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shipping luggage between home & ship #108306 04/18/07 11:45 AM
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My wife & I are thinking of shipping our bags from home (Long Island, NY) to Regent VOYAGER (in Funchal) & then home (Ft. Lauderdale to NY).

Has anyone had any experience with any of these companies?

Luggage Free
Luggage Express
Luggage Concierge
The Luggage Club
Luggage Forward
First Luggage
Virtual Bellhop
Express Baggage

- or with any other company offering point-to-point service?

We have used International Port Service, & while on-time with both deliveries they demolished 1 of our bags (though not its contents) & appear more expensive than many others.(To be fair, because we had purchased extra insurance coverage & were able to send them both a receipt for the recently purchased bag plus photos of the damage IPS did reimburse us quickly for the cost of that bag.)

We expect charges to be hefty but it is a necessary service for us. I am not physically capable of muscling baggage about.

In addition, our flight to Funchal will involve 3 aircraft from 2 different companies (Comair, NY to Boston; SATA, Boston to Punto Delgado; & a 2nd SATA aircraft, Punto Delgado to Funchal), increasing the possibility that something may be mis-directed at some exchange. Our ship will spend 8 days on the Atlantic on leaving Funchal before docking in Florida. There is thus no 'next port' at which mis-directed bags could catch up to us.

The idea of 8 days without a change of clothes chills the blood. Surely someone, crew or fellow passenger, would try to heave us overboard after 3 or 4 days.

We think (hope) that placing our bags in the hands of a single (reliable!) shipper might make such a problem less likely. We are therefore trying to determine which of the shipping companies offers the most reliable track record.

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alelpe -

Welcome to LCT - we're on the same cruise - we call it CROSS (Crusing Regent on Smooth Seas). I'm the keeper of the roll call thread and we'd love to add you - just reply with your cruising companion name and stateroom number and I will put you on the list!

We're going to schlep our bags from LAX to Paris and Paris to Monte Carlo, Fort Lauderdale back to Los Angeles, so we can't anser you about shipping your bags. I know some of the cruisers here have used a service that Regent has recommended.


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Hi Alepe and welcome to the board! There was a shipping luggage post awhile back with some good info on it, I will try and find it for you!


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Hi alelpe,

I am unable to offer personal experience, shipping luggage from home. However, last month the Los Angeles Times Travel section had an informative article that may be of help -

LA Times Shipping Luggage

Welcome to LCT and to the Voyager transatlantic crossing in November, fondly referred to here on LCT as CROSS. My husband, Alan, and I will be cruising with you. We are native NYers, now living in SOCAL. Looking forward to meeting you and your wife!


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Here are a few posts discussing luggage shipping services:

shipping luggage post

and here

and here


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Hi Alelpe - we too are on this cruise, and will look forward to meeting you and your wife.

I don't have any experience with shipping luggage, we usually just take our chances and take it with us, but I understand your issue with not being able to handle all the luggage yourself.

Hopefully some of the above threads will help you find a good situation for your luggage.

In the meantime, please join in our discussions for this cruise, under "Cruise Roll Calls and Acronym List" then under "CROSS", you will find lots of fun people on this cruise and as time goes on lots of good information.

Welcome to LCT - the best chat board on the face of the Earth!!! :D :lct:


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alelpe: I will be interested in your decision on a company - we will be on the Voyager for 2 weeks in June/July and then fly to Rome and that flight allows 40 lbs per person - I doubt we can do 3 weeks with 40 lbs so may be interested in shipping some luggage from CPH back to Florida -


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As a LCT person for some time now, I must say it still astounds me (us) just how helpful this group is.....alelpe, you have come to the right place.


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To all who responded so quickly to my question about shipping luggage between home & ship-

To all of you, my deep thanks. I had tried 3 other board sites with the most meager results. I stumbled into LTC & found a barrage of excellent, informative replies within hours. We are delighted & impressed.

To ChatKat, keeper of the rollcall for the November VOYAGER cruise, & to everyone else who reported they would be sharing this cruise & offered to meet, my name is Al(vin) Bernstein; my wife is Elly (not an abbreviation of anything). Since she is an old-fashioned goil she has used my last name since our marriage 100 years ago. We will be perched in cabin 860.

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Al, we aim to please ;) I hope we can answer more of your questions!


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Hey Al - we are neighbors - we are 861, other side of the hall, but in the same section. We were in 862 (next door to you) last time on Voyager, so will look for you and Elly. I'm sure this group will plan to meet up at the pool for sailaway, so come and join us there, or wherever we decide to meet up, it will be posted here at some point.

I'm sure Kathy (Chatkat) will add your cabin to the roll call, if she hasn't already done so.


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Al,

So good that you "stumbled" onto LCT. You know what they say - "The third time's the charm!"

See you and Elly in November! How I wish you could sneak aboard some great NY deli and bialys for Alan and me ;)


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Al: You and Elly sound like such fun - wish I were cruising with you in November! (especially if you're bringing some NY deli onboard) :D :D :D :ch: :ch: PS Let me know what you decide about luggage shipping


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Oh yes - I love bialys too!!!


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Welcome, Al and Elly! I know nothing about shipping luggage but am happy you found some guidance here at LCT. It truly is a wonderful forum with the most helpful travelers, as you quickly discovered. My husband and I will be on the Voyager crossing in November with you. I look forward to meeting you!


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Joanna & others,

I haven't forgotten your wish to be informed of our decision about shipping luggage. I simply want to warn you to be patient. With so many companies on my list it will take time to sort them out- to the degree we can. Sailing is still >6 months off, & with the companies all willing to go into action at short notice (days or even hours) we can take the time to make the best search we can & get back to you then. We will not charge you by the hours invested.

I am aware that extending search time does not necessarily guarantee better results. Years ago my friend Alex, the Mad Hungarian, decided he needed a new car. He spent weeks researching every available make, tormented us with endless questions. Finally, he decided (on a Rover); we all sighed with relief. He bought 1 & drove it home. Making a sharp left onto a busy street there was a loud Clunk!- & his transmission fell onto the road.

Finding good delis or bagels or bialys is becoming very difficult. One of the best delis (2nd Avenue Deli, if you know NY) closed. Apparently a landlord/rent problem. The wonderful bagels of my youth -baked rock-hard with a bright, shiny surface (due to earlier boiling says Elly) & chewy, gummy & fragrant inside are all but gone, replaced by great, soft tasteless pillows made of a bizarre assortment of flours, with blueberries, raisins & the kitchen sink embedded.

Good Bialys (pletzls to Initiates) are also disappearing.

The tragic decline of these treasures is in no way compensated by the growing scourge of Burger Holes, Blimpies, Taco Bells, Subways, et al.

As my father said: "Progress can be hard to take".

Best wishes to everyone from Lawn Guyland.

Elly & Al.

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Al and Elly: I am so appreciative of your research and love your fees!!! AND your wonderful sense of humor!!! Joanna


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Al and Elly,
I echo Joanna's sentiments. I have been following this because I have a 16 day vacation cruise/land trip in September, and I am dreading the amount of luggage I may have to lug around.
Thanks for keeping us updated.
Lynn

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Al - love your sense of humor! Welcome to LCT! :)

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Hi Al and Elly,

Welcome to LCT! My husband and I will also be on Voyager's CROSS but, unfortunately, only on the 1st segment so we will not get an opportunity to meet :( .

Hope you find a good company among all those choices. Keep us posted!

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Welcome Al and Elly - I am Nini and my husband is Bud - we will also be with you on the Voyager in November and look forward to meeting you then.

Nini

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We have a GREAT Bialy bakery in Los Angeles in "the old neighborhood". I get them all the time from the Back East Bialy Bakery on Pico. My family was in the bakery, grocery and meat business in LA -via Brooklyn, San Francisco, Boyle Heights, and originaly Bialystock. My great grandparents owned the first Jewish Bakery in Los Angeles - circa 1906 and continued into the 1960's by my great uncles and cousins.


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MC to FLL 11/07
MC/Dover 6/06
MARINER:
BCN / Ven 10/11
Alaska 2001|2006
Panama Canal 2003
NAV
Caribbean 11/06
Bermuda|New Eng/Canada 6/04
PG 5/05
OCEANIA
Nautica |Ist/Athens 6/07
Regatta|Baltics 6/08
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ChatKat - My grandmother was married to a man named Bialyes (I think) - he was from Bialystock. I was born in L.A. and lived there for my first 16 years and remember the Fairfax area very fondly. We would often shop there for Jewish goodies that you can no longer get here in S. Florida.

P.S. the bagels on the Navigator were terrible.

NIni

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Nini,

I am in Boca as we speak...have you tried bakery goods from Ben's? Bonnie (BeBop Bonnie) was helpful a while back and I sent some takeout to my friend's mother who was recovering from surgery (Chicken Soup - what else!) from there and some other goodies. They have bakery goods. My friend liked them, but, I haven't tried them. Maybe tomorrow for brunch!

When I flew in , you could see the Mariner in port and the many passengers on my plane were going to be sailing on her. There were Regent luggage tags all over the place at baggage claim and the port agent was there too (sniff). My luggage had a tag too - but - I was not sailing! Just visiting for a long weekend.

The Bagels on Navigator were frozen Sara Lee or Lender's. Yes, not the best. We have Western Bagel in California, which are pretty good - not great but better than the Lenders.


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MC/Dover 6/06
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Alaska 2001|2006
Panama Canal 2003
NAV
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Bermuda|New Eng/Canada 6/04
PG 5/05
OCEANIA
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Regatta|Baltics 6/08
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Where is Ben's? I'll definitely try it for baked stuff - I make my own chicken soup.

Thanks for the info - have a great weekend in Boca.

Nini

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When we lived in Queens, we used to buy bagles from the small bagel/bialy stores. Nothing beat the smell of those being baked. You could smell the onion and garlic blocks away!

We also had a bakery, located in Bayside, Queens - The Cake Box. Superb German/Jewish bakery. It was open in the mid-1950's and is still in business.

Nini, I make my own chicken soup, too.

Al, You have a marvelous sense of humor!


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I lived in Bayside (I think it was called Belle Bay Apartments) and remember the Cake Box. It was wonderful.

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OMG! What a small world, Nini! We lived in Bay Terrace on Bell Blvd. I know exactly where you lived! When did you live in Bayside? We moved from the Bronx to Bayside in 1955. I graduated Bayside HS in 1968. My parents both passed away and we finally sold the cooperative in 1997.


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I love small world tales. What a very small world Denise & Nini!!!!!


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Isn't it amazing...such a small world. From NY to LA and FL...and then to LCT!


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Ben's I think is off Yamato somewhere....

I make my own soup too, but, you can't send it from LA to Boca very easily. My friend's mother is still talking about how I cooked for her for a week from 2500 miles away with a phone call and help from an LCT friend.


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Panama Canal 2003
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PG 5/05
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Thanks - I'll have to look it up. There is also a wonderful Kosher take out in North Miami Beach where we fill in with stuff that I don't bother with for the holidays (like gifelte fish - I couldn't possibly make it as well as they do).

Nini

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Several people have commented on the smallness of the world simply within the LTC universe. That caught my attention & forced me to set aside my reticent nature & take up space here again.

At least 3 native Noo Yawkuz spoke up:- Denise & Nini from the middle-class strivers of Queens, & ChatKat from the riotous outpost of Brooklyn. My own roots are buried within the cement of B'klyn, & I wondered whether her roots & mine had achieved any early intertwining.

My own world was south Williamsburg, at the foot of the W'burg Bridge, behind the Navy Yard. North W'burg was made more famous by Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"in the '40s. It brought travel agents & tourists. Once, a large bus loaded with gawkers mistakenly came to our southern streets (hi yizall), forcing a halt to our punchball game so it could pass. We could hear someone inside describing our tenements & jammed streets in unkind terms (in retrospect, probably accurate). Enraged, we threw garbage at them. The windows came down; the description ended; the bus fled & never returned. I always remembered this, with some embarrassed sympathy, whenever a ship deposited us on the unfortunate population of some small & doubtless backward island.

The world of my childhood in the streets of W'burg was, I believe, vastly different from that of today's non-ghetto children. We hit the streets after breakfast (after school on week-days) & were free, unsupervised. We had only to re-appear for lunch, then resume our street lives until dinner. Seldom asked what we had been doing, we almost never volunteered anything. We spent the hours in invented seasonal games. Without supervision, arguments constantly interrupted every game, requiring countless "do-overs". When a do-over resulted in an undeniable outcome, the complainant in whose favor this went jeered his opponent with cries of "Chinky-Cho".(Probably originally 'Chinky-Chose'. I don't know the origin of this but it seems ugly now & best forgotten.)

Most games were innocuous, a very few dangerous (jumping roofs; a little thievery), & some disgusting (eg, playing marbles in April, rolling glass balls through puddles of accumulated filth along the curbs). This exposure probably gave us all robust immune systems.

Middle-class children now seem never to be alone. I dislike Little League because it seems to stamp out spontaneity & to press the child with the need to live out the parent's fantasy. I understand parents even make formal social appointments for their youngsters, planning every party, hovering, directing. It saddens me that these children never seem to know the joy of full, private freedom & getting away from adults.

Here endeth today's lesson. To continue, please deposit another 25 cents,

On review, this ramble seems out of place here, so after this indulgence I shall try to restrict any comments I might make in future to matters more cruise-ian.

Al

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Hi Al,

Your "indulgence" put a smile on my "punim." Please don't restrict yourself to just cruise discussion. I am so enjoying your posts.

I fondly remember punchball, stickball, potsy and skully (remember that game with the bottlecaps?). It was a kinder time, where children could play outside without the warnings and fear today's youth has pounded into their heads at such a young age.

My Grandmother lived on Brighton 4th Street, a half a block from the boardwalk and beach. I have such beautiful memories of many, many precious times spent with her wandering on the boardwalk, sitting on the beach and atop the jetty, stopping in the old Pavillion to listen to her Russian contemporaries speak of the "old country" and sing Russian folk songs. The best pizza and knishes were right across from the Pavillion. My Grandfather played cards in the card club right next door to the knish store.

We would go shopping on the Avenue, visiting the "Chicken Lady" who, after you chose a chicken that was dangling in the window, would take her meat cleaver and cut up the chicken to my Grandmother's specifications. My Grandmother would then prepare chicken soup with that chicken - feet and all - in the sumptuous broth! Then off to Ebinger's for cake or Charlotte Russe for desert.

Lots of fond and loving memories! Thanks, Al, for starting such a great dialogue!

Please keep the conversation going!


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Al, don't think about stopping - I have a handful of quarters sitting here!!!!!! Joanna


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Can't help chiming in to this great conversation. First of all, Denise - I remember my grandmother's chicken soup, feet and all, and it was wonderful. She was also from Russia.

I grew up in Southern California and lived there until I was 16. We lived on the "wrong side" of Beverly Hills (south of Wilshire) and, as Al described, were always outside and totally unsupervised. It was just a different (and probably nicer) time to be a kid. We moved to NY when I was in my last year of high school - I lived in Manhattan, Queens and back to Manhattan until 1971, when we finally made it down to Florida.

Back to my Grandmother, for a minute, she lived with us and for a while, shared my room and I fondly remember some great times with her. When I would read a book for school (such as Little Women), she would read it along with me. I only hope that our grandchildren will have such great memories of us.

It's funny - Bud and I are pretty much loners and almost always travel alone. However, since I got up the nerve to join this board, I am really looking forward to meetiing everyone on CROSS.

Nini

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Memories of those carefree days are wonderful! We, too, left the house (summer) after breakfast, returned for quick lunch or maybe didn't ate at friend's house (we never called home and no one worried), back for dinner and outside again until you heard your mother calling your name from the back porch as it was getting dark- we entertained ourselves all day!! Today I am afraid to leave my granddaughters out of my sight for too long - my grandfather had the most wonderful Irish brogue. He lived with us until I was 11 yrs old and when I would fall or cry for being punished I always felt so safe hearing him sing to me hoping to make me feel better: (settle down Lassie he'd say before singing)

Over in Killarney
Many years ago,
Me Mither sang a song to me
In tones so sweet and low.
Just a simple little ditty,
In her good ould Irish way,
And l'd give the world if she could sing
That song to me this day.

"Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, Too-ra-loo-ra-li,
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, hush now, don't you cry!
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, Too-ra-loo-ra-li,
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, that's an Irish lullaby."

And I loved his Irish lamb stew and his sense of humor. I have told Denise I know I was born to a Jewish family and was accidentally switched at birth and was sent home with an Irish family! OY!


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One common thread for all of us, regardless of where we came from, what religion, race, or nationality - we all have wonderful memories to reflect upon, hold within our hearts and share!

Joanna, You were switched at birth, but my sister, nonetheless :hug:


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Re: shipping luggage between home & ship #108344 04/23/07 02:13 PM
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ollie Offline
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And the lesson is that these memories must be shared with our children and grandchildren. My grandmother never told us anything about her childhood, etc. so, as a result, I know nothing about where she came from, which is very sad.

Re: shipping luggage between home & ship #108345 04/23/07 02:14 PM
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Here you go Al ~
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What a terrific exchange you have inspired here, on this thread!!! Please don't stop!!!!
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