Water & Wine?

[rcmsfeb04]

Any one packed bottled water in a checked bag recently?

How about wine? I was thinking about buying a bottle as a gift if it's available at the Food and Wine festival.

 

[bavaria]

Water is not recommended due to the damage it can do to other passenger's luggage. Water is easily available in Florida, and there are many options such as ordering online, using a grocery delivery service, or buying at the Hess stations onsite.

Several airlines have restrictions on how wine can be packed ie they may require that is packed in a certain type of wine packaging. If not properly packaged, it may be removed. UA is one of those carriers, for instance. Again, this is to minimize the losses to other passengers.

This is an unpopular topic here as it polarizes those who seem determined to do it at all costs regardless of the impact, and those who advise against it due to past damage they have incurred.

You may not have thought about breakage/damage, but please do consider some of the other cost effective options.

 

[rcmsfeb04]

Thank you. I honestly hadn't thought about damage to others luggage. Great point. I will consider another option.

Thanks again!

 

[ccudmore]

A story about packing wine in checked luggage (as told to me by an airline flight attendant who was involved).

The wedding party was heading half-way across the country to the wedding. The wedding party included the bride, groom and bride's father. The father wanted to provide some wine for the wedding so he packed several bottles in a checked bag and checked it at the same time as the bride did. The bride's luggage included her wedding dress (I think you can see where this is going).

When they arrived at their destination the wine bottles had all broken open and had damaged many passenger's luggage including destroying the bride's dress. The airline went so far after the fact as to have one of their off-duty flight attendants take the bride dress shopping the next day to buy her a new dress.

So bottom line... don't pack wine unless it's really really really really really really well packed.

 

[bavaria]

Thank you. I honestly hadn't thought about damage to others luggage. Great point. I will consider another option.

Thanks again!

Let us know if you need suggestions. Garden Grocer and WeGoShop are I believe the recommended shopping services, but you can have deliveries from online companies too like Amazon or drugstore.com etc. The Hess stations are a good option if you are at DTD, or at the BWV, or otherwise near one as they sell all kinds of snack options for lower prices. Some people take a rolling carry on or duffle on the WDW bus to the Hess station, and then bring it back to their resort that way after a trip to DTD or the Boardwalk.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Also, if you find a wine you like, check a good wine shop in your area. I always thought I had to go back to Epcot to get my beloved Rosa Regale - but stopped in a relatively new shop on my way home from work one day and they had not only that, but another wine from the same vineyard. No other place I'd looked either carried the wine or was willing to order it.

 

[bavaria]

Trader Joe's (depending on state laws) and CostPlus World Market are great sources for 'foreign' stuff (I tend to most of my grocery type shopping there when in America) They have a very good selection of wine and beer, although it does very greatly by store and by state.

 

[Tara]

You should be able to have the wine shipped home or to the person you'd like to gift, assuming there are no laws about shipping in alcoholic beverages in your state. (PA, for instance, has very strict/strange controls on alcohol.)

 

[clkelley]

I would just have the wine shipped home.

 

[rwdavis2]

Wine in checked luggage is safe if you do this:

1. Wrap it in bubble wrap or dirty clothes. Make sure it is protected on all sides.

2. Then put it in 1 or 2 plastic bags that are tied or taped shut to prevent leaking.

Ideally, they make styrofoam shippers that are built to hold bottles of wine. They are very sturdy. I've seen an entire case of wine tossed onto the plane's conveyor belt with no damage at all.

I travel with wine all the time and either method works fine.
BD