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[slemslempike]

I have been packing, unpacking, repacking over and over again. I have 30kg of baggage allowance with Qatar Airways, and each 5kg over will cost $200. I was feeling smug when I had managed to get my two bags at 29.5kg, but then I walked into the bathroom and saw toiletries:misc that had not been included, and then remembered I'd been told that wellies were vital, and I'm sure there are at least five other things just waiting to taunt me at midnight on Sunday. What I will probably end up doing is stuffing everything into my handluggage and hoping very hard they don't weigh that. If there is anything absolutely vital I can ask Jess to bring it when she joins me next month (YAAAAAY) but of course she will need her own weight restriction for her stuff. So far the key victims of weight allownace are candles, books (including knitting patterns), and foodstuffs. I am also yet to pack any pants, but how heavy can those be?

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[el_staplador]

I misread 'pants' as 'pans' and thought, 'very, surely?' But not for long.

[slemslempike]

Ha! It currently feels like there are pans in htere.

[sam_t]

I know people who have gone on caving expeditions to remote areas with very minimal baggage allowance and have therefore got on the plane wearing as much cold weather safety and camping equipment as they could get away with. I'm not sure how many of the stories are apocryphal (or just old enough that security personnel were a bit more flexible on the crucial points), but I'm reliably informed that wellies rolled up and stuffed into the pockets of the coat you wear onto the plane do not count as part of your weight allowance. On the other hand, putting a large spanner inside one of your wellingtons which is inside the other wellington (upside down) and then stuffed into the rucksack you're taking on as hand luggage is not recommended, even when it turns out that the non-English-speaking security staff are merely bemused rather than suspicious, because explaining the maintenance of caving gear and what you've been doing with it via the medium of mime is surprisingly tricky.

Anyway, how you go about acquiring a coat with sufficiently large pockets and then not expiring from heat exhaustion in hot airports afterwards was not specified, so this is probably not helpful advice.

I hope all the travelling goes well!

[katlinel]

You should wear all your knickers to travel in. You may need very loose and wide trousers on top, but at least it will save the luggage allowance in packing them.

Also what everyone else seems to do is go through security and then buy another suitcase worth's of stuff in the duty free shops, which they then insist has to go in the overhead lockers, although so far, I have noted that there is a distinct lack of knitting patterns in said shops.

[girlofprey]

and each 5kg over will cost $200

Gosh. You'd have to take pure heroin for that to be financially worth it.

Haha, don't make that joke at the airport! (Hope the packing goes well)