P&O Ventura sailing 7th Dec

[2love2cruise]

Hi

Can anyone help and tell me if your cases go straight to the ship, or do you have to claim them when you get to Barbados Airport.

Thank you:)

[Nitemare]

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[John Bull]

You'll find the P&O experts here

 

 

Or here ;)

 

Depends whether you're on a P&O chartered aircraft (everyone is going on the cruise) or a scheduled aircraft (I think P&O use BA). Most will be on a chartered Thomson or Thos Cook aircraft.

 

If on a chartered aircraft, when your plane touches down at Barbados it taxi's to the perimeter road, where you walk about 20 yards to the bus, which takes you to the ship. No immigration, no customs, no carousel, no luggage, you don't even go to the airport terminal. :cool:

Your luggage follows in a truck - from handing it over at your UK airport you'll not see it again until it appears at your cabin door.

Exactly the same for other UK Caribbean charters for Fred, Thomson, etc.

As seamless a transfer as you could hope for. :)

 

Luggage (only) is the same for your flight back - you put it outside your cabin on the last night & next time you see it will be at your UK airport.

Does mean careful packing or the return, banned items such as liquids, scissors, in your hold luggage the night before, and clothes/swimwear & whatever for your last day in your hand luggage. And balancing between hand & hold to keep within weight limits.

 

If on scheduled flights, the routine is the usual formalities like airports elsewhere in the world.

Standards on charter flights not as good as scheduled flights, but IMHO the transfers make chartered much the better option.

 

BTW, although you'll have to vacate your cabin around 8.30, you'll have the run of the ship - bars, food, pools etc until your flight transfer is called, usually mid-afternoon. I think the same applies to scheduled flights.

 

Way way better to use a Brit ship in the Caribbean - fewer sea-days, avoids the immigration/transfer hassle of a US airport, not thrown off the ship at 9am on the last day..

 

Have a good one

 

JB :)

Edited November 19, 2013 by John Bull

[jocap]

We were on a similar charter with Thomson to Egypt....and the number of women who'd forgotten about the liquids rule, but had needed cosmetics before their coach arrived at around 3pm, was immense....the ladies' loos were full of people having last minute make overs, then dumping all their goods on the counters. Enough to start a chemist's shop!

:rolleyes:

Pack it all the night before, and take some cheap lotions and potions for the last day.....:cool: