Excursions after Disembarkation, do they store our luggage?

[afiaccone]

We're cruising southbound from Alaska next summer.  Our flight home isn't until the evening.  If I book a Vancouver tour through Princess that includes an airport transfer, can I assume that they will hold all our luggage from the ship?

[beg3yrs]

They will store your luggage in the same bus you're touring on. You will still need to get your luggage from the hall and take it to the bus.

Edited August 26, 2021 by beg3yrs

[azbirdmom]

It will vary.  We did two tour / transfers following disembarkation in Vancouver and both times our luggage was in an area of the airport waiting for us to pick up on arrival.  In other places and on other tours sometimes it's been taken to the airport and other times it's under the bus.  Either way you don't need to deal with it as you are touring.

Edited August 27, 2021 by azbirdmom

[ontheweb]

We did a Princess excursion from Dover to Heathrow with a stop in Canterbury. And yes the luggage goes on the bus with you. One big advantage of that kind of excursion is that you feel you are still on your cruise especially if you have met some of the people on your bus.

 

On our cancelled Princess cruise from last summer we were going to go from Southampton to Heathrow with a stop at Stonehenge. We were looking as forward to that trip to Stonehenge as our Norwegian fjords cruise.

[nocl]

17 minutes ago, ontheweb said:

We did a Princess excursion from Dover to Heathrow with a stop in Canterbury. And yes the luggage goes on the bus with you. One big advantage of that kind of excursion is that you feel you are still on your cruise especially if you have met some of the people on your bus.

 

On our cancelled Princess cruise from last summer we were going to go from Southampton to Heathrow with a stop at Stonehenge. We were looking as forward to that trip to Stonehenge as our Norwegian fjords cruise.

Not necessarily in Vancouver.  We were given  tags to put on it with our flight information. Once we identified our luggage after getting off of the ship it was taken to a truck that took it directly to the airport.  We got on the bus.  When the tour ended we were all dropped at one terminal where our luggage was in a roped off area.  We then claimed our luggage and went to the appropriate airline for check in.

[nocl]

23 minutes ago, azbirdmom said:

It will vary.  We did two tour / transfers following disembarkation in Vancouver and both times our luggage was in an area of the airport waiting for us to pick up on arrival.  In other places and on other tours sometimes it's been taken to the airport and other times it's under the bus.  Either way you don't need to deal with it as you are touring.

We have had the same experience in Vancouver.

[dog]

33 minutes ago, azbirdmom said:

It will vary.  We did two tour / transfers following disembarkation in Vancouver and both times our luggage was in an area of the airport waiting for us to pick up on arrival.  In other places and on other tours sometimes it's been taken to the airport and other times it's under the bus.  Either way you don't need to deal with it as you are touring.

Exactly the same experiences for us 

[ontheweb]

11 hours ago, nocl said:

Not necessarily in Vancouver.  We were given  tags to put on it with our flight information. Once we identified our luggage after getting off of the ship it was taken to a truck that took it directly to the airport.  We got on the bus.  When the tour ended we were all dropped at one terminal where our luggage was in a roped off area.  We then claimed our luggage and went to the appropriate airline for check in.

I don't specifically remember how luggage was handled on our Dover to Heathrow including Canterbury excursion except the luggage was on the bus. It may have been treated differently than buses that had many more passengers as there were IIRC only 10 or maybe 12 on the bus as we were coming off one of the former very small  670 passenger capacity former Princess ships. And of those passengers, we knew four of them from our roll call. Two were the other couple celebrating their anniversary on the ship, and the other two were their teenage daughters. As I previously said, it really felt like still being on the cruise, or at least a part of the cruise experience.

 

Just remembered the name of the ship, the Ocean Princess.

Edited August 27, 2021 by ontheweb
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[nocl]

6 hours ago, ontheweb said:

I don't specifically remember how luggage was handled on our Dover to Heathrow including Canterbury excursion except the luggage was on the bus. It may have been treated differently than buses that had many more passengers as there were IIRC only 10 or maybe 12 on the bus as we were coming off one of the former very small  670 passenger capacity former Princess ships. And of those passengers, we knew four of them from our roll call. Two were the other couple celebrating their anniversary on the ship, and the other two were their teenage daughters. As I previously said, it really felt like still being on the cruise, or at least a part of the cruise experience.

 

Just remembered the name of the ship, the Ocean Princess.

We had the same experience in Heathrow with the luggage going under the bus, same in most other ports.

 

Vancouver was a bit different with the luggage going by truck.