Checking baggage through with different tickets
Hi, hope this is the right forum for these questions.
I am traveling from IAD-NRT-SIN on an award ticket (ANA and United). After an 8 hour (overnight) layover in SIN, I have a paid ticket on Silk Air to BKI. I would like to check a bag through to BKI so that I can stay at the in-transit hotel in SIN. Can't do carry-ons only because it is a 3 week trip.
Related: After traveling in Borneo, we will spend 5 days in Japan. I would like to forward a bag to our hotel in Tokyo. The layover in NRT (above) is 2.5 hours so I don't think there is enough time to clear immigration/customs, find and use the luggage forwarding service in NRT and check in again. It is POSSIBLE that if I can get a bag sent to the hotel in Tokyo I might be able to do carry-ons only to BKI which would solve #1 above. Any suggestions about forwarding a bag to the Tokyo hotel under these circumstances?
Thanks for your advice.