Tuesday, July 24, 2018- Epilogue: Our luggage finally arrives.

Tuesday, July 24, 2018- Epilogue

I decided to write an epilogue because it took so long for our luggage to be reunited with us.  The official story is a baggage handling conveyor belt failed in Paris, causing a massive backup of luggage.  We might have expected a one or two day delay, but it took a full 9 days for our luggage to be delivered.  From the tracking information, it appears our bags spent at least 5 days stuck in Paris.  The two smaller bags took a slightly different route than the one medium sized bag, arriving on Monday, or 8 days late.  They were delivered by a gal driving her ancient red Ford Mondeo.  She is an independent contractor to the airlines, sort of like an Uber, but without troublesome passengers.  Just delayed baggage.  UPS delivered the medium sized suitcase today.  So, we didn’t end up losing any of our possessions, although we were without our “A” clothes, travel gadgets, and electric toothbrushes for over a week.  It’s sure a good thing we didn’t have anything perishable packed in our checked luggage. We now think of the few times we’ve sent visitors home with bricks of frozen crab meat.  That would have been an absolute biohazard situation to have had a few pounds of crab meat rotting in a suitcase for 8 days.  

We also learned to our great disappointment that the double onboard spending credit offer was only applicable if we had booked a Panama or Caribbean cruise while still on the Regal Princess.  We wrote to Princess Customer Relations to see if they would still allow us to get the  extra onboard spending credit, but alas, no response so far.