifeboat drill. However, he told many crew members, and a worker at the port about the situation. So they let him off the ship and get the bag. Luckily, he made it in time for the drill and we had a GREAT cruise!

If my brother wasn't home (we got him right before he left with his friends) my father woulddn't have had any clothes. Also, my suite was in the bag alone with my mother and sisters dress's.

Brian

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Green
First Class Passenger
Member # 171

posted 04-07-2001 04:09 PM

Hi Beezo -

You were lucky!!!!

Here's a tip for future travels -

Every member of the 'party' should have at least one COMPLETE outfit in another member's suitcase - it's most unlikely that all the bags will go astray. That way you will at least have a change of clothing until your luggage catches up with you.

Happy cruisin'

Posts: 2913 | From: Markham, Ontario, Canada | Registered: Jul 99 | IP: Logged

KansasK
First Class Passenger
Member # 1758

posted 04-07-2001 04:14 PM

Malcolm, I can add another dimension to the fly-cruise luggage uncertainty. We are flying into San Juan two days early and have the option to keep a carry-on suitcase and have the cruise line take our heavier luggage to store for two days at the pier, or we can take all our luggage with us to the hotel.

I am somewhat uneasy about our luggage being stored who know where at the pier if we let the cruise line take the heavier suitcases at the airport. I hate to take it all with us to the hotel, but I really would like to see my other suitcase again outside my cabin door. I just hate to give the cruise line more ways to lose our luggage.

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