Originally Posted by
Biggles68
We will need outdoors/hiking gear for our stay in the US, but don't really want to trail this to AMS, so I had hoped to leave bags in left luggage at LHR for the time we are in Amsterdam.
If we do this, would we be able to pass through customs and immigration then check in bags for the onward journey from LHR, even although that is in the middle of an outbound itinerary?
There may be one decent alternative, which is to leave the stuff in left luggage at AMS. There are (or at least were) good self-service lockers and (I think) also a manned service.
If you were to do this, you would remove the risk that - however long you left at LHR for the connection - your AMS-LHR would be so late that you had insufficient time to come out, collect the stuff, and check it in.