Travel experts of Mastodon, I need advice. I'll be traveling without checked luggage, but I may bring back liquids that cannot be carried in cabin luggage. What is the easiest and/or cheapest small piece of luggage that I can check in when I didn't bring checked-in luggage when flying out?
@simonbs Go to the postal service of the country, buy a box and ship the stuff to your house. It shouldn’t be that more expensive than checking in a suitcase/box
@simonbs I might be oversimplifying this but aren't you describing a suitcase? It's a box where you put things, you check it in with the airline and then pick up from the luggage belt at arrival 🤔
@simonbs oh I see, I'm reading again the points in your post. You'd like to buy a suitcase at the airport and give it to someone else after arrival? Do you want to sell it like a second-hand product or just give it away? I got really curious what is the problem this is solving
@icanzilb I see why it sounds a lot like a suitcase 😄
I’d like to leave Denmark with just a backpack that I can bring into the cabin. Then, when I leave England a few days later, I’d like to bring back a few hot sauces and local beers. It’s liquid so I can’t bring it into the cabin and therefore I need something that I can checkin. However, that something I’d like to get rid of at the airport in Denmark again because I’ll put the liquids in my backpack or a paper bag to transport it home.
@simonbs@icanzilb Lufthansa used to offer cardboard „Luggage Boxes“, I heavily relied on them when I was younger. Not sure if they still do, flying has become a terrible commodity. Sic transit gloria mundi
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Some companies tried something like that a few (20!) years ago.
TL;DR: the rental was more expensive than buying a cheap chinese one use luggage or sending a parcel via post or delivery service.
@simonbs@icanzilb I was thinking something similar recently and my idea was that they could rent lockboxes to put your liquids in, and they’d unlock them after landing.
@simonbs Not sure about international but I once realized I had a knife I didn't want to lose on me, I left the line grabbed a FedEx box, put it in that wrote my name all over the box and checked the box. Not sure how much just shipping it back home would've cost. Just get good packing material for bottles.
@simonbs on my recent trip to Scotland, a bunch of my friends combined their various whisky bottles into a duffle bag that was checked. The bottles were kept in those inflatable protectors @ct mentioned. They did this instead of the duty free option because we were doing whisky distillery tours and there was a bunch of options not available at duty free.
@simonbs I remember that this was passible: If you buy the liquids after security in a duty free shop then you take this liquids into cabin. If you have a stop over you get a special bag for the liquids for transit.
@simonbs On your outgoing trip, use a carry-on suitcase. Check it on the way back? (Or something else I've done: have a smaller case inside your outgoing case, and then check one of the 2 on the way back).
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