Made any travel mistakes lately?

[Beano]

Sometimes it's you yourself blocking up the cheap fare bucket. I had a few experiences where the payment failed and it took about 4 hours for the seats to become available at the same price as before. Or it could even be repeating the search in another browser / window before the previous pending booking has timed out.

This is also a method to force a higher fare bucket if you need it for higher points earning etc.

This happened to me. If you take a booking as far as the "pay" page and cancle, your fare is locked and won't be released for several hours.

 

[bussyboy]

Not me, travelling with my mum at the moment.

Thought to bring along her favourite instant coffee, hard to find sometimes. In checked baggage... yep opened somehow.

No spare clothing in hand luggage

 

[Flyfrequently]

Not me, travelling with my mum at the moment.

Thought to bring along her favourite instant coffee, hard to find sometimes. In checked baggage... yep opened somehow.

No spare clothing in hand luggage

I'm sure she appreciated the thought though @bussyboy

 

[Beano]

Not me, travelling with my mum at the moment.

Thought to bring along her favourite instant coffee, hard to find sometimes. In checked baggage... yep opened somehow.

No spare clothing in hand luggage

Sometning like that happened to me except it was a 500 ml can of beer!. The clothes washed well.

 

[Seat0B]

Sometning like that happened to me except it was a 500 ml can of beer!. The clothes washed well.

And Seat Son once had a similar experience with a bottle of red wine. The clothes did not wash well

 

[ellen10]

And Seat Son once had a similar experience with a bottle of red wine. The clothes did not wash well

We always bring home bottles of red wine form overseas. Last trip 4 in one suitcase. So far so good, no spills

 

[VPS]

We always bring home bottles of red wine form overseas. Last trip 4 in one suitcase. So far so good, no spills

Last trip 2 bottles of red wine a bottle of rum and a bottle of gin - all good

 

[Zero]

Anything that can leak or break should go in zip lock bags or sealed plastic boxes!

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Anything that can leak or break should go in zip lock bags or sealed plastic boxes!

I use the thick plastic ‘bags for life’ from UK/European supermarkets. Place bottle inside, fold ends inwards and tightly roll up!

 

[kevrosmith]

I use the thick plastic ‘bags for life’ from UK/European supermarkets. Place bottle inside, fold ends inwards and tightly roll up!

I double bag any bottles, and then bag all my travel packs - added bonus is keeps everything dry in case my luggage is left out in torrential rain.

 

[Flyfrequently]

I double bag any bottles, and then bag all my travel packs - added bonus is keeps everything dry in case my luggage is left out in torrential rain.

And we place our bottle/s in middle of suitcase, well padded by our clothes in cubes @kevrosmith

 

[Brissy1]

And we place our bottle/s in middle of suitcase, well padded by our clothes in cubes @kevrosmith

Frequently "need" to bring several bottles from syd to bne. Bottle= about 1.5kg so carry-on.
When you buy single bottles delivered they are often very well packaged, so I keep an reuse that packaging.
Just adding... would similarly attempting to transport Champagne/sparkling end up a travel mistake?

 

[kookaburra75]

And we place our bottle/s in middle of suitcase, well padded by our clothes in cubes @kevrosmith

Frequently "need" to bring several bottles from syd to bne. Bottle= about 1.5kg so carry-on.
When you buy single bottles delivered they are often very well packaged, so I keep an reuse that packaging.
Just adding... would similarly attempting to transport Champagne/sparkling end up a travel mistake?

These have done the job for me, over several years of taking 4-6 bottles of wine to the UK for work meetings, and then getting whiskey or gin from Sainsbury to bring home

https://www.amazon.com.au/Protector-Conilly-Inflatable-Packaging-Transportation/dp/B0C1VBVPFK?th=1

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Just adding... would similarly attempting to transport Champagne/sparkling end up a travel mistake?

Can confirm that champagne/sparking is a BAD idea!

I took a bottle to India, it survived the flights undamaged and sat quietly in the hotel room fridge for three days before we decided to open it.

Hadn’t even unscrewed the cage fully when the top flew off, hit the ceiling, and 1/2 of the contents was lost to spray.

I thought perhaps a few days would have settled it down… but obviously not

 

[Beano]

There's always the leaking shampoo bottle, but hopefully in the toilet bag so it is the only thing affected.

 

[kookaburra75]

There's always the leaking shampoo bottle, but hopefully in the toilet bag so it is the only thing affected.

And soap powder - after my first 'escape' from a zip lock bag, I would always double bag it. Now, I go with detergent sheets, much safer

 

[Flashback]

These have done the job for me, over several years of taking 4-6 bottles of wine to the UK for work meetings, and then getting whiskey or gin from Sainsbury to bring home

https://www.amazon.com.au/Protector-Conilly-Inflatable-Packaging-Transportation/dp/B0C1VBVPFK?th=1

... and I have 1 of these sitting in my cupboard here, whenever I used to do click and collect orders from Harvey Nics the bottles would come wrapped in them. So, that is 1 bottle of sloe gin for someone nice and protected to take back to Aus ......