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so dissapionted

valleylady

2009-09-10 12:50:11

we are so dissapionted,why,well we booked our flights with travelrepublic back in january and were flying with thomas cook,great we thought,they have an arrangment with the childrens charity el shaddai to transport free of charge up to 20 kg of exess baggage per person on top of the 15 kg allowance,we started collecting items for the children 8 months ago and were also given things from family and friends,,,we gave our flight number and details to el shaddai yesterday for them to arrange things and low and behold we are no longer on a thomas cook flight but a monarch flight who do not have the exess baggage agreement,admitedley travelrepublic did notify us in june that the flight times had changed but there was no mention of airline change.we didnt notice that the prefix for the flight had changed from tc to mon as you can imagine we are gutted that we cannot take all these items for these unfortunate kids,anyway sorry to harp on , but can anyone tell me what the luggage allowance is with monarch. travelreblic so far havnt replied to my query to them and i suppose we can only take the original 15kg were allowed with thomas cook.

BrenLiz

2009-09-10 13:31:42

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Know how you feel. We always travel with Monarch - luggage allowance 20kg - and for the first few years they gave us extra 20kg for the charity luggage but for the last 3 years they wont do this. We managed to take some out for the last 3 years by cutting down on our own luggage and asking friends to take things out who were travelling with us but like you we always have loads. My sister works for Puma who give us lots to bring out and my friend runs a stationery company and gives us loads for the kids for school but we always have to leave some at home and therefore we have an attic full of stuff at the moment. Puma have given us the name of a local company who will ship it out overland for £30 so I think that is what we are going to do this year as it is no good to anyone in the attic. Hopefully we will get Puma or my company to come up with the £30 otherwise it is not too much for us to pay ourselves having been landed with £48 excess to pay coming home a couple of years ago.

valleylady

2009-09-10 14:14:30

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thanks for showing an interest brenliz,we decided to stuff our own things into 1 lot of hand luggage and use the other + the two lots of 15kg with items for the children,going to sort throu everything tomorrow,maybe we will try and sell the surplus on ebay and take the proceeds out with us and find out if they need things for the actual homes etc,we would be interested to know the name of the company who will take the stuff out for £30,don,t mind paying that. cheers

BrenLiz

2009-09-10 14:23:31

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Will find out the details from my sister for you. I think you will find you have 20Kgs of luggage with Monarch so that will help a bit.

valleylady

2009-09-10 14:26:24

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our original booking was with thomas cook only15kg hoping that now we,re on monarch that we will get the 20kg.

irishcolleen

2009-09-10 15:52:11

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I know how you feel girls we got hit for £50 odd s for over weight taking clothes for the kids in Goa so now I just make sure I am in and around the 20klos mark the strange thing about the time we got done was eazy jet never said a word about it on the way over from Ireland to London :que

but F/C had plenty to say :cry

colleen

fizzy2

2009-09-14 09:21:25

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We also had problems taking stuff out for the kids. Booked with Airtours some years back (they promoted and supported El Shaddai too). We phoned them up and they agreed 30 kgs each, said it would be on the computer when we booked in so no worries. Said we didn't need a letter/e.mail of confirmation either. When we booked in they had NO knowledge of the arrangement and we literally had a fight on our hands - particularly as they basically implied we were telling lies and were just trying to get on board with too much luggage. I was furious, hubby dealt with it (or we would not have been allowed on the flight at all). Eventually we were sent to another desk and my hubby explained the situation calmly, we were then given permission to take the extra. I made sure everone in the queue knew what happened, I was so upset especially as Airtours were so involved with El Shaddai at that time. Still fuming when I think about it now. Grrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Fizz

valleylady

2009-09-14 09:31:58

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just had reply from travelrepublic they assured us that thomas cook have no agreement for exess luggage with el shaddai ,having spoken to the people from el shaddai they have not been notified that this airline will no longer take the exess luggage ,personally i,m disgusted :banghead:

Gemma33

2009-09-14 17:58:05

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Couldnt you just contact Thomas Cook direct? Might be a better idea. In the cirumcstances they might still allow your some extra luggage. Good luck.

valleylady

2009-09-14 18:20:46

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the charity were arranging the baggage for us,TC have now told them it no longer applies as we are now with monarch

celcat

2009-09-14 19:41:23

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Many of the airlines stopped this allowance last year. I'm sure there was a post about it on here but can't find it (it may have been another holiday site).

I spoke to Monarch last year as I thought it was to do with fuel etc but it was also due to the fact that people were taking advantage of the extra allowance for their own benefit.....

Gemma33

2009-09-14 22:32:30

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Ive used Monarch quite a few times for extra luggage allowance and theyve always been very obliging and ive never been refused. Such a shame if you wont be able to get the extra bits and bobs for the kids.

celcat

2009-09-15 05:24:12

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There's a topic on this on another site (TA)...just search 'Charity luggage'.

x

poipleshadow

2009-09-16 03:31:05

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Here's a few details about Extra Luggage.....
http://www.ChildrenWalkingTall.com/Luggage.htm

I am yet to get in touch with the airlines this year, due to the financial problems I fear that most will have cancelled their charity allowances.

HFH

2009-09-16 07:41:13

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I rang Monarch last week to ask about excess charity luggage as we always have been lucky enough to be able to take loads of goods out for Children Walking Tall, however a very apologetic lady said that Monarch are no longer able give excess charity luggage. We were able to up our 15kgs allowance when we booked to 20kgs for just under £4 each. We have been to Goa many times so now know how little we really need to take for ourselves.

okitsme

2009-09-16 13:21:19

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What we did last time worked very well for us and will do similar next year, there were 4 of us flying with Moan Arrghk each with our 15KG of allowance.
The issue was we had 18KG of Lego we wanted to get to Children Walking Tall :yikes

So with some careful packing and some decent luggage scales we managed to get everything we needed JUST within the allowance :tongue

The big plus point of this was for our return journey we now had an empty suitcase along with a spare 18KG allowance to fill with all sorts of goodies ( HoneyBee included :cheers

)

Cheers
Frugal Rog

valleylady

2009-09-16 15:00:54

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okitsme

wish i knew how to get 18kg into 15kg,when i was in school it just wouldn.t go :rofl

okitsme

2009-09-16 15:57:56

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valleylady wrote:
okitsme wish i knew how to get 18kg into 15kg,when i was in school it just wouldn.

An Essex education for you

I haven't been on the HoneyBee Honest, Allowances for 4 people combined 60 KG total, we had 3 suitcases 20kg each.

Cheers
Not so stupid Rog

valleylady

2009-09-16 16:15:27

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ok.unfortunatley we,re 2 passanges 15kg each,with 20kg exess baggae each that we can no longer take thanks to change of airline.anyone know how to get 40kg of luggage into 30k plus our own, oh never mind ours we.ll stuff it in the hand luggage :rofl

{i can,t believe i,m bieng so daft,but really exited,had jabs monday,sent visas today we,re really are going to goa :sun2