Identification tag

Indiabound

We are leaving USA tomorrow afternoon. I see the green Tauck tag is paper with light elastic tie on and goes on my main bag. Any thoughts on how it stays on bag and gets seen or do I tuck it in an outside pocket and hope I remember to expose it when I get my bag in Delhi? Thoughts

AlanS

Indiabound wrote:

We are leaving USA tomorrow afternoon. I see the green Tauck tag is paper with light elastic tie on and goes on my main bag. Any thoughts on how it stays on bag and gets seen or do I tuck it in an outside pocket and hope I remember to expose it when I get my bag in Delhi? Thoughts

I was concerned about that before our first trip, but never had a problem and never lost one in 8 trips. Just looped through the handle via the provided elastic, they always lasted through multiple airline baggage handling evolutions, hotel porters, and in the baggage compartment of planes and buses. When I forgot to remove them for the return flights they were a little worse for wear, but always still attached to our luggage when we got home.

Indiabound

Thank you AlanS. Very helpful and supportive.

Sandman1

The tags are for use by the hotels in sorting out your luggage when you arrive and place it into your room. Have done many trips and never saw anyone with a problem, but I know the tour leader has extra tags in his or her bag of tricks and can replace if it gets lost mid trip. You can also email Tauck and request a couple of extra if you want to have spares. They have always sent me when I asked.

AshvEd

We attach the tags at our arrival baggage claim area. Extra tags are always available from the TD. They stay on for the entire trip and we remove them at checkin for our return flight.

joycesw

Same as Ed...attach them when we arrive at baggage claim. With that said, they are always on our bags when we depart and are always still attached when we arrive home. I just took a Tauck tag off my suitcase a few weeks ago when I left for another trip, so I guess they are pretty secure!

British

Only once has a Tauck tag disappeared from one of our bags. We put ours on before we leave home, which I believe is what Tauck recommends because if your bags go missing or are delayed, it helps identify them. When our bags were delayed twenty four hours in Arusha, the bags were easily identified by the guys collecting the next group of Tauck guests and the bags were brought to us. We also look out for tags at the airport when we arrive at our destination and it helps us identify other Tauck travelers. It also helps the Tauck bag helpers identify our bags at the smaller airports where they will be by the baggage claim area, so we don’t even have to lift our bags off the carousel.
Every tour has a different color tag. So of you see a Tauck tour tag of a different color than yours, they will be on a different tour.

BKMD

I attach the tag before leaving for the trip. I've never lost the Tauck luggage tag, but once, on arrival in Australia, my "regular" tag mysteriously vanished (and I purchased a replacement in an airport shop). As already stated above, the Tour Director has plenty of extras in the event something happens to it.

Sealord

For some trips they have “carry on” luggage tags as well. I put one on my back pack. Keeps the carry on separate from the checked luggage.

travelingteacher

All the above comments are accurate....and I also put mine on after my arrival and don't take it off for my return flight....never lost one and it makes it even easier for the skycap to locate and identify my bag as it comes off the luggage ramp. Even after returning home and taking national flights, tags have stayed on and again....easy to spot the bag at baggage claim as so many are now the same color and size (and my luggage is purple- lots of those, too). The tags are much sturdier than you would expect.

judy05

We usually attach our tags before we leave the house. We had a funny experience upon arrival in Chile. The airport has a scanning machine your bags have to go through just before exiting into the lobby. As we approached the machine -- all of a sudden several of the handlers said "TAUCK! TAUCK!" -- like we were some kind of celebrities. They lifted our luggage -- put it through the scanner -- retrieved it -- and carried it out to the lobby area for us. I guess they have found that Tauck travelers are good tippers!!

Claudia Sails

British wrote:

Only once has a Tauck tag disappeared from one of our bags. We put ours on before we leave home, which I believe is what Tauck recommends because if your bags go missing or are delayed, it helps identify them. When our bags were delayed twenty four hours in Arusha, the bags were easily identified by the guys collecting the next group of Tauck guests and the bags were brought to us. We also look out for tags at the airport when we arrive at our destination and it helps us identify other Tauck travelers. It also helps the Tauck bag helpers identify our bags at the smaller airports where they will be by the baggage claim area, so we don’t even have to lift our bags off the carousel.
Every tour has a different color tag. So of you see a Tauck tour tag of a different color than yours, they will be on a different tour.

The different colors gave us a moment of confusion last summer when we arrived at the hotel in Edinburgh for the ESW tour after our Seine cruise had ended. We hadn't switched the tags yet and at first the door man spotted the wrong color Tauck tag and thought there was a mistake.

The tags don't get that much handling on the river cruises so I hadn't seen how much punishment they can take until the ESW land tour. By the time we got home they were still on our bags but so twisted and ragged looking it was kind of amazing.

joycesw

Funny thing about those Tauck tags...many years ago we stopped over in London on our own after a Tauck European trip. We stayed at the Langham ( that was a hotel that Tauck used at the time, and we had figured it must be pretty good if they were staying there). Our Tauck tags were still on our bags, and the bellman panicked when he saw the tags saying that he hadn’t been told a Tauck group was coming in! It took some explaining to assure him that he had not missed the memo and a group was not descending on the hotel!

British

We never leave old travel tags on luggage to avoid any confusion if our bags go missing. Especially the airline ones. Please everyone, remove those old Tauck tags.

Claudia Sails

British wrote:

We never leave old travel tags on luggage to avoid any confusion if our bags go missing. Especially the airline ones. Please everyone, remove those old Tauck tags.

We would not have normally but just didn't have a chance to deal with them. The Savoy bellboy picked them up, then they transferred them into the car, got on the train and tossed them into the rack, then hustling thru the Edinburgh train station to find our driver. Since we knew we would be with them the whole time we weren't too worried.

Gecko

I add my own added strong string to tie it on the luggage additionally and cover the front and edges with packing tape so it is stronger and has worked so far!