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As a future investment for you guys ; my strategy of choice is Black diamond Carbon poles. No worries anymore and security check is doable for onboard luggage.My husband and I plan to walk the Frances in May 2022. On our previous Caminos we've either checked our poles into the hold of the plane, or bought cheap poles and donated them at the end of the Camino.
This time, we're travelling to France (from the UK), by train. However, we plan to fly back to the UK, from Santiago. Could anyone advise what's involved and a cost estimate for posting 2 sets of walking Poles home, using Correos?
Thanks very much.
On which airlines or from which airports? Walking/hiking poles are still widely considered not permissable on board because of the metal tip which means they can be classed as weapons. Folding the poles up does not change that and in most cases it depends on the person at security. My Pacerpoles were completely dismantled in my pack and when I asked at Porto airport just out of interest, they would not have gone through in the pack as hand luggage.security check is doable for onboard luggage
Having done this several times this year, I can confirm this.However, after brexit, it cost me £14 to send them tracked, with a customs declaration which has no box to tick for sending your own property to yourself in a different place
That is good to know! If you are travelling on though, remember that you have to check in your poles again for the next leg of the journey and it will be cheaper to pre-book that than having to pay at the airport.Every airline operating departing flights out of Santiago de Compostela airport will check in your poles for free.
If you send the poles back from Spain, you will probably have to pay again when they get to the UK - I had to pay a steep fee to get my Christmas parcel from my mother in Norway delivered to my address in the UK, and assume the same goes for things you send to yourself from abroad. But I'd check with a knowledgeable post office staff here before you decide what to do. And again, there will be new rules coming into force after the new year so ask specifically about that.Could anyone advise what's involved and a cost estimate for posting 2 sets of walking Poles home, using Correos?
Just bear in mind that staff at a Spanish Post Office will not know when / if / how much VAT, duty or delivery charges will have to be paid by the recipient in the UK. Here is a link to a gov.uk website: https://www.gov.uk/goods-sent-from-abroad/tax-and-dutyIf you send the poles back from Spain, you will probably have to pay again when they get to the UK - I had to pay a steep fee to get my Christmas parcel from my mother in Norway delivered to my address in the UK, and assume the same goes for things you send to yourself from abroad. But I'd check with a knowledgeable post office staff here before you decide what to do. And again, there will be new rules coming into force after the new year so ask specifically about that.
I'm not sure I understand your question. What is preventing you from checking them in as opposed to posting them this time??My husband and I plan to walk the Frances in May 2022. On our previous Caminos we've either checked our poles into the hold of the plane, or bought cheap poles and donated them at the end of the Camino.
This time, we're travelling to France (from the UK), by train. However, we plan to fly back to the UK, from Santiago. Could anyone advise what's involved and a cost estimate for posting 2 sets of walking Poles home, using Correos?
Thanks very much.
Nothing to prevent us checking them. Just wanted to ask if anyone had experience of either/both, so we could make a decision.I'm not sure I understand your question. What is preventing you from checking them in as opposed to posting them this time??
I guess that many people, especially from further afield, have plane tickets that include checked baggage of 20 kg or so. They can either check the poles on their own, or check their backpack with folded-up poles, without further ado and without additional payment.I'm not sure I understand your question. What is preventing you from checking them in as opposed to posting them this time??
Indeed. Someone asks a question, someone shares their experience, someone invariably questions it. The nature of the internet forum.However, and here we are entering the exciting area of personally lived anecdotes and personally read texts on websites
This wasn't our experience after our 2016 Camino, where we were charged a hefty fee to put our poles in the hold, which we were willing to pay because by that point we had developed an emotional attachment to them. For my next Camino, in 2018, I bought them after arrival and posted them home.Tincatinker is correct
just take your walking poles to the desk of any airline, easyJe/Ryanair and they will transport the poles in the hold for free
we always use “a walking pole cloth bag” …costs about £5 from Millets and with a push will hold 2 sets.
But this didn't not happen at Santiago airport, did it?This wasn't our experience after our 2016 Camino, where we were charged a hefty fee to put our poles in the hold
I used BlaBla Car after my 2016 Camino to get from SdC to Madrid.
Aah. That wasn't clear to me. As it happens, I haven't flown out of the Santiago airport after any of my three Caminos. So I wouldn't presume everyone does.But this didn't not happen at Santiago airport, did it?
When @Tincatinker and @Annette london advised to "just take your walking poles to the desk of any airline, EasyJet/Ryanair and they will transport the poles in the hold for free", they were referring to the desk of any airline at Santiago airport. Not at any other airport. It is important to be aware of this distinction.
Of course, then there is the problem of the knife...On every camino I find a stick on my first day or two and make it my own using a cheap knife, cord, beads etc.
It's not a problem for me. I buy a cheap knife from the first oriental bazaar I find and it does me for the whole camino, for whittling stick, peeling fruit, cutting tomatoes etc. It goes into the kitchen drawer of the last albergue with the hundred others that pilgrims can't take home!Of course, then there is the problem of the knife...
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