Hi Alex
I'm booked on Spirit of India trip departing Feb 2016. This will be my sixth JY holiday, and I've thoroughly enjoyed every one of them!
I'm looking forward to meeting everyone, not long now!
Best wishes
Karon
Hi again Karon, I've tried to reply, hopefully this one will go through.
Thank you for getting in contact and it's nice to know an experienced JY traveller will be joining us.
Can you advise how one packs for a holiday where your constantly on the move also hearing in mind the internal flight baggage allowance is 15kgs... Any tips?
I intend to bring a 4wheeled suitcase.... Do you recon that will be okay.
In you experience do people dress from dinner or do most just freshen up?
So excited and looking forward to meeting you all.
Alex
Hi Alex
Sorry its taken me so long to reply, I use a 4 wheeled suitcase and they're great, much easier than 2 wheeled, it survived 5 flights in China last year!
I highly recommend packing cubes - zipped bags of different sizes to keep different types of clothes in eg one for underwear, one for t-shirts etc. I started off with cheap ones from Wilko, which were fine, but have recently upgraded to posh ones from eBags (Amazon)! The cubes mean you dont need to rummage through your case, and if theres a spare bed in my room I just put the cubes on it and dont bother with wardrobes or drawers.
Whether people dress for dinner usually depends on how late we arrive at the hotel after a busy day sightseeing. In China we rarely had time to change, although on other trips we have. I usually take 2 evening outfits and no-one cares if you wear them 5 times each!
Internal baggage allowance is a worry, especially if its strictly enforced. My only experience is China where we did group check in (ie cases are taken to airport for us and we next see them after flight) and so we got a group weight allowance. Luckily men travel lighter than women and so we could share their allowance! I think this is quite common but we cant guarantee it will happen. I usually take a fairly large hand luggage bag and load that up if I'm concerned.
Other than that I can only advise that on every holiday I've been on we all joke that we've brought far too many clothes with us!
Looking forward to meeting everyone
Best wishes
Karon