What sort of things do people bring out?

Linnyloos


Joined: 30/11/2008
Posts: 483

Message Posted:
05/06/2010 18:17

What is the biggest or unusual item you have brought over on your flight? I have heard of people bringing out Televisions and even a rotary line.



Just curious.

Scoty


Joined: 23/05/2010
Posts: 846

Message Posted:
05/06/2010 18:21

TV's, Laptops but the biggest was the wife

newlad



Joined: 02/03/2008
Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
05/06/2010 18:23

Bet she doesnt post on here Scoty,lol

mollycorbin


Joined: 12/03/2010
Posts: 390

Message Posted:
05/06/2010 18:43

Betcha she does!!



Linnyloos, guitars and framed artwork.

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
05/06/2010 18:47

Linda



We have some friends who took a vacuum cleaner

Linnyloos


Joined: 30/11/2008
Posts: 483

Message Posted:
05/06/2010 18:49

I brought a large Dyson over for my friend last year.



I would like to bring a rotary line myself but although I know someone did this I don't want it taken off me at the airport.

sienna


Joined: 09/01/2009
Posts: 1627

Message Posted:
05/06/2010 18:53

we have brought over everything apart from the kitchen sink



Vacuum cleaner, crockery, cutlery, pictures, shelves, bedding, umbrellas garden storage box even a kitchen bin



I have seen peopel with TVs microwaves etc we didnt go that far



I know madness!! once we had 100kg of luggage flying into Larnaca and did not pay a peny with BA a nice man checked us in - I doubt we would get awy with now

RachB



Joined: 07/05/2010
Posts: 75

Message Posted:
07/06/2010 11:30

My other half has taken over a microwave and is bringing another with him (as well as some ceiling lights) next week when he goes out!

Blackpoolfan


Joined: 03/12/2008
Posts: 1568

Message Posted:
07/06/2010 11:56

The Wife

Jodienjon


Joined: 12/05/2010
Posts: 316

Message Posted:
07/06/2010 11:59

He couldnt bring be over a baby walker an dplay mat could he lol

sienna


Joined: 09/01/2009
Posts: 1627

Message Posted:
07/06/2010 12:27

yep all ceiling lights they expensive out there, DVD players, mats for the floor - this soudns like the generation game, cuddly toy oops showing my age now

rigsby


Joined: 21/09/2007
Posts: 912

Message Posted:
07/06/2010 12:32

I once brought a petrol hedgecutter in.Was waiting to be pulled at Stanstead about it,Nothing.It was brand new and had not got any petrol in it.And also brought in a decent engineers vice.Paid lots of excess baggage charges on that one,Airport staff wanted £95 but we done a deal,£50.

Geoff


Joined: 25/06/2008
Posts: 1370

Message Posted:
07/06/2010 13:14

Too;s and MONEY (to avoid bank transfer charges).

Geoff

professoregit


Joined: 30/08/2008
Posts: 381

Message Posted:
07/06/2010 13:28

A water softener and kitchen taps, desktop computer with flat screen. A frozen leg of lamb and several packs of smoked salmon and serano ham, a couple of packs of butchers choice pork sausages, some Stilton and Cambazola cheese. All neatly packed in suitcase. Not together I might add.

MarkVPiazza


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 530

Message Posted:
07/06/2010 14:22

Rotary washing line and a pool cover (about 6 foot by 2ft round) twice - n extra charge from CTA



Only time we've been stopped at Ercan customs was with the pool covers - I think they were just interested in what it was !



Mark

hattikins


Joined: 17/02/2008
Posts: 2793

Message Posted:
07/06/2010 14:33

Ceiling fans, microwave, dvd player, garden vacuum, rotary washing line, lampshades, in fact everything bar the kitchen sink. Never had a problem with airlines and never paid excess baggage.

Jodienjon


Joined: 12/05/2010
Posts: 316

Message Posted:
07/06/2010 14:35

when you brought these things over how did you transport them, in a suitcase or in there boxes?

as i am going back at christmas and might have to bring bits over

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
07/06/2010 16:32

Two Years ago my friend Irene (Boglefan) brought over 2 full sides of salmon, square sausage, black pudding, tattie scones, scotch pies and cadburys cream eggs for hubby. Her suitcase was so heavy she brought hardly any clothes and had to keep washing them!



Chris

matula


Joined: 07/07/2008
Posts: 647

Message Posted:
07/06/2010 16:37

A friend of mine who shall be nameless got his wife to bring back a radiator for his Rover car last year!

HNComputers


Joined: 23/08/2009
Posts: 472

Message Posted:
07/06/2010 16:55

Molohiya stuffed with hellim packets hehe

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
07/06/2010 17:00

i usually bring back champange and good wines and cheeses for the deli. only once paid excess which was 200 pounds, so it was worth it to get my lovely customers the wines we couldnt get elsewhere x

kenny



Joined: 26/05/2008
Posts: 405

Message Posted:
07/06/2010 21:19

dont the sniffer dogs get a bit excited !

daisy dukes


Joined: 06/09/2008
Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
07/06/2010 21:23

You should ask arrry this...every time he comes over, he has his toothbrush in his pocket, and bags and bags of stuff for his friends!! And i really do mean...bags and bags!! My dogs have a whole bag of treats just for them!! lololololol





DD

AlsancakJack



Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 5762

Message Posted:
07/06/2010 21:25

One large astral telescope and a mountain bike for me and I did not get charged for either at Ercan or at Gatwick despite the rest of my baggage being slightly overweight.

rowlo



Joined: 12/10/2008
Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
07/06/2010 21:30

but mostly lots of cash and a good sense of humour,

Navek



Joined: 01/06/2008
Posts: 2656

Message Posted:
07/06/2010 21:33

Friends bring over whole square slice & black pudding, sirloin steaks, haggis,

Mothers Pride square sliced loaf, never had an ender yet :-(

More friends due out soon )))

Navek

Jodienjon


Joined: 12/05/2010
Posts: 316

Message Posted:
07/06/2010 22:28

how do you guys get away with it,

I had to pay 180gbp for excess baggage on my 30th birthday... this was all my birthday money gone... next time.im not gonna go im gonna ask you guys to get me bits



So unfair lol

mersin10



Joined: 05/11/2008
Posts: 94

Message Posted:
07/06/2010 23:12

heaviest thing i brought out besides a microwave was a four burner hob for my new kitchen .

arrry



Joined: 19/08/2008
Posts: 1235

Message Posted:
07/06/2010 23:13

My last bag full of goodies included.....black pudding , haggis, stilton, decaf tea bags,nan bread,dog bones /treats, dog collars,Melton Mowbrey pork pie, dvd player, Maxwell House coffee,monkey nuts,Gear stick and hand brake for car and just had room for a couple of T shirts !!

mersin10



Joined: 05/11/2008
Posts: 94

Message Posted:
07/06/2010 23:31

wot no bacon!

sienna


Joined: 09/01/2009
Posts: 1627

Message Posted:
07/06/2010 23:42

I have never paid for excess baggage and boy have we been over at times, have to say this was before all these silly restrictions, so took a lot more hand luggage.



Roy on BA he said you will never get that through as hand luggage I will put it through for you , luck on the day with who you get I think ! he was so good to us with our 100kg couldn't believe it

AmosKito


Joined: 14/03/2010
Posts: 5

Message Posted:
08/06/2010 06:48

Apart from a juicer and a flat screen telly i have brought 2 canary palm trees from B&Q in a bit of plastic pipe, Ialso took tongue and groove to make a small shed and power tools

simbas



Joined: 16/07/2007
Posts: 5943

Message Posted:
08/06/2010 07:08

The heaviest items we brought over was 2 wrought iron bar stools , but also have taken microwave .

Simbas

sienna


Joined: 09/01/2009
Posts: 1627

Message Posted:
08/06/2010 08:42

stoppppppppppppppppppppppppp all of you it will start him indoors off again I have jst managed to stop him collecting things to take !!! I can see the little cogs going around now )))))) I dont want tongue and groove I need shoes and clothes

Linnyloos


Joined: 30/11/2008
Posts: 483

Message Posted:
08/06/2010 09:10

So I can bring a rotary line out for myself then?



Him indoors won't like that!

trncoldboy


Joined: 02/02/2009
Posts: 182

Message Posted:
08/06/2010 09:21

Hi, Some years ago we actually took the largest Trampoline you can buy via Heathrow to Ercan. It was the 1st Trampoline to be seen in NC. It took up 4 Luggage trolleys , boy , were we popular at the check in desks !!!

Also took up most of the Minibus going to Lapta.

Anyway, we erected this huge Trampoline on the beaches at Deniz Kizi's , Mare Monte , Acapulco etc. All the kids loved it but nobody wanted to buy it even at cost price. Eventually, it found a home at a childrens playcentre in Lefkosa where the London TC paid with post dated cheques which ALL CLEARED.

girne


Joined: 14/01/2009
Posts: 438

Message Posted:
08/06/2010 10:44

My husbanb bought over a Grinder

Suffolk



Joined: 31/08/2008
Posts: 222

Message Posted:
08/06/2010 15:43

Similarly, rotary line, ceiling fans, chandelier!

Vaccum cleaner, safe, pressure washer and some heavy duty drains and covers (to go under our perimeter wall) so as to alleviate any future flooding of our garden next spring!

liz w



Joined: 09/10/2008
Posts: 270

Message Posted:
08/06/2010 18:39

I have just brought over a kingsize mattress topper !! and a couple of feather pillows they weighed in at 19.6kg at edinburgh and then the same bag was 21.4kg at stansted. !!

joandjelly


Joined: 24/02/2008
Posts: 2953

Message Posted:
08/06/2010 18:56

I've brought the usual suitcase full of saucepans and a huge flippin' fan for the car, quite tame really. But we did once give a lift into Kyrenia to a guy I was sitting next to on the plane who had an outboard motor for his boat.

The most amazing hand luggage I have ever seen was at Istanbul airport where people were sitting on huge great bigs sacks of stuff and one person even had a car windscreen with rope lashed round it that he carried onto the plane.

Nglbarnes



Joined: 08/02/2008
Posts: 89

Message Posted:
08/06/2010 20:17

Parasol and base, 4 x collapsible sunbeds, pictures, tv, tools, bbq, to name a few items

sienna


Joined: 09/01/2009
Posts: 1627

Message Posted:
08/06/2010 22:21

Blimey I thought we were mad a windscreen !!!!!!! out board motor completley barking !

HildySmith


Joined: 02/07/2009
Posts: 1708

Message Posted:
08/06/2010 22:34

I brought a flat screen TV/PC monitor in my suitcase.

Linnyloos


Joined: 30/11/2008
Posts: 483

Message Posted:
08/06/2010 22:45

Oh Lordy! Did these people own their own plane?? Who did they fly with to bring such large and strange items??



Good to hear of all the different things though. This time we've got lights, pillows, rotary line (just purchased ) The husband wants to bring a bike over next time.



I'm looking forward to the day we can travel with just hand luggage

ClaireCat44



Joined: 17/09/2008
Posts: 739

Message Posted:
09/06/2010 10:32

I bought my air con over from istanbul when I came as at that time they were very expensive and I needed it here!! Luckily, I had a contact in import/export so I only paid 1 dollar per cubic metre!! I also bought my TV, all my books, fans, hoover, carpets, in fact nearly everything apart from the furniture, which I sold before I came. And my 2 cats flew with me in the cabin as hand luggage with CTA!

sissy


Joined: 29/03/2008
Posts: 197

Message Posted:
09/06/2010 12:31

I am amazed people are allowed to take such big items.

Do you have to get permission before hand and do you have

to take them to where you check in the cases.

piggy


Joined: 15/02/2009
Posts: 132

Message Posted:
09/06/2010 18:16

I do think it depends with which airline you are flying with, I know that some airlines are quite specific on the size of goods and how many bags/items that you are putting through. Also, you need to take into account the weight you are putting through, i.e. anything over your allowance will be charged extra per kg.



May be a good idea to check the small print before making any decision!

PompeySmiths


Joined: 06/05/2009
Posts: 26

Message Posted:
09/06/2010 18:43

Where to start?



Gas BBQ, guitar, gazebo, garden table and chairs, yamaha keyboard, garden vac, henry vacuum cleaner, etc. etc. Even got 1m roll of garden screening through hand luggage at Heathrow a couple of weeks back!



Never paid extra. Mixture of carriers (BA, CTA, Cyprus Airways). Managed to blag if over weight



Nothing ventured

bridie


Joined: 18/09/2008
Posts: 308

Message Posted:
09/06/2010 19:26

My friend brought his Father over to Kibris in his coffin , and was charged £2000 customs duty!!! True, not a joke.

bridie


Joined: 18/09/2008
Posts: 308

Message Posted:
09/06/2010 19:32

My friend brought his Father over to Kibris in his coffin , and was charged £2000 customs duty!!! True, not a joke.

rowlo



Joined: 12/10/2008
Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
09/06/2010 20:09

msg48 , you must have a big suitcase ?

rowlo



Joined: 12/10/2008
Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
09/06/2010 20:11

msg48 , you must have a big suitcase ?

HildySmith


Joined: 02/07/2009
Posts: 1708

Message Posted:
10/06/2010 01:49

Wet & Dry hand hoover - Fab wouldn't be without it.