(where there is no decent shopping!!!!
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Wow!!! You certainly got a great deal!Will you have internet access while you are there? If so, you could wait and see how your luggage is looking a few days before you leave and then arrange to pre-pay on the internet when you check in (if this is an option). Let us know what you hear from Virgin. Those of us heavy-duty shoppers are always on the lookout for info.
Don't forget to complete your ESTA forms tooalmost forgot about ours!
But we also had a one year old with us who wasn't entitled to ANY allowance because he was an infant so all his stuff had to go under our allowance!! Excess baggage $140 on the way home!!
) and she said "Why can't you just find a nice guy here? Then you won't have to worry about fitting stuff on the plane." 
I surveyed the volume of luggage all around us and knew there and then that this was naive advice; with the amount of shopping I did, only elite few could afford to keep me! 
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) got 2 kids over age of toddlerhood and under age of teens , us "grown ups" are mid 40s now so don't give a monkeys about over-grooming on holidays (hair straighteners -in that humidity, with the lower power - best not to bother 
)- so we get 4 X 23kg to play with - and as we are staying in a villa for a couple of weeks we have laundry, so don't have to take more than 4 or 5 changes of clothes each. We only take 2 bags on the way out - one has a fold up holdall in it too... OK, we bring back 3 - lots of shopping !!
Or take old clothes there, buy new ones and bin the old ones to make space for the return. (Before you laugh, I have done this before
I did this last year too. A pile of cheapo tesco vest tops were left behind!
I must admit, I left a LOT more than just vest tops - had to make way for the result of the $12 jeans sale at the Levi shop Oh, and the SHOES 
really really annoyed, finally I have spoken to someone at Virgin Flying Club as customer service didn't answer either of my emails .... although I booked the holiday on May 3rd last year, the tickets weren't issued until 19th december ... and they won't budge, so we're on one bag each
(not you - but that they didn't ticket it until December). I booked in May last year too, but when I emailed them before the new baggage restrictions to ask, they confirmed that I am entitled to the old baggage allowance. It reflects accordingly on my "Manage your flights" on the website. Not very consistent. I would be shouting loudly (figuratively speaking )
You need to stick to your guns but resolve to yourself that by the time you leave, what will be will be and not to entertain it anymore. I would phone and ask for a customer services fax number. I would also ask for the name of the duty customer services supervisor/manager and send the letter by fax and by first class recorded delivery. You can see on Royal Mails website the next afternoon a scanned version of the signature. This is your confirmation. I say this because I know Thomas Cook seem to claim never to receive correspondence when it is negative (funny thing that ....)!!
Good for you! Yes definitely handheld so you did well there. They hardly weigh anything. Just make sure you pack them into your hold baggage after you have weighed it. I seem to think they should not be in hand baggage for some reason.
Of course if you won't die of the heat, you can always wear a lot of clothing on the flight home
Thanks for all the tips. I'm a fairly regular traveller to the USA just never had to be so careful with bags before.
LOL If you see photos on the news of a short, ten-foot wide woman who looks like the michellin man you'll know I wore most of my clothes
Give me a heads up before you leave Now see, I live in Scotland, so I had better remember to check the English papers too 
