Sending Suitcases by Courier and Travelling With Airline Carry-on Luggage – Pros and Cons From Spain
Q: Why should you go to the expense of sending your luggage ahead by courier to Spain? A: So it is already in your hotel when you arrive! Simply, because it is no longer expensive and can even be cheaper than taking it with you. Much cheaper if your suitcase weighs more than 15kg, and much more convenient.
My father recently came to visit us in Spain. Not knowing how people travel now, he had not sent his luggage on ahead by FedEx courier to Spain but brought his suitcases with him. He is well past 70 years old and has had a couple of operations on his heart, he arrived absolutely exhausted because a strike at Malaga Airport had resulted in there being no luggage trolleys. Having paid extra to fly a premium airline, his suitcase was bulging. The suitcase being elderly as well, it had no wheels and my poor father carried this thing through the now greatly extended distance that Arrivals at Malaga airport have to travel to the car hire booth where there was the inevitable 30 minute queue in 38
