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Shipping Luggage from Lyon, France to U.S.

JimJPettit

We want to ship 2 check-in size pieces of luggage from Lyon, France to the U.S. Additional problem: our Tauck riverboat docks in Lyon on Sept 12 at the end of our trip so the pickup of our luggage is early in the morning on the last day and also Tauck cannot tell us exactly where to have a shipping company come to pick up the 2 pieces of luggage. Possibly Quai Claud Bernard, Lyon. Please (1) recommend a shipping company and (2) offer advice on the awkward pick up situation. Thanks! Jim Pettit

Comments

British

Just want to question why you want to do this as Tauck will handle you luggage to the airport I think very few people here have shipped luggage especially from a ship

MikeHenderson

I looked into it but never decided to use one of the services. The big problem looks like the ambiguity in where you're going to dock. If you can resolve that, I'm sure the service will work well.

Goddess

Plan to stay at a hotel one night after the cruise and then you will know the address for a luggage pick up. I think it's a great idea and have looked into doing that when I no longer want to deal with luggage. Traveling alone and getting older presents challenges.

JimJPettit

To respond to the comments (and thanks for commenting): We fly from disembarking in Lyon (LYS airport) to CDG in Paris. The airline moved our flight from Paris to Philadelphia dramatically earlier and so having Tauck get our luggage to the Lyon (LYS), France airport will not solve our problem. We would still have to get our luggage inParis baggage claim, details it thorough Customs, get it through Immigration (passport control), get it through airport security, and check it in one hour before our flight (American Airlines policy in Paris). There is very little chance we can do all of that and make our flight. We are trying to ascertain if a luggage shipping company has to get our luggage through French customs by itself (i.e., without us) while we are going from the boat to the LYS airport without the luggage.

Goddess

The bags should be checked to your final destination and only recovered for Customs in the first US stop, unless this is something new.....

MikeHenderson

Agree with Goddess. Unless they have a system for you to clear US customs in CDG, the bags will just be transferred from your flight from Lyon to your flight to Philadelphia without any customs checks - and without you touching the bags. When you arrive in the US, you will go through US customs and passport control.

But check to make sure that CDG does not have a system where you clear US customs there. There are some airports where that happens. In that case, when you arrive in the US it's like arriving from another US city. I know there are arrangments like that in some Canadian cities (Vancouver was one). That allows the airline to fly to US cities that do not have customs and passport set-ups.

I think I encountered that arrangement in some other airports but I don't remember which ones now.

kfnknfzk

Goddess is correct. If your flights are on one ticket, your baggage goes all the way through to your final destination.

Goddess

Ireland has that set up.

British

Also agree with Goddess and Mike. Or call AAirlines and tell them to change your flight.

JaneP

In the Frankfurt airport there was a US immigration point to go thru to get back to the US but they still checked the bags all the way thru to the US (originating in Athens that day). I remember years and years ago having to retrieve luggage in the first Schengen country you arrived in and then you had to recheck them but I’ve never done that on the way back to the US - but then it’s similar on the US end and you retrieve them at your first stop in the US and recheck if your final destination is different…

kfnknfzk

JimJPettit - To clarify my comment, whether you need to collect your luggage at CDG depends on how all legs of your routing were ticketed. If all legs were booked on one ticket under one reservation number, your bags will be sent to your final destination in the U.S. If not, you will need to collect your bags at CDG then recheck them. If in doubt, contact the airline. Good luck to you.