The Travel Thread - Second Destination

[TheSpade]

You're really desperate to meet folk aren't you? :D

Question, if you check in online 24hrs before you depart and are not checking in any luggage, do you need to bother with the hassle of queueing and going to the desk? I'm assuming so as they'll want to check your passport and give you a boarding pass etc but it kind of defeats the purpose of checking in online really.

 

[felix]

if you're checking in online, you should (at all costs!) try and print off your boarding pass there and then too, then you can usually just breeze past everyone and go straight to security. if you're staying in a hotel, you can get reception or the concierge to print it off for you.

otherwise, you've probably got no option but to stand in a queue somewhere at some point.

i've only really figured out the point of this online check-in malarkey since i started this new job a year ago. when you're doing it, it also makes it easier to put in your frequent flier number too.

 

[TheSpade]

I can print it off from home before I go to the airport then but they always check your passport at check in don't they so seems strange that you could just avoid that.

Will be handy if I don't need to do all that, my rucksack is small and light enough to take on as hand luggage. :D

 

[felix]

I can print it off from home before I go to the airport then but they always check your passport at check in

actually no, they don't. but i'm just thinking to myself that what i'm saying probably only applies to domestic flights. i pretty much always have to fly to heathrow first for all my missions. hmmm. BAH!

but anyway, it's still always printing them off beforehand, regardless.

 

[TheSpade]

I'm flying Edi > Heathrow > Singapore > Brisbane.

 

[The Kid]

I'm flying Edi > Heathrow > Singapore > Brisbane.

You won't need to go to check-in if you print out the boarding card and only have hand luggage. Your passport will be checked at security, as the staff know to check people with self-printed boarding cards.

Who are you flying with?

How come you are just taking hand luggage? I'd much rather dump my bag in the hold anyway, as can't be arsed lugging stuff around the terminals. You can still check-in on line...you just have to dump stuff at the bag-drop place.

 

[stimutant]

You're really desperate to meet folk aren't you? :D

im desperate to get out of my hometown for a few days, will start my "first real job" on the 10th of august. until then: travellin, tweakin, titty-twistin!!!


im in berlin now. i like this city 8-]

 

[felix]

How come you are just taking hand luggage? I'd much rather dump my bag in the hold anyway, as can't be arsed lugging stuff around the terminals. You can still check-in on line...you just have to dump stuff at the bag-drop place.

fucking right!

but spade's probably going "back-packing", so he won't be able/willing to carry a suitcase everywhere.

 

[The Kid]

fucking right!

but spade's probably going "back-packing", so he won't be able/willing to carry a suitcase everywhere.

Fucking back-packers.

I hate it when wankers take massive bags on to planes and then take every available space in the overhead lockers, squashing my stuff and generally being cunts. It seems that check-in staff don't ever bother with those baggage-size things...plus if you check-in online then you don't have anyone checking your luggage.

 

[TheSpade]

I'm flying with BA.

I'm just taking hand luggage for a few reasons, mostly because my bag is just a 35 litre rucksack and weighs next to nothing fully packed and that's taking everything that I'd want to take anyway. So it's easy to carry on.

Also BA are notorious for losing bags, they misplaced mines on my trip to Bangkok but thankfully found them again and sent them on to the hotel the following day. Plus there's the benefits of not needing to wait for my luggage once I get off the plane, which always takes far too long. Last thing I want to do after a 30hr journey is wait another hour on luggage or find its not there.

I hate it when wankers take massive bags on to planes and then take every available space in the overhead lockers, squashing my stuff and generally being cunts

So do I but my bag isn't massive, it's pretty small. I've seen folk get on planes with suitcases as hand luggage that have been bigger than my main suitcase when I've been going on holidays. And that's not enough they've got 3 other bags and a laptop too. Those folk really are arseholes.

Fucking back-packers

And what were you when you travelled round Aus, NZ and Asia eh?

Don't tell me you took a suitcase.

 

[The Kid]

And what were you when you travelled round Aus, NZ and Asia eh?

Don't tell me you took a suitcase.

Did I fuck! Still got my beauty of a bag...Karrimor, one of the most hardwearing and solid things i've ever bought. Is fucking massive though.

When i went back-packing it was for cool people. Now it's for work shy nobbers.

 

[TheSpade]

My £20 rucksack from Argos has served me well so far. How many litres was your beast of a bag?

Can't be arsed with a big bag full of stuff. Makes much more sense to have a small bag with just the essentials in it. Beach towel, flip flips, trainers, couple pairs of shorts, swimshorts, few tshirts, hat, toiletries. SORTED! %)

My mates off to Asia / Aus with laptop (big fucking laptop), hair straighters (yes he is gay), 6 pairs of shoes, 5 pairs of jeans, everything else he owns and the kitchen sink. Fuck that hassle.

 

[Riklet]

What a moop, tell him to buy all that shit out there!!

People pack way too much! Take a sewing kit, some plasters, a torch, a few clothes, sunglasses, a kag-in-a-bag kinda thing and a USB pen with useful shit on it (financial info and contact stuff in encrypted documents etc) and you're set! Oh, I never regretted taking a sleeping bag liner either... fuck bed bugs man! Those travel plugs for baths are pretty fucking useful too in some hostels.

Especially in Asia, anything you don't have... you can get. Why lug it around?? Books especially... they weigh a ton, and most popular stuff is easily available second hand or whatever for... cheap cheap price!

I had a pretty fucking wicked time in the south east of France near Nice recently, but oh my God, it's the most fucking expensive place i've been in Western Europe... i paid 8E for a pint once. Still, had one wicked week!

 

[TheSpade]

Sleeping bags are too big and heavy IMO, I shall not be taking one and I have encountered bed bugs before in Belgrade. Was itching tae fuck!! Plus who has a bath in a hostel.

Also who needs books when you have an ipod jammed full of audiobooks.

Did you Couchsurf in the end in France?

 

[Riklet]

I was a bit lazy and didn't send loads of messages, n the sound people i contacted were pleasant and helpful but were out of town and stuff, so I didn't, nor did I meet any CS types. Still interested in trying it though...

I stayed in a hostel instead cos the flat my parents were staying in (i was kinda visiting them) had no space, n i could only stand one night on the balcony. Glad i stayed at this weird crap hostel though, cos despite the arsehole owner it had fucking spectacular views and I ended up ballin' this swedish girl there, so hey, clouds/silver linings and all that ('twas my birthday tho).

Fuck carrying sleeping bags, but (silk) sleeping bag liners are incredibly light and useful.

 

[TheSpade]

You should have joined the local group and posted to say you were coming to town, no doubt countless folk would have been up for taking you out for a drink or meeting up.

 

[The Kid]

My £20 rucksack from Argos has served me well so far. How many litres was your beast of a bag?

Can't be arsed with a big bag full of stuff. Makes much more sense to have a small bag with just the essentials in it. Beach towel, flip flips, trainers, couple pairs of shorts, swimshorts, few tshirts, hat, toiletries. SORTED! %)

My mates off to Asia / Aus with laptop (big fucking laptop), hair straighters (yes he is gay), 6 pairs of shoes, 5 pairs of jeans, everything else he owns and the kitchen sink. Fuck that hassle.

It is 75 litres, prob with the detachable daysack. I can't remember how much it cost, but i bought it in 1997 and still use it now. I don't remember taking much more than you, although I did take some jeans and a jumper and 7 t-shirts. I fucken hate doing any washing, so would rather lug around more clothes. Plus i'm not an 8 stone, 4ft dwarf either, so carrying a 75l bag from a hostel to the taxi out the front is not a major issue.

 

[felix]

Fucking back-packers.

I hate it when wankers take massive bags on to planes and then take every available space in the overhead lockers, squashing my stuff and generally being cunts. It seems that check-in staff don't ever bother with those baggage-size things...plus if you check-in online then you don't have anyone checking your luggage.

aye, i can't stand those fuckers that take one of those huge carry-ons with wheels and handles with a smaller case that lots into the handles on top. they're as big as full sized suitcases and they feel like they're cheating the system.

When i went back-packing it was for cool people. Now it's for work shy nobbers.

LOL

 

[The Kid]

aye, i can't stand those fuckers that take one of those huge carry-ons with wheels and handles with a smaller case that lots into the handles on top. they're as big as full sized suitcases and they feel like they're cheating the system.

Hahaha, that's one of my hates too. When i'm lucky enough to be flying business class, those fuckers with the two bags get an even worse sneer than the usual paupers. Hahahahahaahah. :D

 

[TheSpade]

It is 75 litres, prob with the detachable daysack. I can't remember how much it cost, but i bought it in 1997 and still use it now. I don't remember taking much more than you, although I did take some jeans and a jumper and 7 t-shirts. I fucken hate doing any washing, so would rather lug around more clothes. Plus i'm not an 8 stone, 4ft dwarf either, so carrying a 75l bag from a hostel to the taxi out the front is not a major issue.

75 litres is fucking huge for backpacking mate! And you certainly cant take that on as hand luggage or chuck it under your seat on the bus.