I know we have a lot of jet setters on here, and I am not one of them.
I'm currently in Florida on vacation, and we decided to fly rather than drive. I've traveled by air several times but seldom check luggage (though last time I did gate check my suitcase).
However, in this case we have two free checked bags per person (Southwest). And while here we bought some chairs to use at the beach. Basically folding camp chairs. The idea was to use them the week and donate them to Goodwill or something afterwards, but then I got to thinking about something. Since we aren't carrying but one checked bag each, could I tape the three chairs together and check them as a checked item? Looking online I don't see any real rules against it. I thought about taping them together, putting a luggage tag on them, and checking them. If they make it, great. If not, meh. I'm out a whole $25.
Another thought was to go to an army surplus store, buy an army duffle bag, and stuff them in it. Probably would be a cheap way to do it (I doubt a used army duffle bag would cost much, and those things are pretty big).
I think the other real question here is that we plan to do this again and it might make sense to either a) use one of our free checked bags to send beach chairs, umbrella, etc, or b) ship the stuff ahead of time and then ship it back (though that might be more trouble than it's worth). We are at a Wyndham resort that uses that time share points system - I'm not a member but my brother in law is, and he decided he owed us a favor so he gave us a week. We've also bought them from him in the past.
Thanks in advance. And yeah - this is the kind of dumb crap that only I think about.
I'm currently in Florida on vacation, and we decided to fly rather than drive. I've traveled by air several times but seldom check luggage (though last time I did gate check my suitcase).
However, in this case we have two free checked bags per person (Southwest). And while here we bought some chairs to use at the beach. Basically folding camp chairs. The idea was to use them the week and donate them to Goodwill or something afterwards, but then I got to thinking about something. Since we aren't carrying but one checked bag each, could I tape the three chairs together and check them as a checked item? Looking online I don't see any real rules against it. I thought about taping them together, putting a luggage tag on them, and checking them. If they make it, great. If not, meh. I'm out a whole $25.
Another thought was to go to an army surplus store, buy an army duffle bag, and stuff them in it. Probably would be a cheap way to do it (I doubt a used army duffle bag would cost much, and those things are pretty big).
I think the other real question here is that we plan to do this again and it might make sense to either a) use one of our free checked bags to send beach chairs, umbrella, etc, or b) ship the stuff ahead of time and then ship it back (though that might be more trouble than it's worth). We are at a Wyndham resort that uses that time share points system - I'm not a member but my brother in law is, and he decided he owed us a favor so he gave us a week. We've also bought them from him in the past.
Thanks in advance. And yeah - this is the kind of dumb crap that only I think about.
