Travel with Razor question

DavidF2

We are asll really looking forward to our Family Safari in June/July, but I had a question regarding travelling with a Safety Razor and blades on the internal flight at the end of our tour.

I usually need to put the blades in the hold luggage, but was not sure what the policy is regarding blades on the internal flight. Does anyone know if I would be able to have these on that flight, or do I need to plan to bring a catridge razor?

Many thanks in advance for your help.
David

British

Put them in your checked luggage! Or you can carry disposable razors in carry on luggage. Bettter still, grow a beard, who wants to shave at 5am before game drive anyway! Enjoy Tanzania, my favorite African country.

DavidF2

Thank you British, was not sure if the internal flight had checked luggage.
Not sure that the beard option would go down well with my wife , but will not be shaving every day.
We are definitely looking forward to the trip.

AlanS

DavidF2 wrote:

We are all really looking forward to our Family Safari in June/July, but I had a question regarding travelling with a Safety Razor and blades on the internal flight at the end of our tour.

I usually need to put the blades in the hold luggage, but was not sure what the policy is regarding blades on the internal flight. Does anyone know if I would be able to have these on that flight, or do I need to plan to bring a catridge razor?

Many thanks in advance for your help.
David

You fly out of very tiny municipal airports. There were no security check points and neither our carry-on handbags nor Tauck duffels were checked or scanned before any of the 4 internal flights* on K&T (I never saw a scanner, metal detector, or anyone that looked official.) The only field with any sort of terminal building was at Arusha. There was a small building at the Seregeti strip but we didn't enter. The Masai Mara just had a dirt strip with a small 10' X 10' block building with thatched roof- a "gift shop". We just walked from our safari vehicles to and boarded the planes while our duffels were loaded at each place. The aircraft were all small turbo prop commuter-style planes- Cessna Caravan, etc.

*Serengeti to Arusha, Amboseli to Nanyuki (Mount Kenya), Nanyuki to Masai Mara, Masai Mara to Nairobi.



Baggage handlers and our Tauck duffels at Arusha (the municipal field, not where international flights land):



At Amboseli, one of the drivers had to chase a group of zebras off the runway before we could take off!

During one flight I sat in the co-pilot's seat:



One of two planes taking our group from Nanyuki to the Masai Mara:

British

The final flight is from Zanzibar to Dar Es Salem if I remember correctly, so these are more conventional airports. You have to go through quite a few security lines when you get to Dar, it's strict there.