Originally Posted by
GUWonder
Gate checking the stroller with SAS at CPH is generally not as much of a problem as being able to get gate delivery of strollers at CPH when flying SAS. It’s the gate-delivery with SAS at CPH where there is a more general block.
Baggage claim for most checked-in strollers at CPH is where the oversized luggage is: a stationary platform with a gate that goes up and down. But on very rare occasions I’ve seen some strollers delivered on the moving baggage belt at CPH, but that’s very unusual for checked in strollers being claimed at CPH.
I frequently saw strollers go through security for gate-checking at ARN, so I’m wondering when you had that ARN experience.
It was a while ago (my youngest is now 10). I still remember this ordeal - we got a stroller with adjustable back when our first kid was a baby (we had one of those huge Scandinavian style pram and it's not design for travelling) and was ok with AF, but apparently at CPH it was considered too big (it was longer and thicker than the cheapo umbrella strollers). At HKG and some US airports we always get our stroller gate checked but I'd say more than 50% of the time we had to ask the gate staff to fetch our stroller at CPH - 90% of the time we got it by the gate after asking and waiting with/without a sigh from the staff. The rest of the time they insisted they don't have such a thing called gate check and collect and it showed up at the oversize luggage.
We bought 2 cheapo 20EUR umbrella strollers from Germany and it worked for gate checking at CPH and they are sturdy and nothing happened to them (we crushed the buckle for the seat belt). We really tortured them by rolling them up on dirt path to reach a hill top castle, lifting up and down with kids in the stroller going up and down stairs......Strongly recommended if you have small kids and you travel a lot with them.
At ARN and CPH the staff told us that to use their strollers - we tried to look for them and they were nowhere to be seen. My mom always says, "if you don't need it you won't find it, when you don't need it they are everywhere". I think it's pretty true because now that the kids are older we see them everywhere.