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Post by dennisn on Apr 27, 2019 17:34:31 GMT
What it says - TUI released 2020 holidays online two days ago and I've booked us for them. Costing us more than this year, but I can't truly compare, because they have added Skiathos for Fridays from Bristol, saving us the two hour drive to Birmingham at Gawd-Awful on Friday mornings (when it's not even yet morning!) and multi hour drive home landing on the M42 at the same time as the whole of all Birmingham drivers on a Friday afternoon. So we now have Skiathos 14 and 15 in the bag. Yee haah!
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Jules
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Love Skiathos ..its our little paradise.
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Post by Jules on Apr 28, 2019 7:33:24 GMT
All booked for 2020, interestingly we have 10kg of hand luggage, but still have to pay for a luggage upgrade. One day they will catch up with Jet 2..
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Post by dennisn on Apr 28, 2019 14:50:35 GMT
I wait and see regarding hand luggage. I had to get onto TUI to amend this year's September holiday as they got it all wrong. At one stage during the process, it showed 10kg hand luggage and 20kg luggage, but now shows only 5kg. Looking at next year's it shows 15kg luggage (because I didn't upgrade it to 20 thinking we normally have no trouble getting 5+20, so 10+15 would suffice), and 5kg hand baggage. I am wondering if perhaps the 10kg hand is given when you upgrade to 20 hold baggage? I suppose only the boarding cards will show the true result.
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Jules
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Love Skiathos ..its our little paradise.
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Post by Jules on Apr 28, 2019 15:14:10 GMT
Next years confirmations both have 10kg hand luggage.
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Post by dennisn on Apr 28, 2019 16:15:05 GMT
Would I be right guessing you have booked 20kg hold luggage?
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Jules
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Love Skiathos ..its our little paradise.
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Accommodation Stayed At: Villa Maria
Villa Angela
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Post by Jules on Apr 28, 2019 19:22:47 GMT
Yes but that doesn’t seem to make a difference as friends have book 15 and got it as well.. I need 20 for all the presents!
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Post by comed (Blackpool Don ) on Apr 29, 2019 0:00:20 GMT
We go on the 10th May and can CONFIRM it is now 10kgs. Woul
d have been better on hold luggage in my opinion.
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Post by cariad23 on Apr 29, 2019 7:57:27 GMT
i can see chaos if everyone takes 10kg people struggling to fit all bags into overhead lockers etc.
What drives me crazy are the jack in the boxes jumping up and down all flight getting stuff out ,putting it back.
It takes so long boarding if everyone has loads hand luggage. i hate being tied down with loads cases we take 2 big cases, and a small backpack on the plane with kindle,tablet newspaper, biscuits and bottle water, nothing else needed during flight, usually stow under seat so as not to disturb anyone going into locker.
i agree with blackpool don better going on to hold luggage, with BA you get automatic 23kg.
What really peeves me is i think we weigh considerably less than alot of people on the flights so we should get more luggage, total plane weight should be taken into consideration.
Hand luggage seems to cause chaos at security because people who have been abroad lots of times still put shampoo shower gel etc in hand luggage,then moan when have to take it out.
Rant over !
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Post by dennisn on Apr 29, 2019 9:38:47 GMT
Yes Cariad, I suspect I weigh as much as you plus your hold baggage (I'm 95 - 100kg) and I've seen lots of people much larger than me (I live in permanent dread of one of them getting into the seat next to me).
I get all my travel kit out before I sit down and stay down all flight, except to eliminate the arrivals toilet queue by "going" on the plane. Last time out through Birmingham, Vera's bag was selected and completely emptied and every single item fingered, poked and squeezed, and all was wiped for drugs. When finished, a second security person said the young woman who did it was being trained how to do it. GRRR!!
I do hope the hand baggage thing gets sorted soon. TUI website still says only 5kg and my two confirmations (copies below, checked again online this morning) for September this year when I've paid for 20kg hold bags and September 2020 when I've (so far) only taken the standard 15kg. I guess it's just being a very recent change, they haven't got round to updating all the standard website pages yet.
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Post by dennisn on Apr 29, 2019 9:43:46 GMT
Oh, and I suspect I'd have considerable difficulty trying to lift a 10kg bag up into the overhead lockers! It's hard lifting our 20kg suitcases up into the boot.
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Post by kevb on Apr 29, 2019 11:02:06 GMT
Interesting that when I go through the motions on the TUI site it is giving me flight from EMA to Skiathos (with TC) so they must think that service will be running for next season. I doubt they really have any idea at this stage and I wouldn't book this far in advance for that specific route yet.
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