Leaving a bag at a LHR hotel
Aug 14, 2014, 4:27 pm
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Leaving a bag at a LHR hotel
This is not BA specific so mods, please move if need be.
I have a trip back home to the UK next week to see family. I am returning via Prague as I can avoid a chunk of APD. I'll be flying LHR-PRG on 29th and back into LHR on Sept 2nd. Then out to IAH on the 3rd.
If I'm staying at the same hotel at the start and end of my Prague beer run, it would make sense to leave my big bag at the hotel and just take a small weekend bag on the side trip. Has anyone done anything like this or do I need to find a luggage drop at T3 ??
I have a trip back home to the UK next week to see family. I am returning via Prague as I can avoid a chunk of APD. I'll be flying LHR-PRG on 29th and back into LHR on Sept 2nd. Then out to IAH on the 3rd.
If I'm staying at the same hotel at the start and end of my Prague beer run, it would make sense to leave my big bag at the hotel and just take a small weekend bag on the side trip. Has anyone done anything like this or do I need to find a luggage drop at T3 ??
Aug 14, 2014, 4:35 pm
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So, a bonus question for 10 points.
Are there left luggage facilities at T# <OP wanders off and googles>
Aug 14, 2014, 4:38 pm
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Yes there are. A fiver a bag for each day, or part of a day. For being able to save £25, I'll check the thing to PRG.
Aug 14, 2014, 5:03 pm
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T5 left luggage (which is just outside the domestic arrivals hall) is £10 for the first day and then £5 for each day thereafter.
Aug 14, 2014, 6:22 pm
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Can't hurt to ask the hotel if you decide not to use left luggage. Other hotels, (the Kempinski Munich Airport immediately comes to mind) have done this for me many times.
Aug 15, 2014, 9:31 am
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I got a reply back from the Sheraton, who say that I can leave a bag there as long as there is no food in it. That's the plan then. 2 nights at 7,000 Starpoints is a fair deal too for that hotel. Not the best at LHR, but acceptable for a quick overnighter.
Aug 15, 2014, 11:42 am
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The Sheraton Skyline has such a program that it marketed in printed brochure form. I've not encountered many other hotels that have such a program for storing luggage that is so formalized that it has a printed brochure. I appreciate this service, especially given what the baggage storage facilities at the airport charges. That said, the program to freely store bags seemed oriented toward repeatedly returning guests rather than a baggage version of "park and fly" hotel rates.
Aug 15, 2014, 1:47 pm
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I have done similar bag drops between different trips with a Hol Inn at LHR where I was staying at each end in transit (arctic gear left when flying to Cyprus for two days), but as I used to stay there once a week they knew me fairly well.
As previously referenced, there are left luggage drops at each terminal. They xray your bags going in and you get a receipt. I have used the T5 one within the last year for similar bag drops when I was in transit (temperate gear for two weeks in the UK in February when I was off to Kenya for two days).
As previously referenced, there are left luggage drops at each terminal. They xray your bags going in and you get a receipt. I have used the T5 one within the last year for similar bag drops when I was in transit (temperate gear for two weeks in the UK in February when I was off to Kenya for two days).