Water Globes check luggage only !!

[despina]

Just FYI, after seeing a few people having the option of trashing them with TSA or going back out to the Disney Store in Airport and paying for shipping.

 

[deegack]

I always see signs next to the globes saying they can't be carried on to planes. If you don't read the signs I guess its your problem.

 

[lost*in*cyberspace]

If people haven't figured out the carry-on rules for liquids after so many years, there's no hope.

 

[serenitygr]

If people haven't figured out the carry-on rules for liquids after so many years, there's no hope.

Yeah- but for those of us who take a vacation once in 10 years- we don't know all the rules on flying. I , in fact, just saw a thing yesterday after EXTENSIVE reading on Delta's site, that snow globes weren't allowed. My son collects them and was planning to get one, and obviously we weren't going to send it thru checked luggage and I told him it would be safer just carrying it home. Thankfully I saw this yesterday so now I know, but it's not fair to expect us ignorant traveling people to know all the rules.

 

[maxiesmom]

Yeah- but for those of us who take a vacation once in 10 years- we don't know all the rules on flying. I , in fact, just saw a thing yesterday after EXTENSIVE reading on Delta's site, that snow globes weren't allowed. My son collects them and was planning to get one, and obviously we weren't going to send it thru checked luggage and I told him it would be safer just carrying it home. Thankfully I saw this yesterday so now I know, but it's not fair to expect us ignorant traveling people to know all the rules.

A liquid is a liquid. There really is no reason for snow globes to need to be specified as not allowed. If any item has liquid that can't be measured inside it, then it is not allowed to be brought onto the aircraft. All liquids must follow the 3-1-1 rules.

Your best bet for accurate info is the tsa website. They are the ones who make the rules, so it is them you need to look to for what is and isn't allowed.

Btw, if you collect pins, always put them in your carry-on. TSA doesn't have a problem with them, and leaving them in your checked bags is an invitation for them to turn up missing.

 

[bumbershoot]

Yeah- but for those of us who take a vacation once in 10 years- we don't know all the rules on flying. I , in fact, just saw a thing yesterday after EXTENSIVE reading on Delta's site, that snow globes weren't allowed. My son collects them and was planning to get one, and obviously we weren't going to send it thru checked luggage and I told him it would be safer just carrying it home. Thankfully I saw this yesterday so now I know, but it's not fair to expect us ignorant traveling people to know all the rules.

There are actually signs, at Disney, next to the snow globes, telling you that you can't carry them on to airplanes. (I've seen similar signs next to "bath bombs" at Lush, telling you to, at the very least, not call them bath BOMBS when carrying them on)

 

[sam_gordon]

I'm also surprised whoever checked you out wouldn't say anything.

 

[deegack]

A liquid is a liquid. There really is no reason for snow globes to need to be specified as not allowed. If any item has liquid that can't be measured inside it, then it is not allowed to be brought onto the aircraft. All liquids must follow the 3-1-1 rules.

Your best bet for accurate info is the tsa website. They are the ones who make the rules, so it is them you need to look to for what is and isn't allowed.

Btw, if you collect pins, always put them in your carry-on. TSA doesn't have a problem with them, and leaving them in your checked bags is an invitation for them to turn up missing.

Exactly. The tsa also doesn't say your scope mouthwash or cup of coffee or container of soup can't be brought on. It says under 3.3 oz and labeled. It's all encompassing.
To pp of course deltas website doesn't list all tsa regulations. The tsa website does. Delta will tell you about luggage allowances and seat selection

ETA - I thought I had read something about snow globes on the tsa website. It does list them - under prohibited items.
scroll to the bottom
http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/prohibited/permitted-prohibited-items.shtm

 

[SueM in MN]

I always see signs next to the globes saying they can't be carried on to planes. If you don't read the signs I guess its your problem.

Yes, I have seen those signs in all the places that sell them, right by the snow globes.
Shipping them is the only way to make sure they get there and are in one piece.

 

[serenitygr]

A liquid is a liquid. There really is no reason for snow globes to need to be specified as not allowed. If any item has liquid that can't be measured inside it, then it is not allowed to be brought onto the aircraft. All liquids must follow the 3-1-1 rules.

Well, that's fine. But I've noticed from most people's info on here that they are pretty regular travelers to Disney. For those of us that haven't flown since pre 9/11, we've had no reason to know about the airline rules regarding liquids until it's time for our trip and we read the requirements before hand. And regarding the posting at Disney near the snowglobes- that's a great idea! Also something we would not know about as we've never been there...

 

[maxiesmom]

Well, that's fine. But I've noticed from most people's info on here that they are pretty regular travelers to Disney. For those of us that haven't flown since pre 9/11, we've had no reason to know about the airline rules regarding liquids until it's time for our trip and we read the requirements before hand. And regarding the posting at Disney near the snowglobes- that's a great idea! Also something we would not know about as we've never been there...

I agree you don't have to know the rules until your trip. However, if the people the OP saw had already purchsed snow globes they must have just missed the sign stating they were not allowed. And as they were already at the airport you would hope they had the security rules down pat. But it is not suprising really. Every time I fly it seems there is someone in the security line with a giant cup of Starbucks, and they end up mad when they have to throw it out. In spite of their being multiple signs at the Starbucks stating you cannot take any drinks past security.

I think some people are just oblivious.

 

[serenitygr]

Every time I fly it seems there is someone in the security line with a giant cup of Starbucks, and they end up mad when they have to throw it out. In spite of their being multiple signs at the Starbucks stating you cannot take any drinks past security.

I think some people are just oblivious.

HA! That would probably have been me too! But I've read about that rule also, so I know better now!

 

[aubriee]

There are actually signs, at Disney, next to the snow globes, telling you that you can't carry them on to airplanes. (I've seen similar signs next to "bath bombs" at Lush, telling you to, at the very least, not call them bath BOMBS when carrying them on)

Over at a gift shop in the Lost Continent over at Universal they have some really cute small plants. I wanted to bring a money tree back for a coworker of mine. However, there are signs on the shelves where the plants sit, stating that they can not be flown to Texas, New Mexico, and one other state (I think California maybe). Anyway, I asked the CM and she told me they could not be transported to Texas in either a checked bag or in a carry on, nor could they ship them (something about any state sharing borders with Mexico). The next May, I was wandering around the Flower Festival in Epcot and saw a vendor that had the exact same plants. I was looking at them and when she asked if she could help me, I told her I really wanted a couple of them, but lived in Texas and couldn't transport them. She tried to tell me they'd be fine as a carry on. I thought maybe the rules had changed and told her I may be back. A few days later, I went over to Universal and round up in that same gift shop I had been in a few months before. Again I saw the sign that the money trees could not be transported to those same three states. I mentioned to the Universal CM, what the Flower Festival vendor had told me a few days earlier about them being allowed. She quickly told me she didn't think the policy had changed, but would check. She made a phone call and then assured me the policy had not changed and anyone found transporting those particular plants to Texas could get in trouble and at the very least would lose them. I have a since seen those exact money plants in the gift shop at AKL. There is no sign on them stating they can not be transported to Texas, but when I asked, the CM did look on a list and said I was right. If I hadn't known and had just bought one, the CM would not have mentioned it, and I would have at least lost it, when I tried to board the plane with it. I have since looked on the TSA website and there is nothing that I can find that says I could not bring one home.

 

[Carriemel]

That's not a TSA regulation, it's to do with the USDA. Same sort of thing as bringing food into the US from another country, or certain products from Hawaii. There is a chance of introducing aphids or certain other bugs into areas where those bugs are not.