Bits: BA cuts Club World baggage allowance, Hilton flash sale, Luxury Travel Diary auctions

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• Ralphy says:

  30 Mar30 March 08:35

  Managed to pack a summer segment on the Gold Coast and a winter segment in NZ for a one month trip, regularly washing my smalls when I shower; my bag was 0.5kg over at 32.5kg, no problem for BA who kindly tagged it as 32kg. Who would need more?

  • John says:

    30 Mar30 March 08:37

    Women.

    • Susan says:

      30 Mar30 March 19:49

      Well this woman managed 4 weeks split between hot Sydney and cold Dunedin with a 15kg carry on and moderately large handbag. And that included shoes for hiking and partying. It can be done 😉

      • Genghis says:

        30 Mar30 March 19:51

        I think my wife needs to take some lessons from you. I like to travel HBO but my wife doesn’t so we end up ‘wasting’ time with checked in bags.

      • Andy says:

        30 Mar30 March 21:31

        if you don’t want to go out dressed up at night of course

        • Lady London says:

          31 Mar31 March 00:33

          and if you’re spending your days in just a thong… 🙂

        • Susan says:

          31 Mar31 March 10:38

          Andy – what makes you think we didn’t dress to go out? Lots of dinners and entertaining but frankly most people don’t give a stuff what anyone else is wearing as long as it is clean, tidy and reasonably appropriate for the setting. It’s easy to change the look of a plain dress/outfit with a selection of costume jewelry and a few different scarves/wraps. One bagging does take a bit of laundry and effort and won’t suit everyone but it works for me 😉

  • Kathy says:

    30 Mar30 March 09:20

    Last time I did a longish holiday (a 16-day escorted coach tour in America) there was one couple who had a small hand baggage case weighing just 7.5 kg between them. Yes, between them. The tour guide gave a prize each tour to the person with the least luggage, so had weighed them all – she said it was a record!!

    Of course, they had to find somewhere to do laundry every few days….

• Oli says:

  30 Mar30 March 08:49

  r.e Hilton FS – The NZ offerings are really quite slim unfortunately although Aussie looks good over the coming months. Remember the additional 1.5% that needs to be paid at the hotel will still be added on top.

  • Alan says:

    30 Mar30 March 18:56

    Just to say if you pre-pay in advance you won’t be charged the 1.5% fee, only when paying on-site at the property (had lots of stays last year). I’ve had fantastic upgrade at all my Hilton NZ stays – and I’ve been to all of them 🙂

    • Susan says:

      31 Mar31 March 10:43

      Well done, we stayed at the Hilton Adelaide recently and got “upgraded” to the same type of room as we’d booked “but it’s on the club floor so you have lounge access” – which as Diamonds we would have had anyway. Great views from the lounge and very nice breakfast.

      • Alan says:

        31 Mar31 March 10:47

        Agree, nice lounge at that property – I also found it in a good location for walking about the city 🙂

• Jordan D says:

  30 Mar30 March 08:55

  Disappointing to see that BA are cutting the CW baggage allowance – have not seen it trailed anywhere else. 3 x 32kg + 1 x 32 kg (Gold) was extremely useful, when travelling with my wife recently when they applied the extra bag to the booking so we had 4 x 32 kg per passenger, a total of 256kg uplift.

  Handy for bringing back items to furnish our house.

  • James says:

    30 Mar30 March 09:42

    I have just booked a long haul flight in J on SQ, the luggage allowance is 40kg total. BA is extremely generous.

• Jordan D says:

  30 Mar30 March 08:55

  Separately: every time you mention Luxury Travel Auctions on here, I seem to lose the item I’ve been successfully holding onto in the bidding … You clearly drive a lot of their traffic!

• Swede says:

  30 Mar30 March 09:00

  who needs that much luggage? Skiing 4/5 weeks per year and travelling with a lot of equipment I can appreciate 2 sets of luggage but 3…?

  • J says:

    30 Mar30 March 18:03

    People have homes abroad and go to places such as Barbados for the season. I’d be interested to know what proportion of J passengers use their full baggage.

• Zoe says:

  30 Mar30 March 09:16

  We have only started to fly business class since coming across Rob’s advice first on paidtoshop and now here. Even a second bag we have only used once and that was because we knew we would revisit an orphanage in Sri Lanka, the kids loved all the brio train track and other stuff that filled the extra case. Meant we only needed to buy a couple of sacks of rice locally.

• Adrian says:

  30 Mar30 March 09:57

  I wish we could take less luggage, my wife takes pillows, hairdryer, kettle and on one occasion even sheets! I guess she likes home away from home!
  Rob you say gold still get an extra case, do silvers still get an extra case too? Thank you

  • Rob says:

    30 Mar30 March 10:30

    Assume so but what I wrote is word for word what BA sent out.

• dirtyneedlebluesky says:

  30 Mar30 March 10:00

  Although I am only Silver I did contact with BA before I traveled (at the airport and via the contact centre). They confirmed the website is worded poorly/very unclear but a Silver member would also benefit from an additional bag (maybe this does change with the new rules).

  Who needs 3 bags? – I’m not sure. Who would like 3 bags? – someone like me. Maybe even 4. Having just completed a trip from North America yesterday I brought back 3 checked bags full of American groceries that either aren’t available here or cost at least 3x the price.

  As a first time Club Word user the baggage allowance was the highlight of the experience I really can’t say how disappointed I was with the product. Comparing to Qatar (and even some North American airlines) the experience is shocking. From the layout of the cabin (just who designed & approved this?!), to the standard and presentation of the dinning experience. Qatar even have it right with the private shuttle buses to the plane.

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