Luggage handling

[Raceyfool]

What is package called on Princess where they take your luggage directly from ship to airline and you see it at your final destination?

[cruzrbachoua]

Princess Luggage Valet delivers your bags from your home to your stateroom, and then back home again. The service is offered in partnership with Luggage Forward® in order to make your travel experience easier. No more hauling baggage through the airport, no more long check-in lines or waiting for your luggage to arrive at baggage claim, and no more risk of being held up in lengthy bag inspections at Customs. With Princess Luggage Valet you can enjoy the ultimate in ease and convenience when you travel. Make it a carefree escape with the new Princess Luggage Valet Service.

Luggage Valet includes:

• Worldwide service to and from more than 170 ports
• All-inclusive rates charged at the time of booking, no hidden fees
• On-time arrival with a full money-back plus $500 guarantee

To book, visit the Luggage Forward web site or call Luggage Forward directly. From the U.S. dial 1-888 693-8229, from the UK dial +44 2033 754769 or +1-617-482-1100 if calling from any other location.

[Thrak]

Princess EZ Check (think that's the name) is not the same as

19 minutes ago, Raceyfool said:

What is package called on Princess where they take your luggage directly from ship to airline and you see it at your final destination?

 

Princess EZ Check. Not at all the same as referenced in the post above. I can't remember the cost - perhaps $25 per person? - but you put your luggage out in the hall and never see it again until you reach your final destination. This is, of course, in addition to any fee the airline may charge for the luggage. It's only available in a few US ports and not all airlines participate. There is a form onboard.

 

EDIT: A quick search found this image of the form:

 

Edited November 5, 2018 by Thrak

[Colo Cruiser]

3 hours ago, Raceyfool said:

What is package called on Princess where they take your luggage directly from ship to airline and you see it at your final destination?

EZ CHECK

[Orangefan]

I use EZ check all the time. Besides the luggage is taken the night before you disembark, you don't see it again until you reach your final destination. You also receive the last night of your voyage your boarding passes  and baggage tags for the suitcase.

Sali

[Haboob]

16 hours ago, cruzrbachoua said:

Princess Luggage Valet delivers your bags from your home to your stateroom, and then back home again. The service is offered in partnership with Luggage Forward® in order to make your travel experience easier. No more hauling baggage through the airport, no more long check-in lines or waiting for your luggage to arrive at baggage claim, and no more risk of being held up in lengthy bag inspections at Customs. With Princess Luggage Valet you can enjoy the ultimate in ease and convenience when you travel. Make it a carefree escape with the new Princess Luggage Valet Service.

Luggage Valet includes:

• Worldwide service to and from more than 170 ports
• All-inclusive rates charged at the time of booking, no hidden fees
• On-time arrival with a full money-back plus $500 guarantee

To book, visit the Luggage Forward web site or call Luggage Forward directly. From the U.S. dial 1-888 693-8229, from the UK dial +44 2033 754769 or +1-617-482-1100 if calling from any other location.

 

I've used Luggage Forward for exactly one half of one trip.  Never again.

 

Outbound, their tracking stopped on Wed, when UPS delivered our bags to a Seattle courier service for a Sat

embarkation.  A call to LF an hour before sailing time got us told "Our courier tells us he's delivered all the bags for

your ship".  No confirmation that "all" really did include our bags, which didn't show up until after we'd sailed.

 

On debarkation in Seattle, you have to take your bags through Customs yourself, after which we could not find

them (spent an hour and a half running around Customs Hall and then SeaTac airport).  Had to pay last-minute

baggage prices to the airline.

 

 LF did eventually refund that half of what we paid them.

[newparks]

Does anyone know if you can do EZ Check disembarking in Vancouver?

[Astro Flyer]

1 hour ago, newparks said:

Does anyone know if you can do EZ Check disembarking in Vancouver?

As I recall it’s only available in the US and now at only a couple of ports...Ft Lauderdale & Seattle?

Edited November 6, 2018 by Astro Flyer

[Pam in CA]

3 minutes ago, Astro Flyer said:

As I recall it’s only available in the US and now at only a couple of ports...Ft Lauderdale & Seattle?

Seattle is not Princess’s EZCheck. The port offers a service called Port Valet which is free. Not sure of the other particulars. 

[Astro Flyer]

9 minutes ago, Pam in CA said:

Seattle is not Princess’s EZCheck. The port offers a service called Port Valet which is free. Not sure of the other particulars. 

Thanks Pam...are you aware of any other ports other than FLL?  I don’t think it’s offered in LA.

[bingobunny14]

Seattle is a Princess ezcheck port..Did the Alaskian out of seattle july and i used it..I will do it again on my next cruise..I fly Delta and it is available to them

[Pam in CA]

8 hours ago, Astro Flyer said:

Thanks Pam...are you aware of any other ports other than FLL?  I don’t think it’s offered in LA.

No. Not in LA or NY. Not sure about SF. 

 

As for Seattle, it’s the port’s luggage system, not Princess. https://www.portseattle.org/page/port-valet-enjoy-seattle-luggage-free

[Coral]

10 hours ago, newparks said:

Does anyone know if you can do EZ Check disembarking in Vancouver?

 

Vancouver airports runs its own program sometimes. It seems to change every year. I forget what they called it last year.

 

I looked it up - it was called "Direct to Bus" transfer program. I don't know the details of this program but they used to have a "US Direct" where you bypassed customs.

Edited November 7, 2018 by Coral