50 pound limit

[markboston35]

is the 50 pound luggage limit enforced? if it is what is the penalty?

[roger001]

No.  Nothing is actually weighed.  However, the crew have to hand carry much of this luggage when distributing it to the rooms.  So show them some mercy.  

[smplybcause]

I've never seen scales at the terminal, but if they go to lift your bag and it's ridiculously heavy I would think there's a possibility of refusing it. Basically, if you don't want to lift it they're not going to want to lift it either - as said above it's mostly hand carried and sometimes in a hand pushed cart there's no forklifts carrying the luggage around. 

[doverboy]

have you ever tried to pick up a 50lb suitcase? Where are you going and how long is the cruise that you think you need more than 50lbs of clothing?

[roger001]

1 minute ago, doverboy said:

have you ever tried to pick up a 50lb suitcase? Where are you going and how long is the cruise that you think you need more than 50lbs of clothing?

We're getting better.  23 cruises later, we're down to just 46 lbs on SWA scales last time.    

[LeesaB]

11 minutes ago, roger001 said:

We're getting better.  23 cruises later, we're down to just 46 lbs on SWA scales last time.    

🤣🤣🤣

[zqvol]

40 minutes ago, markboston35 said:

is the 50 pound luggage limit enforced? if it is what is the penalty?

 

No, its not like the airlines. The 50lbs is stated to minimze the chance of injury to the crew from lifting heavy bags.

[markboston35]

Yeah I called ncl they don’t care. It’s just to discourage people from bringing the suitcases 

[markboston35]

Heavy suitcases*

[MrMike45]

on one of our first cruises, i think one of our bags was easily 75 lbs.  We put all our toiletries and shoes and stuff like that in there.  The porter made a comment to the effect of "wow this is one of the heaviest ones of the day" but that was it.  since then we have broken up our heavy stuff with clothes so all the suitcases are more reasonable.   

[BirdTravels]

1 hour ago, markboston35 said:

is the 50 pound luggage limit enforced? if it is what is the penalty?

No penalty. Give the porter a decent tip and they will take as many and as heavy bags as you can give them. 

[newmexicoNita]

1 hour ago, markboston35 said:

is the 50 pound luggage limit enforced? if it is what is the penalty?

never heard of it being enforced but rarely would we have a piece weighing over that anyway. Now on a 14 day or longer cruise we might go over that.  Do be considerate: our daughter was am ticket agent for over 20 years and part pf that time there was no weight restrictions on luggage. She along with most ticket agents by retirement time suffer from all kinds of back and next problems from lifting over weight bags. It is amazing how easy it is to pack lightly.Mix and  match plus a couple pair of shoes will do just fine for a 7 day cruise. 

[don't-use-real-name]

PLEASE - no steamer trunks - this is not your grandfathers cruise !

 

Best if you are going to have OVERWEIGHT luggage that you have "WHEELS" on your luggage.

If traveling by air there will be no mercy unless traveling First Class (normal 70 pound limit).

Airline limits are normally 50 pounds with a grace thumb on scale of 1-2 pounds.

If caught in an Overweight situation consider wearing the excess clothing or repositioning into

a 2nd bag or carry on.

 

If you have to tote your luggage any distance get WHEELS.

For your own convenience consider if checking a second bag to find a way to trolley that 2nd

bag piggy-back on the primary bag with WHEELS !

 

And as been noted previously - TIP the Porter well to reduce the gorilla handling tendency -

leaving handles and tags attached !

[PTC DAWG]

I can’t imagine needing more than a carryon size for a 7 day cruise...50 lbs...LOL

[Harratine]

8 hours ago, markboston35 said:

is the 50 pound luggage limit enforced? if it is what is the penalty?

Over 50 pounds requires two people to lift per OSHA requirements.  You can really get hurt lifting that repeatedly.  If a porter moves two bags a minute over 3 hours at over 50 lbs, they would lift somewhere near 9 tons.  (100 lbs*60 min*3 = 18,000 lbs).  I would suggest tipping them.

[casofilia]

The wharfies (stevedores to you) have a way of dealing with overweight baggage; it is called the flotation test!!