Porters at the terminal

[L751]

Hi is it true that they have done away with the porters and you have to carry your own luggage to the area where the porters use to go

[AndyMichelle]

No, I don't think so. 

You are probably thinking of the CPS parking changes, where you now park further away without porters at Ocean terminal. 

Andy 

 

[happy v]

No we got off last week and there were loads of porters waiting to help people.

[CarlaMarie]

As Andy said at Ocean the system changed for CPS parking has changed. My parents joined Ventura yesterday and they mentioned how those parking were getting their own trollies to bring their luggage over to the terminal. 

[eddie11]

Easier to do it the other way round?

Pull in at the ‘hole in the wall’, hand over your luggage; mobility-impaired passengers certainly step out and head for the downstairs departure area, with their hand luggage; other car passengers decide whether to alight or whether to stay in the car with the driver; car goes to *new place*, driver deals with CPS;  driver walks, empty-handed, the short distance back to departures meet up with rest of party

 

Having typed that it feels that everyone but the driver should step out at the hole in the wall, with all the hand luggage

[terrierjohn]

24 minutes ago, eddie11 said:

Easier to do it the other way round?

Pull in at the ‘hole in the wall’, hand over your luggage; mobility-impaired passengers certainly step out and head for the downstairs departure area, with their hand luggage; other car passengers decide whether to alight or whether to stay in the car with the driver; car goes to *new place*, driver deals with CPS;  driver walks, empty-handed, the short distance back to departures meet up with rest of party

 

Having typed that it feels that everyone but the driver should step out at the hole in the wall, with all the hand luggage

Are you allowed to do that though, under the old system all CPS parkers were ushered to a separate queue, is it not the same?

 

[eddie11]

I don’t know for certain, TJ.

That is what I have taken from the posts I have read

 

If CPS customers are automatically ushered *to the new place*, I think I might try to buck the system, drive in as an ‘independent’, do the drop-off and then find the CPS sticker to put in the windscreen before heading to the official spot

 

Anyway, I don’t know the new system for sure, and we no longer use CPS anyway (though I liked it when we did), so I’ll butt out of this conversation and allow others with experience of the new system to answer with some certainty 

[CarlaMarie]

From what my dad said, the drivers were asked where they were going and ushered into different lanes. The way the traffic is filtered had also changed.