How Much Luggage?

[covereddish]

I am sure that all of my documents will tell me later, but I am just curious..............


Is there a limit or max on luggage that we can bring on board?

Thanks for your help!

 

[tammy bell]

I believe that it is 2 pieces per person. Try not to overpack. I am a chronic over-packer and we did not even wear half of it. Have a great time.

 

[challada]

Similarly... please help a first time cruiser....

for the 7 day (we are doing the first 7 day on the West Coast...I'm assuming dinner rotations will be similar to other 7 day), how much of each type of clothing do you pack???

We are a family of four and I don't anticipate 8 pieces of luggage...but would like to know if we need loads of formal wear, dressy wear, moderately dressy and then beach wear.

THANKS!
C

 

[CM_Mom]

No way you need "loads" of anything. I chose to wear dressy black Jersey slacks with glittery tops on formal nights. Wore the same slacks with different tops. If you mix and match you can wear the same clothes in different combinations on different nights. I had nice capri sets that I wore to dinner on non formal nights and felt I was appropriately dressed.

My suggestion is one 26" piece of luggage per family member with one or two additional pieces for overflow. On our next cruise we'll have one suitcase per person and our carryons. It's really hard to stay under the airlines 50 lb weight limit with larger suitcases.

Also, several of us recommend splitting each person's clothes among all the suitcases so if one suitcase is lost, everyone still has most of their clothes.

Also, there are washers and dryers on board if needed and cleaning or laundry service if you want to pay for it. Don't worry about wearing the same thing twice. Since I usually can't remember what I wore two days ago I figure no one else can either!

 

[KyCruisinSusan]

We are a family of 4 doing the 7 day eastern in Nov. We are allowed 8 pieces of checked luggage and we are planning on checking 6 pieces but only 3 of those will have clothes in them. We will have a duffle bag with our preferred canned soda choice, and another bag that holds our snorkling equipment. We learned last trip not to overpack clothes and what to take and not take with you.

 

[BethA]

Be careful of the dufflebag of soda--I saw a post where someone did that and the bag arrived filled with smashed cans!

 

[Rock'n Robin]

Right now the 5 of us are planning on having 5 bags (although the kids are just duffle bags) and one suit bag for the blazer and the dresses.
DD#2 had 7 dresses set aside!! We are narrowing that down to 2 nice and 2 casual. Plus of the 3 families we are not all bringing the same stuff--my sister is bringing wrinkle remover, I'm bringing an extension cord and duct tape, etc.
Robin M.

 

[kcashner]

After 10 cruises on the Magic, I still bring too much! You are allowed 2 checked pieces and a carry on. The general rule of pack, they take out 1/2 of it really applies.

 

[CruisingCA2005]

Is there a weight limit on the baggage for the cruise. (We won't be flying for our next cruise.)

 

[TheWog]

don't believe there is an actual weight limit for the cruise, but remember the empty duffle bag to put the dirty laundry in and to make room for souveniers.

 

[2ndstar to the right]

speaking of clothing, Are there irons and ironing boards in each stateroom? If not, are you permitted to bring your own?
Thanks!

 

[TheWog]

Originally posted by 2ndstar to the right
speaking of clothing, Are there irons and ironing boards in each stateroom? If not, are you permitted to bring your own?
Thanks!

No there are no irons in your rooms. You are also not permitted to bring them onboard although I think some do. They are a fire hazard. There are irons in each of the laundry rooms or you can send it down to the laundry and have it pressed for you by the crew for a nominal fee.

 

[2ndstar to the right]

Oh my goodness! this seems like it is going to be a major inconveinence! You mean you have to run to the laundry room every day to iron your clothes?! I don't care how you pack, the clothes always need to be pressed when you unpack. I'm definately not interested in having to send my clothes out each day to be pressed.
How do folks mange?!

 

[hydster]

The ironing thing...I've never done it on any of the 15+ cruises we've gone on and never felt I needed to do it. We bring "beach wear" for the day aka bathing suits, t-shirts, shorts and flip flops. For the nights we brought extra hangers and a bottle of downy wrinkle releaser and sprayed all of our nice stuff when we unpacked it and then the night we were going to wear it we just hang it in the bathroom with us while we shower and get it nice and steamy in the bathroom and it seems to pull out all of the remaining wrinkles in the clothing. Of course we aren't really anal about if our shirt has a few little wrinkles in it because after all we are on vacation and will never see these people again. The only time we make sure to have stuff wrinkle free is on formal nights where we get our pictures taken but if you pack your formal clothing in a garment bag inside a dry cleaning bag things generally don't get wrinkled that way (at least for us). On our RCCL cruise there was a huge burn mark in the carpet shaped exactly like an iron and it was really burned. I can't believe it didn't start a fire. I think it's really smart that they don't allow people to iron in their cabins since if the ship catches on fire it's not like you can call 9-11 and have it put out by a squad of firemen.
Heidi