Bulgaria Ski discussion board

when we went on the 25 feb to bulgaria i had packed mine and the childrens suitcases, they had small cases themselfs and i had one large one, when we had to check the luggage at gatwick i explained to the man behind the desk that i had packed the cases with the weight between us and that with 3 suitcases we only had used the weigh allowence for 2 (its 20k per person) i was told that as long as any one suitcase wasnt over 30kg then that was fine and they simply put a "heavy" label with the weight on my suitcase.
last year though the lady at checkin in gatwick wasnt happy about the hand luggage weight even though it was between the 4 of us so it kinda depends who you get etc but we didnt get charged any more either time

Our family of four travelled to Tenerife in October and thought that as usual we would share the weight allowance they made us change round the weight distribution 3 times until they were satisfied. In the end we stuffed some toiletries into our hand luggage as it was getting very embarrasing. I rang Balkan holidays to check for this weekend and they were adamant that no case would be accepted over the 20kg allowance. So instead of us taking 2 cases and a holdall it looks like being 3 cases and a holdall, Its's all to do with the baggage handlers. I do think that it would be helpful to provide scales as you enter the terminal to check. Trying to weigh a suitcase on domestic scales is not easy!!
Michelle