Luggage
Please provide information on Luggage restrictions. Traveling with my mom and I’m responsible for keeping up with our luggage. She would like to have a checked bag ( with wheels as well as a carry-on with wheel).
Myself a backpack and a checked bag works. Please provide any additional insight. I think the backpacks should be the only carry-ons for both of us. I’m prepared to carry both. Mother and daughter team age (50 and 80). Yes we’re both in great shape. On January 26th 2018 trip.
Myself a backpack and a checked bag works. Please provide any additional insight. I think the backpacks should be the only carry-ons for both of us. I’m prepared to carry both. Mother and daughter team age (50 and 80). Yes we’re both in great shape. On January 26th 2018 trip.
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Tauck will handle your checked baggage. They will pick them up from inside your room and put them in vehicles and deliver them to your next room. If you decide that you don't need your rolling carry-ons with you, they will be very kind and handle them the same way as the checked baggage (although they are only planning on one/customer, they will accommodate you). Is it possible to get down to one rolling carry on between the two of you plus a personal item each? You would only need to have your personal items with you in the vehicles.
It is obvious your mom is under a misconception concerning what people wear on this trip or flying - even 1st/Business Class. Gone are the days of Bogart and McCall where they dressed formally or elegantly for dinner even when on safari. Many days you won't even have time to change for dinner after a late afternoon game drive. Everything you wear should be simple, comfortable, and utilitarian safari wear or at most resort casual on a few evenings. It is totally acceptable to wear items more than once- no one will notice or care. There is no need to take a wheeled carry-on. You won't have any access to it for most of the trip, anyway. In, fact due to the size of standard luggage, how luggage is transported while on safari- in safari vehicles and small aircraft with limited baggage capacity and very limited or no under-seat and no overheat storage- you won't have access to any of your standard luggage for much of the trip.
After you leave Ngorongo Crater lodge early in the morning of Day 3 and for the net three days/two nights in the Serengeti you will only have what you transferred (the night before) to and can carry in your Tauck-supplied duffel bag (and a small personal handbag/backpack). You will not be reunited with your regular luggage until you arrive in Amboseli sometime in the afternoon of Day 6. The same goes for Kenya- you will switch to the duffel bag (again packing the night before) before flying to the Maasai Mara on Day 10. You will not be reunited with your large luggage again until the end of the trip when you arrive at your hotel in Nairobi around noon on Day 13.
The "Before You Go" tab for this trip on the Tauck website and the green spiral-bound book you will receive once you have paid, provide luggage weight restrictions. Don't confuse those with airline guidance which could be more strict or lenient.
Baggage handler's with Tauck duffel bags:
Typical aircraft interior:
Typical group/typical attire during "equator" talk and demonstration at the Mount Kenya Safari club. Several people have their own backpacks on the ground in front of them: